The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, iMS.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX :kIAGIS-

TRATES.

Yesterday the MagiArates met for the dispatch of
public business.
Dr. RoniNsotv took the Chair.

The minutes of the last Court having been read," Mr.
Allen, the Clerk of the Peace, said he was requested to
read th 2 following letter, addressed to him from Benjamin
Rotch, Esq. :
RESIGNATION OF MR. ROTCH AS CHAIRMAN.
" Lowlands, Dec. 21, 1835.

" Dear Sir,—Fully aware that, however great I may have
considered the provocation which occasioned my sending a
hostile message to the Lord Mayor, resort having been had
to the Court of King's Bench, nothing could be there con-
sidered as justifying such a proceeding on my part, I immedi-
ately determined to relieve my brother Magistrates from any
embarsassment arising from the position in which I had placed
myself, by resigning the Chair of the Middlesex Sessions
at the earliest proper occasion ; and now beg that you will
communicate my determination to the Bench on Thursday
next, being the first County Court since the transaction allu-
ded to took place.
" I beg to assure the Court that I shall always remember
with pride and gratitude the handsome manner in which I was
called to the Chair, and have been continued through it in a
series of subsequent elections, more particularly on the last
occasion, when the Court's favourable opinion of my services
(my best and only reward) was recorded and presented to me
in a manner so highly gratifying to my feelings.
" After the cordial manner hi which my statement on the
last county day was received by the Court, I think it right my
brother Magistrates should be informed of what has since
taken place with reference to that subject. At the com-
mencement of the last term, the Lord Mayor obtained a rule,
for a criminal information, and immediately after Mr. Car-
penter, unknown to me, waited upon the City Solicitor, when
it was mutually suggested that if a meeting of friends of both
parties took place, some mode of amicably adjusting all dif-
ferences might be agreed upon. A communication was then
made 'to me by Mr. Carpenter, and I expressed my perfect
willingness, if such a meeting took place, when the matter
should be thoroughly understood on each side, to abide
entirely by the decision of my friends as to what
ought to be done under the circumstances. I knew
they would not compromise my honour nor my
position as a gentleman; and any thing short of that which
they might have required, I should not have for a moment
withheld. Sir C. Forbes, Bart., Mr. Ballantine, and Mr.
Carpenter, kindly undertook to act as my friends on the oc-
casion ;_ and the Recorder, the City Solicitor, and a member
of the Court of Aldermen were at first proposed on the part
of the Lord Mayor ; but a suggestion having been made that
the Recorder and the City Solicitor, having already acted as
counsel and attorney for the Lord Mayor in the matter, it
might as well be that Sir Claudius Hunter, Mr. Alderman
Matthew Wood, and Alderman Scholey were named as friends
of the Lord Mayor, and an appointment made to meet at the
Guildhall, at a certain hour. My friends attended at the ap-
pointed time, and having been kept waiting for upwards
of an hour were informed by the City Solicitor that
the interview was declined. I regret the failure of
that attempt at accommodation—the more because
from what I have since learned, I am inclined
to think that, if that meeting had taken place, the
Court of Alderman would have seen reason to believe that

I was not actuated by any feeling but a sense of duty in mak-
ing the return to the House of Lords which has been com-
plained of, and that although my opinions on that subject re-
main the same, nevertheless I regret that the return should
have been worded in terms which the Court of Aldermen ap-
pear to have construed as to be personally offensive, and
which was certainly not intended by me; while, on the other
band, I am satisfied the friends of the Lord Mayor must have
admitted that the language used towards me in the Court of
Aldermen, and which I conceived was intended to be sanc-
tioned by the observations of the Lord Mayor, added to the
manner in which my first letter to him was treated, and his
repeated refusal to give
.any answer to it, could not be justi-
fied, and was calculated to rouse the indignation of any ho-
nourable mind. _ _ _

" If the proposed meeting had taken place, and any friend
of the Lord Mayor had said on his part that which he subse-
quently swore himself on making his application to the Court
of King's Bench—namely, That in making the observations
he did in the Court of Aldermen, he was wholly uninfluenced
by any personal or vindictive feeling towards me,' it would
have terminated the affair ; but the refusal on the part of the
Lord Mayor to see my friends after the agreement made for
such meeting, put all further attempts at accommodation out
of my power, and left me no alternative but to show cause
against the Rule which had been obtained 3 Having done this
it was not my intention to be the means of introducing the
matter farther before the public, and I therefore allowed judg-
ment to go by default, in which position the affair at present
stands.

