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merly had been paid by the houses which had been
taken down to make way for the present structure
Now, as it had been thought that it was somewhat
• hard upon the inhabitants of the other parts of the
ward so large a portion in extent of the ward as the
Bank should be exempt from the duties cast upon the
poor inhabitants, an inquiry had been set on foot by
the ward officers, the result of which was, that it was
ascertained that Mr. Marshall and one or two other
parties lived in the Bank, and the name of that gen-
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k s h
in te Bank of England, were put upon the
r order that they might be called upo to fill offices, the duties of
which their poorer neigh-
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were compelled to discharge. Under the cir-
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them In the best way for their own subsistence, and
owe no obligation to a second party.—(Cheers.) He
wished nut to give them charit,y, but power.—
(Cheers.) If they possessed their just power, they
would not desire elemosynary aid. He would raise
the moral condition of his fellow men. Nothing so
effectually promoted this as the health and comfort
of the people. The people could not be healthy
without cleanliness, and cleanliness depended on
nothing so much as the free circulation of air and
light. Dependent on cleanliness were morals.—
(Cheers.) If the people lived in hovels they could
not be a moral people, and that was a pernicious sys-
tem which needed from the morals of the people the
support of the Government. He could really and truly
assert that the feeling of party was not now the pre-
dominant feeling amongst the leading men in the
political world. They had broken down party.—
(Cheers.) And every future Minister would not
consider so much the majority of the House of Com-
mons as the strong public opinion existing out of doors.
This was the result of their having a Tory Govern-
ment. Not that it was the wish of the Tories, or
their work, but of the strong opposition that had been
raised against them.—(Cheers.) They had forced
those who rode into power upon all the old Tory and
Orange cries to adopt those liberal measures they for-
merly opposed.—(Cheers.) This would go on. The
greatest opponents of the Minister were not those of
the Opposition, but those who sat close at his back,
and, as Cobbett observed, were thrusting their knees
into his shoulders.—(Cheers.) His colleague had
spoken of the Canada Corn Bill. Did they think
the Minister had acted upon the wish of the Tory
majority ? No such thing. It was the public opi-
nion of the people, aided by the strong opposition of
the minority in the House of Commons, that
influenced the Minister.—(Cheers.) The landed
aristocracy would be glad to repeal this law, but
public opinion will be too strong for them, and the
next thing that would follow would be the repeal of
the corn-laws. Such would be the importation of
corn from America, that the landlords will be first
in the cry for the total repeal of the corn-laws.—
(Cheers.) Now, lie would show them another thing.
Corn was the first great element of subsistence. Next
to corn came sugar. Now what had the Minister
done here ? Mr. Gladstone had brought into the
House of Commons his Sugar Bill ; not to do di-
rectly what they had demanded—he could not think
of such a thing—interests were at stake. But in that
Bill he had introduced some circumbendibus clauses
which effected just the same purpose.—(Cheers.)
The Queen, by an order of council, had directed
sugar to be imported from America and other places ;
and, before twelve months, they should have free trade
in sugar. How had this been accomplished ? Had it
been done by the Tory majority ? No ; this also had
been effected by the public opinion abroad, and the
powerful opposition within doors. He had told them of
these things before, and now they saw his prophecy
come true.—(Cheers.) They should go on, step by
step, with these reforms.—(Cheers.) They had
liberal measures because the people understood their
own interests. What had been done was the result
of public opinion,!and much more would be done from
the same cause.—(Cheers.) But gentlemen were
wise in their generation ; they were trying to gain
the sympathies of the working classes. But his ques-
tion to them always was--will you give the working
classes power ?—(Cheers.) " Oh, no," said they,
" we will give them wash-houses and a game of
cricket, and so on—(Laughter)—we wish to unite
all classes, but don't say a word about power."—
(Cheers.) They had seen how essential the repeal of
the window-tax was to the welfare of the poor. Now,
