The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-05 00:00:00

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May be viewed till the sale. Particulars had of the tenants ; also
of Messrs. Robinson, Hine, and Robinson, Solicitors, 39, Charter
House-square; Mr. Horsley, Solicitor, Berners-street, Commercial-
road ; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Cafe, Great Marlborough-street.

£327 10s. per Annum, well secured upon Premises in Crown-street
and Burnett's-buildings, Soho-square.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
, .
By Mr. CAFE,
•
At Garraway's Coffeehouse, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, on THURS-
DAY, the 10th of September, at Twelve o'Clock, in Two Lots,
Lot 1. FOUR well-built brick HOUSES, 28, 29,
30, and 31, Crown-court, Soho.
. .
No. 28 consists of shop, parlour, six rooms, and two
kitchens, in the occupation of Mrs. Matthews, at •
per annum £s2 10 0
No. 29, in the occupation of Mr. Herrick
No. 30, in the occupation of Mrs. Ward iss 0 0
No. 31, in the occupation of Mr. Cox BO 0 0

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With extensive back premises; sawpit, abed, and a
workshop 40 feet by 20 feet. Held by lease for a
term of 62 years, wanting 21 days, from the 2'1411
day of December, 1812, for a term of 62 years, at
q.6741,1rid--rent of per ann . . .

Lot 2. Ten brick-built House.: in liurnetes-build-
ings, nine of which are let of the annual value 0f...
Held ley lease for a term of 59 years, from the '2sth
day of December, 1815, at a ground-rent of per
annum • .

