The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-13 00:00:00

PICKED WATERMEN'S RACE.

Henry Kelly, Fulham. IJ. Hammerton, Teddington.
J. Mackinney, Richmond. Jonn Phelps, Fulham.
W. Weston, coxswain.

2.
Thomas White, Lambeth. IT. Mackinney, Richmond.
William Pocock, Lambeth. John Frances, Teddington.
Mr. Moreland, coxswain.
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The winners, took the lead from an early period
of the race, and kept it.

THE NEW CITY CORPORATION

REFORM BILL.

The bill of the Government for the " better regu-
lation," or reform of the Corporation of the City of
London, was printed, yesterday, prior to the second
reading in the House of Commons, when the prin-
ciple of the measure will, in all probability, be
affirmed. The city is to be divided into 20 wards ;
nine of the old wards will remain unaltered—these
Aldgate, Aldersgate, Broad-street, Castle Bay nand,
Coleman-street, Cripplegate Without, Farringdon
Within, Portsoken, and Tower. The other wards
to be formed by union and divisions of existing
wards will be named Billingsgate, Bishopsgate
Without, Bishopsgate Within, Bread-street, Candle-
wick, Cheap, Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, North
Farringdon Without, South Farringdon Without,
and Queenhithe. The last ward (by way of exam-
ple) will include the old wards, of Queenhithe
and the Vintry. The right of voting for aldermen
and common councilmen is conferred on males
of full age occupying, solely or jointly, any
house, shop, office, wharf, or other tene-
ment, and rated in respect of such holding on a net
annual value of £lO. The list of electors will, of
course, be revised and purified periodically. Ou
St. Thomas's Day the- common councilmen will be
elected by the 20 wards of the city, as now, for one
year. The total number of common councilmen
will be 120. On the 21st day of December next
each ward will also eject one alderinau, who will
hold his office during good behaviour, or until he
die or resign. The duties and powers of the new
aldermen and common councilmen will commence
on New Year's-day, 1860, on which day all the ex-.
isting aldermen and common councilmen, unless
previously re-elected on Thomas's Day next, will
have to " clear out" of office. The Lord Mayor,
however, as king of the city, will remain on his
throne until the usual period (9th November).
Next year (1860) his Lordship will be elected by
the persons whose names appear in the ward lists
in force :pro tern. under the act. Three auditors
will be annually chosen on the 15th of March by
the ward electors. The Lord Mayor and alder-
men will be justices, as now. No clerk in holy
orders or minister of a dissenting conventicle may
be elected an alderman, common-councilman, or
auditor of the city. The qualification of a layman
is the possession of an estate of £l,OOO, real or per-
sonal, or a rating on an annual value of £3O. In-
solvency will, pro facto, disqualify existing Lord
Mayors, aldermen, and councilmen, and such must
at once resign their gowns. ' The common-hall
elections are transferred to the Court of Common
Council. The exclusive rights of trading in the
city are summarily swept away, and street tolls
are abolished. The office of high bailiff of South-
wark is also abolished. Salaried magistrates
may be appointed by the Queen at the request of
the Corporation. Freemen of the city may take
apprentices for a term of three instead of seven
years.

BATTLE-FIELD ANECDOTE.—The following is an
anecdote of the battle of Solferino :—" Corporal Ferriere,
of the 3d company of Foot Chasseurs, scaled at the head
of his men an eminence on which the Austrians had placed
a battery which kept up a murderous fire on the French.
In doing so, he had his left arm completely shattered by
grape. Ile exclaimed, No matter; before I die, I will
bring down one of the officers.' So saying, he threw down
his rifle, which was no longer of any use to him, drew his
sabre, and, with.his left arm •hangiug by merely some of
the muscles, rushed forward through a shower of grape,
reached. the battery, and plunged his re
polo the
l, sab uto the
who
hilt
into the body of the. captain.. Austrian c
saw the act, ran to the spot, and . with his pistol blew out
the corporal's brains, and-he expired on the body of the
captain."