A certain portion of the ...
A certain portion of the press has long indulged its own malignant dispasitiens, and t(e corrupt taste of readers who felt wvith or followed it, by showering torrents of per- sonal abuse utpon the late LORD MAYOR of Londup. The honourable feclings ol better men, and especially of him. who ias the object of such undeserve(I hidignities, may now receive a generou; gratification from the inanner in which he was yestcrtday indleznuifiedl for all tlhat he lhad dbne as well as suffered. 'I'he Boartd of Aldermen had already tlhanked l\r. IVAIrl1 MAN for his magisterialser- vices by a unanimous vote. The Common Council vester- day imitated the example of the Aldermen; and not merely does the cordial anti animate(l language in which thley have recordled the bncrits of an honest, able, and consistent fellow-citizen, preseiit a strong claim to public attention, but also thc unanimous concurrence of an assembly which contained no small number of Aldermani WAITll1tuAN'S political opponents; anid above all, the individual Cestitnonv of the most zealous and active, of those oppo'nents, to the services on which they were called to decile. Mr. SherilBtowvNE, Mr. JA,,%rEs, and-niot the least worth re- narking-Mr. SAM5UEL DIXON, caine forwart with their candid and lionourable declarations in favour of the late Lord iMayor. One passage of the resolutions put it on re- cord, that his discharge of the high and ardluous duties of the office had "never becn surpassed ;" and ithe whole con- cluded with apanegyric cn the resolute consistency and rnan- lness of Alr. WArITHMAN'S conduct for a " third part of '' a century." It is good that such inciteimients should be held out to the active members of a free community. It is just to administer such rebukes to ihe baseness which has busied itself in slandering and persecuting a man whose sole ctime is the bold independence ef his character. The wortlly Alderman may now retire, with the consciousness, as the Lord Chief Baron tpld him, of havingleft bebind hifn an example whiclh hi cliiltlren may be proud to follow.