" With reference to my first letter to the Lord Mayor, I
must ever feel that the usages of gentlemanly society required
that I should give him an opportunity of saying whether he
had used the offensive expressions or not before I observed
upon them at Clerkenwell, anci the said usages led me to an-
ticipate that that letter would have been answered. It will
be in the recollection of every one, that a precisely similar
course was • pursued quite lately, even by a Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and, as such, a Judge of one of the Courts of
Westminster Hall—Sir Robert Peel, to an Ecclesiastical
Judge, Dr. Lushington. The latter replied by letter in the
case I am alluding to, and in words very similar to those sworn
by the Lord Mayor in the Court of King's Bench in my case.
This reply put an end to the matter, as it would of course, if a
similar line of conduct had been pursued by the Lord Mayor.
Sincerely do I regret that it was not, since the adoption by
him of a different course induted me, in a moment of irritation,
to do that which, however we are accustomed to consider it
sanctioned by the usages of society, cannot be justified by law,
and makes it inconsistent with my own feelings of propriety to
hold that prominent station in the Magistracy of the County
which I now fill, while subject to the judgment of the Court
of King's Bench.
" I have considered it due equally to my brother Magis-
trates and myself, to offer this full explanation of my conduct,
and the motives and feelings by which it has been influenced,
and in taking leave of the Chair, have much pleasure in avail-
ing myself of the opportunity to acknowledge the great ad-
vantages I have always derived in the discharge of my ardu-
ous public duties from your very able and, zealous assistance,
while I have not failed to mark the many acts of liberality
and benevolence which those suitors of the Court whose ne;
cessities plead for them are constantly receiving from you.
" I am, Dear Sir,
" Yours very faithfully,
" J. P. Allen, Esq. - " BENJ. ROTCH."
The reading of the above was listened to with profound
attention, and nearly all the . Magistrates, including those
more generally opposed to Mr. Rotch, expressed their ad-
miration of his conduct as Chairman, and his honourable
bearing in the late transaction. They also lamented his
retirement, and some conversation took place on this head,
when it was eventually carried upon motion unanimously,
that the letter should be received, and the tender of resig-
nation be considered at the next Court. _ _ _

Mr. PYLER, in a long speech, moved that 3001. be al-
lowed out of the county-rate for erecting a mill in the
House of Correction, to be worked by the prisoners, to
grind flour to make bread for the inmates.
A MAGISTRATE—A bread-mill instead of a tread-mill.

After a protracted discussion there appeared an equal
number of votes, when the Chairman gave his casting vote
in favour of the motion, and it was carried.
Sir PETER LAURIE instantly gave notice of motion to
rescind the vote at the next session.
The prisons were declared all well, and the number of
prisoners much below the usual average.
EDMUND HALSWELL, Esq., moved " That at every
Quarter Sessions four of the Visiting Justices for the pri-
sons shall go out ; 'such Visiting Justices to be selected from

those who have attended the fewest times during the pre-
ceding quarter ; and that in future there be added to the
Reports of all Committees the number of attendances of
each member."—Agreed to.
Report of the Committee appointed to form a rota for
the attendance of those Justices who consented to have
their names placed on the list for the year 1836.—Re-
ceived and agreed to.
The County Treasurer laid before the Court for exa-
mination the returns required by Lord John Russell's letter
of the 12th of October last, as to the expenses of criminal
prosecutions and the conveyance of prisoners sentenced to
transportation, between the Ist of July and 30th of Sep-
tember last.—Received, agreed to, and the Clerk of the
Peace to return an answer to Lord John Russell.
A memorial of the Vestry of St. Pancras, complaining
of Mr. James Bradshaw, High Constable of Holborn Di-
vision, in the execution of some warrants, was ordered to
-tic on the table, the Court ruling
they had no jurisdiction
in the case.
The usual passing of accounts and routine business having
been disposed of the Court, adjourned at five o'clock.

