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it not so, it WaS" coat'. Mr. Warnier told the Paella,
that from all the letter:: found in the tent of Sidi
Mohamed, atter the battle of Isly, we were As well ac-
quainted as he was with the situation of the Emperor
and of the empire, that we were desirous of making a
friend of Muley Abderahman, and that it was worthy of
a great nation like France to be generous after victory.
The Pacha accepted the terms with joy. The Plenipoten-
tiaries went ashore under a salute from the artillery of the
tow,;, and were received by the consular corps. They
proceeded to the Paeha's house. All was signed. Thus
in a few hours our conditions were notified and accepted
under our cannon. The treaty being signed, I conceive
that t am conforming to your instruction by ordering
the immediat6 cessation of hostilities, and the evacuation
of the island of Mogadcrre.
Being desirous of removing the very vast trace of our
disagreement, by leaving only a salutary souvenir of the
blow we have struck, we have again put up the flag of
the Consulate-General. The troops occupying the place
have saluted it with 21 cannon, and I have return, d
the salute. We leave an eleve consul to conduct the
affairs of the Consulate. This measure will insure posi-
tively the ratification of the Emperor; for were he to
refuse now, it would be a new and serious case of war.
But the severe lesson we have inflicted upon him will
constantly induce him to avoid the consequence of a
refusal.

Thus, Monsieur le Ministre, by the actions of this day
we have obtained even more than the Government de-
sired, and more than we ever obtained at Morocco, and
that without the co-operation of any foreign influence,
and by the cannon of our own vessels, Friendly diplo-
matic relations have been established, and all that re-
mains of our disagreement is a salutary fear of our name
and of the force of French arms.

Muley Abderahman, after having felt the weight of
our sword, has received a proof of our generosity—his
interests are ours, and we have made a friend, who may
hereafter be very useful to us.
I have sent to Commander Hernoux, who commands at
Mogadore, the order to evacuate entirely and to return
to Cadiz, whither I shall return to-morrow.

GREAT COURT OF WARDMOTE

Yesterday being Plough Monday, a Great Court of
Wardmote was held at the Guildhall, for the purpose
of receiving the presentments of the inquestmen of
the several wards within the City of London, and for
the dispatch of the usual routine business appointed
for that particular day.
The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair at twelve
o'clock, directed the City Marshals to announce to the
inquestmen in attendance that they would not be
admitted to make their presentments unless they were
properly robed, and his Lordship directed the Mar-
shals to pay strict attention to those orders, and to
give priority of entrée to such inquestmen as appeared
robed, those who were not so being directed to remain
until the close of the proceedings.
The inquestmen of the following wards appeared
in proper costume, and made their presentments,
which were confined to returns of the names of per-
sons, not being freemen, carrying on business in the
several wards represented : —Walbrook, Aldgate,
Bread. street, Castle Baynard, Cheap, Coleman-street,
Cordwainers, Farringdon Without (St. Andrew's
precinct), Farringdon Without (St. Dunstan's pre-
cinct and St. Sepulchre's precinct), Do wgate, and
Farringdon Within.
On the inquest of the ward of Aldgate being
called in,
The Foreman, after delivering in their present-
ment, said that in returning the presentment which
year after year the inquest jury were called upon to
make on oath with respect to non-freemen carrying
on trade within the ward, and of delapidated build-
ings, he begged to state that the same presentments
had been made in some cases for three years succes-
sively, and yet no notice had been taken of them. He
w'shed to know whether the jury were still to con-
tinue to make such presentments, when it appeared
that nothing whatever was done to carry out the ob-
jects for which they were made ?
The LORD MAYOR, in reply, stated that with re-
spect to the; non-freemen proceedings were now going
on through the regular course ; with reference to the
other point, namely, the delapidated buildings, it
would be found, now that the regulations under the

new Building Act were coming into force, that the
presentments of ward inquests would not he useless.
The Foreman—The inquest feel it their duty to
submit this matter to the Court in making their pre-
sentment.

The LORD MAYOR—The Court is much obliged by
your calling its attention to it.
Mr. Gale, the Vestry-clerk of the ward of Bas-
sishaw, appeared at the bar, and tendered to the
officer of the Court the Alderman's return of the mem-
bers of the Common Council for the ward for the en-
suing year.

Tile Loan MAYOR—We cannot receive the return
from you, Mr. Gale ; we do not know you in the
matter. You must withdraw.

Mr. Gale stated that the return had always before
been presented in this manner, and received by the
Court.

