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In a Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, Alderman Wilson moved the following resolution-

-. Teat the thanks of this Court be presented to the Right Honourable Sir John Musgrove, Bart., late Lord Mayor of this city, for the zeal, ability, and judgment with which he has discharged the high and important duties of the office of Chief Magistrate; for the distinguished rnannerin which he maintained the dignity of the office on the occasion of her Majesty's honouriog the Corporation with her presence in the Guildhall of this city, to receive the numerous foreigners from all parts of the world visiting the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations ; for the easy access at all times afforded to every class of his fellow-citizens ; for his prompt and punctual attention to the business of this Court, and his strict impartiality while presiding over its deliberations; as well as for the manner in-which he has maintained the civic hospitalities of this great city."

The authentic report of the proceedings of the Court states that "during the reading of this resolution, as during the delivery of Alderman Wil- -son's few observations on it, a dead silence reigned in the assembly." For some time Alderman Wilson "looked about in vain for a seconder" ; and some of the members said that "the Court had better proceed to the business of the day." But at last Sir George Carnal rose and seconded the motion.

Alderman Sidney regretted that he could not concur in that portion of the motion which related to her Majesty's visit to the City. From time immemorial, whenever a Royal visit had been contemplated, it had been undertaken at the invitation of the whole of the members of the Corporation ; and, however distinguished the office of Lord Mayor became on .such occasions, it was manifestly improper that a gentleman who for the time being tilled that office should of his own will, and for his private views, .comprontise the body of which he was the head by an individual solicitation, favoured by some courtly Lord in Waiting. (Loud cries of "Hear.' ") It might not be generally known, because the deliberations on the subject were . held with closed doors in the Court of Common Council, that the Corporation wereaverse to spend the citizens' money on an entertainment which they . were aware at the time could neither be given with pleasure nor reflect credit on themselves ; which had cost several thousands of pounds, and ended with jealousies and heartburnings, raising up a feeling in the public at a time when the Corporation required the public sympathy, that they were A.i...*iver ready to spend large sums of money when the object was private grad- (Wagon.The Common Council decided against giving any entertainment ; :whin -the Lord Mayor informed the Court that her Majesty had inti- mated that such a demonstration shotsid.beirade by the Corporation, it was only resolved by a majority of fifty-esae -against -forty-two that the matter should be proceeded with. It would be a noxisur precedent to vote thanks to a Lord Mayor for conduct which excluded +kis 'brethren from all knowledge of any commtinicationalse had received, and of his intentions as to any mode of proceeding. 'The visit of the -Court to 'Paris afforded glee matter of comment unfavour- able to the motion. The French nation invited to a series of festivals the Royal Commissioners, the Chairmen of the various sections of exhibitors, and other official personages connected with the World's Exhibition. They fur- ther invited to their hospitalities the various Mayors and Provosts connected with the chief towns of England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and lastly, they invited the Lord Mayer of London; and, in order to mark the peculiar sym- pathy of the Municipality of Paris for their brother citizens of London, they not only invited the head of the city, but extended the invitation to the whole Court of Aldermen, the learned Recorder, and the Sheriffs. Never- theless, the Lord Mayor decided on going not in his public but in his private capacity; and during the whole period of the visit, he kept himself entirely aloof from intercourse or arrangement with his brethren. It would not be right to thank him for duties which in his official capacity he neglected or violated. Paying due compliment to the private worth of the late Lord Mayor, and to his zeal and magisterial efficiency in other respects than those now cri- ticized, Alderman Sidney moved as an amendment, that all words relative to the visit of the Queen be omitted from the motion. Alderman Carter seconded the amendment. Alderman Copeland sup- ported it ; and added some sharp strictures on those words which unduly complimented the late Lord Mayor on his being "easy of access." Alder- man Thompson, the senior Alderman now came into the Court ; and with balanced praise and gentle blame endeavoured to mitigate the feeling of those who supported the amendment. He at last suggested the passing of a general motion only, attributing to -the late Lord Mayor "zeal, ability, and judgment in the discharge of the duties of Chief Magistrate ": "with the rest the Court had nothing to do." Alderman Lawrence 'told how he had heard some person explain to the Parisians, to account for the mode in which the Court arrived at Paris, that the Lord Mayor had "lost his head." Alderman Flumphery said, it appeared to him that the de- funct official had on that occasion "become inflated, lost his ballast, and thus risen to the irresponsible." Alderman Wilson defended his motion, and his absent friend. The Lord Mayor went in his private capacity, because a brother Alderman had insinuated that he wished to go at the Corporation's expense. But some dissented from this statement of Alderman Wilson ; and it was stated that "if his Lordship had gone in state the Corporation would not have been put to one farthing expense ; for the French authorities would have de- frayed all possible charges of the Chief Magistrate in his public as wil- lingly as they had paid the expenses incurred in his private capacity." Alderman Humphery said, "All the other Aldermen bad to pay for them- selves."

