The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-13 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

T. Neale, sen., E. Neale, and T. Neale, jun., cloth-factors,
Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, June 2, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy—H. F. Holt, surgeon, Holywell-street, Westmin-
ster, June 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J.
Thompson, bookbinder, West Harding-street, June 2, at half-past
ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Andrews, stock-broker,
Threadneedle-street, June 4, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy—W. Birch, ship-chandler, Walbrook, June 4, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. C. Baddeley, ship-
owner, Brixham, Devonshire, June 4, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy—J. Martin, wine-merchant, Steel-yard, Upper Thames-
street, June 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. and R.
Wilkes, drapers, Shrewsbury, August 27, at one, at the Temporary
Shire-hall, Shrewsbury—F. Deakin and J. Oughton, wire-drawers,
Deritend, Aston, near Birmingham, June 5, at eleven, at Dee's
Royal Hotel, Birmingham—J. B. Hayton and T. F. Bell, brokers,
Kingston-upon-Hull, June 9, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel—
T. and J. Armstrong, cattle-dealers, Raskelf, Yorkshire, June 3,
at eleven, at the George Inn, York—J. King, grocer, Cambridge,
June 10, at twelve, at the Sun Inn, Cambridge—T. Todd, sen.,
and T. Todd, jun., factors, Birmingham, June 4, at eleven, at
Radenhuret's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham—T. Nichols, book-
seller, Wakefield, Yorkshire, June 10, at twelve, at the Court-
house, Wakefield—T. Varnham, clay-merchant, Sinder-hill, Staf-
fordshire, June 3, at'eleven, at the Eagle Inn, Stafford—E. Oakley,
linen-draper, Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, June 5, at eleven,
at the Angel Inn, Poole—B. H. Bullock,wine-merchant, Grafton-
street, Bond-street, June 3, at one, at the Commercial-rooms,
Bristol—W. Cole, builder, Chester, June 2, at eleven, at the Pied
Bull Inn, Chester—R. and J. Clews, earthenware-manufacturers,
Cobridge, Staffordshire, June 5, at eleven, at the Leopard Inn,
Burslem—J. Reynolds, merchant, Manchester, June 3, at two, at
the Commissioners'-room, Manchester—T. M. Myers, salt-broker,
Liverpool, June 1, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—R.
Outterside, tailor, Liverpool, June 2, at eleven, at the Clarendon-
rooms, Liverpool—J. Treble, wine-merchant, Pembroke, June 3,
at one, at the Green Dragon Inn, Pembroke.

CERTIFICATES, JUNE 2.
B. Harris, linen-draper, Northleach, Gloucestershire—W. Spicer,
victualler, Tower-street, Seven Dials—W. Broady, wool-dealer,
Leeds—T. York, carver, Northampton—R. Johnson, merchant,
Byker, Northumberland—J. Meredith, timber-merchant, Lanel-
weth, Radnorshire—R. Stirling, brewer, High-street, Poplar—W.
Nail, ironmonger, Lisson-grove, Marylebone.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
H. Steel and J. Simpson, engravers, Shelton, Staffordshire—E•.
and T. Smith, coopers, Liverpool—T. Goodman and T. H. Grif-
fith, attorneys, Warminster, Wiltshire—G. Warwick and J. B.
Fernyhough, silk-mercers, Great Malvern, Worcestershire—E.
and J. Goodson, poulterers, Jermyn-street, St. James's—P. Dale
and G. Sharman, drapers, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham—F. Jones

and Co., iron-manufacturers, Cradley, Worcestershire, as far as
regards J. Attwood—E. and J. Howe, tallow-chandlers, Brinklow,
Warwickshire—J. Knaggs and J. Pereira, apothecaries, Piccadilly
—A. Frith and Co., casters, Birmingham—T. Mercer and J.
Crawley, wheelwrights, Watton, Hertfordshire—S. Hill and T.
Evans, grocers, Liverpool—T. Bazley and Co., manufacturers,
Manchester, as far as regards C. Bazley—H. Phillips and Co.,
ironmongers, Budge-row--C. Crosland and Co., forgemen, Dews-
bury, Yorkshire—W. Rowland and W. Crowther, bread-bakers,
Manchester—W. F. Finch and J. Kirby, stage omnibus-proprietors,
Newington-green, Islington—A. Holliday and C. S. Jacks, board-
ing-school-mistresses, Bridlington, Yorkshire—W. S. Bentall and
Co., woollen-manufacturers, Totnes, Devonshire—B. Lumb and
Co., cloth-finishers, Huddersfield, as far as regards S. Charlesworth
—P. Walker and Co., silk-manufacturers, Manchester.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
HECTOR HENDERSON, tea-merchant, Glasgow, May 13
and 27, at twelve, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of business.
It was very fully attended, and the space below the bar was
crowded. During the sitting of the Court much interest was
evidently felt by the strangers in the warm interlocutory dis-
cussion which took place.
ALLEGED BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.'
Immediately after the very short minute of the last
Court was read, stating that the Lord Mayor had dissolved
that Court,

