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carried unanimously :
"That the gentlemen present, with such others is may hereafter
join them, be a Committee to conduct the nomination and election
by poll (if demanded) of Mr. Alderman Wood for Lord Mayor."
It was moved by H. S. SMITH, and seconded by Mr. JOYCE, and

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1844,

The approaching election of an Alderman of the
Corporation of London to the distinguished and respon-
sible post of Lord Mayor of this great city, appears
to demand from us a few words of incidental commen-
tary. The importance of the position—the moral
influence which the annual contest for its occupation
may be considered to exercise on the character and
conduct of those who are already, or may, in after life,
become eligible for it ;—the distinction which its te-
nure, short-lived though it be, must be considered as
conferring on the private demeanour and public in-
tegrity of its holder ;—these are trite topics that
readily suggest themselves to every mind, and re-
quire no sort of elaboration at our hands. But in
proportion as they are trite, and thus readily sug-
gested, it is expedient that their application should not
be perverted by prejudice, or passion, or secret
ill-will, or avowed hostility, to the wrong
of any individual presenting himself to the
notice of his fellow- citizens as a candidate
for the office. There is no circumstance more
remarkable about the pending canvass, if we
may venture thus to designate it, for the Mayoralty,
than the feeling of distrust, or the presumption of
disqualification, which it is actively attempted to ex-
cite against Mr. Alderman THOMAS WOOD—the
senior Alderman—and therefore entitled, by the cus-
tom, at least, of the Corporation, to be elected into the
civic chair. We crave the reader's attention
to a report which we have given in another
column, of certain proceedings at a recent meeting,
held at the Swan with Two Necks, of the friends of
Mr. Alderman WOOD, assembled for the purpose of
supporting his appeal on the present occasion. They
seem very satisfactory.
It will be remembered that, some years ago, the
connexion which Mr. Alderman T. WOOD had had the
misfortune to form with a certain Joint-Stock
Company, became a subject not only of legal pro-
ceedings in the Law Courts, but of angry and con-
flicting comment in the columns of some of our
Contemporaries. It really appears to us that the
animadversions which have, in this way, been heaped
upon the Alderman's head are absolutely undeserved,
judging of their amount and extent from the state•
ments put forward by those who oppose his election
and impeach his eligibility. If we are right in this
impression, it is our duty to endeavour to instil it into
the minds of others : for, so long as the perversion of
facts, and the prejudice thereby generated, which we
have spoken of, are permitted to prevail—unrefuted
because unexamined—so long is an individual of some
mark and considerable ability ousted of the legi-
timate aim of an honourable ambition ; so long,
indeed, are his character, his prospects, and his sta-
tion in society seriously compromised. Let us see
w hat the sum of the charges against Mr. Alderman
THOMAS WOOD really is.
It is imputed to him, first, that he and the other
Directors of the Talacre Iron Company appropriated
to their own use a large number of shares, as fully
paid up, without advancing the money for the calls
thereon :—Mr Alderman WOOD'S answer is both
emphatic and circumstantial, and confirmed by the
report of those whom the General Meeting of Share-
holders had delegated to inquire into the whole
affairs of the Company. He denies that he ever
sanctioned —he proves that he expressly op-
posed—such appropriation, on the ground of its in-
justice to the General Proprietory ; that although the
other Directors accepted such shares, he refused to
take them, even after they had been by those Directors
expressly received for him in his absence from town
(facts that appear on their "Minutes.") He shows that
he afterwards persuaded several of those Directors to
relinquish their thus appropriated shares, and that
