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London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER s, 1845.

enough. He bits right and kft. If he falls heavily on
the Irish Roman Catholic, he is pretty severe on the
English Protestant, and very hard on the Dissenters.
He contrasts the present " bold avowal " of the first,
"that it is their first duty to exert themselves to obtai❑
the abolition of the Protestant Church Establishment,
with their solemn, formal -declaration" in their public
documents and speeches, when the first steps were taken
to remove their civil disabilities, " that they acquiesced
with satisfaction in the establishment of the national
Church, neither repining at its possessions nor envying
its dignities." He reproves the second for their luke-
warmness in the cause of their Irish brethren. He rebukes
the Dissenters for the reckless manner in which, to advance
their own pretensions, they have made common cause
with the Irish Roman Catholics in the attempt to
break and overthrow what he contends is, after all, the
bulwark of Protestant Dissent, namely, the Protestant
Established Church. Of course there are many points on
which the worthy Archbishop discourses as if he would
find more sympathising opinions among the laity than
he is likely in the event to relish. In a successful en-
deavour to prove that the average payment of the wet k-
ing clergy is insufficient, and an unsuccessful one to
make out his argument that the bishops of our Irish
Church are not overpaid, he says that, upon an estimate
of the average of the incomes of the members of the
said hierarchy, it will be found that such average
incomes "will, but little exceed those of the judges
of the courts of law." But, with all submission to the most
Reverend Primate, he should first have shown that it
was not more important in a sound scheme of well-
administered government, so to provide for these lay
bishops, the judges—the prelates, as it were, of the
law—as to raise to them the means of worldly inde-
penderce, than to give the highest class of official re-
venues to the dignified pastors of our Church. We do
not mean to spy that this is not still an open question ;
but we do mean to say that the Archbishop has no
right to argue as if it were settled in favour of his view
of the subject, and of thu assumptions he has grounded
on it. But, in truth, the whole "Charge" is much more
a defence for the bishops than a plea fur their clergy.
It turns on temporalities far more than on things spi-
ritual. Its crying sin, as we have before hinted, is
one of emission. Throughout this Charge, from
the Primate who has so often avowed and so actively
indicated his zeal for Irish education, not one word about
the recent measures for increasing and liberalising. the
means of education in Ireland, by the public endowment
of collegiate establishments for its diffusion among all
classes, is to be found. Can the clergy—the hierarchy
rather—of the Protestant Established Church in Ireland
complain with reason that they are unjustly accused of
zeal for worldly and political interests, rather than of
spiritual zeal for the advancement of pure doctrine and
the dissemination of Christian truth and discipline, when
they exhibit inconsistencies thus suspicious in their own
bearing upon great organic questions of this nature ?
In fact the Irish Church, in its present state, is an
absurd, anomaly, and cannot be bolstered up even by
the Primate of all Ireland.