It was at last agreed that the motion should be -retrenched of all -the particular praises added to the general tribute contained in the first sen- tence; and in that state it obtained the -consent of the Court.

In the Common Council, on Thursday, a vote of thanks, awarding more gentle praise than the one originally moved in the Court of Alder- men, was proposed by Mr. Deputy Corney, and seconded by Mr. J. Dixon. Mr. Barkley objected to any vote of thanks, because he had been personally slighted. Mr. de Jersey made a long speech against the late Lord Mayor's conduct in taking part in the fetes at Paris on Sun- day ; and he moved a pendant, longer than the resolution, expressing the , regret of the Council "that the Chief Magistrate of the City of London I permitted himself to forget the obligations of the Christian Sabbath, and to sanction by his presence at Versailles the desecration of that day "— " the world-famed courtesy of our French neighbours would undoubtedly have promptly provided for a conscientious objection, while they would have honoured the consistefihy di the Lord Mayor in the maintenance of principle alike in France as in England." There was no seconder to Mr. de Jersey's proposition. Several other Councillors castigated the late Lord Mayor for portions of his conduct to which they specially objected. Mr. Bennoch criticized the criticizers; and declared Mr. de Jersey's speech to be "unmistakeable and unmitigated cant." Mr. Gilpin de- clared that there are no circumstances under which that Court exhibits so much littleness in the eyes of the world as when they are engaged in discussions as to giving thanks or otherwise to a chief magistrate of the City- " We bear gentlemen who have never been chief magistrates, and are never likely to he chief magistrates, finding fault with a position of which they know nothing, or next to nothing, of the trials and the difficulties; and we find those who have some chance of being Lord Mayor -throwing stones at their predecessors because of some fancied slight and some puerile occurrences. My Lord Mayor, these things sink us, and deservedly sink us, in the estimation of all upright and sensible men." Mr. de Jersey's amendment fell to the ground. The original motion was then put, and it was affirmed by 118 to 2.

Mr. William Williams, M.P. for Lambeth, met his ' constituents" on Monday last, and entered into explanations of his course as a representa- tive during the late session. In reference to the Sunday Trading Bill, which he endeavoured to pass in Parliament, he stated that he had acted only ministerially, [for others,] considering the question was only a local one. After the experience he has gained, he is now quite convinced that it would be impossible to carry such a bill unless it -were taken up by the Government : so the gentlemen who put the bill into his hands have ab- solved him from taking it up again ; and he hopes he has now made his peace with those who were opposed to the measure. Among the "ques- tions" put to .Mr. Williams by constituents, was one, whether he would "assist in any measure that might be introduced next session to break up our dealings with the despotic countries of Austria and Russia." Pro- fessing to understand the question as referring to our trade with Russia and Austria, he replied, that he would "endeavour to get all the money he could out of them." The sally provoked cheers, amidst which the evasion was passed over ; and a vote of "unabated confidence" in Mr. Williams was passed.