if they asked those gentlemen to repeal that law, did
they think, with all their sympathy, they would
do it ? No • their desire was to make the people
dependent.'Theyhad given himself and his col-
league a charge as to this law, and they would
impress on the Minister what was the people's
feeling on the subject. He liked that word ; the
people's feeling.—(Cheers.) Yes, he would impress
it upon the Minister.—(Cheers.) It was the interest
of the whole that this iniquitous tax should be re-
pealed. lie really did not think that if this question
were fairly stated in the House of Commons, the
Members could for very shame refuse to repeal this
oppressive tax. He had spoken in obedience to a
strong feeling of the injustice of this tax, and he
hoped there was nothing in his past conduct which
could lead any of his constituents to think he had
broken any pledge, or that any opinion he had given,
which was essential to their interest, had received
aught of change. If his opinions changed he should
feel it his duty to come and deliver back to them the
charge he had received from them thinking he held
such and such particular opinions. If they then
gave him back that charge he would accept it, but it
would be with their knowledge of the opinions he
entertained. This was the duty of every honest
man—(Cheers)—and he dared any man to show a
change in his opinions, expressions, and conduct.
What he had pledged he had performed. He had not
changed. He wanted the same reforms now as when
they first carried him in triumph to the hustings.—
(Cheers.) He held the same opinions now ;he en-
tertained them with additional experience, and, he
hoped, not diminished influence.—(Great cheering.)
It would be strange, however, if a man who had been
twelve years in public life should not see reasons to
modify any opinions. Were they to shut up their
minds from that light which was more essential than
the solar light—the light of wisdom ? Were they to
bind their minds down to remain always in the same
state ? Certainly not. He should he always
ready to change his opinions when his judgment
was convinced of his former error.---(Cheers, and a
Voice, "How about the rate-paying clause on Mr.
Duncombe's motion ?") ?Ir. Roebuck asked the
person to state clearly what he meant, after which,
he continued. Had be not always voted against the
rate-paying clause ? He had voted twenty times
against it—(Cheers)—and he dared any man to say
he had ever voted in its favour. Let Mr. Duncombe
bring forward his motion on the 4th or sth of Febru-
ary, or any other time, and he would be found to vote
for it. (The Voice—"l am satisfied.") He (Mr.
Roebuck) was glad the party was satisfied. A great
deal of misrepresentation had been going on.
It was not possible for him to be always look-
ing after his reputation, and answering every
calumny. Public men, it was said, lived in
glass houses. He had lived in a glass house,
and it was his pride and glory that his acts should
be scanned.—(Cheers.) They would recollect how he
was sifted in 1832. And there were many since that
time who, not having power to injure him by the
truth, employed calumny and backbiting to effect
their purpose. How often had his friends said to him,
" Why, sir, they are saying everywhere that you are
changed—that you have turned a Tory." Did they
suppose the Tories thought so ? He would appeal to
his noble colleague whether he was thought a Tory
in the house of Commons ?—(Cheers.) No. It was
calumny that was afraid to come and charge him to
his face, but went behind his back to injure him.
He dared any man to point out to him then the
change. Was there any one who wished to ask him
a question, let them do so then ; let them put it in
writing, and send it him a week or a month hence,
and they should have his answer.—(Loud cheers.)
He was bound to say this now. He came
to ask them this question. He could not always be
with them. Parliament would soon meet, and he
should have to do their work there.—(Cheers.) He
therefore asked any man to point out one act of his
which ran counter to his pledge. He would then
give a reply; but he should not always, he repeated,
be noticing these attacks. He made this statement
once for all ; and let him be understood, until some
definite charge wLs brought against him, all back-
biting, all calumny, would in future be obliged to
hide itself from the light of day; and he thus con-
cluded, not inaptly, he thought, a discussion for let-
ting light into the dwellings of the poor.—(Mr.
Roebuck sat down amidst repeated and enthusiastic
cheering.)
Lord DUNCAN moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor,
which was seconded by Mr. Rol:noes:, and carried ;
after which the meeting gave three cheers for the
gallant chief magistrate.

