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The members of the Fox Club dined at Lovegrove's, Blackwell, on Saturday. No report is given of any speeches or toasts, but the 'following gentlemen were among the company —Lords Melbourne, Poltimore, Ducie, Nugent, Ebrington, Charlemont, Tavistock, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir Ronald Ferguson, Mr W. De nison, 'Mr. Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. Ponsonby.
The Times of Tuesday charged " the Romillys " with having made seven votes out of one set of chambers ; but Mr. John Romilly, in a letter to that journal, gives the following explanation of the circum- stances alluded to : " The absolute interest in these chambers became vested in my five brothers, my sister, and myself, as tenants in common in fee simple, in equal undivided seventh parts, nearly seventeen years ago : they have since continued to be held in the same way down to the present time, with the exception that, on my ,sister's marriage with Mr. Kennedy, her share in them was transferred to him. I beg also to state, that the interest in these chambers of each of the seven proprietors amounts to about 40/. yearly." The Times might as well have let this matter alone.
The Lord Mayor has refused to call a meeting of the Common ,Council to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to pass the -Municipal Bill. It is, a pity that the Tories are not again in power, to rescind the order by which Mr. Winchester is prevented from making -tenders to supply the Stationery Office : a contract after the good old Tory fashion, which enabled a favourite to make a fortune in a twelve- month, would be the least that the " Peel and Dawson crew " could do for their tool.
In a report made by Mr. Rennie, of the effects produced on the Thames by the removal of London Bridge, it is stated that the drain- age of the districts bordering on the River has been greatly improved ; that barges, which used formerly to be towed up from Putney to Rich- mond by horses, are now carried by the current in one tide ; and that 'the fall of water has been so considerable as to cause ships in many in- stances to ground in their tiers.
The probable sum required for the embankment at Westminster Bridge, for the New Houses of Parliament, is 43,00/.
The number of persons entered upon the register of St. Pancras, as entitled to vote for the borough of Marylebone, exceeds that of last year by upwards of 1,500.
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