The LORD MAYOR replied, that if such had been
the case the practice was irregular, and must not be
persisted in.
Mr. Gale, with manifest reluctance, received back
the return, and left the Court. At a subsequent part
of the day,
Alderman FARNCOMBE (the Alderman of the ward)
presented himself at the table, and tendered to the
Town Clerk a document which he described as a
presentment.
The LORD MAYOR—We cannot receive it from
you. It ought to be presented by the foreman of the
iniuest, who ought to appear robed before the Court.
You, Mr. Alderman Farncombe, are a member of this
Court, and cannot make a presentment to a body of
which you yourself are a component part.
Alderman FAREDROTHER (to Alderman Farn-
combe)—You have sworn in, at your wardmote, a
certain number of gentlemen of your ward to dis-
charge a certain duty, which you cannot undertake
to perform for them.

The LORD MAYOR—At present the document is a
mere piece of waste paper. You must find the fore-
man, and he must be robed to make the presentment.
Sir PETER LAURIE remarked that, when he served
the office of Lord Mayor, he had been in the habit of
admitting the inquest without gowns; and if he sat in
the Chair he should do the same thing again.
The LORD MAYOR—That might be ; but how are
you to know, unless the party be robed, that he was
really an inquestman ?
Sir PETER LAURIE—Why, they are always at-
tended by the ward beadle.
The City Marshal (Mr. Brown) here acquainted
the Lord Mayor that the door was crowded by dif-
ferent inquests, the members of which were not robed'
and indeed the announcement was almost unnecessary,
in consequence of the great clamour and uproar which
existed in the corridor.

Alderman FAREBROTHER said he thought every
purpose would be answered if the foreman of each
inquest appeared robed, and he moved a resolution to
:hat effect.

The LORD MAYOR—Before another word is said I
will have the Court cleared.

The Court was accordingly cleared forthwith.
During our exclusion, we understand a somewhat
stormy discussion ensued, the, motion of Alderman
Farebrother being warmly supported by Aldermen
Hooper, Hunter, Sir George Carroll, and T. Wood.
eventually an appeal was made to the law officers,
who held that i; was necessary the inquests should be
robed, and make their presentments in person.
Though the inquest of a ward had the character of a
grand jury, yet it discharged its functions not within
the Court of which a grand jury was part and parcel,
but elsewhere, and apart from the Court to which their
presentment must be made.—On the declaration of
this opinion by the law officers,
The LORD MAYOR refused to put Alderman Fare-
brother's resolution, and the matter dropped. On our
re-admission,

The ward of Farringdon Without (St. Bride's
precinct) was called on, when—
Mr. Obbard appeared in his gown as a Common
Councilman, attended by the members of the inquest
without robes. Mr. Obbard handed in two present-
ments from the same inquest, one for the precinct of
St. Bride's, the other for the precinct of St. Martin,
Lud gate.
The LORD MAYOR inquired how it was that the
precinct of St. Martin had not a separate inquest.
Mr. Obbard replied that St. Martin was unable to
form an inquest, and had therefore attached itself to
St. Bride's, and though this had been done, the in-
quest always made two separate presentments. In St.
Bride's there were several non-freemen carrying on
trade, while in St. Martin's there were none.
Alderman T. `'boon said, unless the presentment
was made by twelve jurors, it would not be a legal
presentment. He should be glad to hear some expla-
nation from the Town Clerk.
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they had never been recognised as a public body by
the Corporation. The division into precincts had
been made for the convenience of large wards. The
precinct of St. Martin's was so small that it could
not furnish a sufficient number of inquestmen, and as
each inquestmen was so not for the precinct but for
the entire ward, he (the Town Clerk) did not appre-
hend that any legal objection could be taken to the
presentment made for St. Martin's, and signed as it
was by twelve inquestmen.
In the course ofsome further conversation' in which
Aldermen T. Wood, Sir Peter Laurie, and Mr. Ob-
bard took part, the latter gentleman stated that the
ward of Farringdon Without was so extensive that
unless it was divided, as now, into precincts, it would
be impossible to find gentlemen who would undertake
the labours of inquestmen. The parish of St. Bride's
alone contained upwards of 3,000 inhabitants.
The LORD MAYOR said the explanation was satis-
factory, and the inquest withdrew.
The inquest of the ward of Aldersgate was next
called, when the two beadles alone appeared.
Sir P. LAURIE inquired whether the inquest jury
had been in attendance?

