The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-23 00:00:00

BISHOPSGATE WARD.

The Ward Meeting fOr the election of Common
Councilmen for this Ward was held at the New
School House, in Peter-street, Bishopsgate, at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided in the
absence of Sir R. C. Glynn, the Alderman of the
Ward.
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON said, he came forward
with considerable diffidence, his name at present
being at the bottom of the list. The nature of his
pretensions were already fully before the Ward.
They had been printed and most extensively cir-
culated, and that he thought a more consistent
mode of making known his opinions than by an oral
address ; that statement would enable them to form
an opinion as to the conduct of •the Common Calm.
cil in by-gone days. Nine years had rolled over his
head since he had the honour of representing them
in the Court of Common Council ; and in conse-
quence of circumstances of a most important nature
that hail since transpired, he was again induced to
place himself before his countrymen in a public ca-
pacity. Ten years since he had attacked a gross
abuse that existed in one of the civic offices, and he
exerted every faculty of his mind and body to put
an end to it. . He bad lifted up his hand to strike
the wand of oppression from the hand of the op-
pressor. (Cheers.) It was, however, impossible '
to effect any reform under the present profligate
system. They had heard the declaration of a gentle-
man who said he had bought the Devil, and would
sell him at the bast price he could. - (Laughter.)
Whether they elected him or not he would do all
the good 'he could; and if they did not elect him, he
should only regret he had not en opportunity of
doing more. Mr. P. sat down amidst loud and tre-
mendous cheering.

Mr. STEVENS, in justification of his colleagues,
would observe that they had rendered every assist-
ance to Mr. Pearson iu prosecuting the inquiry he
had instituted. He entirely approved of that gen.
tleman's conduct.

The other candidates severally addressed the
Meeting, each of whom professed their determine.
tion to remedy the abuses complained of by Mr.
Charles Pearson.

A show of buds was then taken, when
. The LORD MAYOtt declared the election to have
fallen on the following gentlemen :
Mr. Warwick Weston Mr. William Stephens
Mr. Nathaniel Clark M. John Dowler
Mr. William Day Sir Wm. Bawling, deputy
Mr. Jahtz Beynon Mr. Walter Peacock
Mr. Thomas Windns Mr. Soloman Bennett
Mr. T. Greenaway, deputy Mr. John Stirtevant
Mr. John Duch *Mr. Charles Pearson '
A poll was then demanded by the respective can-
didates, the result of which was declared to be as
follows

Mr. Soloman Bennett... 20 Mr. William Day...— 14
Mr. T. Greenaway, dep. 13 Mr. John Duddell
Mr. Wm. Stevens l9 Sir Wm. Rawlins, dep. 14
Mr C. Pearson
Mr. Walter A. Peacock 161 Mr. John Dowler l3
Mr. Jabez Beynon l5 Mr. Thomas Windus ... 9
Mr. Warwick Weston l4 Mr. Benj. G. Windus.„ 8
Mr. Nathaniel Clark.— 14 I

Those marked thus (#) are new Candidates.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS
(From the Gazette de France, dated Dec. 21.)

BUCHAREST, Nov. is said that Count
Dicbitsch has ordered all the regiments of cavalry to
send agents to Russia to purchase horses, because
the army is to be complete by the tat of January.
The Russian Councillor, Taschkowz who has accused
the inhabitants of the principalities of having caused
the disasters of the Russian army by not furnishing
i.he provisions required, set out for St. Petersburgh
two days ago. There are three Russian Generals
at Krajova, besides General Geismar: here we have
18, but they never appear in public in uniform. A
truce of six months is spoken of here.
The plague daily extends its ravages, not only in
the city, but in the surrounding country. On the
18th above forty cannon passed Ursiezeny ; they
were drawn by oxen which had been required from
the inhabitants; the drivers said that they had been
obliged to bury twenty pieces on the road for want
of cattle to draw them. Large bodies of infantry
have lately marched to Jassy, but we hare not yet
seen any cavalry at Silistritt. The cannonade still
continued, but faintly, on the 18th, because a corps
of obss ration of 5 or 6,000 men were left before the;
fortress to cover the retreat. Count Langeron re-
turned from Silistria to this place two days ago with
a great number of generals and staff-officers. A letter
from Jassy says, that Count Wittgenstein arrived
in that city with his S:aff on _the evening of the
20th. The other Generals who have command are
also expected at Jassy to be, present at a Council of
War which is to be held there.

As all the magazines in Wallachia are exhausted,
and as the Russian army is still 80,000 strong, only
30,000 or 40,000 will remain in this province during
the winter; the remainder will be cantoned partly in
Moravia, and partly in Bessarabia. However, our
country is so exhausted, that it will not be able to
maintain, by its own resources, as orders have been
given, such a number of.troops without running the
risk of famine.—Nuremburg Courier of War and
Peace.

(From the Message,. des Chambres of Dec. 20.)

PARIS, DEC. 19.----The Courier of Smyrna, of
the Bth of November, continues to announce that
.r.ery thing is preparing to retake Varna. A camp
of 60,000 men is going to be formed between Aidos
and Suada, and some troops and 80 pieces of cannon
have already been sent there. It will be under the
command of Abdurarnan Pacha, late Governor of
Bosnia. The coast of the 131ack Sea is going to be
furnished with troops. Ten thousand men are already
gone to invest and blockade Varna.

The Turns are preparing for a vvinter campaign,
and seem determined to carry it on ‘igorously; as
for Ant, which will begin next spring, it may be
expected that it will be terrible, and that Europe has
perhaps never seen a more desprate and sanguinary
contest.

The Sultan will have in three months 400,000
men under arms; not including the garrisons of ti.e
fortresses; and all wi:l repeat these words, which he
himself pronounced a few days ago 7" Honour and
independence are worth more than life."

EnElicit FuNns—PARH, 21.—Five per Cents.,
106 f. ,_)c.; Three per Cents., 74f. ; Bank Stuck,l,Bslf. ;
Narks Stock, 77f. 65c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 79i ;
Renter perpetnelles of Spain, .5041 ; Flaytian Loin, 600
Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 50e. ; three
months, 26f. 10e.

We are informed that a very numerously, we
may say gene:at!), signed petition, by the inhabitants of the
Regent's-park, ha been presented to the Lords of the
I:reacury, against the erection of the King's College on the
site appointed for it in that quarter of the metropolis.
Literary Gazette.

The Society for the Suppression of Vice, it
is nid, have it in agitation to attack certain dub-houses at
which Sunday-play is
,permitted. Such a step will do
them more credit than they have hitherto acquired by a
puny war against chandler's shops and hucksters.
It is a curious fact, and one which is worthy
of investigation by medical men, that persons who are in
the habit of drinking largely of malt liquors are rarely
known to he seized with typhus, or other slow fevers,
whatever other effects these liquors may have upon the con-
stitution. In corrolioration of this fact we have been as-
sut vd, by those whose opportunities for observation have
been extensive, that there is not an instance known of a
brewer's servant bring entered as a patient, under these
diseases, in any of the public hospitals.—Scoesman.

and his discorfifiting the attack of the East London
Water Company.
At the conclusion of Mr. Scales's address the
poll was proceeded with, and at its conclusion it%
numbers were as follows ;
Co'batch 33 Carter .
Perry _ 3O Smith .
Presteo

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