REPEAL OF :THE WINDOW-TAX.
(Abridged from the Bath Journal.)
A public meeting was held on Thursday, in the
banquetting• room of the Guildhall, to petition Par-
liament for a repeal of the window-tax. The at-
tendance was very numerous. The platform was
crowded by several of the town council and other
gentlemen. Lord Duncan and Mr. Roebuck, the re-
presentatives of the city, were enthusiastically cheered
upon making their appearance.
On the motion of w. HUNT, Esq., the Mayor was
called upon to preside.
The MAYOR introduced the business of the meeting.
W. Hulse., Esq., moved the first resolution, which
condemned the window-tax as unjust in principle,
unequal in its pressure, and in its operation injurious
to the moral and sanitary condition of the commu-
nity, particularly the poorer classes, and maintained
that it ought, therefore, to be abolished. The repeal
of the window-tax was seen to be practi-
cable. It was a tax pressing heavily on the
poor. It was a true principle of taxation,
that all people should pay taxes in accordance with
the extensiveness of their property. He who pos-
sessed no property ought not to pay taxes for the pro-
tection of property.—(Cheers.) Some taxes they
were able to remove. If a man had horses and dogs,
and did not choose to pay the tax, he could dispose of
them and the tax together. If he wished to free him-
self from the malt-tax he had only to abstain from
drinking beer. Or if he desired to evade the sugar
duty he could abstain from the use of it. But let a
man be ever so much ground down by any calamity,
or his family huddled together in a garret, this tax
pursued him, nor could he free himself from it until
he took refuge in a union workhouse. He would not
enter into the sanitary part of the question, but called
upon them to petition with all their hearts, for the
sake of justice and sound policy.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. T. FULLER seconded the resolution, which was
unanimously carried.
J. EDRIDGE Esq., moved the second resolution,
proposing the adoption of a petition to the House of
Commons, embodying the first resolution, and request-
ing the Members of the city to present and support it.l
Mr. G. EDWARDS having seconded the motion, the
resolution and petition were passed unanimously,
amidst much cheering.
Lord DUNCAN was received with enthusiastic
cheers, which having subsided, he said, before he en-
tered upon the question fur which the meeting was
called, he would touch upon what had been done in
the House of Commons since he was last before them.
Great changes had taken place in that time. In
1842 he attended a meeting in that room to petition
against some of the clauses in Sir James Graham's
Education Bill. The opposition to that Bill was by
the Dissenters. Their opposition had triumphed.—
(Cheers.) He honoured them because of that tri-
umphant opposition ; and he honoured the Minister
for giving way on that occasion to public opinion.—
(Continued cheers.) They had a Minister who was
ushered into office by the shouts of the ultra-Orange
party in Ireland; and yet that Minister had had the
courage, in the recent benefices commission, to
place the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland in
a juxta-position with their high-church fellow-
subjects.—(Loud cheers.) They had triumphed then ;
but this was not the only triumph of public opinion.
He saw the same Tory Minister, in spite of the
threats of his friends, sweeping away commercial
restrictions.—(Cheers.) The timber duties had been
considerably lowered; and he believed the odious
corn-iaws of England would soon be removed.—
(Cheers.) When the Minister first came into power
he (Lord Duncan) should as soon have thought of
his bringing forward such liberal measures with
respect to trade and civil and religious liberty, as he
should of heretical opinions being first broached in
Conservative Oxford. When he (Lord Duncan) first
came amongst them he was a free trader, and he was
a free trader now.—(Cheers.) The Finance Minister
had at the present time a surplus. How had this
surplus been derived ? Let them look at the returns,
and they would find that it was principally owing to
the removal of commercial restrictions.—(Cheers.)
The surplus in the hands of the Minister was 400,0001.
on the quarter, and 1,300,0001. on the year, exclusive
of the reduction on the Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Thus a surplus of three millions was expected to be at
the disposal of the Government; 'and he came there
that day to.ask them as their representative if they did
not think there were some taxes pressing extremely
hard upon this particular community—to know
their opinions as to the window-tax, and if they did
desire the repeal of such an obnoxious impost, which,
amounting to 1,600,0001., was, under present circum-
stances, so practicable.—(Cheers.) In Bath 22,000/.
per annum was extracted from their pockets by. this
.tax, which ought to be left to be spent in the city—
(Cheers)—making, in fact, a difference of 44,000/. a
year to the people of Bath. When he read these
returns, the was led to consider how this tax origi-
nated. With considerable trouble he had ferreted it
out. , It was first passed in 1762, when Sir Francis
Dashwood was Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and in
a work recently published an anecdote is recorded,
in which it is stated that he was afraid to go through
the streets, because the children cried out after him
as he passed—" There goes the worst Chancellor of
the Exchequer England ever had I"—(Laughter.)
But the act was not so much that of Sir F. Dashwood
as of another person. It was the invention of a more
clever man. He (Sir Francis) was but the tool of
George Grenville, whose love of taxation imposed the
stamp-tax, by which they lost America.—(Cheers.)
That was the man to whom they were really
indebted for this obnoxious tax.—(Hear, hear.)
This was a breeches-pocket question ; and, as such,
was well understood by those who paid it directly--
the upper and middle classes ; but was not so well
understood by those who paid it indirectly. But he
would now proceed to show them a little more. In
1792 they were blessed with a war—(Laughter)--
and Mr. Pitt clapped on ten per cent. This was a
small amount, a mere fraction, for, in 1796, he trebled
the assessed taxes. His esteemed friend, the Rev. IV.
Jay, had told him that he recollected walking about
the streets of Bath at the time, and seeing people
boarding up their windows, with the following on the
outside in chalk :—" Lighten our darkness, we be-
seech thee, 0 Pitt I"—(Cheers and laughter.) His
Lordship continued to go through the history of this
tax down to the present time. On the sinews of her
workmen depended the commercial prosperity of
England; and yet those laws on light and air were
proved to be in every way working a deterioration in
that valuable class of society.—(Cheers.) He had
never made a pledge he had not kept, or a promise
that he had broken ; and he would now pledge him•
self to bring forward the subject of the window-tax
in the House of Commons ; and whenever anything
touching the interests of the working classes was in-
troduced in that House he would be found ready
to stand up and defend them.—(Cheers.) He was
called one of the aristocracy, but he never forget that
the working classes were the means of placing his
family in the high position they held, and he was
therefore determined that what little ability he pos-
sessed should be faithfully used in their service. He
would not stand patiently by and see them wronged.
—(The Noble Lord sat down, amidst long .continued
cheers.)

