Star.
London, England, 1829-06-10 00:00:00

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A destructive fire broke out a few days ago at Cler-
mont. in the department of the Meose, which in a short
time, owing to the violence of the wind, consumed no
fewer than 30 houses, the greater part of which was
forton.tely insured: The loss is computed at 300,000
francs. This catastrophe was occasioned wilfully by
a woman, who had set the building on fire. Happily
olives were lost.— Galivant's Messenger. -

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COURZOF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held hi
Guildhall for the dispatch of business:
LOSDnN BRIDOR APPROACHXB BILL.
The Loan MAYOR stated that a Court of Aldermen
bad been held that morning, which had taken the ad-
vice of Counsel, and come to the rein union of recom-
mending to the Court of Common Council to deliver in
the accounts of the income and expenditure of the city
of London. or as abstract of them, as ordered by the
House of Lords.
Mr. Tweeze thought it would be desirable for the
Court to agree with the Resolution of the Court of
Aldermen.
Mr. S. Duos wished the proceedings of that Court
to be known to the whole kingdom. but at the same
time, when a matter of so great importance was being
agitated between the House of Lords and the Court of
Common Council, he would wish the subject should be
discussed with closed doors. He begged leave to strike
motion to that effect, though it was the first time he
ever wished strangers to be excluded.
The LORD MAYOR said there was no necessity for a
motion; it was an order of the Court. that no strangers
sbnuld be present during the proceedings of the Court,
and of course they must be excluded at the desire of any
Member.
Strangers.were accordingly ordered to withdraw.
After a warm discussion, a division took place, the
numbers were—For admitting the public, 60; for eg-
clusklii. 66; majority in favour of a closed Court, 4.
The Cr ott then proceeded to debate the propriety of
agreeing to the recommendation of the Court of Alder-
men as to submitting the papers required to their Lord-
ships at the bar of the House. The general sentiment
was in favour of presenting the accounts. It appeared
that the accounts ordered were neither more nor less
than those which had been sent to the Commi tee of
their Lordships on the London Bridge Approaches
Bill ; so that the point to be settled was a mere matter
of form in the opiniee of the great majority.—After
some discussion had taken place upon the subject,
Alderman WooD took occasion to allude to the active
exertions of two Noble Lords (we believe Lords Lon-
donderry and Durham) in opposition to the London
Bridge Approaches Bill. Those exertion• had, it was
well known. been attributable to a very different cause
from that of the good of the community. The private
interests of their Lordships were the real foundation of
their detetmined repugnance to the measure, and that
repugnance' had been exhibited by one of them in a
manner which did not argue much for his dignity or
.flood•seese; So far did the Noble Lord's kind wishes
attend the Corporation, that he thought fit to ascribe
a total incapacity to the Magistrates of that Corpo-
ration as to their performance of their of: ial du-
ties. This charge had no more foundation in truth
than it had in good nature. The Magistrates of
the City, it was well known, most scrupulously
performed their duties. It would be seen by the corn-
parisoa of the commitments made by them, and the
convictions which took place, that they formed very
accurate estimates of the chances of conviction and
acquittal-To Middlesex the average number of acquit-
tals was 42 out of every 1(X), while in the City of Landon
there were no more than 27. This proved that the City
Magistrates were most undeservedly censured. He did
not see why men of experieuce, who were daily in the
habit of seeing what, was going on in the world, should
not be able to perform the duties of a M rgistt ate as well
as the Noble Lord, who had been induced by the great
changes in the Coal Trade, arising from the breaking
.up of the combination system, to fling his anger
about upon persons of whose zeal and exertions Le a as
wholly ignorant. It was considered an important fez-
tureol this attack, that it was made in the House of
Lords.; but the motive was too palpable to allow the
censure to have any effect. The Noble Lord consulted
his own private kits rest in the whole matter, and that
Was the secret of his inveterate opposition to the London-
bridge Approaches "Bill. and of his abase of the City
Magistr.tes. The same Noble Lord had betn so kind
as to accuse him of partiality, as Chairman of the Com-
mittee; but he defied the shadow of a proof of a pattial
exercise of any authority he might have possessed. He
bad declared to the Noble Lord that he (his Lordship)
was influenced br private considerations, and list he
was himself influenced by no motive but the public
good. Alderman Wood, in the course of his speech,
which was greatly cheered, described the nature of the
combination. which had existed up to the 19th of
January last, amongst the great coal oa ners. A
limitation in the vend or supply of coal sent front
the rivers Tyne and Wear had existed w,th short in-
terruption up to that date, and coals had fallen 4s.
and ss. a chaldron in consequence of the destruction
of that limitation. It had been managed thus :
Three arbitrators were annually appointed by the coal
owners of. the two rivers, to assign to rich coal owner
the' quantity of coals to be sent I. market in the fol-
lowing' year, and to ix the price of each sort of co:sls,
below which they should not be sold, and the Airilual
quantities were placed under Committees at Newcastle
and Chestei4e4treet; at each of which places a secre-
tary was kept-to regulate the quantity each coal owner
should send. to market in the following nionth. By
this mode of measurement the public were severely
taxed; but the competition which now existed, its con-
sequence of the breaking up of the regulations, was if
infinite seirsiceVo the community, although it interfered
most vitally with those private feelings, of which he
had' already spoken, and which had been lately so
much exesimsted. .
The Court finally decided to present the papers re-
quired eft &Oil" at the bar of the Lords, and thee ad-
joined& 11' •

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MATH /PROM SUDDEN FIRIORT.--lAlt week Mrs•
Stewart, residing at Lonend, Greenock. having been
suddenly alarmed by a report that a grandchild of hers
had fallen lato the river, rushed in a much agitated
state to the spot. It turned out to be correct that a boy
belonging to some other person bad fallen into the rifer,
who was instantly got out. In crossing the street, on
the w ay to her own house, she complained that she was
getting blind, and instantly dropped down dead.