The progress of railways in Ireland may be re-
garded, both in a political and moral point of view, as
the most auspicious feature in the history of that
country. Hitherto, unfortunately, she can boast of very
few measures, adopted by her own domestic Legisla-
ture or the Imperial Parliament, which have ultimately
been of much benefit either in relieving poverty, ap-
peasing contending factions, or redressing the real griev-
ances of the people. The Acts of Parliament have been
in general rather of a temporary, and often of an aveng-
ing character. There have been plenty of coercion'
Bill, Bills for seizing and branding fire-arms, for putting
down Peep-of-day-boys, Ribbonmen, Whitefoots, and
twenty other lawless tribes, excited to commit breaches
of the law from want and oppression more than any
other cause. Even measures of relief have been dealt
out to her w ith a niggardly hand and a
jealous mind. Any act of justice has been
performed as if from compulsion, and the , very boon
which should have been granted in such. 41 -way as to
secure the gratitude, or, at all events, the kidelly feeling of'
those for whom it was intended, has, in almost every in-
stance, been deprived of its merits by long delay, or by
the most glaring partiality to the class who for hundred_
of years have regarded themselves as the lords pares
mount of Ireland. The Emancipation Act is an ins ance
of the former. It was resisted with the most obstinate
blindness by the great body of the British nation, and
when a better feeling sprang up, the Kix°, and the House
of Lords, and the Church still vied with each other in
bigotry, and yielded at last to save themselves from
the horrors of a civil war. The Corporation Bill
affords an instance of the latter, and the rights
of Orangemen were more regarded in that measure,
than those of the Catholics, who had been so long suf-
fering under the most galling oppression, and proscribed
as an alien race. In this new measure of relief, how-
ever, the Legislature has very little to do. It is the
work of time, it is one of the concomitants of British
and Irish enterprise—the result of the progress of
knowledge, and will be of infinitely more advantage to
Ireland than all the Emancipation Acts passed during
the last century. Some of its first effects will be to give
employment to tens of thousands of men able and
Milling to work—to create and encourage habits
of order and industry, and bring the inhabitants of
both islands in friendly connexion with each other.
But these are only a few of the blessings which may be
anticipated. Ireland is not 3et half cultivated, and, with
a few exceptions, manufacturing establishments are in
their infancy, or ye t to be formed. Railroads and steam-
boats, for which many of the rivers in Ireland are well
adapted, will bring the two countries every day into
clOser alliance ; there will be a mutual exchange of com-
modities, both in the shape of agricultural produce and
articles of manufacture, and consequently an impulse
given to the hitherto sleepy or mischievous energies of the
sister island, which was chiefly wanted to place her
on a footing with her more fortunate neighbours.
But wealth as well as knowledge is power. Ireland wily
in due time be able to assert her rights, and compel the
Legislature to 'redress her grievances—to put down, first
of all, the insufferable grievance of the Established
Church, to make her an integral portion of the
Linitel Kingdom, and to render her really indepen-
dent, not by a repeal of, the union, but by a closer
Alliance, and an equal share in all the rights, privileges,
and institutions of the more powerful island. Would.
Mr. O'Com:ELL turn his great talents and inventive
genius to the encouragement of these national under
takings, in place of wasting them in the vain pursuit of
an impossibility, he would finish his noble career witty
true honour, and prove the greatest benefactor of hi:
country.

We have received Madrid papers of the 29th Septem-
ber, but they bring no intelligence of interest. Account,
from Barcelona of the same date state that the Captain-
'General of Catalonia had tendered his resigLation it,
consequence of the Government having censured his lat.-
violent proclamation. M. TRIERS had reached Otcliz
where he would embark for England. On the Buttes'
two bargains to a considerable amount were effected, on
the 29th, In the Three per Cents. at 32i cash.

The Paris papers contain no additional intelligence
relative to the late invasion of Algeria by Ann EL
KADER. It was the general belief, however, that the
forces under General LAMORICIERE would soon reach
the scene of action, and that the enterprising chief
would for the present again retire into his fastnesses.
With regard to the disturbances in Italy, of which we
gave an account yesterday, further particulars are fur-
nished from Milan ; and from these it appears that the
rising was more general than was at first believed, but
nevertheless it hid failed in every quarter. The insur-
gents, who took possession of Rimini, came from the small
republic of San Marino and Tuscany. They were under
the command of a Piedniontese refugee named REBoTTi
formerly in tbe Spanish service, but latterly living in
concealment at Rimini. This man in conjunction with
Count PAFI, organised the plot among the inhabitants
of the place and the officers and soldiers of the garrison.
On the night of :he 234 and 24th they rose in arms, and
took possession of the town, of, which they immediately
closed the gates.. They declared that their object was a
reform of the Government, and their cry " Vice le con-
stitution." The troops, wbo were to the number of 500,
continued to wear the pontificial cockade, for the insur-
gents declared that they would remain faithful to the
government of the POPE, on condition that he would
give , them a constitution. On the approach of the
troops sent by the ,Cardinal-legate of Forli, when the
insurgents took to flight, the inhabitants of the town
sent a deputation to the Cardinal, declaring that they
had taken no part in the - insurrection. The fort
of San Leo was never in the possession
of the insurgents. The insurgents before
lbsankving the town took possession of the savings
and the Government offices, but they did not
find any money. They disafmed the Custom-house of-
ficers and carried away thteoiwrnar:,ursitbut they did not touch
private property. The ,
but the poenntinfiacahlad followed
disposal,t ori ties
htlaieviieigxasmomplee Sowt. isistitmroholips and artillery at theiaru
a good deal of fighting took place between the troops
the inhabitants of the place, in which severalpersaounds
were killed on both sides. The soldiers fired grape
among the people, and great numbers were killed. On
the side of the Government an officer and several soldiers
were killed. The Tuscan Government bad marched a
body of troops to the frontiers. At Venice the Govern-