Mr. PRITCHARD (the Chairman of the Committee of the
whole Court upon the Municipal Institutions) rose and said,
" I rise, my Lord Mayor, to address the Court upon a
question of privilege—(here the Lord Mayor rose),—and I
demand to be heard."—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
The LORD MAYOR said, he had to express his very great
regret, that in consequence of the proceedings of the Court,
which had given rise to the most serious interruptions to the
business of the Corporation, by which he was prevented from
remaining in it to transact that business, he had felt it due to
himself and to his brother Aldermen to call them together for
the purpose of communicating to them what had occurred,
and to ask their advice. It gave him the utmost satisfaction
to find that they unanimously agreed in the propriety of his
conduct, and farther, it appeared to them that the Committee
of the whole Court was no longer a legal Committee.
Mr. PRITCHARD—It is a legal Committee—l can prove that
fact.

The LORD MAYOR—It appeared to them' that the Com-
mittee ceased to be one on St. Thomas's day, and the law
officers (the Recorder and Common Sergeant) entertained a
similar opinion, and he was therefore determined not to suffer
any thing to be discussed emanating from any Committee
which had sat since the 21st of December. He hoped the
good sense of the Court would prevent the members from dis-
cussing about nothing. He could not consent to promote any
interference with the rights and privileges of the Court, and
was determined to take the necessary steps to prevent any
thing of the kind.
Here, upon the motion of Mr. EDWARD WILSON, the notice
of the proceedings of a former Court was read by the Town
Clerk, and after a few observations from some of the members,

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Mr. PRITCHARD again rose, and claimed to be heard on a
question of privilege, supported by a large body in the Court.
It was, he said, the business of the Court to decide upon a
question relating to its own privileges.
The LORD MAYOR declared most positively that he would
not suffer any such discussion to take place. He was in the
Court to go on with the business of it. If gentlemen wished
to have the opinions of the Recorder and the Common Ser-
geant, they might be accommodated with those opinions, but
he wished to go at once to the business for which he had as-
sembled them.

Mr. PRITCHARD said it was impossible for the Lord Mayor
to know the nature of the question of privilege to which he
alluded. If he were allowed by his Lordship he could de-
monstrate the grounds of it. If he were not allowed, then
he had to complain of being deprived of a most important
right.—( Hear. )
Alderman WOOD suggested the propriety of desiring that
the Recorder and Common Sergeant should attend in their
places at the next Court to state their opinions as to the pre-
sent legality of the Committee of the whole Court. That
course would, he thought, be the best under the present cir-
cumstances, as it would enable the Court now to go on with
the regular business which had been so long pending.
Mr. PEACOCK said he was ready to second a proposition of
that kind, and implored his Honourable Friend (Mr.
Pritchard) to yield the question of privilege to the Alder-
man's suggestion, which, if adopted, would leave open the
important point on which the disagreement had taken place,
for discussion.

Mr. PRITCHARD could not for a moment think of waiving
his right in favour of such a proposition.
Mr. JUPP hoped that the Court would come to a resolution
to proceed with the business on the paper, taking especial
care, however, that the question of privilege would be taken
into consideration at another time.

Alderman Wool) urged the necessity of adopting his sug-
gestion. The Recorder and Common Sergeant might, he said,
be both wrong as to the question of the legality of the Com-
mittee. The whole question rested upon that point ; and if
that opinion proved to be correct, then the Lord Mayor
was right in not allowing the notice to be placed on the
business list.

Mr. FIGGINS then proposed that Mr. Pritchard be requested
to adjourn the question of privilege till the next Court. He
wrote down his motion, and handed it, in accordance with the
forms of the Court, to the Town Clerk.

The LORD MAYOR\--I have reported to the Court the opi-
nions of the Recorder and the Common Sergeant. If the
Court be not satisfied with those opinions, a discussion may
take place about them on any other day, but I am here to go on
with the business of the day.
Mr. FIGGINS—Then it is better for us to go home and mind
our business, than to be here acting as the puppets of the Lord
Mayor.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Pritchard consented, as we understood, to waive his
motion in favour of Mr. Figgins's, and the Lord Mayor, to whom
the officer of the Court had handed the letter, returned it to
the Town Clerk, who stood up for the purpose of reading it,
amidst loud cries of " Hear, hear I'' At this moment Alder-
men Atkins and Farebrother both addressed his Lordship, who
thereupon spoke to the Town Clerk.
Mr. R. TAYLOR—The Lord Mayor is obstructing the Town
Clerk.—(Loud cries of " Shame, shame !" and " Hear the
Town Clerk.")
Sir PETER LAURIE thought the Lord Mayor was right in
the course he had adopted ; but it was time to throw oil upon
the waves, and as a matter of courtesy, his Lordship might di-
rect the law officers to give their opinion to the Court.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said that he also was willing to
conciliate ; but he was present when the unanimous opinion of
the Aldermen, that the Lord Mayor had acted correctly, was
given, and he could not but support the Lord Mayor. The
Recorder and Common Sergeant might be questioned at the
next Court, if any gentleman wished.
Mr. WESTON-The Town Clerk has a paper in his hand—
let him read it.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
The Town Clerk then read Mr. Figgins's motion.
Mr. R. L. JONES defended the conduct of the Lord Mayor
in the whole course adopted by his Lordship in the matter in
question, and represented in very indignant terms the mis-
chievous consequences resulting from the unnecessary inter-
ruption to the public business.
Mr. PRITCHARD, again rising to claim a hearing on the
question of privilege, which, be contended, agreeably to the
practice of every deliberate assembly, was entitled to take pre-
cedence of every other, said that he would not yield to the
last speaker, nor to any other member of the Court, in a sin-
cere and earnest desire to proceed with the business of the
Court, and to discharge the public duties they owed to their
fellow .citizens, and to which a due regard to their own con-
sistency and character attached additional obligation.—( Hear,
hear.) But in so doing, what was their first and paramount
duty? Obviously to maintain inviolate the privileges com-
mitted to them, and which were no less their's than the privi-