he himself held but twenty shares, on which he duly
paid all the calls. Secondly, It is urged that he held
various offices in this Company, such as director
trustee, and chairman. He replies, that he was
not the originator of the Company; such appointments
as he held were pressed on him by the Proprietors ;
and such duties as he discharged were performed by
him without fee or reward ; that, far from taking or
making anything, from or by, the Company, he is a
loser of several thousands of pounds by the specula-
tion ; that these offices, so held bylim, were not in-
consistent the one with the other, and are commonly
held by one and the same person in a Company of this
nature, Thirdly, In the next place, he has been ac-
cused of deceiving the public by sending coals to Dublin,
represented as of very superior quality, and the produce
of the Talacre mine, but really obtained from
some other pit. His answer is, that the Company
took its name of "Talacre" from the appellation of
Sir EDWARD MOSTYN'S seat, Sir EDWARD being
the party from whom they rented their coal-fields ;
that they had three coal-pits, respectively known
the " Picton," the "Bryn," and the "Mann." I e
coals sent to Dublin were produced in, and raised
from the "Bryn," where they are of very superior
quality, and such coals, therefore, we, in fact and
truth, as represented—" Coals from the Talacre
Works," Sz.c. The last of these principal charges
is—that on the purchase-money having to
be paid to the lessors :of the mines, Mr.
Alderman WOOD refused to join with his co-
Directors in signing bills of exchange, with the view
of thus evading personal liability, and of transferring
such liability on the shoulders of his colleagues. But
he shows that he had already assumed the like
liability, by the execution of a deed of covenant for
payment of this very debt ;—that "articles" into
which he had entered with his partner precluded him,
(under a condition very common in partnership
deeds), from signing bills of exchange; but that his
not concurring in such a step with the other Direc-
tors was so far from working to him any such ex-
emption from the same liability, that he has actually
been sued in the matter.
Again we say, to us this seems a most reasonable
and satisfactory defence to the charges. That the
Alderman should have been mixed up with any
Joint-Stock Company is to be regretted ; but the fact
infers an error of judgment, only, common kas was
observed at the meeting of his friends) to some three-
fourths of his Aldermanic brethren. That he should
have been a severe sufferer by his connexion with a
bad Company is an argument to show that he acted
with no kind of fraudulent intentions as to others.
His private and his professional character
are allowed by his opponents, as well as his friends,
to be unimpeachable. Then, on what grounds should
he be deprived of the benefit of a precedent which
would make his seniority on the list of Aldermen
eligible to be elected to the Mayoralty, a guarantee
for his election on this occasion ? If there be, thus, no
ground of objection to him on the score of professional
conduct or private character, is there any on the
score of unfitness or incompetency for the office he
seeks ? So far from it, he has already filled the office
of chairman of many important committees in
the Corporation, and is most eminent in his
own immediate vocation. Are we to suppose that
he has compromised his conventional title to be
elected, by not having come forward at an earlier
period of these charges to give the same satisfactory
answers to them which he has now brought under the
public eye, or to make still more ample disclosures of
all facts involved in the history of his connexion
with the Talacre Company ? Why, it is notorious
that any man, who might volunteer a detailed state-
ment of all the circumstances attending a transaction
of this kind, might thereby—however blameless or
even commendable, they should establish his con-
duct to have been, to ruin, by thus exposing himself
to an endless succession of legal, ,though most
unfair liabilities, which legal subtlety and
the constructions of technical ingenuity would

