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, A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday; at which a number of sub- jects were considered and disposed of. The propriety of reestablishing the Justice-room at the Town-hall was brought under notice, by a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark, and referred to a committee. A report signed by twelve Aldermen, recommending an increase in the salary of Ittr. Harvey, the Commissioner of the City Police, was sanctioned. The Court agreed to a motion submitted by Alderman Farebrother, for the ap- pointment of a committee to consider the best means of compelling the Guardians of the City Unions to provide sufficient asylums for the house- less and destitute poor.
A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday. The principal business came before it in the shape of some resolutions moved by Mr. Wire; of which the pith is conveyed in the first- " That while the Court is desirous to record its cordial and entire approbation of the comprehensive, ust, and wise measures introduced to the Commons House of Parliament by the First Minister of the Crown, for the revision of our commer- cialpolicy, and is gratified to learn that a repeal of the Corn-laws is also pro- pa4 although at a future time, it cannot but express an earnest hope that the total and immediate repeal of those laws may yet be proposed, instead of defer-
rmg a positive good for a period of three years." Alter a long discussion, the resolutions, and a petition to Parliament founded upon them, were adopted.
The Westminster Reform Society has been called into action by the vacancy in the representation caused by Captain Rous's becomine' one of the Lords of the Admiralty. On Wednesday evening, the Society held a meet- ing at Stannard's Hotel, Covent Garden; when Mr Stocken moved that General Sir George De Lacy Evans be proposed as a candidate, in opposi- tion to Captain Rous. An amendment, stating that it was not advisable on this occasion to contest the election, was put to the meeting, and lost by a majority of eight. The motion was accordingly carried; and communica- ted to General Sir De Lacy Evans; who then joined the meeting, and con- sented to appear as & candidate. In reply to questions, the General stated that he should vote for the Government propositions, provided the great body of the Whig party and the League adopted that course; but if imme- diate repeal were demanded by the League, a motion to that effect should have his support
A society is formed in the Metropolis for the purpose of bringing together in harmony and brotherly love the natives of different countries. A meet- ing was held on Monday night, at White Conduit House, of the members; who consist of Germans, Poles, French, Italians, Americans, and English. The motto of the society is " Alle Menschen sind Briider."—Globe.
The sixteenth annual general meeting of the Marylebone Savings Bank was held on Thursday, at the office in Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square; the Reverend Dr. Spry in the chair. It appeared from the several reports read to the meeting, that the favourable progress of the Bank continues: no fewer than 2,418 new deposits were made in the last year; 16,201 de- posit accounts remained open on the 20th November last, of which 10,628 held balances averaging less than 4/. 7d. each. Upwards of 356,9541. was then invested with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt.
In the Arches Court, on Thursday, the Reverend Henry Cresswell, Vicar of Creech St. Michael, in Somersetshire, accused of drunkenness, habitual swearing, fighting, setting a dog to worry sheep, and other disorderly conduct, was sea tenced to suspension for eighteen months, in addition to the suspension already incurred for a like period during the progress of the suit.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, five men in the service of the Watermen's Steam-packet Company were tried for the late riot at Paul's Wharf, and assault upon City Policemen. It was argued for the defence, that the pro- ceedings of the Lord Mayor were illegal. But Mr. Baron Rolfe, in summing up, told the Jury that an illegal act must not be riotously resisted. One man was acquitted, the others were found guilty: three were ordered to be imprisoned for three weekk, and the ringleader, the master of a Watermen's boat, for six weeks. James Waylett was convicted of housebreaking, and sentenced to imprison- ment for a year. The man entreated that he might be transported: he had been several times convicted, and it was impossible that he could ever get an honest living in this country. The Recorder acceded to his request, and ordered him to be transported for fifteen years. With tears in his eyes, the prisoner thanked the Judge for the boon.
Limmer_ a guard on the Norfolk Railway, has been fined 50s., by the Magis- trate at Worship Street Police-office, for having been drunk while in charge of a train passing over the Eastern Counties line to London.
In Arbour Square, Commercial Road, on Thursday. morning, Jeremiah Spence Stark, a young married man, cut his wife's throat with a carving-knife, and then his own; and both died in a few minutes. The wife though married about a twelvemonth, was not yet sixteen years of age; the husband was twenty-three. It appeared at the inquest, that he had acted unkindly towards his helpmate for some months: he was subject to determination of blood to the head, and he fre- quently drank to excess. The Coroner remarked that the man had evidently been deranged; and the Jury returned a verdict in accordance with that view.
Mrs. Ellen Baxter, a lady of ninety, has lost her life from falling into the cellar of a public-house in Marylebone, the door of which stood open.
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