ment had also made preparations. The gun-boats were I
prepared for action, and kept in the open sea, ready for
whatever point they may be required. Rumours of some
outbreak in the POPE'S dominions had been prevalent for
some time, though the affair appears to have taken the
Italian Gos ernments by surprise. The Journal des De-
bats has a long article on this unfortunate affair, which
contains, we regret to say, too much truth.
The Italians have ruined their cause by these partial
insurrections, and we fear have not the slightest chance
of obtaining redress of their numerous grievances till
the reformers unite in one body, from the wilds of Ca-
labria to the loot of the Alps. We subjoin an extract
from the article :

"The accounts we receive from Italy prove that the move-
ment which, as had been announced, has taken place in the
Roman States, hasfailed. Numerous arrests have been effected
in the Legations, chiefly at Faenza and Imola, the towns in
which, it is affirmed, the insurrection was to have broken
out. The Papal Government has again organised the Pon-
tifical Volunteers,' whose name revives such painful recut-
'actions. It has changed, it is said, the garrison of Ancona, in
which it did not repose entire c,allidence and, in apprehension
f the Italian emigrants attempting to Lind, it has sant out a
little, flotilla, in order to guard the coast. This latter pre-
caution was not a useless one. It is now known that about
a hundred refugees landed on the Adriatic coast, not far
from St. Leo, on the night of the 24th `of September, and
that, after releasing the political prisoners who were in the
fort, they took possession of Rimini; but that, on the 27th,
on the arrival of the troops whom the Legate of Forli had
marched against them, they precipitately retired. We have
no fhither details; it is, however, said that most of the
insurgents have reached the sea, and that others have
retired to the Appenines. Several Liberals have sought
refuge in Tuscany. Although the agitation may be pro-
' tracted, it is evident that the attempt has failed, and that
this other episode of the modern history of Italy will end be-
fore the military commissions which seem to be established
en permanence in that unhappy country. It could scarcely
turn out otherwise. For three months before, it was
publicly said in France that on a certain day, and almost
at a fixed hour, an insurrection would break out in
the Legations; and there are coffee-houses at Paris
and Marseilles where the supposed leaders of the move-
ment were named, and where the means of action and the
suppeit expected from the garrisons of certain towns of Ro-
magna were habitual topics of conversation. It was known
that this time the Liherals, without striving to subvert the
Pontifical Government, were to confine themselves to demand-
ing reforms in the administration of the country. As if these
reports, everywhere spread, were not enough to give alarm
to the Court of Rome, they were repeated to a great extent
in the German, English, and French newspapers, and by a co-
incidence which can have escaped nobody's attention, the
leader of Young Italy, who has sought refuge in London, is-
sued in France a publication wherein, after setting forth
the grievances under whizh the Italians labour, he con-
cluded with these words—' If we succeed, we shall have
friends and allies; if we fall, we shall be pitied and ad-
mired !' It is with such circumspection and such pru-
denpe that conspiracies are now managed in the land
which has produced Machiavel I Nothing is easier
than to announce, in a pamphlet or a journal, the
speedy airranchisement of Italy ; but when we consider the
immense difficulties which must be surmounted to obtain that
result, instead of, as has so often been the case, taxing the
Italians with pusillanimity for net having succeeded in con-
quering their independence, we are more inclined to be as-.
tonished at their unfortunate stubbornness, and the multipli-
city of their attempts. Divided into several states, without
arms, possessing no kind of publicity, having no means of
creating interest for their cause, they know that they would
not merely have to combat their own Governments, but
supposing, by way of hypothesis, they were to succeed
in their projects, they would, in all probability, have
to sustain the shock of one of the greatest powers in Europe.
In the pnisent state of things, to attempt an insurrection in
Italy is nothing inure nor less than to prepare victims without
even exciting the sympathy of other nations."