ROBBERY.—On Wednesday a number of cattle
dealers from this part of the country slept at Bender, an
Inn near Wooler, in returning from the Morpeth market of
that day. Among the rest was a person of the name of
Andrew Rutherford, a jobber, living in or near Dunse, who
had a sum of money in his possession amounting to upwards
of 300!. On retiring to bed, which he shared with another
man, of the name of Laidlaw, a salesman, he put his vest,
in the pocket of which was his pocket-book containing the
money, under his pillow—his companion depositing his
money under the bed on which they were sleeping. A third
person occupied another bed in the same room. On arising
next morning, Rutherford discovered that his waistcoat and
money had been removed during the night from below his
pillow. The waistcoat was found lying on the floor of the
room in which he had slept, but the pocket-book and money
were gone. After a short search, his pocket-bOok was dis-
, covered lying on the road immediately under the window of
his bed-room, with all the money taken out of it except
eleven .5/. notes. During the following day, the circum-
stances attending this daring act of robbery underwent a
strict judicial investigation, and Laidlaw, the bed-fellow of
Rutherford, perceiving that be could not expect to escape
detection, acknowledged himself to be the thief. In the
course of Friday Laidlaw was removed to Morpcth gaol,
there to await his trial for the Offence.—lfeho Mail, of
Monday'

LITERARY ASSIGNMENTS.

We yesterday gave a short account of a sale of a
collection of Autographs by Evans: of on
Tuesday, which produced much to interest the
antiquarian and historian. We now subjoin some
further particulars. Among those Autographs were
the original assignments of literary property from their
respective authors to the Dodsleys, which elicited,
for the fiist time, the names of the writers of several
works published anonymously, but now of established
repute.
Jan. 16, 1740-41, William Whithead received ten
guineas i❑ full for a poem entitled, The Dangers of
Writing Verse. William Guthrie, the historian,
agreed to translate Riccioboni on the Theatres, Index,
and all complete, for 101. 16s.

Dr. Edward Young received, Nov. 24, 1753,
fifty guineas, which, with 110 guineas before, was in
full for the five first parts, or nights, of a poem en-
titled Night Thoughts. For the sixth,. called The
Infidel i'eclaitned, the author received, Jan. 26,
1744-5, fifty guineas ; and on Feb. 10, 1755, he
assigned his Centaur' not Fabulous, with the plate
used as a frontespiece, for 2001., which Dodsley was
to pay six months after date.
John Wesley, the founder of the .Methodists, ac-
knov.dedged to having pirated the copy-right of some
portions of the Night Thoughts, and some produc-
tions of Mrs. Rowe, in his Collection of Ppejil,
and made restitution by agreeing to pay 501., Feb.
8, 1744.
Nov. 25,•1748, Dr. Johnson assigned his. transla-
tion of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal for' fifty guineas,
the author reserving to himself the right of printing,an
addition. This document produced -seven guineas.
Dr. Johnson's Autograph Account of his Tour in
France, presented to his biographer, James Boswell,
the elder, by Malone, July 21, 1787, sold for 201. ;
it was purchased at the sale of the library of James
Boswell, the younger, for ten guineas, a few years
since.

Robert Patlock, of Clement's-inn, assigned the
manuscript of the Life and Adventures of Peter
Wilkins, a Cornishman, to Dodslcy, Jan. 11, 1749,
for twenty guineas, twelve copies, and the cuts (or
coppers used for the plates) of the first impression.
The author of this work is now, for the first time,
discovered.

Thomas Warton, Jan. 21, 1752, agreed to trans-
late the ..krgOnautics of Appollonius Rhodius for
801; and at a subsequent date, his brother, Dr.
Joseph Warton, assigned his ESsay' on the Life and
Writings of Pope,- in two volumes, octavo, for 2001.
Colley Cibber, assigned his Apology, March 24,
1749-50, for fifty guineas. Susanna Cibber, April
1,- 1752, the Comedy of the Oracle, in one act, for
thirty guineas; and Mrs. Kitty Clive, March 24,

175, her Rehearsal or Boys in Petticoats, for twenty
guineas.