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and the Court was occupied for a very considerable
time in a discussion with closed doors. The subject-
matter which occupied the attention of the Court was,
we understand (and indeod the subsequent portion of
the day's proceedings after the public were again ad-
mitted proves the fact), a letter which had been re-
ceived by the Lord Mayor from the Commissioner of
the City Police on the subject of an increase of his
salary to the extent of 4001. per annum. The result
of the discussion, however, did not reach us. On our
re-admission we found the Court proceeding in re-
gular course through the business-paper of the day.
TOWER WARD.
_ _

PUBLICATION OF THE MINUTES.
Alderman and Sheriff SIDNEY then moved, pursuant
to notice, that the minutes of the proceedings of this
Court be printed and sent to its members forthwith
after every meeting of the Court. The object was to
facilitate the business of the Court, anti he was not
aware that his proposition would be made the subject
of any objection. It was of the highest importance
that their proceedings should be made known at all
events to each other, and the business which had al-
ready been transacted by the Court this day showed
the necessity of some such regulation as that he pro-
posed. Why, before the business on the paper was
commenced, the Lord Mayor cleared the Court--
very properly no doubt—for the purpose of taking
into consideration a letter frotmthe Commissioie of
Police, and, without any notice, an increas:. ,T his
salary to the extent of 4001. had almost bey tied
by is casting vote.
The LORD MAYOR intimated his opinion that the
observations just made by Sheriff SIDNEY were alto-
gether irregular and out of order.
Sheriff SIDNEY thought they were necessary, as il-
lustrations of the necessity which existed for the adop-
tion of his proposition. Again, a sum of 1001. had
been voted on the motion of Alderman Farebrother,
and another of a like amount on the motion of Sir P.
Laurie, without any intimation being given on the
paper of the day to the other members of the Court.
On all these grounds he begged to move the adoption
of his proposition.
Alderman T. Noon seconded the motion.
Sir P. LAURIE said that if the motion were car-
ried, this Court would be the only Court of Record
which published its minutes, with the exception of the
House of Lords, where it was done on account of the
number of its members, and for the information of
those who voted by proxy. What, for instance, would
be thought of the Middlesex magistrates, if they laid
before the public all :they did ?—(Hear, hear, and a
laugh.) He could not conceive anything more absurd
than the proposition of his friend the worthy Sheriff.
'There were twenty-six Aldermen, and it required
thirteen to be present to form a Court. Surely, there-
fore, it could not be contemplated to put the City to
the expense of printing the minutes for the informa-
tion of those who were absent. He trusted the Court
would show its disregard for the motion by reject-
ing it.

Mr. Henry Capel, who was elected on last St.
Thomas's-day one of the Common Council for the
ward of Tower, attended for the purpose of showing
cause why he refused to take uvon himself the office
to which he had been so elected. Mr. Capel having
read the correspondence which had takezr place be-
tween the ward clerk and himself upon the subject,
and in which he had desired to learn whether it was
compulsory upon him to serve, it was with a view
to settle that question that the matter was now
brought before the Court by the presentment of Mr.
Capel's refusal by the ward inquest. Mr. Capel
stated to the Court that he wished to know if the
office was compulsory, or whether any fine could
exonerate him, and also, if compulsory, whether he
could be obliged to serve for more than one year?
In answer to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Capel stated that
he was a freeman of London, and a liveryman of two
Companies the Frame-work Knitters and the
Coopers.
The RECORDER said that it appeared to him that
having been duly elected to the office of Common
Councilman, it was compulsory upon Mr. Capel to
serve for one year, but that the wardmote could not
elect him a second time without his consent. He (the
Recorder), however, thought that as the question,
which was of great importance, came before the
Court to•day somewhat by surprise, it would be more
proper that the matter be referred to a Committee to
examine the records for any precedent. He suggested
this, not as propounding any doubt on the subject,
but looking solely to the importance of the question,
which it would be desirable to settle by precedent
rather than to create a precedent now.
Alderman COPELAND objected to a reference t o a
Committee. It was clear that the office was compul-
sory for one year, and he suggested to Mr. Capel that
it would be better for him to serve that year than to
lay himself open to the law courts, which would
follow, if any ill-disposed persons went to the Court
of Queen's Bench and obtained a mandamus calling
upon him to show cause why he refused to fulfil the
duties of the office.
The RECORDER observed, that if Mr. Capel came
to this Court to be advised, he (the Recorder) had no
difficulty whatever as to the advice he should give

