Amongst the Metropolitan improvements that are about to be car-
ried into execution, that in the immediate vicinity of the General Post-office may be considered one of the greatest that has been effected for some time. All the houses at the end of Newgate Street, between Paternoster Row and St. Martin's-le-Grand, are immediately to be pulled down. A fine space will thus be thrown open, in addition to the extensive area in front of that handsome building. The narrow- ness of the street at this corner has long been a serious inconvenience, more especially in the evening, when the mails and mail-cares are leaving the Post-office for so many different parts of the town and country. To make the improvements complete, however, one thing is wanted, and that is the removal of several houses on the South side of Paternoster Row, which would afford a nnignificent view of St. Paul's, and render this one of the handsomest parts of London. This is not to be done just yet, but will no doubt be accomplished with as little delay as possible.
On Wednesday night, a meeting of respectable tradesmen was held at the British Coffeehouse, Cockspur Street, for the purpose of taking into consideration whether an application should not be made to Par- liament to extend the jurisdiction of the Westminster Court of Re- quests to sums of 101., and in doing so, to correct the abuses, if any, which now exist in the proceedings of that Court. Shortly after seven o'clock, about on ehundred gentlemen had assembled ; and Mr. Walker, of Covent Garden Market, was called to the chair. A resolution was proposed to the effect "that the jurisdiction of the Court should be extended to the recovery of sums of 10L ;" and after a lengthened conversation between Mr. Fenn, who opposed, Mr. Meebie, Mr. Ladland, and other gentlemen who agreed to it, it was carried by a
great majority. A, second resolution was also agreed to, "that a Committee be appointed to draw up a bill in pursuance of this resolu- tion." The meeting then separated.
Sermons were preached on Sunday last in several of the Metropo- litan churches and chapels in commemoration of the printing of Myles 'Coverdale's Bible.
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