Che jactropotio.
The annual dinner of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs took place on Thursday at the Guildhall, a week later than the usual time, in conse- quence of the 9th of November having been devoted to the grand entertainment to the Queen. The chief guests were her Majesty's Ministers, the Judges, and the Foreign Ambassadors. There were also plenty of Aldermen, and a sprinkling of Members of the House of Commons and private gentlemen. Politics were excluded, and the speeches were commonplace and complimentary.
More than a hundred delegates from Anti. Slavery Societies met on Tuesday, at Exeter Hall. Letters were read from many influential persons; and several speeches were delivered, to the effect that an effo r should be made to procure the entire freedom of the Negroes in the West India Islands. The apprenticeship system was declared to be as oppressive as that of slavery ; to abolish which, the people had paid twenty millions sterling.
The dinner to the Representatives of Southwark has been postponed to the 29th instant, in order to secure a full attendance of Members of Parliament.
On Tuesday, there was a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. A petition to Parlia- ment, praying for protection against the "inroads of Popery," was agreed to. Captain Alsager, 31.1'., was the great man at this meeting.
The Lord Chancellor, on Saturday, decided that the late Corpora- tion of Liverpool had acted illegally in charging the corporation estates with the sum of 105,0001. for an endowment of churches in LiverpooL His Lordship reversed the decision of Lord Langdale in this matter; and condemned the complainants, Mr. Aspinall and two others, trustees of the Endowment-fund, to pay the costs. It is said that these cost. already amount to 7,000/.,.for which the defeated parties have no secu- rity. Under these circumstances, it is not very probable that the case will be carried to the House of Lords. The Liberal party have the Corporation funds to fall back upon.
In the Consistory Court, on Wednesday, Dr. Lusbington gave a de- cree in favour of the right of the Churchwardens of Braintree to levy a church-rate on the parishioners, in defiance of the decision of the latter in vestry assembled. The Doctor intimated plainly that his own opinion was against the parties for whom he decided; but he held that, as a judge in an inferior court, be was bound by the decree of his superiors ; and a precedent was found in favour of the claim of the Churchwardens. It appeared that, in the year 1799, Sir William 'Wynne, a judge in the Court of Arches, decided, in the case of Ganden and Selby, that the Churchwardens were bound to repair the church ; and if the parishioners refused to make the necessary rate, then that the Churchwardens should make it.
Yesterday. the Court of Queen's Bench, on the application of Sir John Campbell, granted a rule to show cause why the Consistory Court should not be prohibited from proceeding further in this ease.
In the same Court, Sir William Follett moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Messrs. Siropkin and Marshall, publishers of the Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for a libel on Mr. Grainger, the gentleman who was on board the Apollo when it was struck by the Monarch, and who gave such strong evidence against the managers of the latter vessel. Mr. Grainger complained that, in an article on the subject of the collision of the two vessels, he was represented as having "sworn through thick and thin." But the Court, deeming that this might only mean that he swore like a partisan—not that he swore falsely—refused the rule.
On Saturday, Captain Goode was committed from the Bow Street Office, to take his trial on the charge of "uttering certain seditious words and menaces towards her Majesty the Queen, in the presence of ber Majesty." Mr. Phillips, Mr. Fox Maule, and Mr. Gore, Lord John Russell's Private Secretary, were present during Goode's exami- nation.
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