Alderman HUMPHERY supported the motion, as
calculated to prevent garbled statements as to. what
took place within closed doors going before the public.
Alderman FARM:MOTHER denied that any member
of the Court would give a garbled statement of any-
thing which transpired. He rather rejoiced that Mr.
Sheriff Sidney had adverted to the letter of the Police
Commissioner, because it enabled him (Mr. Alderman
Farebrother) to state, for the information of the
public, that the only question with respect to it was
to refer it to a Committee to state what sum they
would recommend to be paid to the Commissioner of
Police. Seeing no good result from the printing the
minutes, he should vote against the motion, unless the
mover chose to withdraw it.
After a few words from Alderman CoPELAND and
Alderman HUMPHREY,
Sir W. MAGNAY said he was at a loss to under-
stand the object of printing the minutes. Was it to
accommodate three, four; or five gentlemen who did
not choose, or wha were prevented from attending the
Court? Vas the Corporation to go to the expense
of printing, the minutes, when any member of that
Court, by walking down to the Town Clerk's office,
might at once ascertain them ? The proceedings were
published in all the newspapers, and that was all that
was required. The proposition was, in his judgment,
absurd.
Alderman LUCAS concurred in the opinion ex-
pressed by the previous speaker, Sir Magnay.
After a few words from Mr. Sheriff SIDNEY in
reply, the motion was negatived.

Mr. Capel replied that his object was to get the
- Recorder's opinion.
The RECORDER said, that according to his present
impression, it was compulsory upon Mr. Capel to take
upoh himself the office, and if he would adopt his (the
Recorder's) advice, he would serve, having been duly
elected.
Mr. Capel said that he had never sought the office,
but he was satisfied with the opinion Just expressed
by the Recorder, and on that opinion he would under-
take the office for the present year.
Alderman LUCAS called the attention of the Court
to the presentment made on Plough Monday by the
inquest of Tower ward, of the dangerous state of the
lower end of Mark-lane, near its junction with Tower-
street, owing to the narrowness of the foot pavement,
which in some parts was not wider than 18 inches
from the kerb-stone to the fronts of the houses. The
Alderman stated that two deaths, owing to accidents
at this spot, had recently occurred, and at the present
moment there was a person lying in the hospital dan-
gerously and seriously injured from the same causes.
On the motion of the Alderman, the subject was re-
ferred to the Commissioners of Sewers.
REFUSAL TO SERVE THE OFFICE OF INQUESTMAN.
Mr. Matthew Marshall attended to show cause why
he refused to serve the office of inquestman of the
ward of Broad-street, to which he had been elected
by the wardmote held on last St. Thomas's-day.
Mr. Marshall stated that he had been advised, and
believed that he was not legally liable to serve, inas-
much as he was not an inhabitant householder, and
was not connected with the Corporation either as a
freeman, or in any other way, neither did he carry on
any trade or business in the ward.
In answer to various questions put by different
members of the Court,

Mr. -RoEnucx then rose, and was received with
enthusiastic applause. His noble colleague had said
that he had never. yet given a pledge which he had
ever broken. He (Mr. Roebuck) could proudly say
the same.—(Cheers.) He had a charge from them
on this subject, and as his Noble Friend had expressed
his intention of introducing it in the House of Com-
mons, he should be happy to follow in his wake when •
ever the matter was brought forward. Justice, from
time out of mind, clearly proved, demanded that this
tax should be repealed.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord
had said this was a breeches-pocket question. But he
would go higher—it was a moral question. The
question was not that this or that class would have to
pay a little more or a little less by its repeal; but it
was a tax weighing most heavily on the lower classes,
and did mischief to the health and morals of the
people. If that were so, what was there to prevent its
repeal ? The Finance Minister had at present a large
surplus; and there was a general scramble as to what
particular tax should be repealed. Who were the
parties always listened to in these matters ? 'Was it
the poor ? No. His colleague had told them it was
the agricultural tenants. Why ? Because the agri-
cultural landlord would be benefited. Those who
paid less in taxes would be able to pay more in rent.
—(Cheers.) It was with them, down with every-
thing, up with rent.—(Continued cheers.) The book
the Noble Lord had quoted from was an instructive
document at the present time, when such a feeling of
sympathy was pretended among the higher classesor
for the .poor. They had meetings of these people f
raising subscriptions for their relief. Meetings for
wash• houses and washing-tubs.—(Laughter.) But
had they meetings to put the people, not in possession
of alms, but in a position in which they
could maintain
that
be
they
their own independence ? He desired
not
should give the people alms, that they should but
allowed the free exercise of those abilities which the
They could then use God of nature had given them.