A German paper publishes the following let ter from
Naples, dated Sept 15, which shows that the banditti in
Calabt is are a very loyal race, and only levy contribu-
tions,like great robbers and conquerors, to maintain them-
selves:—

" The 'Minister of Police, Caretto, has just left this capital
for Los Auza, in Calabria. A band of brigands is said to
exist there, which has entered into a capitulation with the
Government. By its stipulations the banditti are to have
their lives spared, but they are to be transported to an island,
which they are to cultivate under the surveillance of the po-
lice. The band inhabits the famous forest of Sila, mentioned
by Strabo, Virgil, Sallust, Pliny, and several other illustrious
writers. The forest is surrounded by the rivers Grati and
Nicto. The leader of the band, Talarico, has been guilty of
neither murder nor pillage, but he extorted by threats sums
of money from the rich landowners of the country. He se-
verely punished such as disobeyed his commands, and his will
was, therefore, always complied with. He has never meddled
with political intrigues; last year, even, when the unfortu-
nate Bandieras landed, two refugees were expelled by Tala-
rico's adventurers. The band never attacked travellers or
couriers. Sometime ago a reward of 6,000 ducats was pro-
mised for Talarico's head, when he immediately promised a
much larger sum for his enemy's head, and seized upon a
personage of note, whose ransom he fixed at 10,000 ducats."

The KING and QUEEN of the Belgians arrived at Paris
on Sunday.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 6.
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. 1314 Namur and Liege 6
Bordeaux &Medtterran Orleans and Vierzon
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Bordeaux 13%
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) 2% OverYssel •••
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 2%
Central of Spain 2% Ditto (Ganneron's). 3,6
Demerara -
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish ...
Dieppe & Paris Junct — Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian ......
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Do. (Le Boeuf) 3 Sambre and Meuse ....
Do. Pepin le Halleur 4% Strasbourg and Basle .
Great Paris and Lyons 214 Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Bengal 134 dent, and Hasselt...
Jamaica Junction — Tours and Nantes
Do. North Midland — (Mackenzie's)
Do. (Lefebvre's) .221
Do. Extension
Jersey — Verona and Ancona....
Louvain and Jemeppe — West Flanders 73%
Lyons and Avignon....

