The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-10 00:00:00

COMMON C;OUNCTL.-(THIS DAY).

A Court of Common Council was held this day, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the measures which were ne.
cessary to be adopted in consequence of the proceedings in the
House of Lords on the Refonn Bill, and on other business,
At one o'clock the Lord Mayor entered the Court. There
were also present the Sheriffi, Recorder, Aldermen Copeland,
Thompson, Wilson, Waithman, Winchester, Hughes, and
Venables.

Mr. TAYLOR said he had to wake a few observations upon
what lie conceived was a privilege of this Court. The last pe-
tition of this Court had been objected to in the House of Lords,
by Lord Eldon and a few other Lords, because it had not the
City Seal on it. Now, as a great many petitions had been pre-
sented to the House of Lords without the City Seal upon them,
it :was strange that such an objection should be now made.
He should, therefore, propose that it be referred to a Committee
to inquire into the proper mode of authenticating petitions
from this Court, and to ascertain the number of petitions signed
in a similar manner and presented to the House of Lords,
while Lord Eldon was in olfice—(Cheers)—and also to. ascer-
tain whether it was absolutely necessary to attach the city seal
to petitions.

Mr. FLETCHER seconded the motion. He begged to ask
whether the petition in question was received by the House of
Lords as the petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Com.
mon Council.

The TOWN CLERK said he had examined the journals of
the House, and found that it was therein stated to be the pe-
tition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council.
Mr. FLETCHER said this Court would not discharge its
duty to its constituency or to the Court itself if it did not disa-
buse the public mind on this question.
Mr. Aldermanj WAITHMAN asked whether the Town
Clerk ever knew of a petition being objected to on a similar
ground.
The TOWN CLERK said he had not. It had been the
invariable practice for the Town Clerk only to sign petitions.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, it was most extraordi-
nary for a Noble Lord who for many years had been Lord Chan-
cellor, and who had known so many petitions presented to the
House of Lords signed only by the Town Clerk, while he was
in the Government—it was strange that it should only now
have occurred to him to make such an objection, when it was
at a period of the utmost importance to the Corporation, and
to the country at large.---(Cheers )

After some further observations from Mr. Alderman
THOMPSON, Mr. TAYLOR observed that he thought the
appointment of a Committee was called for, by the despicable
treatment they had received.--(Cheers.)
The resolution was unanimously carried.

The LORD MAYOR then rose. He said he had sum-
moned this Court together, in consequence of a requisition most
numerously signed, for the pm-pose of taking into consideration
what measures should be adopted, in consequence of the pro-
ceedings in the House of Lords upon the Reform Bill, and he
thought that if ever there was one subject more important than
another, it was the one they were now called on to consider.—
(Cheers.) And if ever there was a time when it was ineum.
bent upon this great Corporation to be consistent with its
own principles, the present was the proper time, when,
after the just expectations of the people had been raised to the
highest possible extent, when, having those expectations trifled
with for a year and a half, and the laborious and strenuous ex-
ertions of Ministers, possessing the confidence of the people
—(Cheers)--defeated through the obstinacy of those who had
for years lived upon the people, and aggrandized themselves at
the people's cost.—(Cheers.) A short time ago, this Court
unanimously voted the freedom of the city to two Noblemen,
eminent, not alone for their rank but for their integrity and
wisdom. If those Noblemen were then entitled to the conti-
dene., of this Court, they were doubly so now, when, with the
greatest disinterestedness, they had given up their places, ra-
ther than sacrifice their consistency.—(Cheers.) What the
opinion of the people respecting those Ministers was, would
very speedily be shown. The feelings of the people had been
justly excited, and he trusted, that while this Court was emi-
nent for its patriotism, it would also stand eminent for its um_
deration-slear)—and thereby set the country an example of
that virtue.—(Hear.)