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added, that on being refused admission be 114 they '4 ''.-1. .71, :to
were not robed, they had gone away. t
The inquest of the ward of Billingsgate p ntec1......
several non-freemen, and also the camphine mwsfac-\ a sm g le
tory of Mr. George Rickey as being dangerous to
the lives and property of her Majesty's subjects re-
siding in the neighbourhood.
The LORD MAYOR intimated that the presentments
would be laid before the next Court of Aldermen,
and the subject-matter would meet with every
attention.
The inquests for the several wards of Bishopsgate,
Broad-street, Lime-street, Cornhill, Portsoken, and.
Vintry, presented several gentlemen, who, having
been sworn in inquestmen, had neglected or refused
to perform the duties of the office, or who had refused
to be sworn in.
The LORD MAYOR stated that these defaulters
would be summoned to the next Court of Aldermen
to show cause why they had so neglected and refused.
The inquest for the ward of Queenhithe was next
called in, and
The Poreman informed the Court that the last in-
quest having made a presentment so lately as the
28th of November last of the number of non-freemen
resident in the ward, the present inquest had no
material alteration or further presentment to make
under that head.

The LORD MAYOR observed, that although the pre-
sentment referred to was of a late date, yet the pre-
sent was a new inquest, and they ought to have pre-
sented. However, as there was a presentment now
before the Court of Aldermen, that would perhaps
answer every purpose..

The inquest of Bridge ward, besides presenting
several non-freemen, also presented, as a public
nuisance, the constant assemblage of idle and dis-
orderly characters in the neighbourhood of the wharfs
at the bottom of Old Fish-street-hill, and prayed for
steps to be taken to put an end to the nuisance.
Mr. Shaw (the foreman) complained, in strong
terms, of his having been so long delayed before he
could obtain admission. lie had been in attendance,
robed, on behalf of another gentleman, to make the
presentment ; but that, being oppressed with heat, he
had been obliged to throw off the robe. He must,
however, remark, that as there was no order for the
supply of robes to the inquest, it was too much that
men, called upon to discharge an accidental duty,
should be compelled to attend for so long a period as
he had been delayed, before he could discharge a duty
which was a mere matter of form—it was perfect
nonsense.

The LORD MAYOR—That may be your opinion ;
but the Court can support its own dignity, and wilt
give precedence to those who, being robed, pay the
Court proper respect.
The Foreman of the inquest of Cripplegate Within
having made their presentment, said his colleagues
desired him to say they had suffered great inconve-
nience from being refused admission in consequence
of not being robed. They meant no disrespect to the
Court, but they trusted the inconvenience would not
occur again, and that the absurd rule would not be
persisted in.
The LORD MAYOR said it was for the Court to
judge whether or not the rule or regulation was
observed. It was the universal rule first to admit
those who paid proper respect to the Court.
The Foreman of the ward of Cripplegate Without
made a similar complaint, and was answered by the
Lord Mayor in the same terms as had been addres,ed
to those who had preceded him. The same result
attended the complaint on the same grounds of the
foreman of Langbourn ward.
The inquest of the ward of Tower presented as
dangerous the narrow street of Mark-lane, leading
into Tower-street. Just as the Court was about to
rise,
The TOWN CLERK informed the Lord Mayor that,.
upon examination, the document tendered by Alder-
man Farncombe, from the ward of Bassishaw, was
not a presentment, but the ordinary return, or cer-
tificate, of the Alderman of the matters which came
under his cognisance. The inquest had no present-
ment to make.
The LORD MAYOR directed the return to be re-
ceived, and the fact that the ward of Bassishaw had
made no presentment should be reported to the next
Court of Aldermen.

Alderman FAREBROT-ER gave notice for the next
Court of a motion that gowns be provided by the Cor-
poration for the use of the members of the ward
inquests.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.).

Ithsarrs.--lAt the half-yearly rent audit of G.
Ward, Esq., of Northwood-park, fsle of Wight, on
Wednesday last, a letter, signed by the whole of the
tenantry, was presented to the steward (Mr. Joser.h
Squire, of Yarmouth), thanking him for having, at the
request of the tenants, ordered the rabbits on their re-
spective farms to be killed. Only ebout half the grounds
have yet been trapped, but 4,000 of these vermin have
been taken, and the tenants have destroyed in their
litters 2,000 more, making 6,000, and this in a highly-
cultivated, heavy-rented, taxed, and tithed district. If
each rabbit destroyed only four ounces of herbage in
twenty.four hours, it would amount to 547,5001135. in the
year. At least 4,000 more are expected to be taken,
destroying 365,0001b5. in the year, making a total ofnearly
1,000,00011)s. weight of their crops taken off annually
by rabbits alone. Representations had been repeatedly
made before of the ruinous extent to which the farmers
were injured by the rabbits, and Mr. Ward had given.
directions to his gamekeepers to destroy them, but they
could not find any quantity. Mr. W., therefore, this
winter, took other steps, to see which were right, the
farmers or the gamekeepers, to the great satisfaction of
the former.