A grand ball and supper have recently been given,
in the Corporation Hall of Londonderry, in honour of
Lady SALE. We congratulate the townspeople of
that renowned city on the credit they have done
themselves by this homage to our heroic country-
woman. We congratulate those individuals among
the men of Derry, with whom the necessary arrange-
ments rested, on the good tact and judgment they
have displayed, in taking care to mark their compli-
ment as specially destined for her ladyship. To her
gallant and excellent husband they had already
evinced their cordial respect, by that sensible, Eng-
lish-like, intelligible, expressive form of greeting—a
public dinner, at which he was THE guest—the re-
spected, and reverenced, and greeted of all present
at it. To Lady SALE the homage of a ball, glitter-
ing with all the adornments which the vicinity of the
city, and the whole county of Derry, indeed, could
furnish of distinguished station, of beauty, rank, and
fashion, of civil eminence or aristocratic connexion—
was a more appropriate and graceful tribute of atten-
tion. It was susceptible of enhancement by, perhaps,
one only concomitant, and this the people of Derry
did not fail to attach to their invitation—for her noble
husband, at once the partner of her fortunes and her
liberator from a fearful captivity, was, as he would
have desired to be, amidst the rapine and desolation
of Cabul, the captivity of Jellalabad, and the multi-
plied perils of the Khoord-Cabul pass—at her side.
All honour, we cry, with our Irish compatriots, to
the self-devoting, the calm and collected, the intrepid,
and yet gentle, Englishwoman, whose exalted sympa-
thies with her ill-starred fellow sufferers—whose
strong and unclouded mind, and unwavering energy—
whose quiet resignation to the will of PROVIDENCE,
combined with the generous solicitude of her active
humanity on behalfof friends, kinsmen, and followers,
sore wounded and faint with agony, or fast perishing
beneath the destructive fire of ambushed enemies, or
the yet more relentless snows and frosts of the savage
and cloud-capt crags through which they urged this
terrible retreat—all honour to her, whose magnani-
mity, and fortitude, and resolution, shed a halo
of glory, and of triumph, even upon that ap-
palling spectacle of disorganisation, discomfiture,
and disgrace, from which our mutilated army had to
force its desperate way. This great, this memorable
woman cheered the desponding, way-worn, bleeding
soldier, whose first breath had been drawn beneath
the temperate skies of her own well-remembered and
happy home, in that far distant land to which she
must have felt in secret that there was little chance
or none that either of them ever should return. In
vain she staunched the gaping wounds of the be-
loved husband of her beloved daughter. With each
new call of duty, in that long and hideous pilgrimage
through defiles rife with human carnage and military
ruin—the gallant STURT, heedless of his sufferings,
reckless of his own life in the anxiety to provide
for the protection of others, flew to the
points where the Khoord robbers or the
Affghan soldiery had rushed in upon our broken
columns in the greatest numbers, and with the
fiercest fury, till the death which he had so inces-
santly defied relieved him, sword in hand, from the
protracted anguish of his honourable wounds. But
neither bereavements of
.this inexpressible mag-
nitude, nor her own suffering--for the musketry of
the mountaineers had not respected even herpercon—
could withdraw Lady Sari from the sacred task of
consoling, reanimating, exhorting, attending, reliev-
ing the miserable and multiplied victims of the mur-
derous treachery and fanatical resentment which pur-
sued, and hung upon, and decimated the retreating
force on every side. The undaunted sepoy—first
and boldest of our native subjects and allies—after
exhibiting in Cabul, among the howling defiles of the
Khyber Pass, before Jellalabad, or on the plains of the
Ptinjaub, an emulous heroism which had recorded him
to,all posterity in the same rank of military valour and
conduct with his European teachers and leaders, and
had extinguished the old distinction of respective pre-
sidencies, in estimating 3epoy service, by one common
course of sustained and daring achievements in the
field ;—this sepoy blessed with his dying breath the
fair English hand which ministered to his last wants
' (who had been reared beneath the burning sun of
)7 among the eternal
mountain ranges of Centrala
snowsSth earnndoircyol‘fiWnde3sotefrtnhelndi
Asia. The touching accents and the commanding
devotion of this heroism inspired the most exhausted
soldiers with renewed energy, the faint-hearted with ir-
resistible confidence. Her impressive example confirmed
the still resolute, upheld the wavering; and a gene-
rous shame at the contemplation of so much intrepidity
in a woman, the partner of their dangers, the companion
of their flight, the witness of their efforts, the partici-
pator of their sufferings, soon resulted in the infusion
of an enthusiastic and salutary assurance of speedy
succour and success into the hearts and councils
of all around her. The events which justified these
anticipations restored her to the arms of her gallant
husband and her surviving comrades, for it is her proud
privilege to be authorised thus to speak of the valiant
wreck of an Anglo-British army, to the victorious
protection of their countrymen. Honour to this illus-
trious lady, let us once more exclaim. But are the
citizens of Derry to be alone in this great work ?
Is the National gratitude, is the National chivalry,
at so low an ebb that its tide cannot greet with some
tributary offering so noble an object for its honours ?
Are the fountains from whence, by an axiom—(shall
it, indeed, be said by a " fiction")--of the Constitu-
tion, all graces and honours to the subject are sup-
to he closed or dried up at her
approach, whose contact with them can possibly im-
part more ennobling virtue to, than it can receive from,
them ? Or is it, in this age of political prudery, in
these days of cant about official precedent and the
custom of departments, that neither royal condescension
nor ministerial recommendation, nor the public will,
can be moved to confer some lasting memorial of an
empire's respect for transcendent conduct and ex-
emplary virtues, because where it would have been
conceded as matter of course to any man, who had
manifested, in even a less degree, the same qualifica-
tions under less extraordinary exigencies, it is
thought to be decorous to withhold it from a woman,
who has evinced these merits, who has established
these pretensions in their highest possible extent and
degree, under emergencies of the most unexampled
hazard and difficulty ? It is time for courts and
cabinets to remember that Lady SALE must not be
forgotten.

