The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-09 00:00:00

ELECTION FOR ALDERMAN.

The Else Con for the Aldermanic gown, vacant by the
decease of late Sir John Earner, having been appoint-
ed to take place yesterday, a meeting of the inhabitants
of th^ highly respectable Ward of Langbourn, was duly
convened for two o'clock, at St. Dionis Bark Church,
Fenchnrch-street, at which hour the Right Hon. the
LORD MAYOR having taken the Chair, and the usual
forms Lein; gone through,
WILLIAM BORRADATLE, EM in a very neat speech, pro-
posed Sir Francis Desanges, as a Gentleman duly quali-
f•ni in evert- respect to exercise the Magisterial influence
over Lis fellow citizens.
Mr. RoDERT ELLIOT supported the nomination of his
worthy Friend • and in conjunction with the other Gen-
tlemen of the C:umirtre, said he should use every legal
means of securing an early and favourable result to the
priyeedi rlgs.
Mr. Burr proposed John Key, Esq. Citizen and Sta-
tioner, for their suffrages.
Mr. LFICIITON seconded the nomination of Mr. Key.
The question being put by the LORD MAYOR, the show
of bawls was declared by his Lordship to be in favour of
Mr. Ker. •
A poll was demanded on the part of Sir F. Desanges,
at the close of which the numbsrs were—
For Mr. Key, 66 ;—Sir Francis Desanges, 52;—Ma-
jority, 14.
The poll will continue open this day and tomorrow.
fhe number of qnstlifled Voters in the Ward is about 300.
Mr. STEPHENSON, the banker, who bad offered himself
as a cantlid4te, it was announced in the early part of phe
ray, had resigned.
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OBSERVANCE or TII6 SABBATH IN SCOTLAND•

PRVIRTTRRT or HAMILTON: The Presbytery bad
under their consideration the practice of driving rattle on
the Lord's Day, which prevails in some places within the
beand of the Presbytery, when it was unanimously
agreed on to concur with other Presbyteries in such mea-
sures as may be effectual to put a stop to this profana-
tion of the Sahhath.
Mimes, APRIL 3.—On Monday, while the Commit-1
tee of Harbour Commissioners were transacting the
weekly routine of business in the Harbour-office, OA
Provest Brown announced to the Chairman the arrival of
a deputaien from the Kirk-Session,—composed of the
parish minister, the Rev. Dr. Maclaehlan, M r. David Job-
son, Mr. William Kirkaltly, Mr. James Hay, and Mr.
Peter Thompson, elders. The Preses of the Commission-
ers politely invited the Deputation to be seated. A so-
lemn pause ensued ; the one party preparing to state the
object of the visitation, and the other wondering what
they had done to writ such an honour. A member of
Session n/av informed the Preen, that the Law of Goo
and an Act of Parliament had both been contravened by
the Harbour Commissioners or their servants, inasmuch
as they had admitted ships into their dry dock on the
Sahhath-eay. The Preses said something about "works
of necessity ;" but he was silenced by a Member of Ses-
sion.. alto declared that the Commissioners' would not
be permitted under any circumstances to dock vessels on
the Sahhath.TbeConimissioners being yet ignorant of the
fart alleged against them, sent fur the Dockmaster, and
put questions to bite in the presence of the Deputation.—
He stated, that on one occasion, and one Wily, about a
fortnight ago, he had allowed two or three vessels to go
out of dock between five and six on Sunday morning,
and two or three to come in ; that no kind of work had
been done tlnring divine service ; that the people were
not engaged above an "boor in securing the vessels which
had come in ; that he refrained from pumping the water
from the dock till the clock by striking twelve had put
a period to the holy day. An expression of disSatisfac-
lion still rested on tire faces of tae Deputation, and par-i
tieularlv on that of Mr. W. Kirkaldy; who, it is said,
had made the complaint to the Session.
DOCK M ASTER —" 1 beg your pardon, gentlemen ; but
I should like to say a few words in extenuation, if I am
permitted."
CRAIRMAN--" By all means."
DOCK MASTER—" 1 should like to know, pip it happens
that the Commissioners, or I as their serrant.,.sbould be,
found fault with by the Kirk-session, fir doing that
which Mr. Colman, a magistrate and a member of Seas
'km, has been permitted, witboet blame, to do for many:
years past? I have seen Mr. Oilman cloin4 his ditty at
the offering-plate at the church-door on a Sunday,
while
he had 20 men busily engaged in taking a vessel tato his,
dock and securing her."
bleainea or tiesstorr What Mr. Caltnap may
have done wrong, is no defence for the Harbour .Comss
robtaioners," . .
It was again argued, that what his been done by, the
Commissioners; Dockunsters was a work of .necessity ;
as the vessels being of large tonnage, and the stream
spring-tides at a close, by about a fortnight must have
elrpsed before the ships could get out or the others in,.
unless the opportunity had been seized. 'the Continittert
of Commissioners promised to lay the matter before no
°coeval Meetiog,for instructions. The conference closed,
acid the Deputation withdrew.

Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the, East
India House. when the folios iog Commanders took leave
of the Court previous to departing for their respective
destinations, viz. Captain T. Baker, Lowther Castle
Capt. John Hine, Bombay; Captain Richard Raises,
Warren Hastings; and Captain W. H. C. Dalrymple,
Vansittart, for China, direct.
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