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Alderman Farebrother and others being of opinion that the annual dinner given by the Lord Mayor on the 9th of November should this year be post- poned in consequence of the death of the Duke of Wellington, the sub- ject came before the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday. The Alderman wanted to know whether the Lord Mayor Elect and the Sheriffs would not postpone the dinner ? Alderman Lawrence asked why, when the pre- sent and the late Premier were figuring away at public dinners, the ancient custom of the City should be postponed ? Why not follow the precedent of Nelson's funeral. Nelson died before and was buried after the 9th of November; yet the usual dinner took place. Alderman Fare- 'brother rejoined, that though Lord Nelson died before the 9th November, his remains were not brought home till after the 9th. Alderman Sidney supported Alderman Farebrother. The Lord Mayor Elect said, that if he and the Sheriffs could decide the matter, they would postpone the dinner ; but he suggested that Lord Derby should be asked whether her Majesty's Ministers would accept invitations for the 9th, and that their reply should be the guide. Mr. Alderman Sheriff Carter concurred; and the subject dropped.

The Lord Mayor and the Bishop of London are both natives of Bury St. Edmund's. On the 8th instant, the Lord Mayor, who has always been mindful of his native city, gave a grand banquet to the Mayor of Bury St. Edmund's and the other municipal functionaries. The Bishop of London and the Mayors of Southampton and Northampton were also present.

At a Vestry meeting of the parish of St. Dionis Backehurch, held on Thursday, a letter was read from Dr. Pellew, Dean of Norwich, an- nouncing his resignation of the Rectory : whereupon the Vestry passed the following resolution- " That this Vestry, feeling deeply attached to the interests of true religion in the Church of England, and sincerely anxious to promote its usefulness, deplores the systein whioh permits its sacred offices to be filled by those who, from non-residence, infirmities of age, or lukewarmness, are incapable of exercising the important duties which devolve upon them to the advantage and welfare of the Church and its members, whereby discredit is thrown upon religion, and the progress of truth impeded,—earnestly, therefore, en- treats that the vacancy in the Rectory of this parish may be filled by one fully capable of executing in person the high charge committed to his care." It was also resolved that the resolution should be forwarded to Dr. Pellew ; and that a memorial should be drawn up embodying the spirit of the resolution, and submitted to the parishioners for signature. Moved by the approach of the cholera, the Directors of the Poor of the parish of St. Pancras agreed to the following resolution at their meeting on Tuesday- .' That, in consequence of the anticipated approach of the cholera, it be- comes necessary as a precautionary measure for this board to appoint a corn. mittee for the purpose of investigating the sanitary condition of the Work- house, more particularly with reference to its classification, diet, ventilation, drainage, &c. ; and also to consider the moat judicious and efficient mode of treating and protecting the inhabitants of the parish, and to make such seg. gestions from time to time as circumstances may render expedient."

The late orders of the Poor-law Commissioners regulating out-door relief have called forth both provincial and metropolitan opposition. Oo Tuesday, the Guardians of the City of London Union passed the following resolution- " That this Board of Guardians cannot carry out the orders of the Poor. law Commissioners for regulating relief afforded to out-door paupers without inflicting great hardship, injustice, and oppression, upon many who are en- titled to their protection and sympathy." It was also resolved that a copy should be forwarded to the Commis- sioners.

Mrs. Chisholm, .Mr. William Shaw Lindsay, Mr. Robert Lowe M.P., and Mr. Sidney, attended another emigration-gathering at Clapham, on Tuesday-. The Reverend Wentworth Bowyer' Rector of the parish, pre- sided. Mrs. Chisholm delivered a kind. of lecture, on the theme that "Government inspection of provisions is not sufficient protection to emigrants." Her complaint was, that Ake provisions are exchanged by the crew after the departure of the ship ;, and she suggested that a separate pantry should be constructed in every emigrant-ship. Mr. Lindsay promised to look to it in his ships. He also stated, that he was about, to have a ship of .2500 tons burden, to be called tho Caroline Chisholm, fitted entirely for emigrants, which would convey Mrs. Chisholm and others to Australia, and be the forerunner of a line of ships of the same character. Mr. Lowe dilated on the great advantages of Australia. "There the climate was most exhilarating; there, there were no blue devils—they had no November fogs, and no days which suggested gently to a man to go and hang himself. Provisions were exceedingly cheap, and he had often bought the best hind-quarters for his family at a farthing the pound. Tea was a shilling the pound, and sugar and all other necessaries proportionately cheap. Much clothing was not required; in fact, the clothes that were worn were more for look than for use • and houses to live in did not require to be made of stone or brick—a few slabs cut from a tree consti- tuted sufficient materials to erect a dwelling."

