The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-22 00:00:00

VINTRY WARD.

The Aldermanic chair being vacant for this Ward,
in consequence of proceedings pending in the Court
of King's Bench, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
at eight o'clock yesterday morning, proceeded in
state to Cutlers' Hall, and held a Wardmote. The
Inquest and other Ward Officers being chosen, the
election of Common Councilmen was proceeded
with. At ten o'clock his Lordship dosed for the
day, and declared the.number to be—
Mr. Whitby l5 I Mr. Elms l5
C0nway.......... 15 Martin....
Coombs l5 Marsden l5
Ingall
Marshall l5 Crook 2
The Court was then adjourned.
CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN.

At this Wardmote Mr. Alderman Wood presided.
The customary preliminaries having been gone
through, a show of hands was taken. The follow,
ing are the names of the candidates, and the state a
the poll at five o'clock :
*Mr. Richardson 17
Earl l4
Smith l3
Palmer ll
Jaques ll
Wiltshire lO
This Ward rs
BREAD-STRI
Mr. Mathie (Deputy) l4 I
Cottman l4
Bridge l4
ilallain
Burra l4
De Orave l4
Legg l4
This Ward
PORTSOK
Mr. Colebatch 2O
*Scales 2O
Carter lB
This Ward
BI SHOPS G

`Mr. Brass 9
Beeton 9
Field 9
Waterhouse 9
'Alleock

eturns eight.
EET WARD.
I Mr. Cope
Davison . ..... 14
Firth l4
Scott
I Hooper
Shoobridge

returns 12.
!',N WARD,
Mr. Perry
Smith
Prested
return» 5.
'E WITIthUT.

For this ward there will be a most severe contest.
Mr. Glover resigns, and three new candidates have
declared, themselves, viz., Mr. Clarke, Mr. Patten,
and Mr. Hoare. The Lord Mayor held this ward•
mote for Sir Richard. Carr Glyn, the Alderman o
the ward.

TOWER WARD.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at 11 o'clock,
held a Wardmote at Bakers' Hall. In this Ward
there is an opposition, and the election will be
severely contested.
Mr.. Skipper, Deputy
J. Wright...

Gorat 2G
• Drinkald 26
Noy
Hunt • 2l
Cawthorne 29
Dixop l6

*Howell
Robinson •28
Smith 2B
'27
Stuart
This Ward
BRIDGE

returns 12.
WARD.

W. chaa
Green 22
Voss 22
Smith 22
Joyner, Deputy 2l
Cartwright 2l
Saunders 2l
Locke 2l
This Ward
LANGBOU

Mr. W. K. Child 9l
Bovill
Chatfield l9
Knott
Smallpiece

Jones ..............

Pewtress ............ 16
*llatton .. .......... 10
returns 15.

Mr. Ayres 47
Mr. Haswell
Carter 46
Elliot
Stubbing 46
Dixon 46
This Ward

IN WARD.
Mr. Barber . .. 45
Leyton 44
'Nicholls
"Unwin 37
*Stewart
*Creed 9
returns 10.

A gallant old Scottish officer was narrating
the unfortunate history of an early friend, who had been
jilted by a fickle beauty of that age, in favour of the Duke
A—r---; and he concluded the story thus, in a tone of
much emotion :—" Poor fellow he never got over it ; no !
Sir, it was the death of him ;" and then, after a pause of
much pathos, with a faultering voice, he added,—" He did
not live above fifteen years after it.".-Scotsman.

Good night to them all; Let them cloud their blue sky,
And trample their green earth.—Good night ! Good nigh
There are few in their caves shall sleep sounder than I,
Or care less what hour brings back the daylight,
Unheeding, though even Mortality's tread
Should mix with the reptiles to blacken our bed.
Hark !—the clock strikes the hour—adieu to thee Time
The dotard is ringing his drowsy farewell ;
To-morrow the bells of Eternity chime,"
To sooth each wan pilgrim asleep in his cell ;
And soft, as the music of heaven, shall glide,
That chime to their spirits who lie side by side.
Thou art drooping, pale flower ! then lean on my breast—
She sleeps—so the day of her trial is o'er ;
Two travellers are sped to the chamber of rest,
To mingle their ashes, and part never more ;
Right glad of the home which refuses no guest,
Though, of sad ones, least happ.pt pisinners, least blest.
In his poem entitled " Strange Nuptials," Mr.
Kennedy has fallen into the very common error
of mistaking eccentricity for genius. He has
given an account of a visit, certainly penned NNW:
spirit, that be one day paid to the inside of
the grave, where he saw two dead bodies (blue
and mouldy) one of an old man, the other
of a young woman, suddenly jump up and
"do the agreeable" to each other. This is
purely disgusting ; there is not one atom of
genius about it, and we would therefore recom-
mend our author in future to forbear all further
reports of his visits to the grave ; not only from
the revolting nature of the subject, but least he
should by chance be taken up at Paisley for a
resurrection-man," an awkward job for a poet.—
With this we conclude; professing sincerest ad-
miration of Mr. Kennedy's abilities, when pro-
perly directed, but protesting, vehemently against
his tasteless hypochondriasm.
This is a striking but not an original idea, it is merely
a various reading of the " Clock of Eternity," which Mr•.
Maturin has introduced with such awful effect in his faulty
hut magnificent " Melmoth."
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POEMS BY JOHN CORDINGLEY.—London : 1 527.

This young man is, we understand, self-edu-
cated, and, as such, exhibits talent of no every-
day quality. He has more vigor than Bloom-
field, but less descriptive power than Clare, with
a nervous grasp of mind to which both were
strangers. The subjoined sonnet on " Grief,"
making allowance for a few ruggednesses of
thought and language, is terse and masculine,
and will fully hear out our opinion :
GRIEF.
The story melted me, and drew a stream
Of sorrow to mine eye ; I sought the dame,
And found her ; found though three years gone, the same
Intensity of grief ; her son the theme
Of mental porirms ; and if chance a gleam,
Of earlier stroke reverted, it discharg'd
-Its poison here, and this last loss enlarg'd :
And his dear Dame !seap'd in a fearful scream,
As strangling might have writhed upon the air ;
Then turn'd she with a kind concern hut brief,

To learn my haps ; swiftly with its care
Her thoughts commingled ; I essay'd relief,
'Twas vain ; her bosom settled in despair;
Such ; and so keen the ehildlelis mother's grief.
Through the rudeness of this little poem
the reader will not fail to discover a concen-
tration and vigor that possess the matorials,
but want the polish of intellect necessary to
ensure them popularity. This can only be obtained
by frequent and diligent perusal of' the best
models among our English poets, to whom we
recommend Mr. Cordingley to apply himself;
convinced that, by a little judicious attention;
he may win for himself a far more enduring repu-
tAtion than if he were to puff his merits periodi-
cally in the provincial newspapers, as one or two
of our poetical empirics have lately done with such
unblushing and successful impudence. To re-
sume : the levity so frequently attendant 01;
desperation, is well hit off in the following em-
phatic stanza :
Drove heedless, reckless down to vice
And dissipation wild ;
The heart danced in its bitter Woe,
And very phrenzy smiled.
A reader meeting with the two last lines in n
Lord Byron's Giaour.
collection of anonymous extracts might, with
great justice, conclude that they formed part of
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