John Collet, the artist, whose humerous produc-
. .

tions are usually assigned to the inimitable Hogarth,
assigned his work entitled Chit Chat, Nov. 6, 1745,
for twenty guineas.
William Melmoth, April ..30, 1755, for his Trans-
lation of Cicero's Familiar Letters, 6001; and for the
thinner volume entitled La3llus,
_lOO/. Hampton,
this year, received for his translation of Polybius, two
hundred and fifty guineas.
Mason, the biographer of Gray, has asserted that
the poet never received any 'emolument for his writings,.
but this is false,;„ Gray, June 29, 1757, assigned his
two odes, the Power of Poetry and the Bard for
forty guineas, reserving the right to reprint them in
any edition of his workS. This document produced
eight guineas.
A• receipt for six guineas for Burke's first published
production; excited much notice ; it professed to be for
the use of the author of Natural Society Vindicated,
and was written in Lord Bolingbroke's style, to evince
his aptitude at the manner, deemed difficult, of that
illustrious statesman. Only five hundred were to be
printed of the first edition ; if it reached a second,
the author was to receive six guineas more.
A point frequently controverted, as Burke had
himself omitted it in the collection of his works, was
here set at rest. Burke assigned his History of the
European settlements in America, to Dodsley, Jan. 5,
1757. This was, with many of the more choice ar-
ticles, purchased by- - Mr. Wilks, -the • -Member for
Boston.

Burke, April 24, 1758, contracted with Dodsley,
to write the Annual Register, or .a Retrospect of Men
and Things, in the manner of Millar's Kaleudar, in
octavo, each volume for every year not to contain less
than thirty sheks, nor more than thirty-four, for 100/.
per volume, and to have all books and pamphlets found
him : Dodsley, if dissatisfied, was to give three months'
notice. This document produced six guineas. There
was also a receipt in full, for fifty guineas to Burke;
for the volume for 1762, when probably he ceased to
write for the work. The Annual Register was con-
ducted by Thomas English, for Dodsley, from 1768,
onwards, and the receipts show that be received 140/.
for each year.
As a unique in literature was Burke's receipt, dated
May 26, 1791, for 1,000/., the profits of his Reflec-
tions on the Revolution in France, published as a ss.
volume. No author ever received so much on the sale
of any work ! Walker King received also 3001., Nov.
25, 1791, for the copyright of Burke's Letter to:a
Member of the . National Assembly ; and his Appeal
from the --New to the Old Whigs, on his secession
from Fox's party.
There were several autographs -of Bishop Percy,
and it is surprising that Dodsley, who had given
such large sums for works of an inferior character,
Or not at all_ comparable for extent, should have ob-
tained the first edition of Percy's Ancient. English
Ballads, in three, volumes, for one, hundred guineas.
The original agreement, dated May 22, 1761, stated
the sum as the remuneration - for three volumes in
duodecimo, " to contain all I shall ever print of this
work." It appears, however, that only two volumes
were then ready, for these he was to have 70/. ; and if
a third volume was afterwards completed, the purehast,,
money for that volume was to be 35/. ; " and in case
any accident should prevent my compleating the said
work, after I have received any part of the aforesaid
sum, I hereby declare that my folio manuscript, from
which most of the said ballads are extracted, does in
that case become the property. of the said J. Dodsley,
or his executors, to indemnify him for such disburse-
meiit." March 25, 1763, Percy received 100/. 3s.
101 d. in part of the one hundred guineas for the copy-
right of the Ancient Songs and Ballads ; and on March
26, 1765, 4/. 15s. 12d., the residue, in completion of
the above contract.

