The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-19 00:00:00

THE OFFICE OF CITY PLEADER

Mr. R.:TAa•t.oR, Chairman of the Secondaries' Committee
brought. up the report relative to the terms and conditions on
which the office of City Pleader should in future be conducted.
It was the opinion of the Committee that it was injurious to
the suitors that the City Pleaders should hold, or be considered
to hold, an exclusive right to plead in any of the Courts
of the City, and that candidates should be required to pledge
themselves riot to set up or seek to enforce their right of ex-
clusive audience in any of the local Courts of the City
against any other members of the English bar.
The report was agreed to unanimously, and the Lord
Mayor appointed Thursday next for the election of a City
Pleader, in the room of Edward Bullock, Esq., lately ap.
pointed Judge of the Sheriffs' Court.

THE INCOME TAX.

Mr. R. TAYLOR gave notice of a motion to consider the
propriety of petitioning Parliament against the revival, in time
of peace, of the inquisitorial powers of the income tax.

THE SPITA I.FIE LDS' WEAVERS.
The Chamberlain was instructed to pay 500/. from the
funds of the City, in aid of the fund for the relief of the Spi-
talfields' weavers, and it was referred to the Coal, Corn, and
Finance Committee to consider whether any, and, if any,
what more should be subscribed in aid of the charity called the
City Kitchen."

'1 he Report of the City Lands Comrr ittee, respecting the ap-
plication of the Blackwall Railway Company to Parliament to
purchase certain premises belooging to the City. was brought
up, when the Court agreed to the Report, and resolved to
petition Parlia- merit against the proposed Bill.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury was honoured
this afternoon with a visit from the Queen and Prince
Albert, attended by the Royal suite. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness, after inspecting Lambeth Palace,
partook of a thlen»e with his Grace and Mrs. Howley.

The opposition to the proposed Income Tax begins
to assume an appearance of strength, and we trust it will go on
increasing. The first positive attack upon it emanated very
properly from the meeting of props ietors of Bank Stock yes-
terday ; and we hear on all sides loud calls for a meeting of
the citizens in general, to express their discontent with the
threatened evil. We now only want a public-spirited man of
influence to set the example, when he would be immediately
joined by the whole body of citizens in remonstrating optnly
against the injustice.
THE MILLENIUM.—It is reported that all those
anxious on the'; subject of the Milleniurn, residing at Hudders-
field, and other parts of the West Hiding, are about to assemble
on Friday, the .25th instant, at High Hoyland, to consult with
the Rev. Dr. Wolff, curate of that place, and late missionary
to almost all parts of the world, on the time of the commence-
ment of this important period.—. York Cuurant.
HER MAJESTY'S SLIPPERS.—The Queen wore at
the levee a splendid diamond bracelet, containing a portrait of
the King of l'russia. The diamonds in her Majesty's head,
stomacher, and train were also unusually brilliant. Her
Majesty wore a very beautiful pair of satin slippers, em•
broidered by the Duchess of Kent, and made open at the
heels in the eastern style. The Queen's feet arc so remarkably
small that no lady has yet Leen found who could wear the
nannon slippers of Queen Victoria.
THE COUNTESS DI Rossi.—(Extract of .a letter
from Vienna.) The Countess di Rossi, late the celebrated
Sontag, has given a seises of brilliant concerts, during the
winter, at her hotel, at Vienna. The fascinating Countess is
in swill a delicate state of health, that she has becn confined to
her bed during the whole winter, but she has notwithstanding
received her fashionable friends, her bed-roam opening into the
salon de concert, and the general direction of the music being
confided to Mademoiselle Nina Sontag. It is remarkable that,
notwithstanding her extreme debility, the voice of Sontag re-
mains as sweet and powerful as ever.
IMPROVED TRADE IN PAISLEY.—We have much
pleasure in stating that trade has presented a mote favour able
aspect this week than • we have been able to report of it for
many months past. A few of our principal houses have been
taking on hands pretty freely, and hare felt pleased at having a
call from their old steady weavers. Some of the houses alluded
to have nearly as many hands engaged as in ordinary years;
and, what is encouraging, the work is of rather a rich and su-
perior kind, affording better wages to the workmen, while the
time required to work a square being considerable, there is less
' fear of overstocking the market. Of the lower kinds of work,
for which secondary workmen are required, there is not much
making; but, even in this case, a few hands are obtaining
webs. Sewing is also much brisker, and several houses have
added a third, and some nearly a half to the number of female
sewers within the last ten days. Indeed, some houses have
nearly as many as they can accommodate.— Glasgow paper.
THE PROPOSED NEW TARIFF.—A meeting of the
various branches of the leather trade took place at the Bridge
House Hotel, London-bridge, last evening, for the.purpose of
considering the effect which thel new tariff of the Government
would have on the h ather manufacture of this country, and to
take such measures as might to the meeting seem advisable,
Mr. Williams was in the chair. The opinion of the meeting
was embodied in the following 'resolutions, which were passed :
—That this meeting views wi,h alarm the new tariff proposed
by the Government on the subject of leather, believing that the
intended low rate of duty will not adequately protect the Bri-
tish manufaettser ; that the present depressed state of the trade
will not allow increased imports from the continent, but that
the meeting relies upon her Majesty's Government for a scale
of duty high enough to afford protection to the British manu-
facturer ; that while the reduction, if carried into effect, will
cheapen the price of boots and shoes purchased by the higher
classes of society, those worn by mechanics will not be affected;
and that a deputation be appointed to represent the opinion
of the meeting to the President of the Board of Trade. A
petition was also prepared for presentation to the House of
Commons, after which the meeting broke up.
It is pleasing to observe the variety of inventions
for facilitating the " means and appliances" of epistolatory cor-
respondence. To write well, and to enclose and seal your letter
with some degree of taste, is now of some importance. A self-
lighting sealing, wax has lately been invented by Messrs. Da-
vies and Co., the Poultry, simple in its operation, neat, and
useful.

EASTERN COUNTIEST AI LW A.Y.—On Thursday week
at Chelmsford, occurred one of those scenes which have gotten
railways the name of being common plunder. One Mr. Ka-
vannagh had sold the Company six acres of land, for which he
received 1501. an acre, and 2,0001. as compensation for seve-
rance. In the conveyance he had secured a right of way over
the land sold, and he now contended that he was entitled to a
separate right over each t iece conveyed. The Court, however,
thought he had had enough out of the Company, and found in-
stantly for the defendants, that is, the Company. Is this Ka.
vannagh any relation to the ir.div'dual who found five separate
bridges indispensable over the London and Birmingham Rail-
way, and at last di,covered that gold would furnish him with
wings to do without them, one after anotim ?—Railteay
Magazine.

A servant girl of Mr. Jardine's, the chemist in
Drury-lane, who was supposed to have fallen a victim to the
flames which consumed his house on Wednesday night, was
found on Thursday night in the coal-cellar under the street, to
which she had run for security, and from which she had been
unable to escape in consequence of the entrance having become
blocked up with rubbish.
We are happy to learn that Mr. Miller, the resi-
dent engineer of the Greenwich Railway, is fast recovering
from the effects of the accident which we described last week.
The party whose tender has been accepted for the
completion of the joint station at London Bridge is I‘ll% Sa-
muel Grimsdale. T)se tender is under 37,0001.