leges of their constituents. If, in the exercise of their -func-
tions, they met with any illegal and unconstitutional obstruc-
tions, a paramount necessity immediately stepped in, and de-
manded that they should first, by legal and constitutional
means, attempt the removal of that obstruction. Until that was
done, their functions were virtually suspended, and they were
placed in the degrading situation of bowing to an arbitrary pow, er4
which, without reasoning or argument, should wrest from
them the rights and privileges essential to their public exis-
tence, and becoming themselves parties to the destruction of
all their public usefulness.—( Hear, hear.) He stood their
in a situation of that description, and no power on earth
should seduce him to an abandonment of the important right
for which he contended, or a compromise of the duty to his
fellow-citizens and to himself, to which as a duty he yielded
a sincere and voluntary obedience. He demanded then as
a right to be heard on what he asserted to be a question of
privilege, but until he had been heard, what opportunity had
he of making good his allegation ? And was it reasonable or
consistent with the character of such an assembly that the
President should assume to judge by intuition of what he
(Mr. Pritchard) was about to say, and decide that the mo-
tion with which he should conclude was wrong before a
word had escaped his lips ?—( Hear, hear.) If his motion
should be listened to, it would be open to a negative vote
from those who might think he had not shown grounds to
sustain it, or it might be met by the amendment of the
Honourable Member (Mr. Figgins). He asked but to
be heard, he repeated, on a question of privilege, and
that granted, he •would yield unhesitatingly and frankly
to the decision of the Court, the only legitimate ar-
biter in such a case ; or if the sense of the Court so

inclined, he would assent to Mr. Figgins's amendment being
put preferably as an original motion. Let him but be heard,
and let the Court decide after hearing, and he would bow with
respect to any opinion so expressed ; but he would never,
while intrusted with a seat in that Court, yield a slavish obe-
dience to a usurpation of power by an individual, which ap-
peared to him to be as intolerable, as it was offensive and un-
becoming in practice.—( Hear, hear. )
The LORD MAYOR—If you do not proceed with the busi-
ness of the Court, I shall take immediate measures to main-
tain the dignity of my office. I shall' not permit any person I
to dictate to me, or to interrupt the business which have
summoned you to transact. I shall not allow any man to dare
to insult this Chair; and if any gentleman, after this morning,
will take upon himself to attempt an)thing of the kind, I shall
at once assert the character and dignity of the Lord Mayor, by
leaving the Court.—: Cheers, hisses, and laughter.)
Mr. PRITCHARD—I stand here, my Lord, in the exercise of
my undoubted right ; and, permit me to add, of the rights of
my constituents in my person, equally undoubted, demanding
to be heard upon a question of privilege, and I will not sit
down till that right is conceded to me.
The Loan MAYOR then ordered the Sword-bearer and Com-

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mon-crier to precede him, and left the Court amidst applauses
hisses, and groans. _

CONDUCT OF THE LORD MAYOR IN THE
COURT OF COMMON COUN • A.
" Sir,—You are desired to meet the Comm tee of the
whole Court of Common Council, at Guildhall, out ITh4re.l.l
day next, the 14th day of May, 1835, at twelve of fhe-ele;clr
at noon.

"FRED. TEMPLE.

"N. B. In consequence of the following Reglisidonre-
ceived by the Chairman ; and also to consider the best course
to be adopted with reference to the Reports of the Com-
mittee of the whole Court not yet considered in Common
Council.

Guildhall, 12th May, 1835.
" We the undersignel request the Chairman of the Com-
mittee of the whole Court to call a meeting of the Committee
on Thursday next, the 14th instant, for the purpose of consi-
dering the propriety of drawing up certain resolutions to be
made public on the recent proceedings in the Court of Com-
mon Council.' "

Signed by 50 Members.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Princess Augusta arrived in town yesterday from Frog-
more Lodge. In the evening her Royal Highness entertdined
the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, and a select party, at
dinner at her residence in St. James's Palace.

The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Duke of Gordon
with his company at dinner on Monday evening, at his residence
in Belgrave-square. •
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove in
the Parks at an early hour yesterday morning.
Messrs. Walker and Neilson (from Lower Canada) had an•
interview yesterday with Lord Glenelg at the Colonial-office.
Lord John Russell has left town for Stroud.