15 SEPTEMBER 1832, Page 4

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The Livery of London have no intention to oppose the election of Sir P. Laurie to the Mayoralty this year.

A meeting was held at No. 41, Cheapside, on Thursday, on the sub- ject of commemorating the Reform Bill by erecting almshouses. Mr. Shoobridge, the gentleman who waited on the Lord Mayor on the sub- ject last week, was in the Chair. A Mr. W. Weston spoke of the propriety of the Corporation giving 3,0001. towards the fund. This is what is called a charitable subscription. The resolutions all passed unanimously. We do not know how many. gentlemen were present. It was also, we are told, the unanimous opinion of the meeting, that all political feeling should be banished from their discussions. Banish all political feeling from a meeting called to consider the means of best commemorating the Reform Bill!

Mr. Const, on the unanimous invitation of the Middlesex Magistrates, has consented to hold the chair of the Middlesex Sessions until next turn, when a successor will be appointed.

A plan was submitted to the Middlesex Magistrates on Thursday, of a new street in a line with Farringdon Street to the North Road at Islington. The estimated cost is 149,000/. • and the sale of the old materials and of the sites are calculated at 94,0001. The difference is proposed to be raised by county and parochial subscription.

A new hospital for the reception of patients suffering from accidents and acute disease, [rheumatism?] for the Northern district of the me- tropolis, is about being erected. The Council of the London Uni- versity have given for its use the piece of swampy ground opposite the University. The expense is computed at 7,000/.

A Committee has been appointed by the Corporation to inquire into the state of Blackfriars Bridge, preparatory to the adoption of effectual means of repairing it. It has been represented that the Bridge is in a very dilapidated and dangerous state towards the water's surface.

The Cholera Board of St. Giles's have refused to pay the seven watermen whom the worthy successor of Sir Richard Birnie lately swore in to remove the body of a cholera patient. Sir Frederick Roe, on Wednesday, paid the men out of his own pocket.

Government, it is said, have purchased a spot between Chichester Rents, Chancery Lane, and Lincoln's Inn, where the Court of Review will hold its future sittings.

In excavating the ground under the old St. Dunstan's Church, pre- paratory to throwing open the new edifice to the street, a curious dis- covery was made a few days since. A leaden coffin was dug up, with the name of "Moody, engraver," upon it, and dated " Anno Dom.

1747." The age of Mr. Moody was also stated as seventy years. By accident the coffin was broken open, and the upper part of the body ex- posed to view : it was found to be in a perfect state, not in the least decomposed—the flesh had firmness on pressure, and the countenance perfect, although it had lain for eighty-five years. After exposure to the air for a short time, rapid decomposition commenced, and the coffin was fastened down and removed into the new vault.

The inhabitants of Fleet Street, residing in the houses between the new Church and Messrs. Praeds the bankers, have had notices to quit their habitations served upon them ; at the expiration of which Fleet Street will be further widened in that place.

A project, emanating from Greenwich Hospital, for the improve- ment of this town, is proceeding upon a scale which justly entitles it to be considered a bold and splendid undertaking. The design consists in the removal of the old and very low property near the great Na- tional Institution. The unsightly buildings have been partly pur- chased, and handsome houses erected. Taverns and respectable pro- perty will be raised upon the river frontage, the want of which has been long felt, and complained of as injurious to the interest of the tcwn, by preventing the more frequent resort of the wealthier classes of society, for whom the present accommodation is too limited.—Morning Chronicle.