TIIE NEW SIIEHIFF.—The Corporation candidates for the office of Sheriff,
to succeed the two gentlemen now serving, will be Mr. Alder- man Cowan and Mr. John Pirie, a merchant and shipowner.—Times.
Wituo or PoarsoxEN.—The contest for the civic gown of this Ward has closed with a majority for Mr. Scales over Mr. Whittle Har- vey of 28. The butcher candidate has been from the beginning the more popular of the two, and the election wit that has been poured out on the Member for Colchester has been unexampled in quantity and coarse- ness. Mr. Harvey has demanded a scrutiny, but the affair, we suppose, may be considered as settled notwithstanding.
lj IDGEMASTE a.--Mr. Watson has been elected to this office, by a large majority. Mr. Gibbs very judiciously gave in, as soon as he saw that the contest was hopeless.
CITY Po LICE.—A committee of the City Magistrates will assemble this day (Saturday) to complete the new arrangements respecting the
police. The chief alterations are, that the care of the property of the citizens by night will be left to the ward police, and the City night patrols transferred to the day pollee. The number of station- houses, where the patrols are to show themselves from time to time, will be increased from six to ten. The office of superintendent of the night police is retained, and his duty is now to walk through the City by night to see that the watchmen, &c. are alertAnd sober.—Times.
LONDGN UNITEUSITY.—A charter, which new only awaits the Royal Signature, is to be granted to the University of London, bestowing on
this establishment all the privileges and powers at present enjoyed by the most favoured of our universities—the granting degrees in theology alone, for the present, being excepted. In compensation for which pri-
vation, the University. of London is to be enabled to grant newly-in- vented degrees of Master of Medicine and Surgery, in addition to those better known, of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Medi- cin e.—Standard.
THE POST•OFFICE.—The Duke of Richmond offered, we under- stand, to Mr. Inigo Thomas, the Accountant-General, the alternative of resigning or acting without a deputy. Mr. Thomas chose to resign ; and the deputy now fills the office, whose duties he has always per- formed. The saving is about 800/. a year—a small slim; but the prin- ciple, 'which we have repeatedly insisted on, is of great importance.
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