GRESHAM COMMITTER.
Alderman WILSON moved that the Lord Mayor
being specially and repeatedly named in the will of
Sir Thomas Gresham as one of his trustees, it be re-
ferred to the General Purposes Committee to obtain
the opinion of counsel as to the right ofthe Gresham
Committee to act in the execution of the trusts of the
mwieleltiNsnigths.o_utAgreed t.
summoningo the Lord Mayor to their
VETERINARY' SURGEON FOR SMITHFIELD.
co Committee on
theTtehestrimepoonritas ofl the Gqenuearalifil PailliFnspOse ofs the applicants
for the office of veterinary surgeon for Smithfield
having been read, the Court proceeded to an election
to. the said office.
After the ballot had been taken, there appeared
for Mr. Nice 10 votes, for Mr. Cherry 3 votes, for
Mr. Clark 2 votes, and for Mr. Seymour 1 vote;
whereupon
The LORD MAYOR declared Mr. Nice duly elected
to the office (with a salary fifty of
num), subject to such regulations as hereafter may
be determined upon.
No other business of public interest was gone into,
and the Court adjourned shortly before five o'clock.

Mr. Marshall stated that he held the office of chief
cashier to the Bank of England, and that he lived
within the Bank. He was under no assessment, all
his rates being paid by the Governor and Company
of the Bank of England.
Sir P. LAURIE—I believe, Mr. Marshall, you ap-
peared last year, and the Court excused you from
serving the office ? Mr. Marshall—Yes, Sir Peter.
Sir P. LAURIE—That being so, I am surprised they
elected you again.
Alderman MuscßovE remarked, that as Sir Peter
Laurie seemed to censure the ward over which he
(Alderman Musgrove) presided for not obeying and
adhering to the opinion of the Court, he must take
the liberty of offering an explanation to the Court.
It must be borne in mind that the Bank of Eng-
land stood upon the ground which constituted
that which formerly was the entire precinct of St
Christopher-le-Stock, and, under an Act of Parlia-
ment, the Bank was rated for the same sum as for-

WIGAN.---inDliioegnSatnispont tahgeafionlsi
lowing m
poor woman in the neighbourhood
the plunderers of the industrions.poor? A gentleman,
TRUCK.
akSevstzu
bNloßodAßboliVl
Orrell, Carrying some potatoes, which, he found on
incuiry, she had
benbe purchasing at 43d. per score,
okfnown to us, met a
from a farmer. has the wile of a poor nail-
maker, who had been compelled to take bad potatoes
at 7d., in payment of his wages, instead of being at
liberty to obtain good ones at 4id.—Preston Guardian.
111ADBuLL.—On Monday the vicinity of Blackfriars-
road was in a state of great confusion, in consequence of
an infuriated ox, which perambulated the streets. on
either side of the road for some considerable time, caus-
ing great alarm to the inhabitants, After. upsetting
several apple-stalls, he very suddenly poked his head
through an immense square of plate glass in the shop
window of Mr. Powell, the linendraper, of Blackfriars-
road. He was with great difficulty secured, and taken
to the nearest slaughter house and killed.. _ , . - -
_ _ .

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--The acci.
dent which happened at the tunnel on this line a few
weeks ago has been entirely repaired, and the' engines
have resumed their duties with the greatest safety, addi-
tional securities having been adopted which are calcu-
lated to prevent the slightest tendency to a repetition of
a similar slip, which was of less magnitude than was
generally, reported. Notwithstanding the' ihterruption
Year, find this
of the traffic, the revenue during the week was 2001. over
twheaetko ft h the corresponding
ecroerarseespe
voenrd itnhge week
parallelof weelastk
0 f
last'year is
4391—Newcastle Journal

J . y.

