The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-28 00:00:00

MANSION HOUSE.

During the afternoon of Friday and on Saturday
morning, strong representations were made to the
Lord Mayor by several members of eminent banking
firms in the City, that if the strong code of police re-
gulations which had been posted about the streets
were to be carried into effect on Monday, it would be
impossible for them to conduct their business on that
day. The Lord Mayor assured the gentlemen who
waited upon him that he had not himself seen the re-
gulations referred to, although by some strange
blunder they were headod " Magnay, Mayor." His
Lordship, however, promised to be present at the
Court of Aldermen, which had been called expressly
far the purpose of agreeing upon the resolutions,
when he assured them tlzir wishes should be
complied with in every possible way. The
Lord Mayor afterwards directed the City So-
licitor to confer with Mr. Roberts, the Chair-
wan of the Committee of Bankers, and the
members of the several firms which would be princi
pally affected by the regulations, and the resolutions
for closing the Poultry and Mansion. house-street, as
subsequently adopted by the Court of Aldermen, was
agreed to with the approbation of the bankers, who
have received, for the accommodation of their clerks,
pass tickets, which will admit them to pass the bar-
riers to the clearing house, and to and from their
respective establishments at any hour of the day.
At the request of the bankers a strong additional
force has been placed at the clearing house,
to enable them to pass and repass with safety, facility,
and expedition—a procedure rendered absolutely ne-
cessary by the fact that the bankers have agreed
to assemble at half-past eight in the morning, and to
compress within the short space of two hours and a
half the immense mas of monetary transactions
which in ordinary days extend themselve s over a
surface of eight hours. Notwithstanding the ex-
cellent arrangements which have been made by the
police commissioner for facilitating the intercommu-
nication of the bankers and their clerks during the
time their establishments will be open for the trans-
action of business, the Lord Mayor has directed the
City Solicitor to remain at the Mansion-house during
the whole of the morning for the purpose of affording
any facilities that may be required. It should be
understood that the free passage of pedestrians, during
any part of the day, is not in the least degree inter-
fered with, except along the length and breadth of the
Exchange and the Poultry, the pavement of which
has been railed off to prevent accidents, the street
hying scarcely sufficient to allow her Majesty's state
carriage and her attendants to pass without danger to
foot passengers. This space, which it was originally
proposed should be left entirely vacant, will be filled
with the Livery Companies of the City, in their Livery
gowns or other badges of their company ; an arrange-
ment which will add greatly to the effect of the proces-
sion. The whole of Cheapside, St. Paul's-churchyard,
Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, as well as the Strand, and the
other streets at the west-end of the town through which
the procession will pass, being of greater width, will be
open indiscriminately to the public. If these ar-
rangements had been fully explained in an intelligible
order from the Lord Mayor, the dissatisfaction which
has been so generally expressed would not have been
experienced. All police regulations tending to re-
strain the free use of any privilege which the public
have been accustomed to exercise are, in a free coun-
try, calculated to excite feelings of dissatisfaction with
the multitude. The final paragraph in the resolutions
of the Court of Aldermen shows a disposition to as-
similate itself to the spirit of the times, and to re-
concile the public to what must otherwise appear an
interference with their accustomed rights.

THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.
A NATIONAL SONG—By AIRS. CRAWFORD.
When Commerce rose, in ages past,
To fill the world with light,
And feudal days were fleeting fast,
Like shadows of the night ;
Then her wings she gave
To the ocean wave,
For she loves at will to roam,
With the fresh'ning breeze,
O'er the bounding seas ;
But in England she found her home.
'Twas then that Gresham's master-mind—
Name still to commerce dear !
Her rising glories proudly shrin'd,
And fixed her palace here :
And from this proud spot
(Be it ne'er forgot !)
She rose to life and light ;
And her sails unfurl'd
To the wond'ring world,
In the pride of her new-born might.
Then Britain's thunders shook the earth,
And sea's remotest shore ;
The palm of honour, truth, and worth,
Her merchant princes bore ;
And they long shall bear,
And as proudly wear,
As in the by-gone days ;
For the bright renown
Of her laurell'd crown
Is entwin'd with the civic bays.
Amid the battle's thunder crash
When England brav'd the foe—
'Mid volum'd smoke and lightning-flash
'Twas commerce nerv'd the blow ;
She the pow'r and pride
Of the earth defied,
Alike on land and main,
When her bolts she hurl'd
At a hostile world.
May we ne'er see the like again I
Now daring commerce spreads at will
Her sails on ev'ry wind;
The march of armies now stand still,
To wait the march of mind;
Now in labour's hive,
Loom and spindle thrive,
As golden commerce smiles;
And the lib'ral arts,
That refine our hearts,
Are the boast of the British isles.
Eliza's glories all revive
In young Victoria's reign ;
And Gresham's stainless laurels live,
To bud and bloom again ;
As in those proud days,
We to commerce raise
Once more the stately pile,
And the world's resort
Is the regal court,
That she holds in her own loved isle.
Now, long may Britain's thunder sleep,
And bright her laurels shine !
Long may her merchant princes keep
Their court in this proud shrine ;
Here may freedom's light
Wing its glorious flight
Across the b. uniless main ;
And the good old cause,
Of the throne and laws,
Be the pride of Victoria's reign !

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(PROM OUR OWN CORRKSPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
OCT. 23. .Ann cutter, Hon. William Hare, from Ly-
mingt,on.
24. Ganymede cutter, I. IL W. P. Smyth Pigott,
Esq., Plymouth and Torquay.LlN SAIGS.
OCT. 21. Xicifs. schooner, Earl of Wilton, fur Ply-
mouth.
22. Kestrel ketch, Comm More Earl of Yarborough,
Cowes harbour, to lay up.
23. Jack o'Lantern schooner, Earl of Orkney, ditto.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Flirt, Gem. Cutters—Phantom, Ann,
Ganymede, Turquoise, Ariadne, Noran, and Nautilus
yawl.
Report says that her Majesty proposes visiting us
again this season, and the 24th of November is men•
tioned as the day appointed. We have no great faith in
this report, but we know that workmen are employed on
Osborne House, and it is hardly probable that if her
Majesty intended giving it up on the Ist of May, that
this would be the case, or that the orders would have
been given to fill the ice-house, or to lay down perma-
nent moorings for the royal yacht in Cowes roadstead.
The cause of the late dreadful accident at Portsmouth
was doubtless some of the wadding left on fire in the
breach of the gun. A correspondent, who is in the
woollen trade, informs us that there is a quantity_of
cotton in all low-priced flannels, and the cotton so intro-
duced was the cause of this and numerous other dreadful
. accidents.

STEAM U. TIME.—THE QUICKEST TRANSIT YET
KNowN.—A gentleman left London last Friday morning,
by the ten o'clock train for Fleetwood, where he joined
the Royal Consort steam-ship. Leaving that place at
half-past eight o'clock in the evening, he arrived next
morning at Ardrossan at half-past eight o'clock (twelve
hours), where he left per special train, and was in Glas-
gow by ten o'clock A.m.. thus accomplishing the distance
of 400 miles in twenty-four hours.—Ayr Observer.
WEST RIDING REGISTRATION.--The registration
for the West Riding has closed with a gain of 40 for
the Reformers.—Leeds Tin es.
PRICE or COAL.—We were yesterday informed,
that owing to a strikc, for wages by the colli,rs of Staf-
fordshire, coal ha: increased Is. per ton.—Leamington
Courier.
It is generally expected that the Earl of Glasgow
will be appointed to the situation of Lord-Lieutenant of
Renfrewshire, vacant by the death of Mr. Speirs.
STATE or TRADE.—The Leicester trade still re-
mains dull for th, s asot., though a further demand be-
fore orders close for aril:Mies is expected. Spinners
are flatter, and orders fall oft' ; in wools not much doing,
and no change in prices.—Leicester Journal.
The Provisional Committee of the London and
Norwich Dirant Railway met at Bury St. Edmund's last
Thursday, to apportion the 35,000 shares for this under-
taking, on which occasion there were applications for
- upwards of 60,000 shares.--Norwich Mercury,