A meeting of the -Court of Common Council wa§ held
on Monday when petitions to Parliament, against the bill for removing the market now held at Smithfield to Islington, were adopted; after a long speech from Deputy Hicks, who characterized the project of abolishing Smithfield market as outrageously unjust to the City.
On Thursday, the Court reassembled. Mr. Board presented a petition from Mr. Michael Scales on the subject of his contest with the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Scales was allowed to address the Court ; and in the course of a long speech, uttered a good deal of personal invective against certain Aldermen. He encountered much interruption, but persisted in enlarging upon his wrongs; having, as he said, suffered more ills than Shakspeare had described in the celebrated enumeration of those which a man might end with a bare bodkin ; but if he were to use a bodkin to rid himself of annoyance, it should not be against himself. One of the Aldermen bad said, that if a butcher were admitted to their Court, he would throw up his scat: that person's name was Flewer-
Two or three members—" Sir Charles Flower, you mean ?"
Mr. Scales—" Flewer was the name. His mother had been a chambermaid in Chancery Lane."
This impertinent allusion to the ancestry of an Alderman created some disturbance ; and after a good deal of altercation, Mr. Scales was -silenced, and the petition laid on the table. Soon afterwards, the -Court adjourned.
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