Mr. GALLOWAY rose, and expressed the great pleasure
he felt at being selected by so numerous a body of
requisitionists to propose to the consideration of the
Court some resolutions and an address.---;Hear.) Ile
had no doubt that the country would look up to and ex-
pect much from this Court, from the character of the indivi-
duals composing it, and from the deep stake which they had in
the well-being of the country, He had been a Reformer forty
years, during which period he had done all he could to give
effect to any measure which had been brought forward to
amend the representation of the country. At that period the
advocates of Reform were but few, but he was glad to see the
change which had taken place latterly in public opinion on
this great question, a change which he felt confident would be
attended with the best interests of the country. He considered
the great object of his life was nearly accomplished. When he
saw the Reform Ministers had offered to the country, he con_
sidered it to be as liberal a Reform as could be pro-
PerlY carried at the present period.—(Cheers.) It was un.
necessary for him to enter into arguments to prove
the necessity of Reform ; that had already been
done by that Court, but there was a necessity for coming for-
ward at a period when those very Ministers who had brought
forward so efficient a Reform, had resigned their offices be-
cause the means of carrying that Reform into effect
had not been granted them. Such reasons had
certainly induced that Court to meet that day, and he
would not occupy its time by further observations, but would
read the resolutions and petition he had to propose for its adop_
lion. The Hon. Member then read the resolutions which were
in substance as follow :—That the Court had heard with great
regret and disappointment the extraordinary and distressing corn.
munication made by Ministers, that his Majesty had refused
to them the means of carrying through the House of
Lords the Reform Bill, which had been passed by a large
majority of the House of Commons, and which was re-
quired by an overwhelming majority of the people. Tha
the Court was of opinion, that those who had advised
his Majesty to withdraw from Ministers the means of carrying.
the Reform Bill successfully, had proved themselves the
enemies of their Sovereign, and had put to hazard the stability
of the country. That the meeting, therefore, felt it to
be more especially their duty to adopt every course in
their power to procure the carrying of au efficient Bill of

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
kirew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 1,
Useful Old Ditto .... .. 3 0 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-gra.s. Hay 4 0 4 15
Clover Ilay 4 10 8 0
Oat Straw £1 12 to .£1 14 I Wheat straw ... 1 18 2 0
Supply moderately good, trade dull, and price. stationary.

SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 U
New Meadow Day 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto :i 0 9 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay 315 4IS
Clover Hay (extra tine)....£6 o... Generally
flat Straw ...II 14 to £1 16—Wheat Straw 1 16 1 IS
A moderate supply, and a steady trade; prices stationary.

LEWES M A liKET.—May tl.
White Wheat (per quarter)......,—.za 9 0 to £3 4 0
Red ditto. ..,..--. 2 16 0 3 2 0
8ar1ey.....----,, --..—. 1 4 0 1 10 0
Oats, New --... — 1 1 0 1 5 0
Pease 1 15 0 1 17 0
Oil Cake, New 12 0 0 per thousand.

HULL MARKET—May 8. _
Wheat, Old —s 58s. 60s. .„... Z.EtW .......-4. 58s. 63.
Foreign —s. 50s. 545. ln bond... —s. —s. —s.
Oats, I'oland —s. '2os. 225. Old —s. —s. 24..
- Small or Feed.... —s. 18s. 20s
Foreig❑ —s. 16s. 18s , -....5. —s. .-S.
Harley, Norf. & Sul ... —6 333. 365. Line. & %Vold —s. 38s 38s
Rapeseed, in bond none.

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On a former day the Attorney Glmyral olitainerFa-i ' -1t:
ii., on the defendant, who was the printer and publisher of
Si %rist newspaper, to show cause why d criminal Enfoitkkji IT,tl
sh. uld not be filed against him for publishing a libel in that
;ou nal 1)1 the Ist of April, upon the character of Mr. Brown,
N;arden of the Fleet.

Mr. CAMPBELL to-day showed cause against the rule, and
,übmitted that it could not be made absolute, on the ground of
an informality in the affidavits, and the omission of not annex-
ing the paper containing the alleged libel, to the affidavits.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. WIGHTMAN
v•ere heard in support of the rule.

Their LORDSHIPS were of opinion that the fact of the pallq
not being annexed to the affidavits, was sufficient to discharge
the rule.

The rule was therefore discharged. The libellous matter
WaB a paragraph headed " Case of Cholera in the Fleet Prison.
Inhuman conduct of the Warden."