The Marylebone Savings Bank seems continuously prosperous. On the 20th November 1848, its depositors were 19,019, and its deposits 291,3861.; on the 20th November 1851, the depositors were 22,176, and the deposits 341,0344 The Court of Queen's Bench a fortnight since granted to Dr. Achilli a rule }IA calling on Messrs. Burns and Lambert, the publishers, to show cause why a criminal information shouLd not be issued against them for publishing sn Westminster a libel delivered in Birmingham. by Dr. Newman in a lecture to the Brothers of the Oratory there. It was then stated that Dr. Newmau -would "admit nothing," or the rule would have been asked against him in- stead of against the mere publishers of the printed pamphlet. At the begin- ning of this week the Attorney-General and Mr. Badeley moved, by con- sent, to substitute the name of Dr. Newman for the names of Messrs. Burns and Lambert; stating that Dr. Newman's solicitor had not felt 'sufficient authority to make the required admission at first, but that Dr. Newman himself is now extremely anxious that the publishers should not suffer on his amount. This change in the original rule Nisi being made, the Attorney-General applied for a secondary rule Nisi, tailing on Dr. Aehilli to show cause why Di. Newman should not be allowed till next Easter term for showing cause against the original rule. The second appli- cation was founded on two affidavits by Dr. Newman and Mr. Burns. Dr. Newman stated that the greater part of the matters in the alleged libel oc- curred in foreign countries across the sea ; and that it would be impossible for him to answer Dr. Achilles affidavits denying them, without sending a skilful linguist to obtain evidence from the places where the matters had oc- curred. He also swore to his belief that if he had time he could procure evidence to establislismch matters'. The affidavit of Mr. Burns was very similar.

On Thursday, Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. Ellis opposed this appli- cation. They pointed nut, that the affidavit of Dr. Newman carefully avoided swearing to any belief in the reports ; it only swore to a belief that a roving commission allover Italy, Sicily-, and Malta, would produce evidence to prove the truth of the -reports. It was not like that of an ignorant man ; but more like that of a man who might have passed his life in picking his way step by step through the mazes of the most tortuous controversy, so as to become perfectly aware a the words he uses, and of the danger of the words he ab- stains from using : it exhihited.a great amount of documentary reservation. The Court gave judgment on the second rule. In the quoted ease of Don Pa- cifico against the lion: log Herald, the affidavits hadststted that the libel was made by the foreign correspondent of the paper, and that the proprietors be- lieved the libel to be true; and it asked time to inquire further of the foreign correspondent. But here serious imputations are made, and no intimation is given of a single witness on whose credit Dr. Newman has made the impu- tations, or from whom he says he expects to get evidence ; and if he made the imputations on mere rumour, and now asks for a COMMig-i in to find wit- nesses at Rome and all over Italy to make affidavits, that we'll be most un- just to Dr. Achilli. Dr. Newman has not pledged his oath that he believes the charges. The Court discharged the rule for enlargino* the time to show cause; and did so with the less reluctance because the Legislature has now made provision through which Dr. Newman can vindicate his charges at the • trial by proving them true, if he can.

The original rule for a criminal information against Dr. Newman was made absolute yesterday. The Attorney-General admitted that the language complained of was libellous, and that the only answer the defendant can make will be at the trial.

The Court of Queen's Bench, in a former term, issued a mandamus to the Master and Fellows of the College of God's Gift at Dulwich, to admit to the office of Warden, Richard William Allen, whose election we described when it-occurred. The Master and Fellows have returned that Mr. Allen was not duly elected ; on the ground that the Assistants, who took part in the last election, have not the legal privilege to interfere. This matter has been fully argued, and the Court has determined that the Assistants, who are the Churchwardens of the London .parishes of St. Botolph Without, St. -Saviour, and St. Giles's Without, Cripplegate, have the full power, under the charter and statutes of the foundation, to take part in the election. The late election was therefore a good one ; and a peremptory mandamus for the admiasion.of Mr. Allen has been awarded.

