QUALIFICATIONS 'Or COMMON COUNCILMEN.—A by-law was pro- posed to the
acseptance of the Common Council, at its meeting yester- day, which went to render inciigiblc. tothe :office of Common Council- man, any matt who had been convicted of using false weights or ma- sures, of defrauding his creditors, or who had not paid twenty shillings in the pound of all his debts. This resolution, which would exclude half the tradesmen in London, and render the election of the rest doubtful—was postponed, after a long speech of Mr. Charles Pearson.
Sin CHARLES FLOWER.—Just as our paper is going to press, we learn that Alderman Sir Charles Flower expired yesterday morning, after an illness of about ten days' continuance. Sir Charles was sup- posed to be the wealthiest man in the Corporation. It is said he died worth upwards of half a million.—Evening Paper.
MR.. IRVING AND THE TRUSTEES OF HIS CHURCH.—We understand that as Mr. Irving is himself one of the trustees of the Scotch Church, Regent Square, his brother officers find much difficulty in dispossessing him of his office as pastor.
CROCKFORD'8.—Two persons named Glassborough and Glasscock, charged last week with a serious robbery at Crockford's, were yester- day fully committed for trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions.
HOLLOWAY THE MURDERER.—.This wretched man, whose behaviour before and at his trial was marked by extreme boldness, and occasion- ally by great levity, has, it appears, spent the days that intervened be- tween his condemnation and execution in a more decorous manner. He was hanged yesterday ;_adhering at the last to the confession which. he first uttered, that Kennett was present when lie strangled his wife, and also when he dismembered the body. He walked to the gallows with singular tininess, and addressed to the multitude a few words of exhortation, in an unbroken voice, and with perfect calmness and self- possession. When the body was cut down, a countryman, with a wen on his forehead, was allowed to ascend the scaffold, for the purpose of rubbing it ! We hardly know whether the Magistrates that permitted, or the fellow that practised this act of obsolete superstition, were most to be pitied. Even the mob had the sense to hoot it.
SWING.—An extensive fire took place at Great Shelford, in Cam- bridgeshire, on Friday last. Several stacks and a number of buildings were destroyed. The damage is estimated at 3,0001. There have been other fires at Barton Stracey, near Devizes, at Milton Ernest, in Beds, and at Leverton, near Boston, but not so extensive or serious in their character. In all these cases, the country journals add, the fire was "unquestionably" the work of incendiaries.
We rejoice to perceive, from the Worcester Journal of Thursday, that the greater part of the colliers in that district have returned to work. Several of the rioters have been apprehended and lodged in prison. The 91st and 85th regiments have been marched into the dis- trict, as well as the 7th Hussars, and the services of the Yeomanry consequently dispensed with. The nail ironmongers at Dudley have discontinued the 10 per cent. discount from the nailors' wages.
Sir Henry Durant offers to present a cottage and two acres of land to any one who shall bring to justice an incendiary.
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