The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

PORTSOKEN WARD,
ELECTION OF ALDERMAN.

A wardmote was held yesterday ia thecourt-yarel
of the Three Nuns Tavern, Aldgate, for the
purpose of electing an Alderman, in the room of
David Salomons, Esq., lately rejected by the Court
of Aldermen. The candidates were Mr. ex-
Sheriff Moon, and J. R. Bousfield, Esq.,
cloth-worker, of Houndsditch. Popular feeling
seemed to run strongly in favour of the late Sheriff
and various surmises were hazarded, as to his
opponent's intention to proceed to the poll. Precisely
at one o'clock, the Lord Mayor and Civic func-
tionaries arrived, and the wardmote was opened in
the usual manner. Before commencing the proper
business of the day, Mr. Salomons entered a pro-
test against the whole proceedings.
Mr. D. W. WIRE also entered a protest, signed by
many of the most influential inhabitanttof the ward,
against the election of another Alderman in the room
of David Salomons, Esq., duly elected by them on a
previous occasion.
Both protests were received by the Lord Mayor.
Mr. SALOMONS then, amid much interruption, pro-
ceeded to address the ward, on the anomalous situa-
tion in which he and they were placed by the decision
of the Court of Aldermen. Against that decision he
was determined to appeal, and he felt assured that the
Courts of Westminster would do him the justice
which had been refused by that of Guildhall,—
(Cheering and indescribable confusion, during which
not a word could be heard.)

The LORD MAYOR threatened to dissolve the ward-
mote, unless something like decencyl was observed.
—(lncreased disorder.)
Mr. SALomoNs again attempted to address the
meeting, but after the delivery of a few sentences
was obliged to finish somewhat abruptly.
Mr. WARD then rose, and after passing a high
eulogium upon the late Sheriff, Mr. Moon, proposed
him as a fit and proper person to represent the ward.
—(Cheers, groans, and confusion.)
Mr. BULL felt great pleasure in seconding the no-
mination.—(Cries of "Go home to your shop," " Put
a sheet of foolscap on Moon," &c.)
There being no other candidate, Mr. Bousfield
having declined the contest, Mr. Moon was declared
elected.

Thanks were voted to the Lord Mayor, and the
most noisy wardmote which it was ever our lot to
see was then dissolved.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at the
Castle at twelve minutes past seven o'clock in a car-
riage and four, escorted by a party of the Royal
Horse Guards, commanded by Cornet the Hon. G.
W. Milles, from Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
which place the Royal party left at twenty minutes
before two o'clock. Her Majesty and the Prince
were attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, the
Earl of Liverpool, Major-General Wemyss, and Col.
Bouverie.

On alighting at the Castle her Majesty and his
Royal Highness were received by the Hon. Misses
Murray and Kerr, Maids of Honour, Lord Byron,
Lord in Waiting, Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in
Waiting, and the Earl of Hardwicke.
The Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Hardwicke,
Sir Henry Pottinger, and Sir Henry Wheatley,
arrived at the Cattle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Royal Family were not taken out to-day,
owing to the unfavourable state of the weather.

Yesterday afternoon their Royal Highnesbes the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken
for a walk in the pleasure grounds adjoining the
Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw' and Sir
George Couper, joined the royal dinner circle, at the
Castle, this evening.

A deputation from the Chester, Stockport, and
Manchester Railway Company, consisting of Mr.
Lot Gardiner, Mr. William Wanklyn, and Mr. Elli-
combe, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday after-
noon, on a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle.
Dispatches from the Governor of Jamaica were re-
ceived yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches
were also received from the Governors of the West
India Colonies.

Windsor
Henry Pottinger left town yesterday for
Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 16.—8 y what we learn from
a quarter generally well informed, considerable pro-
gress has been lately made in the conversion of the
Five per. Cent. Act debt; it is affirmed that the option
of changing the Five per Cents. for Four per Cents.,
at 96i per cent., will decidedly not be continued be-
yond Saturday, the 26th of October next.

The session of the States-General is to be opened
on Monday, the 21st, at noon. It appears by the
programme, which is now published, that it will be
opened by the King in person.
BERLIN, OCT. 15.—His Royal Highness the Prince
of Prussia is, in every respect, as well as he can be
under the circumstances.