Percy received, June 10, 1761, 501. in full for his
Chinese History, entitled HankiOn Choaan ; on the
same day, ten guineas, for his Chinese Proverbs,
Chinese Poetry, and Argument of the Chinese Play;
and ten guineas for the first impression of his version
of Solomon's Song. March 25, 1763, he received
ten guineas, as a first payment for his Runic Poetry ;
and on the same day, twenty guineas for his Miscel-
laneous Pieces relating to the Chinese, in two volumes
duodecimo, contracted for May 23, 1761. -
In 1775 Percy's Reliques reached a third edition ;
and March 7, in that year, Dodsley agreed to pay him
401. at the end of five years, from the time Percy
should complete the work at press, and Dodsley deliver
up to Percy, as his property, all the plates belonging
to•it, for allowing the publisher to print off 500 copies
above the thousand formerly agreed for. Percy not to
re-publish the work till all the 1,500 capies'were sold.
Dodsley also waived the original restriction, that Percy
was not to compile or print a fourth volume.
Nov. 'l9, 1760. Dodsley paid Sterile for the first
two volumes of his Tristram Shandy, and the first
two volumes of the Sermons'of Mr. Yorick, 4501.
An astonishing sum, when it is recollected that Sterne
proffered the first volume of Tristram Shandy for 501.
On the same day Dodsley contracted to pay Sterne,
six months after the work was completed at press,
3801. for the third and fourth volumes. These two
documents produced seven guineas. There was also
a curious letter of J. Hall Stevenson, Sterne's Euge:
nius, author of Crazy Tales, proffering to Dodsley the
second part of his Fables gratis, as he had formerly
given the first.
Oct. 31, 1764. • Goldsmith, then residing at cham-
bers in the Inner Temple, on the Library staircase,
assigned to Dods!ey and Newberry, 11i OfatPrio of.
OP Captivity, for tyn uiuets, ThisArama I,oli:wined

unpublished till a foul, copy in Mr. Heber 's library
was • forwarded to Washington Irving,; for his Paris
edition of the poet's works. The present was a clear
transcript, and evinced in almost every line the sedu-
l‘ous care of Goldsmith's amendments. The maim-
script produced 251. 103.

March 31, 1763, contracted with Dodsley to write
a Chronological History of the Lives of Eminent Per-
sons of Great Britain and Ireland, in octavo volumes,
Co range with the' Universal History, each volume to
comprise thirty-five sheets, at three guineas per sheet.
Goldsmith this year resided at Canonbury- Tower,
Islington, perhaps for seclusion, to compile this work,-
whieh from some cause was abandoned. This con-
tract produced 71. 10s. In 1774, Goldsmith received
tire guineas for improving the second edition of his
Essay on Polite Learning, and for prefixing his name
to the same ; a receipt of three lines in Goldsmith's
Auto,.,oraph, and sold for 0/. ss.
Aug. 4, 1764. Chr. Smart. received for his Trans-
lation of Phadras, ten guineas. Nov. 7, 1766, Tho-
mas Sheridan, for his Lectures on Elocution, forty .
guineas. Horace Walpole, afterwards Lord Orford,
Jan. 23, 1768, for . his Historic Doubts respecting
Richard the Third, 100/., and the Rev. Jos. Spence,
whom Walpole ::designated " a neat silver penny in
literature," . received for his celebrated Polvirugis 2001.
Charlotte Lenox received Feb. 1'74, for her
Translation of Mad. La Valiere's Meditations, 25/.
Dr. John Berkenhout, Sept. 26, 1776, for the first
volume of his Biographia Literaria, in quarto, 2001. ;
and in the following year, Soame Jenyns, for his puerile
work, entitled Evidence: of Christianity, received the
enormous sum of 250/.

Jan. 2, 1779, Rev. Richard Graves, of Claverton,
received for his translation of Coltimella, 201.; and for
The Sorrows of Werter, the author of which has not
till now been discovered, he received, June 20, 1780,
401. • Dodslev's note adds, that though this sum was
in full, yet Air. Graves afterwards received as much
more as made it 2001.