SHERIFFS' COURT, RED LION-SQUARE.

DUCHY OF CORNWALL-CREASSE AND WIFE v.

CARNE.

Mr. BEDDOME appeared for the plaintiffs in this action.
He stated, that the action was brought by the plaintiffs for the
value of a quantity of tin, which the defendant, who is a banker,
in Cornwall, had taken from a manor of which they were the
lessees under the late King, as Duke of Cornwall, as executors
of a relative named Smith. The action had been tried, and
the defendants had allowed judgment to go by default; there-
fore, he had come before the Jury in order to have the damages
assessed. The facts of the case would be proved by a gentle-
man of the name of Renprase—Captain Renprase he was
called in Cornwall, not like his employer, Mr. Crease,
a captain of a line-of-battle ship, but, what was of
much more consequence in Cornwall, a captain of a
mine. The plaintiff held the lease of the manor of Ty.
burne Haile, under the Crown, and it would be proved that the
defendant had taken a quantity of tin from a mine, called the
" Wheal Devonshire Mine," which was situated in that ma.
nor, without the leave of the plaintiffs, for which they claimed
the sum of 91. 15s, The sum now sought was not what was
wanted, but what was of more consequence, it would settle a dis.
puted point which existed in Cornwall; for it unfortunately
was the practice for what were called "bounders" to go in and
.ink for tin in any place where they liked. That was gene-
rally done by mere adventurers, so that no hold could be got
on them; for If such were attempted, they were immediately
off to the Bench, or some such place ; but here they had got
a respectable man to deal with, and would have been glad to
have met him on the merits of the ease in the Superior Court.
There had been disputes in the county as to what the lessee
was entitled to ; but he would shew by his witness that, in
this case, there could be no doubt of his being entitled to the
whole amount of the tin abstracted. He then called Mr. Hen,
prase, who stated that he was agent for the plaintiffs, and lived
in Grampound ; he knew the manor of Tyburne Ilaile, which
was the property of the plaintiffs j the mine of Wheal, De,
vonshire, was in that matmr. He knew Mr. Carne, who was aver!:
respectable banker, and he called upon him fur 91. 15►., as the
amount of tin which he had taken from that mine. Mr. Carrie
said he had the tin from some bounders, and admitted that he
had sold it to a smelter for the amount claimed. He (141 not pay
the money, and the action was commenced. The witness
was cross-examined by Mr. Allen for the defendant, and created
a good deal of laughter by his Cornish explanations of the usages
of mining, which were not very intelligible to the uninitiated
hearers, lie said he had beau ten years well-acquainted with
all the details of Cornisis mining. The property of the tin was
in the plaintiffs, but they were not freeholders of the manox,
but as he had before stated, they held it under the Crown. At
the interview he had with Mr. Came, that gentleman said he
had the tin under a Joseph Newton, the agent of a party of
bounders. lie knew the bounders had no lease or license from
the plaintiffs ; never knew a real bounder, but many false ones.
The agent for the defendant was about to go into the ques-
tion of the plaintiff's property in the land in question, but was
stopped by the Sheriff, who said that that was not the place
for doing so, he should have appeared in the Court above.
Mr. BEDDOME said he produced the lease, but it was
not read, the Sheriff deciding that it was not a question for
the Jury.

Mr. ALLEN, for the defendant, contended that the plz..intift'
was only entitled to one fifteenth part of the 9/. 155., and that
for that amount they had suffered judgment to go by default.
It was the custom ,which had now become the law in Cornwall,
that any person might go i❑ to the waste lands of the Crowv,
and work the tin, by paying one-fifteenth of the produce, anal
the defendant was now willing to do so.

Mr. BEDDOME said, if the defendant was now going for a
reduction of damages, he should produce his Set as a bounder;
for all regular bounders only worked under a regularly
printed one.

