A Literary and Scientific Society has been established at Islington
within the last two years, which already includes among its members a large number of the most respectable inhabitants of the place. The great advantages which this and similar institutions hold out to the public ought to render their support an object of interest to all persons who desire to cultivate a taste for literature and science; and we are glad to find them extending to most of the suburban villages. The Islington Institution combines the advantages of a library of standard publica- tions, a reading-room supplied with periodicals, a museum of collec- tions in various departments of natural history and science, arid tole- rably good philosophical apparatus. Lectures are also delivered, and periodical meetings of the members are held, at which original essays are read, and discussions on the subjects treated on ensue, which give great interest to the proceedings.—Courier.
The session of the London University was opened on Wednesday, with a lecture by Professor Key, on the construction of the Latin language. In his introductory observations, the Professor congratulated the pro- prietary and his audience on the pleasant prospects before them. He referred to the foundation of a great Metropolitan University by the liberality of his Majesty's Government, and hailed it as the period when religious and political distinctions should form no bar to academic education. The proposition had been favourably received by those of the proprietary who were in town ; and he had no doubt that when the opinion of the whole was acquired, that of the majority would be in its favour. A few weeks would solve the question, and would, he anticipated, see an University established worthy the metropolis and the nation, and in which Catholic and Protestant, Jew, Unitarian, and Dissenter, would be admitted without distinction of religious creed.
At a meeting held on Wednesday in the parish-church of St.
Luke, the resignation of Mr. Wall, the Vestry Clerk, was accepted, and a flattering eulogimn passed upon him. Mr. Thomas Gunn, the
senior Churchwarden, took the chair on the occasion. The meeting next proceeded to deliberate OA the amount of salary Mr. Wall's sue- cessor should receive ; which, after some discussion, was fixed at 400/. per annum, being it reduction of 20 per cent. There were two candidates for the office, Mr. Rowland Wilks and Mr. Watts. An active canvass is going on ; and the days fixed for taking the ballot are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
It is intended, in the next session of Parliament, to apply for a bill to carry into effect the formation of a new street, commencing at Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, and terminating at the Town- hall, Southwark. Several meetings have been held upon the subject, and plans drawn up for adoption.
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