Isaac Reed was the compiler of the four volumes of
Poems known as Pearch's Collection ; Pearch being
the publisher, the copy-right was afterwards assigned
to Dodsley. Reed, April 1, 1780, -received the last
portion of 1001., for which he contracted and completed
the editing of the twelve volumes of Old Plays, pub-
lished in that' year. And on Nov. 13, in the following
year, Dodsley paid him 50/., for his notes to Robert
Dodslev's Collection' of Poems, which were then re-
published. Sept. 8, 1782, Reed received twenty gui-
neas, for re-editing Pearch'sCollection.
Joseph Gilbert Cooper received for his Letters con-
cerning Taste, 201. -in books, &c. Blackwell, for the
first two volumes of his Court of Augustus, quarto,
500/. Professor Duncan agreed for a' Translation
of Plutarch's Lives, for GOO/. Chr. Anstey, for his
New Bath Guide, a humourous poem, 250/. ; and
C. Horne, July 4, 1791, for his Chronological
Abridgment of the History of England, a single vo-
lume octavo, 1501.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL' S.
No change in the odds.

CRAVEN MEETING, 1836.

TIMASDAY.
Acceptances for the Newmarket Free Handicaps:—
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs., h. ft. D.M.
Alfred, 7st. 121 b; Calmuck, 7st. 51b; Elfrid filly, 6st. 1211 i.

SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC

The elections of the new Town Councils or the
Incorporated Towns of England and Wales will take
place to-morrow, all the preliminary arrangements di..
rested by the Municipal Reform Act being now per-
fected. The electoral body having been ascertainedin every borough, and its division into separate ward
constituencies completed, it now only remains td- 'the
electors to use their
,power honestly and wisely,r*:,ted aoiinst
do not doubt that, in the great majority of inStan
-community by
they will disprove the base calumnies
the middle and humbler classes of
the Tories, who represent " Ten 7:-ournicrs” and the
Municipal Constituencies as
the canaille of society,
For several weeks the 'lust active local preparations
for the exercise Or_ 'their new and invaluable trust
have been l'''_eorded in the Provincial Press. We
do not doubt the result. ilowever defective the na-
ture of a first legislative measure of " organic
charige,"and, notwithstanding, many ward divisions may
have been partial, or may; from accidental circum-
stances, contain limited numbers of electors, We have
full confidence that, the Act of Municipal Reform
will Completely emancipate the incorporated towns
from aristocratic domination, and the sinister rule of
the Self-Elect. Doubtless,' in some cities and bo-
roughs, the Reformers will not obtain, at the first
election, a predoMinance in the Town Councils of
municipal representatives professing liberal political
principles ; but in all the towns they must carry a
oonsikrable- portion of the governing body, and in
likewise, they will in effect secure every desired
municipal object of Corporate Reform. We have
too often exposed the scandalous abuses of the ex-
piring system to render it necessary for us to supply
any further illustration of Corporate abuses. One
sample more, however, we must give—by which it
appears that the members of the notorious Corpora-
tion of Leicester are resolved to perish as they have
lived—distinguished above all their compeers for mu-
nicipal misgovernment. We have recently seen in
a Provincial Journal the intimation, that an east-
country Corporation has expended all its remaining
borough funds in services-of plate for its retiring mem-
bers. We have heard of the removing of plate, of the
carting away the contents of wine-cellars, and of the
carrying off by night the portraits of Noble Recorders
and Tory Premiers, previous to the surrender of the Town
Halls ; and that a corporator of Ludlow has openly
boasted at a public dinner that the borough chest will
be found empty by its new Town Council. But Lei-
cester--Leicester, with the incomparable Town Clerk,
Thomas Burbidge, puts all other places to the blush—
if the following local hand-bill circulated in that Cor-
poration-ridden borough on Wednesday last is entitled
to credit, which we•are assured it is :--
46 TRANSACTIONS or THE OLD CORPORATION AT A COM-

MON HALL HELD YESTERDAY, DEC. 99.
" The attention of the burgesses under the new Muni-
cipal Act is earnestly requested to the following statement,
the correctness of which niLy be fully relied on

