A new candidate for Southwark has appeared, in the person
of Mr. John Curling. That gentleman has advertised his political opinions in rather vague terms- " With reference to my political sentiments, suffice it, for the present, briefly to state—I am the warm supporter, the ardent advocate, of all those great and truly liberal and enlightened principles which are calculated to confer the greatest happiness on the greatest number, as distinguished from the selfish in- terests of the few, and which can alone, in my opinion, form the safeguards of the rights, the privileges, and the constitutional liberties of a free, a patriotic, and independent community."
The Managing Committee of the Marvlebone Reform Association, which appears to consist principally of Mr. Young's friends, have put forth a denial of the statement made at the meeting of Mr. Ewares supporters last week, that there are twelve Tories on Mr. Young's " Committee." They declare that Mr. Young has no " Committee," though supported by 645 Reformers, most of them electors, who consti- tute the two Reform Societies in the borough.
Yesterday, between three and four hundred members of the Smith- field Club dined together at the Freemason's Tavern; Earl Spencer in the chair. There was much talk about beeves, with heavy potations. The company were very jovial, and Lord Spencer congratulated them on the increasing prosperity of the Club.
The annual meeting of the Central Agricultural Society was held on Thursday, at the Crown and Anchor. Not more than thirty persous were present at the meeting, though about fifty mustered at the dinner which look place in the evening. Resolutions 'were passed pled;ring the Society to support the Corn-laws in opposition to the combination of the manufacturing capitalists and the free-trade party.
The Prisons Bill, passed lest session of Parliament, is likely to occa- sion a large increase in the aliment of County-tense drawn from the va- rious parishes within the county of Middlesex ; as appears front the cir- cular letter atitlressed to the Trustees of the Ctatinty, requiring their at- tendaace at I lieks's Hall, Clerk enwell, on the next couloysday, when the Visiting J ustices of the House of Correction will propose to the Court to appoint fifty-six male mud twenty-six fee nate turnkeys, in midi- tion to those at present employed there ; the expense of which will amount to about 5,000/.
The Lord Chancellor leas presented the Reverend Hugh Hughes, Lecturse. of St. Leonard, Shore:Etch, to the Rectory of Si. John's, Cferk- enwell, void by the resignation of the Reverend W. E. L. Faulkner.
The Committee of the Greville Street Hospital have just issued a report, from which it appears, that in the year ending in February 1839, 8,298 persons were relieved by it, aid that the total number so relieved since its foundation in leee is 55,1i2e. It has a strong claim to the support of the bemmevolent, from the circumstance that its doors are open to the unhappy sufferer without any recommendatiou.
The stirplits of the money received from the Guildhall entertainment, and applicable to the relief of the distressed Poles, exceeds 900/.
From the vast increase in the North-west part of the Metropolis, and for the eillIVelliellee of time inhabitants of Paddington, Kilburn, Bays- water, Pimlico, awl the respective localities, there is an intention to apply to the Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway to ap- poimit a station near Kilburn Bridge, for taking up and setting down passengers, if not luggage ; by which much time and distance will be saved to persons in those vieinities, instead of progressing to the Euston Square station. It will also afford much fiwility for pleasure-parties and those who make excursions.—Glae.
We :iod that there were sereval mistakes in a paragraph svbieh was inserted in the Gibe of Saturday, on tlw effects of the new Bu:0-office regulatiens. The increase of leit:n.s posted in Luedon On Thursday last was 21,00, the number posted being 00,000 ; on the preetelieg ILI'S- day 3;1.000. The defalcation in the revenue was only 5001., not 70o/. The daily increase of letters in the Metropolitan district since Thursday, over the previous average, is from 25 to 30 per cent. ;and the diluinution
of daily receipts about 450/. It will thus be observed that, ti 0: the first increase le the number of letters is not sustained to the full extent, the revenue appears to fall off less then at first. This may perhaps be aceoueled ffir partly from a diminution in the number of franks, and partly by pre-payment of postage having been made more generally in this aistitiet.—Caubc.
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