The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-13 00:00:00

BEAUTIFUL MARINE RESIDENCE,

rllO be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
that beautiful MARINE VILLA, in the Cottage
style, of the late Sir Thomas Pechell, Bart., situate at
ALDWICK, one mile west of Bognor, commanding a.
extensive view of the Sea, with an excellent walled Kitchen-
garden, Shrubberies, Coach-house, and Stabling for seven
horses, Barn and convenient Outbuildings, and several
Closes of Arable and Pasture Land, containing in the who],
about 24 customary Acres. The Household Furniture
will be included in the purchase, and immediate possession
given. The Farming Stock to be taken at a valuation.
Further particulars may be had of Messrs. Ashmore, Few,
and Hamilton, Solicitors, Henrietta-street, Cowin-garden.
London ; Messrs. Price and Freeland, Solicitors, Chiche
ter ; and cards of admiession to be obtained ou application
at Binstead'e Library, Bognor.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

MR. WILDE AND

SHERIFF WINCHESTER.

Yesterday the eyes of the city were all directed to the
proceedings of this Court, in which it was understood some-
thing was to be brought forward condemnatory of the at-
tempt made on the last Court day to destroy the power of
adjudication so long boasted of by the Members.
Alderman CROWDER, after the routine business was con-
cluded, presented a petition from Mr. Wilde, stating that
gentleman's claims to the Aldermanic gown, and repre-
senting that great inconvenience arose from the want of
an Alderman in the ward of Vintry, it being impossible
to make out rates without one ; and that Sheriff Win-
chester bad, without condescending to petition the Court,
impeached their jurisdiction, and denied their power as a
body.
Mr. Wilde was then called to the bar of the Court. He
address‘A the Lord Mayor and Aldermen at some length
upon the subject, urd urged the Court to the consideration
of the ma s of his petition.
After Mr. Wilde withdrew,

Alderman WArruNtAw presented a petition from a num-
btr of gkii.lemen who styled themselves the majority of the
legal voters for the election of an alderman for Vintry ward.
The Alderman then took a review of all the proceedings,
and said, that whatever opinion a few individuals might
enteraii respecting this matter, the vouole of the injury
uad been inflicted, not upon Sheriff Winchester, but upon
Mr. Wilde. He then strongly remarked upon the impro-
priety and presumption of the motion to rescind the p:o-
-ceedings of the Court, after a most solemn deliberation
upon the merits of the respective claims of the candidates,
after counsel had been heard, and evidence received ; and
declared that the last Court had excited the ridicule ai.d
indignation of the public in general, and of the city of
London in. particular. (Hear, hear.) The folly of the
proceeding exceeded all the renowned stories of the want of
intellect ascribed, in less ceremonious days, to the members
of that Court. (A laugh.) At the same time that they
7-ere exposing themselves to the laughter of the public,
they were surrendering a most important privilege—the
right of adjudication in elections—a right which had ex-
isted upwards of 400 years without question. (Hear.)
The Alderman concluded by stating, that he should move
—" That the petition be laid on the table ; that the reso-
lution of the last Court for rescinding the resolutions of the
former one be rescinded; and that the law officers be di-
rected to act forthwith."

Upon this petition, which complained of the inconve-
nience arising to the inhabitants of the Vintry Ward, from
the want of a representative, a long discussion took place.
Alderman Tnomrsox had reason to complain of the re-
port which had appeared in the papers upon the subject ;
and, in order to secure impartiality, he should move that
the doors of the Court be thrown open instanter.
Aldermen Wool), WAITHMAIT, Sir JAHTS SHAW, and
others, declared that they should object to the proposal of
throwing open the Court, if the thing were to be adopted
generally, and upon a given notice.
Alderman THOMPSON, perceiving that the feeling of
the Court was against his proposition, consented to with-
draw it.

Alderman WAITHMA IT then proposed that the vote of
the last Court, for rescinding the proceedings of the pre-
ceding one, should be rescinded.

Sir JAMES SHAW suggested a slight alteration in the
wording of the motion, explanatory of the reasons for
adopting it. He had been, he stated, absent from the last
Court, or he should have protested against a resolution
calculated to affect the honour and intellectual character of
the members. He should have opposed it as unjust in the
extreme, not only in principle, but inasmuch as it was
calculated to take the Court by surprise.

Alderman WOOD rose to protest against the proceedings
of the last Court-day.
Alderman Binctr was of opinion that the Court had
acted erroneously in the first instance, and that the parties
concerned in the dispute for the gown ought to have been
left to contend for it upon their own responsibility.
Alderman Axinrs declared that there was a gross ir-
regularity in the whole of the proceedings of the elections.
He was of opinion most decidedly that Mr. Wilde ought
to be sworn in.

Here there was some allusion made which we did not
hear, but it drew up

Alderman LUCAS, who thought it necessary to explain
the course he had pursued upon the last court-day. He
certainly thought that the Court were in error in not
swearing in Sheriff Winchester on the first day. He
wished to avoid voting upon the occasion alluded to, but,
entertaining the opinion he had just expressed, he thought
he was bound to vote that Sheriff Winchester should be
sworn in. .

The motion to rescind the resolution of the last Court,
which went to render null and void the proceedings of the
preceding Court, wa- then put and carried by a great ma-
jority. No more than three hands—those of Aldermen
Birch, Christopher Smith, and Thomr3n—being held up
against it.
Alderman Woon moved that the petition of the inha-
bitants of Vintry Ward, against the election of Mr. Wilde,
should be taken into consideration on the next Court-day.
Alderman WAITHMAN seconded the motion.
This motion is understood to be preparatory to the
swearing in of Mr. Wilde.
Alderman Biacx begged to know whether it was meant
to propose to swear in Mr. Wilde. He was also anxious
to know the opinions of the law-officers on the subject
which the Court bad been discussing.
Alderman WAITHMAN said, that it was most desirable
that the merits of the; petition should be entered into, in
order that it might be ascertained as quickly as possible
whether Mr. Wilde was elected legally or not.
The RECORDER declared, that. Mr. Wilde having de-
P:htiertieonai
manded to be sworn in, the
.merits;oanf tdheif
appeared,ns
his return aught to be investigated
no grounds of rejection, the Court had certainly the power,
and were bound to swear him in.
The Collator; SERGEANT concurred in this opinion.
The Court then broke up. The majority of the Alder-
men considered the proceeding as a redemption of its cha-
racter, and were to be seen congratulating their fellow-
citizens upon the event. It is said that Mr. Wilde will
certainly be sworn in en the next court-day.„

On Saturday last, Mr. W. B. Smeale, hair-
dresser and perfumer, at Macclesfield, had occasion to dis-
miss fru:, his employ a young man named Samuel Eddy.
Eddy, the same evening, threw himself into an old-fashioned
chair and attempted to dash his brains out. A short time
afterwards he attempted to cut his throat with a pocket
knife, ht,t was prevented from making a mortal incision ;
disappointed a second time in the work of premeditated
suicide, he now procured a table knife and stabbed himself
in the side. The wound was slight. It was supposed now
that he would desist from further attempts at self-destruc-
tion. In this the people of the house where he lodged
were disappointed, for in the coarse of Sunday night, he
attempted' to destroy himself by hanging, and was actually
found suspended by a cord to a beam in his bed-room. He
was cut down, still alive, and soon after absconded, and
has not been heard of since.—Macclesfield Herald.