_"At a Common-hall, held at the Town-hall, yesterday,
the following sums were voted out of the town purse :
To Mr. Alderman Firrnadge, a piece of plate, value

guineas
To Mr. Alderman James Rawson, a piece of plate,
value
To Mr. Thomas Burbidge, town-clerk, a piece of plate, -
value
To Richard Rawson, Esq., mayor, a year's additional
salary
To Mr. John Hester, mace-bearer, per year, for his
life (present salary)'
To Mr. William Parsons, steward and surveyor, per
year, for his life (present salary)
To all the 'Town Servants, per year each, for their
lives
" Electors ! The above transactions have taken place in
the immediate prospect of an election, which is either to
confirm them,. or to render them unavailing. They have
taken place, as if to try bow. far the servility of supporters
can be commanded, or the indignation of opponents braved ;
as if to try,-in short, how Isar the public feeling of the in-
habitants of Leicester can be insulted with impunity.
" Electors! • There are two parties anxiously soliciting
your suffrages for Members for the new Council. By one
of these parties corporation property is held to be public
property, intended for the benefit of the town at large, to
alleviate the pressure of the public expenditure, or to con-
tribute to the pubic advantage and improvement.
" If this party form a majority of the new Council, they
will endeavour to regain for you the money thus voted
away without your consent, and exercise a severe scrutiny
into all similar transactions.

" By the oppcsing party, corporate property is consi-
dered as belonging, -not to the inhabitants of the town, but
to the self-elected body, who claim it as theirs, and who
assert that they have a right ' to do as they will with
their own.'

" Electors! From one or other of these parties you
must choose those who are -to represent you in the new
Council. Besides the money voted away yesterday, large
sales qf land and real eroperty have very recently been
made, on the validity and expediency of which the first
Council will have to decide. -

" Depend upon it the balance of the town account will
l!;,! wonderfully affected by the balance of poWer in the Town
Council, and Cant a. majority of even one on the wrong side
will cot vou dear.

" The first Council will have to decide on the salaries to
be given to all the public functionaries ; and the amount of
compensation to be made to such as may be dis Missed, or
retire.-

" Whatever compensation is awarded by the Council,
you will have to pay in the shape of borougl.rates. Re-
member whit those rates have been. Recollect that but
fbr the interference of a public spirited individual you
would at this time be paying an unnecessary borough-rate,
though there are two quarters still in hand. Take,care of
yourselves, therefore, while the power is yet in your-hands ;
and remember, that no future Council can recal the'money
which the first may vote away
" Leices&r, Dec. 23.

“. A BURGESS.”