Accounts from Madrid to the 17th instant have
reached us. The appointment of M. MARTINEZ DS
LA Rosa to the department of Foreign Affairs is bit-
terly attacked by the Opposition journals. They
dread the alterations which they say he intends to
propose in the Constitution of 1837. The Castellano,
in reply, observes, " that M. MARTINEZ DE LA Rosa,
instructed by long experience, would now adopt a
wiser course. If, at the commencement of the civil
war in 1834," he deemed it expedient not
to press any important measures of reform, for fear of
detaching and frightening the Royalists; now, when
the revolution is over, be cannot be influenced by the
tors of M. MARTINZz DA LA RosA that it was be
same considerations." El Globo reminds the detrac-

We have received the Paris papers of Monday
They contain as usuel articles on the subjects of
Morocco and Otaheite. The Warspite correspon-
dence and the visit of Capt. Wamas to the French
Consul also come in for a share of notice. The
National speaks in the following handsome terms of
the conduct of Capt. WALLis :
" We mentioned two days back the honourable pro-
ceeding of Captain Wallis, of the Warspite, with the
Consul of France at Gibraltar. This brave officer, who
had appeared sincerely indignant and annoyed at the
disgraceful conduct of his subordinates, has hastened,
as he promised, to stigmatise them publicly."
The Algerie contains a few particulars of the
manner in which the pacific termination of the war
between France and Morocco was brought about.
The account is as follows :
" The Pacha of El Araich, Sidi Bou Sellam, made
the first overtures of peace. He wrote on the sth, in
the name of the Emperor, a letter full of friendly protes-
tations, and in which he declared that his master, who,
notwithstanding the hostilities, had not ceased to be
our friend, was disposed to subscribe to all the condi-
tions. The Consul-General of Naples, M. Martineau,
undertook to carry this letter to the Prince de Joinville.
He embarked ou board the Var steamer, and arrived at
Cadiz on the 6th instant. Sidi Bou Sellam had already
given too many proofs of his duplicity for the Admiral to
place entire faith in his letter. The Prince therefore
ordered M. Warnier, who had been the bearer of
the French ultimatum to Sidi Bou Sellam, to go to
Tangiers and verify his powers. The Cuvier left Cadiz
on the evening of the 6th with M. Warnier and M. Mar-
tineau, and arrived in the roadstead of Tangiers on th•
ith. M. Martineau alone landed, and found the Raid on
the shore waiting to receive his orders. At nine o'clock,
the Pacha arrived in town from the camp, and went with
the Kaid to the Neapolitan Consul, who shortly after-
wards hoisted a signal which had been agreed upon. M.
Warnier immediately landed, and was received by the
local authorities, civil and military. There was a line of
troops in pretty good order formed from the landing-
place to the Casbah. Sidi Bou Sellam received M.
Warnier like an old acquaintance. When M. Warnier
stated that he had come to verify the powers which Sidi
Bou Sellam said he had received, the latter expressed
his regret at not having applied to the Emperor for a
special letter to this effect ; but in order to obviate a
difficulty which the distance at which the Emperor was
would otherwise render irreparable, the :Pacha
affirmed by a document in due form, and written in the
presence of witnesses, that he had received orders to treat
with the French Plenipotentiary. According to the
usages of the Mussulmans, the word orders, which the
Pacha made use of, signifies that the person who nego-
tiates in the name of the Prince is charged with full
powers, and relieved from all responsibility. M. War-
nier and Sidi Bou Sellam separated on the most friendly
terms, and at two the Cuvier returned to Cadiz. The
document given by the Pacha attesting the mission with
which he was charged appeared sufficient to our nego-
tiators. On the 9th the squadron quitted Cadiz, and
arrived at Tangiers. On the 10th, at ten in the morn-
ing, the Raid Abbou, Governor of Tangiers, went ou
board the Suffren, to renew the demand fur peace, in the
name of Sidi Bou Sellam. The Prince received the Raid
with distinction, for he is a brave soldier, who, on the
6th of August, was appointed governor of the town and
chief of the garrison by public acclamation. The Prince
presented him with a pair of pist,ols, as a sovenir of our
attack and his courageous defence. At two o'clock, M.
Warnier, accompanied by some officers, landed, and pre-
sented the treaty, which was accepted by Sidi Bou
Sellam. A signal was immediately hoisted at the Nea-
politan Consulate. MM. de Glucksburg and de Nyon
then landed, and went to the palace of the Governor,
where, at five in the evening, they signed the treaty
with Sidi Bou Sellam. Our flag was then hoisted at
the French Consulate, and saluted with a discharge of
21 guns."
The ilfoniteur Parisien gives the following from
Algiers :
" The garrison of Djidjelli had for some days been
expecting an attack, for the Chtekh of the Zeramchas
had stated on the 22d ult., that the Kabyles would un-
dertake to carry off the flock when it should be sent to
graze outside the lines. On the 26th, at break of day,
some Beni Kaids, and other Kabyles of the four frac-
tions who had obtained authority to come to market,
were installed in their usual place, when suddenly Lieut.
Ferrand arrived, and stated that as he was going to the
lime quarry he was nearly carried off by a party of 200
Kabyles in ambuscade. Being on horseback, he made
his escape under a general fire, and happily no ball hit
him. The commandant immediately took the field, and
by ten o'clock the Kabyles had fled. We lost only one
man in this affair, but the enemy had several men killed
and wounded. All the Kabyles, forty in number, who
were at the market were retained prisoners, until the
30th, when the Cheikhs of the fourteen fractions of the
Beni Raids came up and claimed them, and they were
!riven up on the payment .1 fines, and a oolcnin inuthibte
to pay up their arrears of tribute."
The Akbar of Algiers, of the 12th, mentions a
report that Ann-EL-KADER and his family and fol-
lowers are established in the valley of Wad-el-Azha,
between Ouchda and Tazah, about twenty leagues
from the frontiers of Algeria.
Accounts are also stated to have been received at
Toulon from Oran, dated the 13th. The news of
the treaty of peace had not yet arrived there, but on
the II th General LAMORICIERE received from the son
of the SULTAN a request for a suspension of arms, with
an assurance that peace was on the point of being con
eluded

