The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court was held yesterday, when the Lord Mayor
late Lord Mayor for his upright and impartial conduct
presided for the first time.
was carried unanimously, and ordered to be tran-
scribed upon vellum, and presented in due form.
A petition was then presented from Mr. Daniel
Whittle Harvey, praying that the election for high
Bailiff of Southwark may be declared void, on the
ground that it had not been conducted according to
the usual rules of the Court, and that the petitioner
had evidence to prove that he had a majority in
his favour.
After some discussion on the motion for affixing the
Seal of the City to the appointment of Mr. Pritchard,
the question was carried by a large majority, and Mr.
Pritchard was received as High Bailiff of the Borough
of Southwark.

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DEATH IN TEE PENITENTIARY.—Mr. Higgs, the
, held an inquest in the
71 Pon the body of Mary Ann
Crawley, aged 22, one of the inmates. It appeared
that the deceased had been tried at the Southampton
Sessions, in October, 1841, on a charge of felony, and
‘li Coronernbank for
Penitentiary,
sentenced to one calendar month's imprisonment, and
transportation for ten years. The sentence of
transportation was commuted ; she was, therefore, re-
moved from the convict-ship Royal Admiral, and re-
ceived into the Penitentiary on the 18th of April,
1842. Her term would have been up in 1845. Wm.
Bailey, M.D., surgeon to the establishment, said that
the deceased was admitted to the infirmary on the
30th of August, labouring under dysentery; she was,
as he thought, recovering, but again relapsed, and
died on Wednesday last. A post mortem examina-
tion was made of the body, and the bowels were
found much inflamed, with ulceration in several parts.
Deceased was very healthy when admitted. Dr.
Bailey further added that he had lately been trying
to investigate the cause o
i f the present great morta-
lity in the prison, and his impression that it was solely
caused by the very bad site, was, he believed, a cor-
rect one. The grounds
.about the prison were fre-
quently inundated at high tides, but he believed some-
thing was going to be done to remedy this evil. Mr.
Higgs read a statistical report, from which it appeared
that for a series of years preceding 1841 the deaths
averaged six each year, but in 1841 these had in-
creased
to fourteen ; and, already, this year, the num-
ber was eighteen. Since the opening of the prison, in
1817, there have been 304 deaths, three •fourths of
which have been from N
dysentery and diarrhcea.—
Verdict—" Died by the isitation of God."
HONESTY !—Many men there are, who, for the
world, would not take a purse, yet who would steal
what is of far higher value and importance. An in-
stance has just reached us, where a firm of long stand-
ing, Messrs. Rowland and Sons, have acquired a high
reputation—a " good name, in short, for the value
of those articles which they have discovered and pre-
pared for the toilet. Learning the success which
Messrs. Rowlands had achieved, and the reputations
which attached to their productions, other parties, by a
new and despicable species of fraud, have concocted
some trashy compounds, resembling those prepared by
Messrs. Rowlands, and
.by adopting the very same
names, and closely copying the advertisements, coolly
endeavour to pass off their trash as "true Macassar Oil."
~ real Kalydor," &c., though a glance at the signature,
which is not that of Messrs. Rowlands, at once con-
vinces the purchaser that he is buying not the real
production, but a spurious and trashy imitation, which
may be, and in fact is, of the most pernicious nature.
We forbear mentioning the names of parties, in the
hope that the hint thus given wi▪ 11 prevent a repetition
' of practices so injurious and unj▪
ust.
1
The sum allowed to the unemployed poor of Gree-
nock is only id. a day—barely enough to keep life to-
gether,

TO WN•COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
, (From the Scotsman of Wednesday.)
PROPOSED VOTE OF CENSURE ON TIIE LORI) PROVOST

OF EDINBURG 11.

Mr. Local—Before proceeding with the ordinary
business, I have to state that a number of my col-
leagues have imposed upon me the disagreeable duty
—but not the less a duty, because it is disagreeable—
of laying Wore the Council the customary notice of
the following motion :
" The Lord Provost having, on the evening of
Monday the 14th current, presided at a dinner inti-
mately connected (as to its origin and purpose) with
certain proceedings at the Municipal Board, as to which
(as.was well known) there existed a marked difference
of opinion among its members ; and, whilst so acting,
having himself publicly spoken, and permitted others
to speak, of the Magistrates and other Members of
Council in a way not merely offensive to their feelings
and derogatory to their character, but directly calcu-
lated most injuriously to affect their usefulness as
public functionaries—he it resolved, that this Council
is of opinion that, inasmuch as the Lord Provost is
their official president when met for the dispatch of
public business, and their recognised representative
and guardian on all other occasions, his Lordship, in
acting as aforesaid, did act in violation of his official
and constitutional duty ; and has thereby forfeited the
confidence of this Council."

Mr. MAcrAur.AN, after making his comments upon
this motion, during which he asserted that the Lord
Provost had make those remarks as a private indivi-
dua4.and denouncing the attempt to interfere with
him as a gross infringement of the liberty of the sub-
ject, moved "That in respect the motion of Mr.
Logan is an interference with the liberty of the subject,
and ultra vires of the Council, it be not entertained."
Mr. WurrE seconded the motion.
Finally the Council divided upon the question
—Mr. Macfarlan's motion or not—when it was
carried " not," by 18 to 10.
Against this decision Mr. AIACFARLAN protested,
and took instruments, in his own name and in the
name of all who should adhere to hint, for reasons to
be afterwards given in.

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