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The address of the City Tories expressing in very moderate terms a clesire to support the King's lawful prerogative, and a hope that the late selection of new Ministers would not prove injurious to the Conn- trj-wes published on Monday, with between five and six thousand atenuaturee appended to it-oecupying twenty-four tedtitmes of the Tunes. On Wedneeday, upwards of two columns more of sigi.atures appeared. The Tories have been making a great fuss about the number of *igniter/res.; which are, after Al, only about a fourth: ot thosu. to the Belfast address, aecerilitig to the Standard. It is ,alstt a deception to call it the address of the citizens. of L Ion ; for persons in the suburbs, nay some from Scotland and the Cele:lies, signed it. In fact, a population of two millions furnished this wonderful number of six thousand odd. Even supposing every person who signed had been a voter, they would have numbered little more than a third of the registered electors for the City ; but eo far from this being the ease, all sorts of people-boys, clerks, warchousemee, and porters-put their noures to it, some of them two or three times over. The whole affair, indeed, terns out to be it mere deceptiou-an titter failure.
On Saturday, Mr. Richard Taylor, Mr. Peacock, aud other Come 11308 Councilmen, appeared before the Police Committee sitting at Guildhall, to know whether it was by the authority of that Committee that the Police had acted in so reprehensible a rummer le Bishopegete: Street on Tuesday week, while the meetings were going on. A, long conver,ation occurred ; whence it appears' that not only had no autho- rityy beim given foe such proceedings by the Committee, but that Alder- men Ituriner and Venablesstrsiiugly disoppetweel of them ; and even AI- dement Smith, the Tory, aud also it memb:e. of-the Committee, hoped that smelt conduct would not be allowed boas: 'The Deputy Marshal (for Brinell, the chief Mao ludewas expressly ordered by Lord Win- chester not to attend on a summit& of the ('ommittee) let um, that the
Secretary if Slate ji9r the Hume Department had been in conannaAdion
with the Lard Mayor on this apir ! tied had authorized the ofticioesness of the latter in keeping down the expression of Anti-Tory feeling. Mr. Taylor weetioned, that one of the board-carriers bud been treated with the greatest brutality by a Policeman ; who had also struck him (Mr. Taylor), when he asked by whose authority he seized the boards. Aldermen Harmer und Venables spoke in very strong lan- guage against the orders of the Lord Mayor ; which, they said, had a direct tendency to produce a riot.
Mr. Croudier, an active election agent in the City, applied to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansionhouse, on Monday, for the platen-tied boards which the Police bad taken from the men intrusted by him to . carry them on the day of the meetings in Bishopsgate Street. The Lord Mayor refused to give them up; charged Mr. Comelier with a design to create a disturbance, and demunded an apology. Mr. Comelier n fused to give any apology ; declared that be had ea wish to create disorder, and that the men were stopped by the Peliee when quietly returning home to dinner; be again dente tided is property. Lord Winchester was quite indignant at Mr. Crombees " insidence," and behaved in a very ridiculous manner. Finally, Mr. Crooeher (who
was rep au ted ly asked for an apology, as the condition of vi ng his boards given up to him) left the Justice-room, informieg Loid Win- chester, that he should seek his remedy elsewhere.
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