Pursuing his own peculiar opinions, he represented the high price of land and the presence of convicts as the two great causes which powerfully checked emigration to Australia.

Mr. Adolphus, the well-known reporter of the Court of Queen's Bench, and Solicitor-General for the County Palatine of Lancaster, has been ap- pointed to succeed Mr. Amos as Judge of the Marylebone County Court.

There is a statement abroad that a Free Public Library is about to be established in Marylebone.

The splendid King's Cross terminus of the Great Northern Railway was opened to the public on Thursday ; when all the trains outward and inward used it. Lighted with numerous gas-jets, the building presents at night the appearance of "a grand illumination."

Mr. A'Beckett, the Southwark Magistrate, has given a decision overruling the regulation of a railway company. A gentleman called a cab within the gates of the Brighton Railway terminus at London Bridge ; the driver de- clined to take him as a fare, as it was not his turn : the Company had order- ed, for public convenience, they allege, that the cabs in the station should be hired in rotation, so that there shall be no confusion created by a number of vehicles driving off at the same moment. The gentleman summoned the cabman. Of oouree the Company took the matter up. Their counsel urged that the cabs within the terminus-gates are not hackney-carriages within the meaning of the act of Parliament ; that the cabman was not plying for hire • and that the terminus was not such a public place as the act contem- plated. The Magistrate pronounced against the validity of all the pleas : to admit the last would be very inconvenient to the company itself, for if a driver were not amenable at a terminus for one offence, be would not be for others—abuse, extortion, or other misconduct. Mr. A'Beckett pointed out. that railway companies assume another right to interfere with the act, by recommending passengers to pay certain extra rates for luggage, as other- wise the charge is " discretionary" with the cabman ; whereas the law dis- tinctly says that cabmen shall not charge for luggage at all. As there had been an obstinate continuance at the terminus in violating the law, in spite of previous complaints, Mr. A'Beckett fined the driver forty shillings.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, Charles Johnson pleaded guilty to two indictments for larceny. This is the fellow who made so desperate a re- sistance when Policeman Donkin attempted to arrest him at Muswell Hilly and endeavoured to " gouge " out the officer's eyes. The prisoner was sen- tenced to hard labour for eighteen months. The Chairman, Mr. Witham, highly commended the gallant behaviour of Donkin : unfortunately, as John- son's crimes were merely larcenies, there was no power to order a reward to his captor.

The Magistrates of Bow Street, Marylebone, Westminster, Hammersmith, and Southwark, have been engaged this week in enforcing the Common Lodging-houses Act against people who sublet filthy rooms. The Maryle- bone Magistrate remarked, that the measures taken by the Police to rout out these miserable lodgers might for a time increase poor-rates by driving some persons into workhouses ; but the ultimate result, by breaking up these nests of filth, vice, and disease, would compensate to the public for the present demand on its purse.

The Lord Mayor has discovered a class of men distinct from all others— Irish tailors who "live upon fighting and drinking." He has held three of them to bail this week for having enjoyed life in both ways : their share of the fighting, which took place in their alley, seems to have been the recep- tion of a good pummelling—one said they had had "the lives hammered out of them."

Robert Godsmark, a letter-carrier of Walworth, has been remanded by the Bow Street Magistrate on a charge of stealing two letters containing money- orders : he gave himself into custody. Godsmark was formerly a trades- man at Walworth, and kept the pest-office; but having become reduced in circumstances, he obtained a situation as a letter-carrier. The Marlborough Street Magistrate has remanded James Jones on a charge of extorting money from Assing, a beer-shopkeeper. Jones pretended that he was an excise-officer. Assing was selling beer under another MITI'S licence; Jones knew this; he went to the shop, threatened Assing with direful consequences, and thus obtained two sums of money before his roguery was detected. Robert Watt, a cab-driver, has been committed for trial by the Lambeth magistrate, for stealing 2.5/. in silver, the property of Mr. Sinclair, a publican. Mr. Sinclair went in Watts's cab from one of his establishments to another ; he had numerous articles with him, one of them a bag containing 2.5/. in . new silver coin ; this bag was left in the cab, and Watts quickly drove away with it. He was traced ; a new sixpence was found in his pocket ; and at hil3 lodging, hid between the bed and mattress, was the missing bag, still con- ' t.aining 201. 16s.