• NUMEROUS AcciDENTE.—During, Saturday and
Sunday the following numerous- and serious accidents oc-
curred, and the persons injured were admitted to St. Thomas's
and Guy's Hospitals. Tee first case was that cf Harriet
White, aged five years; whose parents reside in Tbr3l3 Tim-
court, Borough. She had accompanied them to Mall ug, in
Kent, for the purpose of "hopping,7 and whilst they were
busily employed at their work, she approached too near a
fite which had been kindled in the open air 'to prepare their
food, when the wind blew the flames towards her, and her
clothes became ignited, and she was burnt all over her
body in a frightful manner. The 'second case was that
of Jane Murphy, five years of age,- residing_ at No. 12,
Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, who, having been left in
care of twe children younger than herself, whilst her father
and mother were out drinking, opened the second floor win-
-low and endeavoured to get hold of-'a piece of line which
hung outside, and in doing so fell headlong to the pavement.
below, from a height of thirty feet, :causing a severe concus-
sion .of the brain and several internal injuries. The - third
wag that of Eliza BrOwn, aged 19, who, whilst quarrelling
with s >I3IC ( f her companions in the street, was pushed off
the
kerb, r
wereb,and b y her fall dislocated her shoulder bone. The
above
conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. At Guy's
the following were, also received :--William Jones, aged 17
years, in the einplby of Mr. Dalton, potter, High-street;
Lambeth, who, whilst superintending the delivery of some
goods in his master's warehouse, inadvertently stepped back-
wards and fell through a trap7doo in the floor which had
been left open, and fractured his shoulder. The-last case was
that of John Johnson, of Cornwall-road, Lambeth, whe was
attending to some pigeons on the top of a high house, when
his foot slipped and he was precipitated from the roof to the
'treet, whereby he sustained a concussion of the brain and
Aber injuries.
THE TWEED FISHERIES.—Fishing in the Tweed-
cod its tributaries clines On the 15th inst. The season in the
:ewer districts has been scarcely an average one, owing to
the heavy rains during the month of August, which is gene-
rally considered to he the best month in the year; but in the
elver districts the present season has, we believe, been con-
siderably Letter than the last.—Berwick Warder. 1
the
, :,,
~io.„ fell
thirouigithotiu:rebtnehte:ei.
THE WEATHER AND Cnors,---Since•our last
weather has, with the exception of yesterday, kept almost
eontinualy wet and extremely cold. Several vivid flashes
e' lightning illumined the skies on Saturday- night, and
is now far advanced,
dud: a good deal of the . crop still remains stand-.
cconuittnetr'37;"°
yet, in our vicinity the most has
and partially secured. On
Friday last Mr. Ross, lumberston, had all his
crop secured in the core yard. We conversed the other clay
with a gentleman who has been in Badenoch, Strathspey,
and Lochaber, and he informed us that in these districts a
great deal of the Crop is still green, an d as the frost has so
it
completely retarded its further
maturity, must be cut alit is.
['he potato crop likewise is materially• • '
injured there • but we
are,however, happy to understand, that so far as the' potato
f-op in the north is concerned, no trace of the disease now.
ravaginga this most useful esculent on the Continent has ap- .
but on the contrary, farmers and others are well
p!eased with the appearance of the crop. The weather to-
day has. been ex-ceedingly wet, and we fear, unless an
enmediate change takes place, that
b serious " " in jury will
w infleekicted.
at Oafromtmeal
22swas selling in Dingwall during
the . to 21g. per boll, which at
this time last year did not exceed 18s. We have not heard
deny sales or potatoes, but we believe a good deal will be
experted to England from this locality, and the
price will
,
much higher than usual. In Pr hslure we t • be,
consequently,e
301. a ton has been
observe that 25/. to• got, which is the,
obtained for many years. If frost, does.not . set
highest rate
will be abundant h . ere, and of first-
rate in, the Mato crop . in .
Potatoes are now selling drills, at rate quality. .
._
,ga-
perbolL—Ross-shire Adcestiser.
PRICE OF GOLD —O
- n the 3d ingt. the price- of
' nark, which, at the English
was 432 per
gold in Hamburg
fur
• f6l 17s. 101 - standardgold, gives
Mint price c .
an exc and the exchange at Hain-
lian ree of 13 Sid,
t date being 13 Bi, it, results
burg on tondol 'at shara ..
London than in
that gold is 0.46 per cent. ~ dearer in
on .gold at Paris
Hamburg. On the 4th inst. the premium
was 12 per mile, which, at tlin English Mint price of'
.
an exchange
31. 17e. 101-d. per ounce for standard gold, gives
of 23 43, and the exchange at Paris ,on London, at short date,
tieing 25 57A, it results that gold is 0.50 per cent. dearer in
_
London than in Paris.

• -
• ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS.—During the last
six years fifty-four new Roman Catholic Chtirches have been
erected in England. Many of them, especially those in Lon-
don, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Derby, Notting-
ham, Macclesfield, and Coventry, are the largest scale of
parbchhil building in this country. Seven religious houses
hare befen erected;. nineteen :ifesr'cbminiThities of nuns, and
nine.-houses ,of religious inee-C-fird nearly two million
volumes of Catholic publieationidhatre been printed in
.
the same period. -

•
Tag WEATHER.—.On 'Sunday nightfaltbough tl- e
day had been mild and clear; the wind oudilanlY.phopped to
liftr
the eastward, and brought With it a thietk in fog The
wind yesterday morning. continued in the sAiie,q2arter, and
it- was also gloomy and hazy. 'ln" the thiadle of the day
some heavy rain descended, and continued at intervals
throughout. The temperature was full 10 degrees lower than
the previous day, and it was altogeter like a sudden transi-
tion from mummer to winter.

