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At a Wardmote held on Monday for the ward of Cornhill, Mr. Carter was elected Alderman of the ward, in the room of the late Sir John Pirie. -The Court of Common Council, at a special meeting held on Thursday, adopted petitions to both Houses of Parliament against "the late aggres- sion of the Pope of Rome," and "for preserving the supremacy of the Queen, and protecting inviolate the civil and religious liberties of her sub- jects." The motion was made by Mr. James Anderton, and seconded by the Liberal Mr. James Norris. The "previous question" was moved by Mr. Gilpin the Quaker, and seconded by Mr. Deputy Peacock. Alder- man Copeland declared, that the question was, " Shall the Reformation stand?" The amendment was supported by only about a dozen hands, and the original motion was carried by a great majority.
The incumbents of the livings in and round the Metropolis met on Thursday, in the great hall at Zion College, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to amend and strengthen Lord John Russell's Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. The Reverend Dr. M'Caul opened the pro- ceedings : one notable feature of his speech was a suggestion that Parlia- ment should be petitioned to postpone the Great Exhibition till the rights of the Crown and the religious independence of the country have been secured against foreign invasion, lest the assembled world should believe the English Crown and people are in a state of humiliation scarcely paral- leled since the days of King John. The Reverend Mr. Ruddock spoke at much length in despondency of any material improvement to the bill. Dr. Worthington attacked the Jesuits. It was resolved unanimously, that the bill now before the House is " insufficient for repelling the Papal ag- gression, and altogether below the expressed wishes of the people of Eng- land " ; and a "more sufficient and satisfactory measure " was prayed for.
A meeting of the Roman Catholics of London assembled at the Free- mason's Tavern on Monday, to protest against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. The room was crowded to excess ; and from allusions made by Mr. Reynolds, the Member for Dublin, it appears that a large proportion of those present were Irish. Mr. Philip Howard, the Member for Carlisle, presided. Lord Vaux of Harrowden, the Honourable C. Langdale, and Mr. C. Townley, who was expected to preside, excused their absence on separate grounds of domestic affliction. Mr. Sergeant Shee spoke for an hour and a half, chiefly on the history of the legislation against his faith. Mr. John Reynolds, M.P., and Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P., spoke, with Irish raciness, at more moderate length. A Jew gentleman named Kyezor, who wished to interpellate the Chairman on the treatment of Jews in Rome with the Pope's consent, was summarily ejected from the platform and the meeting, with great violence. Petitions to Parliament were adopted.
At a meeting held in St. Martin's Hall on Tuesday, for the furtherance of the Reform movement in the Wesleyan body, it was stated by Mr. Josiah Child, the Chairman, that there are now in the London district "48 Reform chapels, 78 local preachers, (with five others on trial,) 151 class-leaders, 165 classes, 198 prayer-leaders, 2298 members, five tract societies and Sunday schools." Mr. Chipchase stated that there was a report that the Conference contemplates the suspension of Dr. Beaumont, one of the most popular and influential divines in the Wesleyan body.
The second monthly soiree of the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association was held on Monday, in the London Tavern ; Sir Joshua Viralmeley in the chair. Mr. Fox, M.P., delivered a lecture on the prin- ciples of Reform ; towards the conclusion of which he especially warned the members of the Association against being drawn from their objects by the Papal aggression cry. The lecture was succeeded by music.
At the Central Criminal Court, Mary Ann Parkes and Jane Lewis have both been found guilty of perjury in respect of the depositions they lately made in the false affiliation of an infant to the Earl of Stamford. The evi- dence laid bare a case of peculiarly base conspiracy. Sentence was respited, in some degree of pity for the two women, till the man Sheridan, whose dupes they are believed to have been, has been brought to justice.
O'Leary, a powerful young Irishman, has been committed to be tried for an unprovoked and brutal assault on Sullivan, an aged countryman; in the course of which he seized with his teeth the old man's under-lip, shook him like a bull-dog, and tore the lip off the poor old man's face.
Some 4000 gallons of whisky, ranging from 20 to 30 over proof• have been seized by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, at Downe's Wharf, where it had been just landed from Scotland ; and proceedings will be instituted for the recovery of penalties to the amount of 10001. In conse- quence of frauds, the Commissioners have issued an order that all spirits arriving in London henceforth shall be " measured," and net gauged by application of the callipers to the casks, as heretofore.
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