The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

cheers.) No grosser falsehood could be published. There
is no such thing as a writ out against me—(Cheers)—there
never has been one, and if those persons who have the dis-
position to slander would have the courage to comp forward and
avow these reports here, I should know how to deal with them.
I stand here, as I have done before, claiming your support
as a city servant faithful in the discharge of my duties, and
firm in the execution of them. I stand hree as anxious] to
extend the rights of my fellow-citizens as I an to preserve
my own.—(Great cheering.)
The COXKON SERGEANT then again came to the front of
the platform, and the name of the Aldermen who had not
Weedthe chair were proposed seriatim to the Livery.
egreatest acclamation followed the announcement.
of Mr. Alderman Wood's name, nor was the cheering much
lessened when Mr. Alderman John Johnson was mentioned.
Scarcely any hands were held up for the remaining Alder-
men, Sir George Cairo% Sir'James Duke, or Messrs. Hooper,
Farncomb, Hunter, Musgrove, Sidney, and Moon.
The Common SERGEANT announced that the choice of the
Livery had fhllen on Messrs. Aldermen Wood and Johnson.
The Lord Mayor, with the civic body, then retired.
After an absence of about half an hour, the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Sheriffs returned to the Hall, when
The Common SERGEANT announced that the choice of the
Court of Aldermen had fallen upon Alderman Johnson.—
(Cheers and hisses.)
The LORD DILATOR Elect then came forward amid a storm
of cheers and hisses. He was understood to say that he
thanked them sincerely for the honour they had done him, and
that it would be his duty to advance those objects which would
tend to the good of their city. He trusted to meet them at
the end of the year, and to receive congratulations as sincere
as those which greeted him that day. He again cordially
thanked them for the honour they had done him.
Mr. Alderman Woon, who was received with tumultuous
cheering, said—Gentlemen of the Livery, although defeated
for the time, and deprived of my just rights and expectations,
be assured of this, that I feel the utmost gratitude to you for
your honest and earnest efforts to secure my election. I have
never witnessed a more respectable hall, or a more intelligent or
• distinguished Livery in the course of my life, and consider-
' ing the support that you have given me, it is not the least
of my disappointments that your expectations have not
been realised.—(Cheers.) It is not for me to divine
the reason which operated for my rejection—it is only
for me to deal with the facts as 1 find them. I came among
you as a magistrate, and, having fulfilled the
duties of a magistrate correctly, I was returned
for the honourable office of sheriff. I did not come among you
as a rich man, making a boast of my riches as a
more substantial qualification for the performance of
the duties of that office. You have seen me
performing the various duties of the Livery, and I can appeal
• with confidence to the mannerinwhich those duties have been
-discharged Alas a man making no pretensions to extraordinary
.trealth I was surprised to find that that was one of tha
causes of my rejection. I am not, forsooth, rich enough
eto sustain the office with dignity.—(Cheers, cries of
Shame," and hisses.) If you look to this test you will
pflnd that you exclude men of honour, men of probity, and
men every way fitted for the high office. But,'apart from this
consideration, it is alleged against me that I was unfortunate
enough some five years ago to enter into a speculation which
turned out bad. Is there no speculation now ?—(Tremendous
.ebeering.) Why speculation is the order of the
ilay.—( Cheers.) Who can take up an ordinary
newspaper, without seeing the names of the magistracy
of the City, attached to schemes whidh every one knows
cannot be realised, and which are only for the purpose of
telling Scrip, those respectable names acting as a decoy.—
(Loud cheers and hisses.) If this is to be the
rule which is to deprive men of this high office,
am quite content. I have received my punishment, and I
shall watch with attention, and giVe my sympathy to those
<Who shall be similarly dealt with.—(Cheers.) The Ivorthy-
klderman again thanked the Livery, and assured them that,
through good and bad report, he should still chum their sup-
'port and syinpathy.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Deputy ALLEN proposed, and Mr. HOPPER seconded,
it vote of thanks to the late sheriffs, which, having been car-
tied, Mr. Alderman Hunter and Mr. Alderman Sidney returned
thanks.
The Hall was then dissolved.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Christopher Erans, a young man shabbily dressed, was
diarged with feloniously entering the dwelling-horse of Mr.
William Moore, the landlord of the Prince of Wales public-
house, in Norton-street, Marylebone, and Waling a new suit
of clothes.— . . . .