Vice-Chancellor Kindersley lately refused to sanction a Master's report in i recommendg that the augmented income of the Elephant and Castle Cha- rity, in Newington, Southwark, (1300/. a year,) be distributed in the pro- portion of 900/. a year to certain poor parishioners, 2001. a year to the Na- tional School, and 103/. a year each to two other schools in the parish. The best disposition of the income was a matter of great contest before the Master, and the above arrangement was the result of a compromise. But Sir Richard Kindersley said, that in his judgment this species of gratuity to poor pa- rishioners who have paid poor-rates seven years is really detrimental, by tending to perpetuate poverty : thus to divide a noble charity would be to fritter it away : if he had his will, he would not give sixpence this way. He would hear counsel hinaself on the scheme, in his private roam.

Again we have to record a murder and suicide by a mother. Sarah Tar- pin, a single woman, was some months since discharged from her place of housemaid in a hotel at Blackheath, on the discovery that she was pregnant. At her lodgings, near Tottenham Court Road, her infant. was discovered this week with its throat cut, dead on the floor ; and next day the body of the mother was found in the Serpentine with a gaali in the throat. -Her conversation lately had been flighty ; and the surgeon who made a post- mortem examination of the corpse, believed her brain to have been affected by disease. The surgeon was also sure that her death was caused by drown- ing and not by the wound. Appearances on the bank of the Serpentine make it probable that the woman walked into the water, and then cut her throat, fell down, and was drowned.. A Coroner's Jury gave a verdict af- firming this view, and that the death occurred during temporary insanity.

Thomas Bare, the man who killed his wife in Marylebone last week, has been committed for trial. It appears probable that Bare contemplated only a revengeful cruelty to his wife, and not her death. The news of her death shocked him deeply, and he vented remorseful exclamations. Among other sentences uttered, one was a direction to a policeman to go to his boy, and "tell him that his father has murdered his poor mother."

Maria Clarke, the young woman who was convicted at Ipswich of burying her child alive, and whose sentence was commuted, has expired in Milbank Penitentiary. She had been employed thirteen hours and a half each day in the laundry there ; a period which the Coroner's Jury thought too long for the prisoners to be engaged at such work. The immediate cause of death was dysentery.

George Senior, the Hoxton publican who was convicted of acting as a go- between in disposino of goods stolen from the South-western Railway, has expired in Newgate: of acute bronchitis. His illness appears to have been aggravated by mental sufferings; as he frequently exclaimed, "1 am a rtnned man! h and he was careless about taking remedies prescribed by the surgean. The Coroner's Jury gave a verdict of "Natural death."

A distressing case of attempted suicide was brought under the notice of the Thames Magistrate on Monday. Joseph Roberts, a young man of good address, swallowed laudanum, and-narrowly escaped with life. He was out of work, and his dependence on his father and young sisters for bread preyed on his mind. his father has been an engraver; but, unable to get work m

that line, he now makes lucifer-matches—he and five daughters earn from La. to IS.' 3d. a day by their united labour. The young man expressed sorrow for whathe had done. Mr. Yardley pointed out to him the unmanliness of the attempt on his life, to escape suffering; and on discharging him, ordered 5.r. to be given to the distressed father.

Mr. Griffin, a chemist in Houndsditeh, has accidentally killed himself by the um of ether. He was found dead in his bed in the morning, with a towel under his chin: it would seem that he had put ether on the towel and taken it into bed with him, intending to produce sleep by inhaling the va- pour • he had pulled the bedclothes over his head, and had thus been Buffo-

cated. ,

Mr. John Morris, "gentleman," of Vincent Square, has been held to bail by the Westminster Magistrate to keep the peace towards his brother, Mr. Richard Morris, barrister, and assistant-master in the Court of Exchequer. There is a dispute between the brothers about sonic property ; and Mr. John Morris has annoyed his brother in various ways for a long time, personally and by insulting and threatening letters—on one occasion writing a warning to him to "reflect on the fate of Jermy."

The officers of Inland Revenue have made about fifty seizures of adulterated pepper at grocers' in London. Husks of mustard-seed, chilies, rice, beans, and linseed, are used in cheating the purchaser.

Messrs. Reddin, dust-contractors, have been charged before the Southwark Magistrate with allowing such large accumulations of refuse on their pre- wises, as to cause sickness to the neighbours, by poisoning the air. Mr. A'Beckett ordered an immediate removal of the nuisance.