The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

interrupt that proceeding by a motion for delay. No.
as yet had occurred which rendered such an appli-
cation necessary. He should advise that the declaration
should at once be tendered to Mr. Salomons. He would
then be in a position to state any legal question, and
show cause why he refused, and the Court could
then deal with the legal merits of the ques-
tion. But, at the present stage of the proceed-
ings, to entertain a motion for delay was what,
in his opinion, it was not competent for the
Court to do. He should recommend the Court strictly
to walk in the same path in which they had hitherto
walked—to tender the declaration as had been done in
all previous cases.
Mr. SeLomorts had attended there in obedience to the
summons of the Court, and all he asked was for a delay
of a fortnight. He trusted he should have a definite
answer given to his request for delay.
The RECORDER recommended the Lord Mayor at
once to proceed to the business, and to tender the decla-
ration to Mr. Salomons to make and subscribe, who
would either decline or give his reasons.
The LORD MAYoR decided that the declaration should
be again tendered to Mr. Salomons.
Mr. Alderman WOOD wished to make a motion.

Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES submitted that they were
not in a condition to entertain a motion until the ilocla-
ration had been tendered.
The ItEconDEB wished to know whither or not Mr.
Salumons refused to take the declaration?
Mr. SALOMONS did not rffuse to subscribe to the de-
claration. He asked for delay.

The RECORDER would remind Mr. Salomons that the
Act did not state refuse. The words of the Act were,
"that if any person so elected should omit or neglect to
make the declaration, such election should be void."
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES thought they ought at once
to ascertain whether it was competent to them to entertain
the motion for delay or not. He called upon the Lord
Mayor at once to state whether he would put the ques-
tion of adjournment or not.
The LORD MAYOR did not sit there to be dictated
to by Mr. Alderman Hughes. He should pursue his
own course in his own time. He was anxious not to
press heavily upon Mr. Salomons ; but it was due to the
Court either that he should take the declaration, or state
his reasons for refusing.
Mr. SALomorts still urged for an answer to his applica-
tion for delay.
The RECORDER reminded him that it was not neces-
sary that he should give a verbal refusal. A refusal
might be given either by word of mouth, or by gesture,
or by any act; and it was competent to the Court to de-
clare the election void, in case of any omission or neglect
on his part to take and subscribe the required de-
claration.

A long and very disorderly discussion here arose as to
whether the Court could entertain the proposition for
delay.

Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE wished to know from the
Recorder, whether, in his opinion, a member of that
Court could at that stage of the proceedings legally pro-
pose the adjournment of the Court fur a fortnight ?
The RECORDER was of opinion that such a motion
could not then be legally entertained. Before such a
motion could be made Mr. Salomons must either refuse
to subscribe the declaration, or raise some legal point on
which he might submit to the Court that ho was exempt
from the necessity of taking the declaration. In ten-
dering that declaration they were engaged in a solemn
act of duty, and that act could not be interrupted by any
motion for adjournment.
After a few words from Mr. Alderman Farcbrother
and Sir Claudius Hunter,
The LORD MAYOR announced that he had determined
not to put the question on the motion of Sir John Key
for delay. His Lordship then formally called upon Mr.
Salomons to make and subscribe the declaration which
had been tendered him by the Town Clerk.
Mr. SALOMONS then proceeded to address the Court.
After a considerable share of debating, it was at length
decided, by a majority of 10 to 6, that the declaration
should be finally tendered to Mr. Salomons according
to the Act of Parliament.

The declaration was then tendered, which Mr. Salo-
mons did not take or refuse to take.
It was then moved and seconded that the election of
Portsoken be delared null and void, which was carried.
Mr. SALMONS left the Court protesting against the
construction which had been put upon the Act by
the Court, and stating that he had not neglected or
omitted to do anything by which his election should be
completed.

