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The new Town-Council of Leeds have discovered that the old Cor- poration, on the SOth of May last, (six days before the Municipal Bill was brought forward,) " absolutely transferred and alienated " the whole of the corporate property, consisting of 6,500/ in the Consols,. and 5001. secured on the tolls of the Leeds and Wakefield road, to Messrs. John Wilson, William Beckett, and John Blayds. No con- sideration or condition was stated by the deed of conveyance for this transfer, but the motive undoubtedly was to plunder the public for the advantage of certain Tories and old corporators. The parties to this nefarious proceeding will, however, be called to account for their misconduct.
The Liverpool Tories are striving to procure a new dock-bill, which shall exclude the Reform Town-Council from the effectual manage- ment of the dock property. But measures are in progress to defeat their machinations.
The Toryfied Town-Council of Bristol bare had the assurance to present eight members of the old rotten Corporation to the Home Se- cretary for Magisterial appointments ; and of these eight no fewer than five were Magistrates in 1831, at the period of the riots. The dis- graceful and cowardly behaviour of the whole body of the Magistracy on that occasion should be borne in mind by Lord John Russell; and at any rate, the names of the five persons alluded to should be struck out of the list. There is not a Tory in either House—unless perhaps Mr. Peter Borthwick may take up the cudgels in their bebalf—wlio. would say a word in favour of the rejected candidates.
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