The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-07 00:00:00

keep' and do due honour to the pageant of Saturday
next. The Times is determined that nothing shall be
wanting to complete the ovation of Mr. Alderman Gibbs.
" We have taken no part in the discussion about Mr.
Gibbs's accounts—not because we did not think his
conduct highly censurable, and still more foolish. But
another and a competent tribunal will decide upon the
worthy magistrate's guilt or innocence. Until that
decision is come to, we will not pronounce him
to be guilty. We have some reason to think
that the decision will prove him innocent. If
it should turn out that he has only been
guilty of great and foolish obstinacy—of what
people call ' pig-headedness'—we think most men will
be disposed to think that he has already suffered quite
enough for such offence. But under no possible circum-
stances can the brutal persecution threatened in the dis •

graceful paragraphs we have quoted be justified. If Al-
derman Gibs were a common malefactor, every just and
honourable feeling would revolt against such an outrage.
Everybody knows how easily the refuse of a city like this
can be incited to outrages like those to which they are in-
vited by the correspondents and advertisers of the Times,
and how malignant and interested opponents can meta-
morphose such an outbreak of venal blackguardism into
'an indignant expression of public opinion. But we
hope the only effect of such abominable proceedings will
be to awaken the sympathy of men hitherto indifferent,
or even hostile, and at once protect a fellow-citizen from
insult and danger, and save the metropolis from the dis-
grace of tolerating the tyranny with which it is menaced:,
We give the article at length, because we admire the
good spirit of the Whig journalist, and concur very ge-
nerally in its opinions. We make the extract, however,
chiefly as an example of exaggeration--1001. worth of
rotten eggs (we suppose no one would knowingly give
101. for all the rotten eggs in the world), purchased
to pelt a Lord Mayor ! Why, there is not one such
egg in preparation ; and we will venture to say that
there is not a being above the most degraded class in
London, who would use such a missile upon such
an occasion, how abundantly soever they might
be provided for him. This is all mere trash, ex-
aggerated trash, but not. as the Chronicle seems
to fear, brutalising trash. The English peop'e
are in no danger of lapsing into brutality upon such
suggestions. Even thirteen years ago, when advised
to resort to the use of " brickbats and bludgeons" in
the political contest, the Londoners at least proved
themselves " wiser than their teachers" and the in-
tervening thirteen years have not been wasted with-
out improvement.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, from Trincomalee, at
Portsmouth, sailed July 10, Cape Aug. 31, St. Helena
Sept. 12, Ascension 18th ; Royal Tar, Bell, from Bata-
via, off Dartmouth, sailed July 18, St. Helena Sept. 7 ;
Sixty-six, from Singapore, off Plymouth, sailed June 17.
Arrivals in Table Bay—Alexander, Augustus, from
London ; Amelia, Mulholland, from Ascension, and sailed
Aug. 12 to Mauritius; Ann, 2d, from Mauritius, and
sailed 25th to Algoa Bay; Perie, 3d, from Liverpool, and
sailed 25th to Ichaboe; Ocean, 4th, from Grangemouth,
and sailed 25th to Ichaboe ; Agile, 6th, from Mauritius ;'
Ville de Paris, 9th, from Callcutta, and. sailed 13th to
New York ; Bessy, Robertson, 9th, from Leith; Jane
Cumming, 13th, from Knysna ; Brewster, 17th, from
Boston; Harmony, 20th, from Rio; Gloriana, 24th. from
Portsmouth, and sailed 29th to Calcutta; Chanticleer,
from Algoa Bay; Rosebud, from Port Natal; John Wil-
liams, from London; British Settler, 26th, from Howie;
Apprentice, 27th, from Rio.
Departures from Table Bay—Socrates, Aug. 1 ; Ada,
Ist, to Ichaboe ; Hope, 2d, to Mauritius ; Conch, sth, to
Port Beaufort ; Cingalose, and John, 9th, to Mauritius;
Colony, 15th, to Ichaboe; City of Sydney, 16th, to Mau-
ritius ; Brewster, 19th, to Algoa Bay ; Zoe, 20th, to
Ichaboe.

Arrivals in Simon 's Bay—Aberfoyle, July 27, from
Troon ; her Majesty's ship Thunderbolt, Aug. 14, from
Ichaboe ; Stag, 15th, from London, and sailed 25th to
Bombay ; her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, 24th, from St.
Augustin Bay ; Arcturus, 26th, from Llanelly.
Arrivals at Colombo—Africa, Aug. 17, from. London,
and sailed Sept. 9 to Port Pedro and Calcutta ; Forfar-
shire, 19th, from Tutucoreen, and sailed 22d to China ;
Achilles, 25th, from Mauritius, and sailed Sept. 7 to
Tutucoreen ; British Sovereign, 29th, from London, and
sailed Sept. 6 to Port Pedro and Calcutta ; Arabia,
Sept. 6, from London ; Rockliffe, 6th, Grange, Bth, Al-
verton, 10th, from Galle ; Eliza Ann, from Muscat.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 6.
THOMAS V. DUNN.

This was an action upon an agreement, in which the
jury found upon the principal count for the defendant,
the point left to them by the Judge (the Lord Chief
Justice) having been whether the signature of the de-
fendant had been forged. The plaintiff now moved the
Court for a new trial, on affidavits that he was prepared
to disprove the allegation of forgery.
Their LORDSHIPS, having part-heard the application,
adjourned the further hearing till to-morrow, and the
Court rose.