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THE TIMES EXTRAORDINARY.—Not
to interfere with the arrangements in Printing-house-
square, the above Journal will be published for the Proprietors ow
Saturday next, August 29th, by Effingham Wilson, Royal Ex.
change, and will be sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers, to whom
orders should be immediately given.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past 3 o'clock.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1835.

After the embowelling process which the Muni-
cipal Corporation Bill underwent in its progress
through the Committee, we imagined, in the sim-
plicity of our hearts, that there was no farther room
for their Lordships to display their ingenuity in
that particular line. We now find that we did
them great injustice. Their subsequent proceed-
ings hare convinced us that we had greatly under-
rated their skill in the ancient though ignoble art
of evisceration. We are truly concerned to apply
the term ignoble to any art which they condescend to
practise ; but we cannot sacrifice truth to any consi-
deration, and history informs us that among the
Egyptians, the unfortunate persons whose business
it was to open the body and take out the entrails
previous to embalming, were held in greater detes-
tation than common executioners. To such a pitch
indeed was this feeling carried against the Egyptian
embowellers, that the instant they had scooped out the
brains, and removed the heart, and the other principal
organs, they were obliged to run for their lives in order
to escape the vengeance of the people.
Why these functionaries should have incurred so
much public odium, we cannot at this distance of time
ascertain with any degree of accuracy, ancient writers
being silent on the subject ; but it is not unreasonable
to conjecture that they, like our modern Jack Ketches,
were sometimes guilty of gross indecency in the exer-
cise of their calling. In the dissecting room, where
they had it all their own way, there was doubtless a
good deal of unnecessary hacking and mangling. The
great error, however—the radical error—was in allow-
ing them to exist at all as a distinct class. It would
have been good policy, as well as mercy to the poor de-
vils themselves, to have put an extinguisher upon them
at once. A worse nuisance, indeed, in any country,
cannot be conceived, than a body of men dissociated
from the community, whose habits, feelings, and func-
tions are continually exposing them to popular hatred.
A due regard to the public tranquillity requires its
iM raaate abatement.

But to return to the Corporation Bill, which was
re-committed on Tuesday night. Our readers need not
be told that almost every thing of a popular cha-
racter in the Bill—every thing, in fact, that rendered
it valuable as a measure of Reform—bad been already
either entirely struck out, Or so altered as to be made
instrumental in perpetuating the reign of Toryism,
through the only means by which it can be per-
petuated—corruption. There remained, however,
one or two points, which, on more mature consi-
deration, were deemed of too liberal a tendency to
suit the views of the Tory Peers. They have had suffi-
cient proof of the assistance which the town-clerks are
capable of rendering to the good old cause. They
now duly estimate the value of these worthy officials.
The town-clerks, who according to the Bill, as it
passed through Committee, were to be elected annually,
are now to be elected for lift. This amendment, moved
as a matter of course by Lord LYNDIIURST, was
opposed by Ministers, but without effect. The
sense of the House was taken, and there appeared
104 " brave Peers of England, pillars of the State"
for the town clerks, and 36 for the people
The next topic of discussion was the claim of the
Dissenters to be put on an equal footing with members
of the Church in Town .Councils. This claim was dis-
allowed. The House of Lords has now decided that no
Dissenter, who shall have been elected by his fellow-
citizens a member of a Town Council, shall take part in
the proceedings of that Council when they relate to ec-
clesiastical matters. This is a re-enactment of the Cor-
poration Act, in a more oppressive and odious shape.
That Act excluded Dissenters from Corporations ;
this admits them, with a brand of dishonour on their
foreheads. It is also an intentional—a gratuitous in-
sult to the whole Dissenting body ; for, ignorant and
incapable as the Lords are, they cannot but know
that, according to the law as it now is (and it has al-
ways been the same, even in the worst of times),
Dissenters are qualified to exercise, and do excer-
cise the right of patronage in the fullest extent.
And here we cannot refrain from pointing the public
attention to the part—the shameful part—taken in
this debate by the Bishop of LONDON. This man,
whose calling as a minister of religion at least, if not
his station in the Church, would lead us to expect that
his sentiments would be somewhat in accordance with
the precepts of that peaceful and sacred code which he
professes to believe, delivered a speech, which for its
narrow bigotry, its sectarian bitterness, its tendency to
foment discord, and re-kindle the dying embers of religi-
ous intolerance, has never yet been equalled but by a
similar explosion of his own against the Catholics
a few ditys ago. This mitred firebrand had the au-
dacious impudence to stand up and declare in the.
face of the world, his belief that if Dissenters were
allowed a voice in the appointment of clergymen to

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