237 10 0

q 0

IS2 10 0

180 0 0

33 0 0

145 0 0
May be viewed; particulars had of Mr. Blacklow, Solicitor, 48,
-74•;th-ttra?t, Soho 7 at. Garrawa ,'a • 9 f Mr Cafe Creat Marl;
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Peel is . understood not only to have disapproved of this
amendment, but to have characterized it in terms by no
means flattering to Lord Lyndhurst ; and the Noble and
Learned Lord was at great pains to create hh impsesaion,
that in lending himself to the Tories, and abetting them in
their absurd course, he was not actuated by the ambitious
views with which he was charged. In his Lordship's
speech the points on which a stand would be made ware
indicated with tolerable clearness. They wetts the ap,.
pointrocnt of justices for life, the continuance of the
town-clerks in their offices for life, and such a con.
struction of the wards as might fheiiitate corruption.
The amendment respecting town-Pierkd was, howeyer, ulti-
mately,arranged on the principle of allowing compensation
to these functionaries. With respect to the first of these
Points; the appointment of iti§tifP3 Curti isYndhurst said
" he never could agree that the prerogative of his Majesty
to choose his own magistrates should ho taken from the
Crown, or delegated by Ant of Parliament to any other
parties, In the counties they might refer to the Lord-
Lieutenant, and in boroughs to the Mayor, but he could not
consent that the prerogittive of the King should be abo-
lished, and that, by Act of Parliament, his Majesty shall
not have the power to appoint a single Magistrate who had
not been first nominated by these town-councils," The
Commons assign the following as their reasons for confin-
ing the power of the Crown in the nomination of justices
to the individuals pointed out by the town-councils,
' " Because in order to enable the servants of . the Crown
justly to .advise his Majesty In the exercise of this branch of
his royal Prerogative, it must necessarily be that local informa-
tion Amid be sought for respecting the character and qualifi-
cation of parties who may be put into the several commissions
of the peace. The Commons furthei eansidor It to be of the
highest importance that snob information should be publicly
given by persons acting avowedly, and therefore responsible
for their recommendation ; that if such information be not so
given, it must necessarily be sought for through private and ir-
responsible channels, and the persons recommending will be
freed from the salutary control of' public opinion, and may be
swayed by undue preferences. That the town councils, freely
elected may safely be presumed to have the deepest interest in
the impartial administration of justice, and in the due enforce-
ment of the law within their respective communities, and that
there is, therefore, no reason to apprehend that they will sub-
mit for his Majesty's approval the names of improper or unde-
serving men ; that should the very improbable occurrence take
place, it would be the duty of those who advise the Crown to
set aside the recommendation of the Council, and to require a
new and revised list. That consequently, with a view to. the
responsibility of those who recommend, to the trustworthiness
of those who are recommended, and to the weight and autho-
rity of the laws, which cannot be separated from the character
of those by whom the laws are administered, the Commons are
willing to hope that the Lords will not insist on this amendment.'
No sufficient answer has been given to these reasons.
It was-well observed by Lord Brougham, that "it was
showing not a very becoming distrust of a body of men who,
in other respects, were entrusted with great and important
duties, to refuse to them the exercise of a power which
every Lord-Lieutenant possessed—that of recommending a
person to the Crown as fit to be appointed as a magistrate."
Were the Town Councils to be deprived of the power of
recommending the persons for the choice of the Crown as
Justices, the Corporations would be in a far worse state in
that respect than they are at present. What is now the
state of the case ? The acting magistrates of boroughs are
now commonly the Mayor (of whose Various election the
general summary in the Municipal Report presents a
table); the Recorder (whose nomination is similarly stated),
and several " Justices " specially appointed by the
governidg body,• commonly in various modes of ro-
tation. Sometimes the charter provides that the
Mayor, of the precedins. year shall be a Justice
for the, year ensuing that of his office, and occa-
sionally. that the senior Alderman or Aldermen shall be
such. Even where the election of Justices is vested in the
governing body, the magisterial office is vested often by
custom tO the senior members of the governing body, whe-
ther styled Aldermen or otherwise. In a number of the
largest and most ancient municipalities, as London, Nor-
wich, York, &e. &c., all the Aldermen are, by virtue of
their dignity, also Magistrates, and in the Cinque Ports
and south-eastern boroughs the Arras, whose position is
analogous to that of Aldermen, are almost invariably all Ma-
gistrates. In a few instances the Aldermen and Jurats are
popularly elected, but commonly they are self-constituted,
or appointed by a body already self-constituted. For the
election of Mayor and Recorder, we can again refer only
to -the general abstract. We are almost ashamed to
notice the, puerilities urged on this subject by the Tory
Lords. • Lord Brougham met the argument as to pre-
rogative very fairly. "If (said his Lordship) he on his
private authority proposed to, create a Corporation
—that would be an interference with the preroga-
tive of the Crown, most undeniably—but these Corps
rations were to be incorporated by the Crown itself, and
would be just as much creatures of the Crown as the old 1;
Corporations. Could it be an infringement of the power
of the King, that the Crown having assented to the esta-
blishment of these Corporate bodies, gave them the power
to choose -their Magistrates ?" The Duke of Wellington
would only attempt to answer this by identifying the pre-
sent Corporators with the first named by the King. "He
contended that the ancient. Corporators were appointed by
charters ; that the names oithe first Corporators were in-
serted in the charters ; and that they were authorised to •
elect their successors, which was what was called self-
election." No matter, according to his Grace, how remote
the descent, the first Corporators having been named by
Crown, all the successive Corporators derivine. " •
n first-named are to be deemed also ch irom te
ow—
What puerilities I The clause as an-
ended the Lords was,
n by the Crown.
however, carried by a g
reat•
majority. We have no hesita-
tion in saying, that were the recommendation of persons
for nomination the Crown for Justices to be taken from
the the consequences- would be most mis-
oaievons, It is not beyond the range of possibilities that
the Tories may once more endeavour to gain possession of
Powslr by a trick similar to that to which they resorted
last Noveinber. Let us suppose the Municipal Reform
Bill paised into a law, and his Majesty's present 'Ministers
dismissed. - In that case the Tories would have the nomi-
nation of Magistrates for all the boroughs comprehended
in. the Act. Tic. fin slog public-houses would belong to
se the
pt; ; and in case. of a new election, would not
the publicans be given to 'understand that their means of
existence would depend on their subserviency to Tory po-
litki."Ps ? No man who recollects the extent to which the
Torls.earried intimidation during the last election, will have
any difficulty in btieving that the nomination of a thousand
Justices, the creatures of a Tory Ministry, would not aid
them most materially in overawins, the nation in a fresh
exetion. To take
.a power fron-, the town-councils, which
would be,exerelaad iOr the benefit of the respective com-
munities, in order that the Tories might use it for their
urP°Rsi would be pregnant with misehiql. We trust,