Sarah Poison, servant to the prosecutor, stated that aboul
half-past nine o'cbck on Saturday night last. she heard the
f6otsteps of some person in the back moat on the first floor,
fin,l on going up-stairs met a mAn, whgliiia the suit of &Alio,
on 111.1 arm, coining down. Pushing her violently on one
I,ide, he threw down the clothes anfrraa out of the house. A
cry of" stop thief" w.is raised, and in a short time the
pi:l.w= was brought back.in custody.

'William liobsoiV, cf No. 2, Little'Albany-street, Regent'.
Park, stated that he s.iw the prisoner running in.Portland-
road, iblb.wed by several persons calling '• stop thief." Wit-
ness secured him and gave him into the charge of the
police.

The prix ,ner said he was innocent of the charge alleged
against hini; he was never in the prosecutor's Louse in hie
Hearin the cry of " stop tidef in Portland-road, and
seeing several persons running he ran with them until he wa4
taken into custody. - He knew nothing whatever of the suit
of clothe..

Mr. HARDIVICK ordered the prisoner to be remanded
further examination.

• CLERK' NWE D AY.I
Mary Harris, a fine-looking country girl, was placed at
the bar, before Mr. Combs. charged with wing drunk and
inenpable of taking care of herself.
It appeared from the evidence of a constable of the G divi-
sion that, on Saturday evening lase, at seven o'clock, he
found the prisoner in Goswell-street, quite drunk, holding on
to some railings, and surrounded by a crowd of persons. He
took her to the station-house, and she was so exceedingly bad,
that a doctor was called in to attend upon her; on recovering
her senses, she asked for her umbrella and purse, which she
missed. On being questioned she raid her father was a farmer
iv/Abe country. She came to town in an omnibus in which
shb met a lady and gentleman who were very kind to her,
and ou getting out of the vehicle they to ik her to a public.
house, where they made her drunk and left her, after robbing
hei of her property. She refused to tell where her father
lived, was much affected, and threatened' to bernmit suicide
if they informed her father of what had happened.
Mr. ComuE ordered that she should be detained until she
could be assisted home to her friends.

TUB LEG OF A CAPTAIN TORN OFP.—On Satur•
day Capt. Owen Williams, of the Alfleida schooner, from
Glasgow, engaged with a steamer to tow his vessel up to
Runcorn. A hawser was passed to the steamer for that pur-
pose, and on the word being given to go a-head, it was found
that by some means the captain's leg had become entangled
in the hawser, and he could not be rescued until his foot was
liteirally torn off above the ancle. He was immediately taken
ashore in great agony, and conveyed to thedispensary, where,
about two hours after, he waslbrought up,:and the stump am-
putated about the middle of the calf. We are happy to hear
thist the unfortunate patient is pronounced out of danger.—
Ch aster Chronicle.

FORT or BEISTOL.—A Committee of the Bristol
Town Council has been appointed to negotiate with the Dock
Ccinpany for the purchase of the dock property, with the
viiryr of improving the trade of the port by a reduction of the
exorbitant dues which have for a long period been crippling
thettrade of the port._

ti, YTnit.--on , Wednesday afternoon, about four
o'clock, the body of a man, name unknown, was seen floating
in ale water nearly opposite Fort: Siitheiland by a preventive
mail on duty, who having procured assistance, had the body
speidily brought ashore. No time was lost in giving infor-
mation to the coroner, who finding that decomposition was
fast' advancing, immediately summoned a jury, which, after
Viewing the body; and hearing all the evidence that could
be obtained, returned a verdict of " Found drowned." The
body was given up to the parish authorities for interment. It
is qought probable that the deceased was one of those un-
fortpnate persons who lost their lives in the late wreck in the
neighbourhood of Rye. Of course this is mere conjecture.—
Dover Chronicle.
We understand that a company is in formation for
the refining of sugar in this port, and that the necessary
steps have been taken for registering it.—Hull Advertiser.
Cuatous EXCEPTION.--The resident medical officer
of one of our London hospitals receives a salary of 120/. per
annum, with board and lodging, but has to find his own tea
andsugar.—.ll/eaica/ Times.