COURT CIRCULAR

WINDSOR, Tln Queen walkel this morning,
accompanying the Print a in the garden-chair for an airing in
the grounds adjoining th - Castle. In the afternoon Pt ince
Albert drove her Majesty out in a pony phaeton, Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting, attending on horse-
back.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing this
afternoon. _

__________
The Earl of Lincoln did not arrive at the Castle last
evening.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe has succeeded the
Courit.tss of Gainsborough as the Lady in Waiting to the
Queen. The Earl of Morton has arrived at the Castle, and
has succeeded the Marquis of Ormonde as the Lord in Wait-
ing to her Majesty; and Admiral Sir Robert Otway has
succeeded Colonel -Berkeley Drummond as the Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty.
The Earl of Liverpool is expected to arrive this evening on
a visit to her Majesty.
Colonel Bowles left the Castle for town this afternoon.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will in-
dude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, and Baroness de Speth.
The band of the 21 Life Guards was in attendance during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle.

His Excellency the Brazilian Minister transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday from
Windsor Castle. _

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
oionial-off:m for the govern n. of t!l3 Falkland Islands.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED.)
THE .41-IT-UNION.
It was with a melancholy feeling that we read in the
present number of the Ai r.Chtiol the biographical
sketch of W. Muller. Poor Muller was the kinest and
best-hearted of human beings—a man whose whole soul
was devoted to his art, and whose genius made itself so
felt and appreciated that it excited the envy of older
artists. He sent six pictures to the Royal Academy this
year ; gems of art they were, but, alas ! those in power
dreaded the competition of Muller, and his six pictures
were hung either close to the ceiling or on the floor. Ou
this subject the Art-Union says—
" Indignation is a weak word to express the feeling of
Miiller's friends, when they saw that the whole of his noble
contributions were placed so as to induce a belief that there
existed a conspiracy to ruin him. Accident might have led
to the injurious hanging of one, or even two, but when they
saw six of his pictures hung either close to the ceiling or
along the floor, it was difficult to arrive at any ether con-
clusion than that there was a deliberate design to crush and
destroy a man of genius. Deliberate or not, this terrible evil
resulted: we cannot hesitate to say that the Royal Academy
as certainly killed William Muller as if they had stabbed his
heart with a steel weapon 7
Now, as the Royal Academy claims to be a national
institution, and has rooms for its exhibitions, &c., at the
expense of the nation, we trust that Parliament will
institute a searching inquiry into the manner in which
they exercise their functions, and take such measures as
shall effectually prevent for the future the Royal Aca-
demicians from giving vent to their mean and petty
jealousies at the expense of better men than themselves.
We envy not the "hanging committee" of the Academy
their feelings.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a Court was h&c] for tha dispatch of publ:e
bu,,iness.

THE Loam HAIOU AND THE GOVERNORS OF CHRIST'S

HOSPITAL.