MONEY MARK-E7_.aWS

TIIE MORNING rArn RS OF THIS DAY.
CIT T, TUESDAY EVENING •
TIMES.—The premlu)...7
on gol d 'at Paris is 12f perm's,ai
nulniceeh
an exchange of 95
, fora t the
standard Eiiglish e of 31: 17s. 100,
o
46 ; and the exchange at Pant,
on London at abort
being 25 65, it follows :iutt old is 0.74 per cent.
'
dearer in London than in Paris. ice of gold is 434
.
per By
mark,adv which,f rom li
the mEbnu
bane of 13 9f ;
per ounce for standard gold, gives an es*,
agrigi
English
m the
ice of 3/.175. 10fd,
Mint
t pc
ion at short
and the exchange at Ifamburgh on Leaa.
at
cent, dearer
beim,. 13 104, it follows that gold is 0.57; per
in London than in Ilainhurgh.
The English securitisgs were pretty etc tdy to.dav%.nd
prices underwent no ma•Rrial alteratim. The Sic cern.
merit broker continues his official invest tnents iii' Three
per Cent. Reduced and Three I:nd-a-gtiartcr per rent.
Annuities ; and these, with the perchase s• of the puhlie,
who, notwithstanding the large amoi,nt of • business doing
in shares, by no means neglect tiik: old Government
stocks, give the market altogether is , very healthy
appearance.
The operations in the foreign markt t have been
almost wholly confined to Spanish, which has further
improved, although the highest prices of th,l day were
not maintained towards the conclusion of bush less. The
favourite stock, the Three per Cents., was done at the
top figure of 41, but suddenly afterwards decline, i, and
closed at 40 to 1. The rise in Spanish within tin 'alt
few days, and Which Pas been considerable, app ears
mainly to be caused by the punctual pajtment of the di-
vidends, and the hopes entertained that.they will not •3,1til
in future. It must, however, be remarked, that tle
greater part of the business transacted is among the
speculators ; and as this is confessedly one of the chief
of the speculative stoc:ks, we 3hould not be at all sur-
prised if a reaction to the actin extent of the rise shortly
takes place. The opinion is, that ,the advance has oc-
curred too suddenly to be of a pe'l-man ent character.
In Railway Shares there is still a very large extent
of dealing. The constant accession of new securities,
and the interest a numerous class of ci:Titalists take
in this description of investment, have rip,:te given an
altered appearance to the business of :h.'s market.
Compared with what is really doing in the other de-
partments, we should say the dealings in ahars'a exceed
by almost double the amount of business done eih:'er ih
English securities or foreign stocks. Nothing lira' the
activity that is at present observable in this quarter of
the Stock Exchange was ever before known. The
fear is, that all this activity and buoyancy. cannot last for
ever ; and that when the day of reckoning comes with
the desperate speculators, they will find it a heavy and;
ruinous settlement.
Among the parties that are coming forwao for the-
remission of the existing duties the coopers are taking a
prominent position. The incorporation of coopers of
Glasgow and the journeymen coopers of London have
alike memorialised the Board of Trade for a repeal of the
duty on the raw material required for their work. Vie
movement is not a new one, but was made in 1842, before
the existing tariff was brought into operation, and arra
in 1843. The memorials now presented call attention to.
the inexpediency of allowing foreigners to import manu-
facturedarticles into the British colonies without the•
payment of duty, while the British manufacturers are-
charged from 20 to 30 per cent. on the raw material, and
to the fact that there are no United States staves used
in this country, although they are of the best quality
and suited for the largest portion of the export trade
of Great Britain. This exclusion from the United States
market has the further effect of enhancing the ;•irice of
the inferior material, which, the cooper complains,: he is
compelled to use. Under these influences it seems that
the export of coopers' work has materially fano], al-
though the English workmanship is allowed to be far
superior to that of...any other nation in the world.
The returns of the circulation of the private and joint--
stock banks in England and Wales for the four week,
ending respectively the 14th, 21st, and 28th of Decem-
ber ult., and the 4th of January inst., as published in the
Gazettes, when added together, form the aggregate circu-
lation for the month ending the 4th of January instant,
and give an average circulation as follows :
Private banks

Joint-stock banks .

Average circulation of private notes in Eng-
land and Wales during the past month.... £7,487,145
On a comparison of the above with the returns for the
month ending the 7th of December, it shows—
A decrease in the notes of private banks of £1.5,097
A decrease in the notes of joint-stock
banks of

27,203

Total decrease last month
And as compared with the month ending the 6th of
January, last year, it shows—
A decrease in the private banks' issues of
A decrease in the joint-stock banks'issues of

£394,964
175,565

Total decrease, as compared with last year, £570,529
The Bankers' Magazine for the present month contains,
prefixed to the weekly circulation returns, the exact
amount which each bank respectively is now allowed to
issue. The amounts are as follows :-
199 private banks allowed to issue
71 joint-stock banks allowed to issue

Total fixed issues
This amount iyoknewhat less than the total of the,
fixed issues, as originally published in the Gazettes ; se—
veral of the bankt specified below) having given up
their privilege on -ue, and the total of.the fixed issues
being diminished accordingly. On compering the re-
turns for the past month with the fixed amounts, as given
in the Bankers' Magazine, it appears that the,
Private banks are below their fixed issue '4583,386
Joint-stock banks below their fixed issue

Total below the fixed issue ... £1,001,n73
On comparing the present weakly returns, as. pt, b.
lished in the Gazette, with the list of the several bank s
allowed to issue notes, as certified by the Commissinnerst
of Stamps and Taxes under the recent Act, it appear*
that the following banks have ceased to avail themselves
of the privilege of issue, and we presame they have
adopted the circulation of Bank of England notes.
Against each of the banks is affixed the amounts they
were to be allowed to issue, viz.:—