This is indeed the " ruling passion strong in death."
With this curious document there was sent us a
lithographed copy of the Treasury Minute, which
the Town Clerks it appears have circulated
among their. caste as the standard of their com-
pensation if displaced from office, and which we
publish in another column. By this Minute
it appears that . the Lerds of the Treasury
have effectually, secured the Tories against all acts of
depredation subsequent to the passing of the Corpora-
tion Bill, by fixing the principle according to which
the compensations are 'to be calculated, namely, an
avetage offive years' emoluments. The stolen pro-
perty, therefore, under this Minute, and the Clauses of
the Act (which subject such proceedings to revision
and repeal) will be of no avail to the cunning Corpo-
rators and their ingenious officers. TO-morrow will
be their day of humiliation and sack-cloth and ashes.
The most respectable and trustworthy of the old class
of Corporators throughout England and Wales will
be re-instated in power, with better company, and
under the restraint of responsibility and security.
On the eve" of this great .Municipal Reforma-
tion, we will now only call the particular attention
of the Liberals to the :32d section of the Act, which
directs the mode of voting. No speccific form for
the Voting Paper appears to be provided by the Act,
but the directions in that section must be strictly ob-
observed. Every Elector must see that " the Chris-
tian and surnames and respective places of abode and
description" of the Candidates he votes for are cor-
reedy written or printed on one Voting Paper : each
Elector must sign his own name (at full for safety) at
the foot of the Voting Paper, and to his name must
be added " the name of the street, lane, or other
place, in which the property
,for which he appears to
be rated on the burgess-roll is situated." These are
the essentials to a legal vote in favour of candidates
for the office. of Town Councillor ; and the voting.
papers must be delivered to the presiding officers, who,
under the directions of the Act, are authorised to ta';•e
the poll. So much for the business of to-mczrow
(Saturday). 'We shall hereafter detail the immediate
duties of the Town Councils—what they can do, and
what undo. They must turn over a new leaf with the
new year.—Morning Chronicle.
Having been appropriately engaged at • this festive
season in dissecting Lord John Russell's declaration
touching the acknowledged duty and determination of
Government ic to uphold the Church Establishment
in Scotland," we must still insist on-doing ourselves
the pleasure of helping his Lordship to a little more on
the same subject. To what extent O'Connell coerced
the Home-office to
acer;:ve the General Assembly's
deputation* first,-by •promising that none but impar-
,
tigi and exp-- n should be put on the coin-
'll4sin-. of inquiry,• and then by nominating as the
►
of -oy•••
of a •pliant majority • h
working members there
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agitators, whose notorious anti-church principles gave
tolerable security for their producing such a report as
will keep matters sweet at Clarges-street,•=all this we
have served up in successive courses of facts, seasoned,
we admit, with such pungency of remark as seemed
best adapted to stimulate the noble palate we are
carving for. We have vet
" A trifling foolish banquet towards ;"
and, whatever his. Lordship may.have desiderated in
the previous stages of our entertainment, our hospitality
shall endeavour to supply. Does the Noble Lord
assume that the Scotch Dissenters were against any
Parliamentary grant, and does he, therefore, conclude,
that they were entitled to be represented on the Go-
vernment Commission ? We must take leave to re-
join, that a more false or flagrant pretence than this
was never played off' upon public credulity even by the
Melbourne Whigs The assumption, as we shall
show immediately, is wholly unfounded ; but, admit-
ting it were otherwise, the conclusion which Lord John
Russell has found convenient to extort from it, is pal-
pably inconsistent with his professed determination to
uphold the Scotch establishment ; and, more than this,
it is in principle utterly subversive of that Constitution
in Church and State which he is sworn and paid to
maintain. What his Lordship's taste for figures may be,
we are not so happy as to know ; but, presuming that he
is decently expert as simple addition and subtraction, we
submit to his slate and pencil the following piece of
statistical arithmetic, whose accuracy we invite him
,to
impugn by every approved rule he may be master of,
excepting always the disallowed one by which he out-
witted Dr. Chalmers. Deducting mere preaching
stations, and vacant congregations who have no settled
pulpit-demagogue to disturb their quiet habits with his
church jealousies, there are just 480 (Protestant and
Popish) Dissenting-congregations in Scotland, whose
preachers and members can possibly be supposed to be
unfriendly to a Parliamentary grant for additional
church room in that country. Of these 480 Dissenting
congregations, consisting of United Seceders, Inde-
pendents, Catholics, and Relievers, more than 200,
.Bolding Protbstant opinions, have given no opposition,
by petition or otherwise, against the contemplated
Government aid, partly because several of their
ministers are either friendly to the Establishment, or
too discreet to ally themselves with Irish Papistical
agitation ; but chiefly because the Presbyterian portion
of their people being still true to their principles,
which are favourable to a National Establishment, are
not yet ripe for aiding the ambitious and aggrandizing
designs of the despicable ghostly faction who seek to
make them their tools. Among the remaining 280,
however, which, at a liberal calculation, we have sup-
posed to be decidedly hostile to the grant, there arc in-
cluded 50 Scotch Catholic congregations, not one of
which petitioned against it. The number of opposing
congregations is, therefore, reduced to 230. Well,
my Lord, this being the amount of Dissenting oppo-
sition, it will doubtless occur to so comprehensive a
thinker and so honest a statesman as your Lordship,
to inquire whether there be not some Dissenting items
to be reckoned on the side of the Church ? To be
sure there are.

For those congregations who have given no opposition
(not including the Catholics) you will have the
goodness to put down 2OO
Add to these the whole of the congregations belonging
to the Scotch Episcopal Communion, the Old Light
Seceders, and the Cameronians (who have not only
had nothing to do with opposing the grant, but have
in various ways expressed their respect and sym-
pathy for the national establishment), amounting
exactly to