The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-02 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

On Tuesday a Special Court was held, tor the purpose
of receiving a report from the Committee for general
purposes, on the petitions of several solicitors to be
admitted attorneys of the Mayor's Court.
The report of the Committee was read, and proved to
be to the effect that the Committee did not consider it
expedient to agree to the applications of the petitioners.
Upon the motion that the Court should agree to the
report,
Alderman WILSON rose to dissent. He could not
see why the Court should put the petitioners to
the heavy expense of applying to the Court of
Queen's Bench for a mandamus, to compel them
to accede to the application, when it was for
an object the most palpably just and necessary. The
recent Act of Parliament provided in the most unequi-
vocal terms, that attorneys who practised in the superior
Courts should have the power to practise in all the infe-
rior Courts, and contained no clause of reservation. He.
should move that the petitioners be admitted attorneys
of the Mayor's Court.
Alderman Sir C. HUNTER seconded the amendment.
The RECORDER said that wi►hout entering into
the merits of the question, he should advise the
Lord Mayor that it was inexpedient to comply with
the request of the petitioners to practise in the
Mayor's Court. The question was one of consider-
able legal difficulty, and that very circumstance
rendered it more necessary that hesitation should
precede decision. His Lordship would assume that by
the general words of an Act of Parliament it could not
be meant to confiscate the offices of four gentlemen who
had purchased those offices from the Corporation.
The Court decided against the prayer of the peti-
tioners, four hands having been held up for the motion
in their favour, and seven having been held up against it.
The Court then adjourned.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Immediately after the adjournment of the Court of
Aldermen, a Court of Common Council was held.

THE CITY RIGHTS.

Mr. R. L. JONES brought up the report of the
Committee appointed to consider the report of the
Select Committee relative to proceedings having
been instituted in the Court of Chancery, at the
suit of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, as to the City's rights to the soil
and bed of the river Thames, with power to confer with
her Majesty's Ministers sad others on the subject, and
to report thereon. The report certified that the Com-
mittee had proceeded in the reference, and had been
attended by the Records the Retnembraneer, and the
Solicitor, and subsequ held a conference with
eil
Sir Robert Peel, which Id be likely to lead to
a satisfactory result, an . that it was desirable to
open a communication with the law officers of the
Crown; but the unexpected:change which had taken
place, and other circumstand having occasioned con-
siderable delay, and the timtapproaching for filing an
answer to the Bill to provide-r the defence, it was re-
quisite that they should be empowered to give the neces-
sary instructions for that purpose.

THE THROWING OPEN OF THE MAYOR'S COURT.
Mr. ASHURST then rose, and after having made some
allusion to the course just pursued by the Court of Alder-
men on the application of several petitioners to be admitted
attorneys to practise in the Mayor's Court, submitted the
following resolutions to the Court :—" That it is desirable
that the Mayor's Court should be thrown open to the
public. That it be refermd to a Committee to consider
of the steps necessary for that purpose with reference
to the present and future constitution and practice of
these Courts, and also to inquire what, if any, compen-
sation ought to be made to the counsel and attorneys of
the Mayor's Court for the surrender of their exclusive
offices, rights, and privileges, or any portion of them."
Mr. OBBARD seconded the resolutions.

Mr. LAWRENCE objected to the resolution. He moved
the previous question.
Mr. BURN seconded the amendment.

The amendment was negatived, and the resolutions
were agreed to.—Adjourned.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, MAY 1.-Light easterly breeze, and fine.
DEAL, Arnie, 30.—Wind E. to E.N.E., fresh. P.M. N.E.
ditto.—Arrd. Star, Brazil and Liverpool ; Iris, Mouatt,
Ceylon. Sld. Quebec, New York ; Sisters, Quebec.
GUERNSEY, ArIUL 29.—Sld. Unity, Angra Pcquina ;
Maria, Havannah.
JERSEY, APRIL 29.—Sld. Swift, Newfoundland.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 30.—S1d. Elizabeth, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind E.—Arrd. Tomatin,
DlTherson, Calcutta.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind E., strong breezes. Sid.
William Forster, Nassau. Off, West Indies, Surinam, for
Amsterdam.
DARTMOUTH, APRIL 30.—1 t blew a gale yesterday which
continued with a very heavy sea in the Channel.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 30.—W ind S.E., light.—Sld. Hope, Cape
of Good Hope; Hope, Columbia River; Blackaller, Dominica;
Nerio, Newfoundland. Off, Mantura and Fear Not.
DUBLIN, APRIL 29.—S1d. Industry, Quebec.
WATERFORD, APRIL 27.—Sid. Sophia, St. John's, New
Brunswick_
Conic, APRIL 28.—Arrd. Lord William Bentinck, London,
for Port Phillip. Sld. Clifton, Bermuda. The Jane, of
Greenock, from Newport to Barcelona, foundered on the 6th
inst. in lat. 38, lon. 10; crew saved.
OFF RYE, APRIL 25.—Christian Huggins, Baltic, Batavia.

1;A DSTOIN', APRIL 28.—The Lavinia, George, from Fal-
mouth to Newport, in bringing up, parted her chain cable,
and drifted on the beach, but came off next tide without
damage.
OFF PLYMOUTH.—Denmark, La Guayra, for Hambnrgh.
HULL, APRIL 27.—The Heart of Oak, for Scarborough,
grounded this morning near Clee Ness, but got off without
damage, and proceeded.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIVER ELBE.

In the copy of these directions, which appeared on the
18th of April, one or two errors occurred. First section, in-
stead of "You will then shoal the water gradually, from 5
to 10 or 9 fathoms," read "from 20 to 10 or 9 fathoms."
Lower down, sentence commencing " The pilot galliot, when
weath permits, lays E. by S.E. two miles," read " E.S.E.
two miles." ,

LIGHT ON CAPE ROCA.

The following has been received at Lloyd's :
"Admiralty, April 29, 1844.
"Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 2d instant, an-
nouncing that no light will be shown from the Lightlicu3e on
Cape Roca during the present month on account of repairs,
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Committee
for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, that her Majesty's Consul
at Lisbon has stated that at his representation the repairs
arc postponed, and that the light will not Le discontinued in
consequence thereof until the 15th of next June.
(Signed) "JOHN BARROW.
"To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's."

The anniversary of the birth of Shakspeare was
celebrated on Tuesday last, at Stratford-on-Avon, by the
annual dinner of the Shakspei ian Club. The attendance was
not numerous, and it was stated, has been diminishing gra-
dually for several years past.
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