The Afrique states that Marshal BUGEAUD is soon to
come to Paris. Six Arab chiefs are also shortly to
visit Paris at the expense of the Government. The
object of the visit (says the Afrique) is to let them
judge of the power of the country by which they have
been subjected.

" Another English ship," says also the above quoted
Algerie,"has been cannonaded by the Moors ! It is the
third time in the ten days that the British flag receives
such an insult on the coast of Morocco. The English
steamer Sydenham, on arriving off Vibat, on the 3d inst.,
was received there, not with some isolated cannon shots,
as the Vesuvius had a fewdays before, but with a shower
of shots, which did her so much damage that she was
obliged to return to Gibraltar in order to repair it. This
third cuff applied to the British flag, seems to denote an
intention quite clear enough."
The Siecle has a long article on Lord PALMER-
STON'S proposed visit to Paris, which, it contends,
must be connected with politics, more especially as
he has expressed an intention of visiting Louis
PHILIPPE. The Siecle then calls upon the Cabinet
to keep on its guard. Lord PALMERS roN thinks that
the Tories are tottering, and that the Whigs may
soon A Outgo of recovering office; but he

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
An elderly man named Lewis Creasy, was brought
before Mr. Jardine, charged with being drunk and
dancing in Bow-street. The officer proved the case.
Prisoner—Dear me, Sir, dancing is so very incon-
sistent with my general character that I can hardly be-
lieve that I could be guilty of such folly.—(Laughter.)
Mr. JARDINE—WeII, but what do you say to being
drunk ? Prisoner—Why, Sir, the fact, is I met an
Italian yesterday, who said he knew me about thirty
years ago, in Milan. How true that is I don't know ;
and he gave me some drink, more, in fact, than nature
required.
Mr. JARDINE—What are you ? Prisoner—l am by
profession a teacher of languages, but, owing to my ap-
pearance, which partly arises from necessity and partly
from my own neglect, I am not patronised as I used to be.
Mr. JARDINE—WeII, I hope this will be a lesson to
you. You have been locked up all night, and, therefore,
you may be discharged now.
Prisoner—l sincerely thank your worship.
He then left the Court, bowing all the way.

LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING.
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The Brussels journals of Saturday state that Mr
Dyce Sombre had arrived in that capital, and that be is
on his way to London.