CURIOUS DOCVMENT.—A few days ago a curious
document was discovered by the clerk of Crosthvraite Church,
Keswick, whilst employed in searching °tie of the old register
books. The interesting document abeve alluded to contained
the appointment of Perciial Radcliffe, clerk, by Oliver Crom-
well, to be the incumbent of the parish of Crosthwaite. This
record bears date the 2d of November, 1652, and is conse-
quently 193 years old.—Carlisle Journal.
On Sunday, a boy-preacher, from Belfast, held
forth in the Market-square, South Shields. After each dis-
course, the father of the boy, assisted by the town-crier and
others, went round with hats, and took a c,ollectien (as stated
by them) for his education.—Newcastle Chronicle.

" GENTLEMEN OF THE 8911.99—At a meeting of
attorneys and solicitors, which took place a few days ago in
Dublin, a resolution to the following effect was unanimously
agreed to :—" That some members of the bar were in the
habit of taking instructions, attending the local courts, police-
offices, and prisoners in the gaols, without the intervention of
an attorney, contrary to the usage of the bar, and to the
infringement of the rights of attorneys, and that henceforth
those present at the meeting would not act professionally
with any member of the bar who should continue to conduct
himself in such a manner." it was mentioned at the meeting
in the course of the proceedings, that members of the bar
had been known to take even a shilling from a person in the
dock.

WINDOW CLEANINfI.—A dreadful accident hap-
fled on Saturday evening, at the house of the Hon. Mrs.
NeWenham Collingwood, 30, York-place, Portman-square, to
Richard Alphich, a bailiff at that lady's country seat. who
had come to LOntluu for a. Caw days. lr app XS that, in the
absence of Mrs. Collingwood, Alphich was assisting some of
the 'other servants in cleaning the upper windows of the
house, and while standing on the silt his foot slipped, and he
fell into the area beneath, a height of nearly thirty feet.
Assistance was rendered as soon as possible, and upon his
removal to the hospital, it was discovered that he was suf-
fering from a very severe fracture of the hip, besides other
injuries on different parts of the body. Every means that
surgical skill cotita suggest was adopted, but he lies in a very
precarious state.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN MORDAUNT, BART., M.P.—
This.much-respected Baronet died on Saturday, at Walton
House, Warwickshire, in the 37th year of his age. Our
readers are aware,that he lately had the misfortune to shatter
his hand while sfiooting. His constitution, though robust,
'as unable to withstand the shock of the system, and he gra-
dn.Ally rank under its effects, and died.as .stated. The Hon.
Bart.net first entered Parliament in 1837; as Member for the
mortlia:n division of Warwickshire, his native county, and
.
was re-ets."cted at the general election in 1841, without oppsi-
tion. In 1b..:14 he married the daughted of the present Bishop
of Rochester, whom he has several children. Her Lady-
ship survives to\ _mourn her bereavement. Sir John was firin Conservative.
Lord Howe is imm,;diately to be married to Miss
Gore, one of the Maids r _Himour to the Queen Dowager.
This will afford a practical am-w-er to the gossipping interro-
gatory one has heard so often asked 7ithin the last few Tzars,
of—".ls Lord Howe privately ruarrie4lN.Zo Queen Adelaide:"
—Thiblin Mail.

EXPOUTATION or BRICKS.--A vessel .which left the
India Docks a day or two since—the Persian, -ytv believe, for
Ceylon—took out with her, as ballast, upwards of one million
bricks, for the purpose of erecting a coffee mill in Otat place,
the buildings there being made principally of wood.' Con-
sidering the enormous ma sea of buildings at present in
of erection in the metropolis and suburbs, it is remarkable
how so large a number of bricks can conveniently be spared
for extraneous parpoies.
We are now able to assure Earl Spencer's friends
that be is doing well. Mr. Keate, who was sent for to
attend his Lordship, has returned to London, having left his
patient out of dander,..