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The City laments the death of Mr. Alderman Waithman. He expired on • Wednesday last at his house in Woburn Place in his sixty-ninth year. As a t public man, few have left behind them a more unsullied character than Mr. Waithman. As a Common Councilman, Alderman, and lastly as a Member of the House of Commons, his conduct, though occasionally betokening some waywardness and want of discernment, was uniformly manly and independent.
' 'The citizens of London proved their regard for his worth by the honourable station to which they raised him on the pull at the last election. He was, if we
: remember rightly, the first retail tradesman who was elected a member of the House of Commons. He had too much common sense to be ashamed of his . business ; and frequently referred, in his speeches, to the useful experience which • lie had acquired in his shop. • The Court of Common Council, on Thursday, passed a resolution in which they bore testimony to Mr. Waithman's "consistent and honourable discharge of his duties in his various stations;" and appointed a Committee to make arrangements for apublic funeral, at which the members of the Court might , attend to testify their respect to his memory.
' Several candidates have been named to succeed Alderman 'Waldman in the representation of the City. Among them are Alderman Venables and Sir Henry Parnell, Reformers, and Mr. George Lyall and Mr. Francis Kemble, AntiReformers—the latter gentleman, the Courier says, is not so objectionable on e„ the score of politics as Mr. LyalL We take it for granted that the City of
London will not stultify itself by returning an Anti-Reformer; and we pre sume that if Sir Henry Parnell comes forward,—Which does not appear to be , -quite certain,—there would not be much difficulty in securing his election. "41 Sir James Williams, Mr. Grote, Mr. Harmer, 'Mr. Rundell, and several other gentlemen, are mentioned as likely to become candidates for the now vacant office of Alderman of Farringdon Without.
In the COnsistory Court, on Monday, a trial came on to determine the right of Dr. Vivian, the Rector of the united parishes of St. Augustine and St. Faith, to appoint an organist to the Church of St. Augustine. It appeared that the parishioners and churchwardens were determined to support their. old organist, blind woman named Flieaheth Carter.; while Dr. Vivian insisted that a Mr. John Peck should have the place. There was a long discussion in the Court, ..,11 in which Dr. Addams appeared for Dr. Vivian, and Mr. Williams for Mrs. Carter. The case was not decided ; but was ordered to stand over until the -. next Court. During the trial, Mr. Williams excited the aneeer of Dr. Addams, by declaring that Ik. Vivian was the son of a whitewasher' althougla, in searchmg for his pedigree in the Herald's College, he found that he was called the son of a London merchant.
e The chapel of ease belonging to St. Pancras parish was set on fire on Sunday r. last, by a heated flue, which passes from the Vestry to the roof. Fire-engines
soon arrived ; so that only a part of the roof was destroyed and some slight damage done to the interior of the building. I The counting-house of Ponies, Brothers, and Company, in Freeman's Court, Cornhill, was entered on Saturday night by some thieves, who had concealed themselves in the cellar. They found the lity of the safe, but were unable to penetrate some of its interior recesses; so that they only carried off about twenty sovereigns. Benjamin Solomons, brother to the noted Ikey, has been detected in carrvine
f' on the family business of receiving stolen goods. On Thursday week, 'Mr? Cope, the Marshall, and one of the City Police, proceeded to his premises in
, Petticoat Square, and seized bun; but Solomons contrived to slip away from , them, leaving his coat in their hands and made his cape. Mrs. Solomons and others of the family made vigorous efforts to get the coat out of the grasp of the officer, but did not succeed. In the pockets were found 44 sovereigns, four 5/.
1 =We and a 50/. note which was stolen out of the iron safe of a chemist in Houndsditch. On Saturday, Mr. Nobler junior applied, on behalf of Mrs. Solomons, for restitution of the gold. The Lord Mayer said, that if Solomon, would apply himself for it, every attention should be paid to his claim. Solomons, it is supposed, is too able a rogue to permit himself to be retaken. He has great command of money, and will probably make his escap_e to Van Diemen's Land, where several of his family.are ' in affluence. He has the character of being more dexterous in concealing stolen property than even his brother Ikey.
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