Alderman WILSON brought up the report of the
Committee upon the report of the Lord Mayor on the
proceedings at Christ's Hospital on St. Matthew's-day
last, in which the president and treasurer of the Hospital
refused to recognise the claim of the Lord Mayor to be
head of the institution. It stated that the Committee
had proceeded duly to consider the subject, and was
attended by a deputation of the Royal Hospitals' Com-
mittee of the Corporation, and it appearing that the
lists which were delivered to the Lord Ma) or on bt.
Matthew's-day last were inaccurate in point of form.
and not according to the :ancient practice, they were
of opinion that the said lists should be returned to the
presidents of the several Hospitals, and that they should
be requested to correct and amend the same in proper
form ; and they recommended the Court to give dire-
Cons accordingly, and that the Lord Mayor be requested
to hold a General Court for all the Hospitals at Christ's
Hospital, for the purpese of receiving and confirming
the corrected lists of governors.
Alderman WILSON having moved that the report be
agreed to,
Alderman WOOD said the Governors of Christ's
Hospital had, in denying the right of the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Corporation to be at the head of that insti-
tution, quite mistaken the extent of their own authority,
and by their proceedings on the day the Queen visited
the Hospital Jeopardised the privileges which they exer-
cised. If the matter was a question of precedence alone
it would not be deserving of notice, but it had become
necessary, from what had taken place, to insist upon the
long-established existence of the right. It formed an
essential ingredient in the constitution of the Royal
Hospitals, that the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commons should form part of each of the
Courts. In fact, without the presence of .the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, a legal Court
could not be formed; so that, for the sake of a paltry dis-
tinction of rank, those who had made the experiment
called in question the whole of the privileges of whieh
they claimed the absolute possession. The Alderman
having referred to the authority of all the' charters in
support of the power of the Corporation, and spoke at
some length in favour of the resolute legal assertion of
the rights of the body, concluded by seconding the mo-
tion, with the addition that copies of it and of- the re-
port of the Lord Mayor relative to the proceedings on
St. Matthew's-day, should be sent to the governors.
Sir PETER LAURIE suggested the propriety of hold-
ing a conference with the governors, which he con-
sidered to be a course more likely to lead to a satisfactory
issue than a charge against them could be supposed cal
culated to effect. He was sure that the misunderstand-
ing could be explained away.
Alderman WOOD thought a conference between a
committee of the Corporation and parties who had de-
liberately slighted and insulted the head of that Cor-
poration would be exceedingly humiliating to the Court
of Aldermen.--(Hear, hear.) There had been expressed
net a word of regret or acknowledgMeiit of error by the
governors, who had denied the authority claimed ; on
the contrary, they had passed resolutions and made
statements of a very different tendency in confirmation
of their avowed belief in the superiority of their own
powers. The only place in which the question could be
settled was a court of law, and there was very little
donbt as to the manner in which it would be s.
before such an ordeal.—(Hear, hear.)
Alderman WILSON was surprised to hear Sir Peter
Laurie, who had shown so excellent an example lump If
in promptly acknowledging the superior authority of the
Lord Mayor its the Hospital over which he presided,
allude in such terms to the conduct pursued at Cerise*:
Hospital. It was quite evident that the intention of the
governors was to chow, in a way not to he mistaken,
that they wholly repudiated the claims of the Cor-
poration ; and he was happy to find that the Lord Mayor
had acted so resolutely in defence of their privileges.
There was no occasion for a conference. If the go-
vernors happened to he amicably inclined, they had had
plenty of opportunities of evincing the change in their
sentiments.
Sir PETER LAURIE said that he preferred an ami
cable arrangement to an appeal to the law, by which an
enormous expense might be incurred, such as had been
incurred in the matter of the Irish Society. Indeed, he
looked upon it as merely fighting for a straw, and he
considered a victory purchased in such a case for the
sum of 50,0001. not very well worth such an expendi-
ture. He believed the governors of all the Hospitals
were disposed to pay every proper respect to the ma-
gistracy of the City.
Alderman LUCAS approved of the report, and of the
spirited manner in which the privileges of the Corpora-
tion bad been supported.
The report was then agreed to, and the Lord Mayor's
report was ordered to be printed, and copies of it were
directed to be sent to the governors.
Upon the motion of Alderman WILSON, seconded by
Mr. Alderman WOOD, the thanks of the Court were
unanimously voted to the Lord Mayor, for the modera-
tion and firmness with which his Lordship: had acted
at Christ's Hospital, in asserting the rights of the Cor-
poration.
The LORD Meaoa, in returning thanks, declared that
he had merely performed his duty, as he believed he had
done since he had had the honour of filling the office of
magistrate of the City of London.—(Hear, hear.)
STATE OF GILTSPUR-STREET PRISON.

Alderman SIDNEY, after a speech in which he de-
scribed Giltspur-street Prison to be excessively crowded,
and the prisoners to be in a scandalous state of insubor-
dination, in consequence, he alleged, of the negligence or
incapacity of the City magistracy, moved that the pre-
sent overcrowded state of the house of correction in
Giltspur-street—the want of classification and proper
separation of the prisoners—be taken into consideration,
with the view of applying an early remedy.
Alderman WILSON repelled the charge -against the
City magistrates, and said that Alderman Sidney could
not be aware of the very excellent improvements in pro-
gress in Giltspur-street Prison when he spoke of the
miserable arrangements. He also contended that, with
the exception of a few profligate persons, the whole of
the inmates were in a complete state of subordination.
Alderman Wool) and Alderman LUCAS also denied
that blame lay at the doors of the magistrates, and that
there were any evidences of insubordination excepc in
three or four instances, which were by no means to be
wondered at, as there were collected in the prison mul-
titudes of the most abandoned characters to be found in
the metropolis.
There was no opposition at all made to the motion of
Alderman Sidney.—The Court then adjourned.