Watts, Perry, and Grinsell, the men charged with uttering fraudulent checks, have been fully committed for trial by the Lambeth Magistrate : bail to be permitted. Amongst the papers found on Watts, was the following, in his own handwriting ; probably intended for insertion in the newspapers, to put the officers off the scent- . ' Deaths.—On the — inst., accidentally drowned, whilst fishing in the Thames below Henley, Robert Jack Watts, Esq., lately of St. John's Wood and Fun:livers Ian, and of Cranbrook, Rent, aged 24, much regretted."

The extensive robbery of watches and jewellery at Mr. Jones's shop in the Strand was a skilfully executed enterprise, though there was less difficulty in effecting it than one would have supposed, considering the locality and the probable means taken to guard such tempting goods. The robbery seems to have been effected thus. Next to Mr. Jones's is a public-house—a "night house," or one open all night. The company frequenting it is of course not very select ; there is a cab-stand opposite. People have access to the back- yard of the public-house, which is divided from Mr. Jones's yard by a wall only six feet high. The burglars scaled this wall. With strong "jemmies" or crow-bars they forced open the shutters of a back-kitchen ; a pane of glass was broken, sound being deadened by attaching paper with an adhesive coating ; no doubt, a small boy was /Jut through the aperture, and he opened a door for the burglars. To enter the shop, it was necessary to open another door ; this was effected by the aid of centre-bits and other instruments. The robbers loaded themselves with plunder, left their cumbrous housebreaking- tools behind them, and quitted the premises by a door which opens into a court on one side of Mr. Jones's house. A Policeman found this door open early in the morning, and thus the robbery was discovered. The inmates of the house all slept in the second floor, and what little noise the burglars may have made did not disturb them. A reward of 2501. is offered.

Jane Collins, a girl of seventeen, has murdered her mistress's child, and killed herself, at Mile-end. She was in the service of Mr. Elliott, a cigar- manufacturer ; two children slept with her—an infant twelve months old, and a girl of four. On Monday morning, Mrs. Elliott, receiving no answer when she called the girl, went to her room ; the elder child was crying, and the infant was lying on the bed dead—apparently strangled. Jane Collins was not in the room. There was a pool of blood in the wash-house, and an open razor lying on the floor ; drops of blood were traced up-stairs to a loft ; and there, in a small lumber-hole, the girl's corpse was found : there were cuts on the throat, and an apron-string was tightly twisted round it. At the first sitting of the Coroner's Jury, a surgeon stated that the girl had died from strangulation, and not from the wounds on the throat, which were merely superficial. Witnesses deposed that she had not exhibited any signs of insanity ; but she was passionate at times, and she was in the habit of saying, "If my mother was to die, I should cut my throat !" and she had also repeatedly exclaimed, "When I am in a passion, I should kill the child, and then cut my own throat!" The surgeon could not pronounce the cause of the infant's death without a post-mortem examination; so the in- quiry was adjourned.

There was a great struggle for the "championship" of the Thames on Thursday. Robert Coorabes, for some years "champion" both of the Thames and the Tyne, about, four months since lost his superiority on the former river, with a prize of 400/., to Thomas Cole, of Chelsea. This issue was un- expected, and the partisans of Coombes ascribed it to fortuitous circum- stances : so another trial-match was .arranged, with 4001. for a money reward. The distance was from Putney Bridge to Mortlake. The river, the bridges, and the shores, were covered with eager spectators. But the interest in the struggle was soon at an end—Cole quickly took the lead, kept it with ease, and came in a hundred yards in advance of his opponent, "whose exertions seemed to lack the freedom of his usual style." Cole is five pounds heavier than Coombes, and seventeen years younger—twenty- seven against forty-four.