Z.
Bristol Old Bank Baillie, Ames, and Co. ... 89,540
Wrexham and North}
R. M. Lloyd
Wales Bank
Oxford University Bank Sir J. Loclt and'Co.
Staines Bank
Bilsihaomppsill%i'raeltßhaannki and
t Gunner and Co: 1,995
Cambridge Bank Messrs. Humfrey and Son 2,615
Cambridge Bank Messrs. Fisher and Sail... 8,753
Margate Bank
The Western District 1
Bank (Ceased business)

Total
.. £160,43543.-5
From this statement it appears that alreadirthe suns
to be deducted (as the amount of the circulation 6.`' those
" banks which have ceased to issue") from the aggroja°
sum fixed for the amount of the country issues in En,'"
land and Wales by the recent Act, is 160,4351. ; and thl'a
sum being taken from such aggregate sum, leaves the
present fixed issues of the banks which now make weekly
returns at 8,488,4181.
At the St. Katharine Dock Company's meeting to-day
the dividend declared was at the rate of S per
,cent. per
annum. Although from the prevalence of easterly winds
at the end of the year the receipts of the Company had
decreased, still, as the amount had been fully:, made up
by the increase of business in the present month, Arising
from the coming in of the vessels which were previous 4
wind-bound, the Directors said they felt justified in de-
claring the same rate of dividend as previously. The
Directors have given notice of a special meeting about
to be called to consider the propriety of cancelling the•
remainder of the floating debt of the Company.
SUN.—Funds have been steady to the close.., Consols
have realised 1001 to 100i1 for Money, and 104 j for
Account. Exchequer Bills 'have been 575. to 555.. pre-
mium; and New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. touched
104 i.
The Foreign Bends have been quiet, but Spanish
continued at the advanced rates of the morning, viz-.
281 2 for Money, and 401 i for Account. Moxioant
Bonds were at a rise to 34,? 1 ; Dutch Four per Cents.
were 98k.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these : —Birmingham and Gloucester were 7 ;
Bristol and Exeter, 6i ; Churnet Valley, 3 ; Cale-
donian, 1 ; Eastern Union, 11 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, Quarter, i ; Great Southern and Western (Ire-
land), 6 ; Ditto, Extension, 3;11 ; Ditto, Additional, 6 ;
Great North of England, New, 9 ; Groat Western,
93 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 42 ; Brighton, 2:
,; London
and York, 2,1 to 2 ; Lynn and Ely, 21 to 3 ; Man-
chesterand Leeds, 61 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
clas4itle an(l
to 151-
;BMeriwdliacnk,d,
13011.;
toD AT ; Northern I New,
Eastern, 17 ; Ditto, Quarter, 15 . ; Rugby, 11
;
South-Eastern, 151 ; Ditto, New, I,i ; South Wales,
21i premium
li to 1 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough
Branch, 25 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 51 to 52 ; Boulogne
and Amiens, 3 ; Great Northern of France, LI ; Paris
chbauntgoenonAAnmniseterrpd,amuawl'ialbsurragthh7anhdigTherrietshteis,
and Orleans, 241 and Paris and Rouen,
Cornwall have been at par to 1 discount. Dublin and
Galway were k, and Eastern Counties, Sil i discount.
hairliTesrinlweeeoErnex, taken at rather lower prices for the' pound
steTrlliiegiollowing is the official reitof the exports of
Bullion from the port of London, for th w eek ending
1)1 yea: last
to
Thursday
-- Antwerp, 6,000 ounces.
......,...___

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam ..... .CF 12 8
Ditto, at sight 12 6
Rotterdam ...... 2 U 12 8
Antwerp 26 10
Hamburgh ...... M.B 13 14
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 25 0
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 1
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36}
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

36

36

NUS.—(YESTERDAY.)
. ...
Le horn ..... . ... 31 )
Genoa ...
Venice ...• • ..... 47
Naples
Palermo, per oz ll9
Lisbon ........... 53
Oporto ..
Rio Jancito ...... 24
Bahia
..... . 24
Iluenos A ...... -
NewYork.t:ltlyssight
pnrc.r.gc 919LLION, PER oz.
Foreign Go.-1, bars. £3 17 9
Tortuga: G,ld Coin 3 17 15
New D001•t00n5..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4
Silver in bars.— 0 4 11 1

SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.--We are glad to learn that
within the last fortnight the Carlisle manufacturers have
advanced the handloom weavers' wages tally nine per
cent., making a total advance _ottwesity-per cent. ttn
wages Once the spring of 1844.