Mr. Fitzroy has been prevented by illness from attending at
the Home Office for the last ten days ; but his medical advisers entertain confident expectation& that he will speedily be. able to resume his duties. [This is an explanation of a rumour that Mr. Fitzroy was about to resign ; a ru- mour based on his disappearance from the cab-debates soon atter the amendments set in.] At a Common Hall, yesterday, Mr. George Appleton Wallis was elected, in preference to two other candidates, to serve the office of Sheriff with Mr. Alderman Wire. Mr. Wallis made a brief speech, closing as follows.
" I shall be proud to serve in the office of Sheriff. I mean to perform the real duties of the office. I shall have no gold coaches, no gentlemen behind covered with lace ; but I shall do the business in such a manner as will satisfy my respectable fellow citizens that my object in taking the office was to serve them, and not to support the continuance of the gewgaw exhi- bitions which have so often been substituted for the performance of the essential duties of the office." (Cheers.)
At a Special General Court of the East India Company, held yesterday,. the resolution concurring with the Court of Directors in their acceptance of the bill for the Government of India was adopted. Some opposition was made, but fruitlessly.
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