SPIRIT of the rUlsLie JutiltNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—Political causes, to which it is impos-
sible to attach any credit, have been assigned for
King Louis Philippe's change of route, so naturally
accounted for by the weather. The departure of
the King of the French from our shores has not
lacked awful elemental accompaniments ' • and super-
stition has not failed to croak its usual forebodings
from them. " The sky at this time," says a Con-
temporary's correspondent on their Majesties' arrival
at Gosport, " was obscured by clouds of the most
threatening nature. Even before the arrival of the
royal party in the Victualling-yard the rain had
already commenced to fall heavily, and the cir-
cumstance of a vivid flash of lightning, accom-
panied by a long roar of thunder, occurring
just before their entry, was the cause of some
curious observations among the superstitious."
Fire from heaven was left at Portsmouth ; and fire
on earth encountered at New Cross :—" His Majesty
the King of the French arrived at the station about
eleven o'clock, and to get to the platform the royal
carriage had to pass over several lengths of hose whilst
the engines were at work. The scene at that moment
was one of intense interest. The appearance of the
troops who formed the royal escort, the reflection
of the flames upon their bright helmets and
accoutrements, the roaring of the engines working,
the shouting of the firemen, and the huzzas of the
crowd in honour of the French monarch, excited a
feeling that can with difficulty be described. For
some minutes the carriage remained stationary, and
his Majesty viewed from the window the progress of
the flames, which were within a hundred feet of him,
the heat at that time being very great." We
do not know what antiquity would have augured from
these phenomena; but, in our view, the rapid and
skilful adjustment to awkward circumstances may be
accepted, as regards the future, in the light of good
rather than of evil omen. Incidents which would
have overpowered arrangements of less civilised times,
create no confusion—though some circuitousness—in
the route of royalty ; and we trust the political storms
which have likewise beset it may prove equally
powerless to frustrate the ultimate attainment of the
great end of peace and friendship amongst all nations
—an object dependent so mainly upon France and
England.
STANDARD.—It is the cardinal sin of a certain
ostentatious order of modern philanthropists, that
they denounce or ridicule every plan for amelior-
ating the condition of their species, which does
not originate with thedselves. No sooner is a
society formed for the relief of one class of
sufferers than they are sure to suggest another, in
their estimation, infinitely more necessitous. Cha-
rity must put on their spectacles, or she is
nothing worth. She must not presume to alleviate
any sort of misery but that which they have ticketed
as best entitled to public sympathy. No scheme
which does not minister to the morbid vanity of this
order of philanthropists, by the adoption of their
crotchets and the promulgation of their prejudices,
can hope for their approbation. They profess to be
sensibly alive to the miseries of the poor, but will not
entertain any plan for their relief which goes
forth to the world without their imprimatur. Nor
is this all. The public is not only called upon to
meet out its benevolence by their bushel, but must
agree with them in their notions of the causes of
the evil to be remedied. To judge from the
speeches of the small knot of exhibitors at the
Manchester Athenaeum, who rejoice in the designa-
tion of " Young England," and the extravagant
eulogies which have been heaped upon them
in a newspaper which they have, with great pro-
priety, selected as their organ, they would seem to
have patented all the philanthrophy which can
have any possible reference to the improvement of
the condition of the labouring classes. Their last
discovery (cricket and public gardens having been,
if we remember aright their panacea at Manchester)
is the " cottage allotment system," which, from
the tone of their speeches at Bingley, one
would suppose had been patented by them,
instead of having been in successful operation
in all parts of the country for upwards of
30 years. Who that is acquainted with the labours
of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, when Bishop of
Chester, from twenty-eight to thirty years ago, re-
quires to be assured of the advantages of such a
system, when the labourer, whether in the factory or
the field, has leisure for the occupation it invites ?
Of what service, however, it will be to the opera-
tives of Mr. Marshall and Mr. Gott of Leeds,
whose whole lives from daylight until long after
sunset are spent in the unwholesome atmosphere of
a cloth-mill, we have yet to learn. As little can we
understand how the fact that Lord John Man-
ners took an innings at cricket with the agri-
cultural labourers at Bingley, a few days ago, is cal-
culated to benefit the poor men who were the objects
of his ostentatious condescension. That the over-
wrought factory operative after fourteen hours of in-
cessant labour requires a breath of fresh air to revive
his jaded energies, is a fact which cannot be disputed ;
but whether he will be in a condition to avail him-
self of the parks and gardens in preparation for
him, or to cultivate the plot of ground which
his master's kindness may have allotted to him, is
much more questionable. Even more improbable is
it, that the agricultural labourer will be attracted to
such pursuits, after a hard day's work, by the mere
sight of Lord John Manners, " the son of a duke,"
with his coat off and a bat in his hands. Were either
the allotment system or cricket, however, likely to
prove as great an alleviation of the condition of the
poor as Lord John Manners professes to believe,
neither he nor his brother philanthropists Have any
right to appropriate the suggestion as their own.
Long before his Lordship and Mr. D'lsraeli, who has
lived something like half a century, were born, such
exhibitions of sympathy for the poor were of
common occurrence among the higher classes, and
we rejoice to add, that the disposition is even