Mr. ALLEN still contended, that by the ancient law of the
county, his client was only liable for a 15tis, for the mineral,
belonged to the Crown, the witness had stated theta to be the
property of the plaintiff's; no doubt they were so in Part,
but still they were the original property of the Crown. lie
trusted the Jury would decide in favour of his client, tot
if they decided otherwise they Nvould do a material injury to the'
county of Cornwall, they would put a stop to tinning altogether,
for the lessee under the Crown could then charge what rent
he pleased, notwithstanding the old and written law oC
the county. It' they should decide against him fns•
snore than a 15th, he trusted they would take into conside .
ration that the defendant had employed his capita!, labour, and
time, in the production of this 9/. 15s. ; and that they would
allow him a reasonable sum for it.

The SHERIFF charged the Jury. He said all that the de-
fendant's agent had put forward might have availed him in the
superior Court, but here it could not. All that the Jury had
to do was, to satisfy themselves how much tin had been taken
away, and did it belong to the plaintiff'? This had been al.
ready proved by Mr. Renprase, and the defindant had pro-
duced no evidence to rebut it.

The Jury immediately returned a verdict of 9/. 15s. kw Vie
plaintiff.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.
CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(TATS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CA SLN
LONDON. \Y 9, at FIVE P

DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CA
LONDON.—IIItY 9, at FIVE P.M.
I t !e, •4 1.
.F. 8. :g ,cf4c.st •064.
2T 1:1-3§
z A cg
Total 119 2 0 0 21 I 420 210
Cases from places before reported -
2177 j 1157
Grand Total 2597 1 13457
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COUNTRY.
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bC6.
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z 4 ;e4
ret §Total 156 47 14 25 j 164 3064 1454
Total from places where the disease has ceaaed
and from which no return has been this day
received", 6512 2031
_ _ _

Grithd Total
WM. MACLEA:

(Signed)

9576 I :136.5
Secretary.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O' CLOCK.

Philadelphia Papers, to the Sth of April, Baltimore to the
same date, and Vera Crus, to the 18th of March, have been
received at the North and South American Coffee-house.

The former Papers do not contain any news. The Vera Cruz
Papers, brought by the Mexican mail, which sailed on the 18th
of March, are not of that gloamy cast, in regard to the defeat
of General St. Anna, as was reported. It appears that he still
holds out at Vera Cruz, and his defeat has not been of a deci.
sive nature. The town and port of Tampico have joined his
standard.,

Accounts have been received from Madeira, stating that the
blockading squadron has captured two Portuguese vessels.
By the arrival of the cetafet this morning, we have a con.
firmation of the capture of the Duchess de Berry by a French
sloop of war. The French Government have acted towards
her with a kind of contempt, sending her back again to her
relations in Scotland.

The French Funds come higher, 70f. 50e.; but, no doubt,
when the Parisians learn the resignation of our Ministers, their
funds will decline.

THE FUNDS.

All is on the tiptoe in the city this morning, and eager for
the event of Lord Ebrington's motion this evening, to address
his Majesty upon the present state of affairs of the country,
which is again plunged into political storm, and when it will
abate we cannot foresee. Our Funds begin to feel the effl•ct,
but not to any alarming extent as yet.
Consols, which lett off yesterday at 84, opened at S 3 ;at
present they are 83 with nothing doing as yet.

HALF-PAST ONE.
lip to the present hour we have no inforrsation to be de.
peneled upon in regard to the new Ministry. Various reports
are in circulation—such as Earl Grey being sent for by the
King —but all is conjecture at present.
Consuls continue steady at 83 7, for the Account.. The spe.
culators are afraid to act in this juncture of turmoil. 'f'he
Foreign Funds continue much the same as yesterday.
The letters from Madeira are to the 23th of April--one 01-
them states, that the political situation of the island is drawing
to a close.

Letters are also received from Bahia and Pernambuco of a
recent date. They are very favourable.
We have several arrivals from India this morning, but they
are of old dates.

7 'MEE 0 CL 0 CK.

Consols for Account ssa.
FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES.
Consols
831 Danish .............. .
Ditto for Account 831 Greek, 1525 29
Brazilian Bouds 47, Nlexica.i, 1825 SS,{
CBouleininaosbiAanyrle:.2.4. —lll San •
lie,ruv.,i
Chilian Ditto.... -- Russian