On Thursday morning, the Lord Mayor went in the state
barge from London Bridge to Westminster Hall, and was sworn in with the usual ceremony before the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.
A correspondent of the Times having made a fuss about the scaf- folding erected for the accommodation of the Cathedral dignitaries of St. Paul's to see the show on Thursday, Mr, Canon Residentiary Sydney Smith condescended to reply to the attack, in the following characteristic letter.
"Sir--The establishment of St. Paul's consists of it Dean, three Residenti- tries, sad a radius erclushe, or regular fool. The business of the latter is to fill the newspapers with little gossiping falsehoods and nonsense about the former. Our stuitus or stulta (for either sex is eligible) has said, that since the time of Cromwell there has been no such desecration of the church. Now, the erection complained of ( which will be entirely removed before Sunday next) is precisAy in the same place where the Dean and Chapter ordered a staircase to be prepared for them, and accommodation prepared to see the procession of the Foreigu Kings and Princes to Guildhall in 18I4. Scaffolding was erected all over the same spot, and the church shut up for a mouth. The same erection was made at Nelson's funeral ; and every year the church is shut for a fortnight or three weeks, to enable carpenters and joiners to erect scaffolding for the charity children. " The present erection is not for the promiscuous admission of the public, but for the accommodation of the Chapter and of their ft iends, admitted by their own signature. As for accommodation to my reverence, (ns our officer terms me,) I never had the smallest intention to be present—not from the lack of loyalty, but from the fear of rheumatism. SYDNEr Smuts."
From an announcement by Colonel Maberley, Post-office Secretary, it appears that after this day there will be seven twopenny post deli- veries,—namely, at eight, ten, twelve, two, four, six, and eight o'clock. At the General Post-office, letters may be put in an hour later, and at the Cornhill, Charing Cross, and Langham Place receiving-houses, half an hour later, than at the other Twopenny Post-offices.
At Bow Street, on Tuesday, Mr. Samuel Headen, a newsvender of Knightsbridge, was held to bail on a charge of forwarding a letter and an account to Mr. John Musters, of Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire, tinder a newspaper cover. On the same day, Mr. F. Daniels, of Upper Stamford Street, pleaded guilty to a charge of writing letters to his wife in the country in the envelopes of newspapers. He also entered into reeognizances to appear and take his trial at the next ses- sions of the Central Criminal Court.
On Monday morning, between two and three o'clock, as a drove of bullocks were being brought into Smithfield Market, one of them, which from over-driving had become in an infuriated state, made a rush at a drover named Parsons, and catching hint just underneath the ribs on the right side, tossed him over his head, thereby fracturing se- veral of his ribs. He was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and remains in considerable danger. —Post. [It is a pity that an Alderman of the City of London had not been tossed instead of the drover ; the event would have caused a sensation sufficient perhaps to have produced an abatement of the Smithfield nuisance.]
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