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The following are the heads of the Franchise Reform Bill which the Court of Common Council have determined shall be brought into Parlia- ment in the ensuing sestet:in. "That every person who shall weepy premises in the city of London for aperiod of a year and a day, and shall pay scot and bear lot, shall be a free- man and a citizen, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges and be sebjeet to all the duties thereof. " That every freeman and citizen be rated to some municipal, Parliament- ary, or parochial rate, to an amount of not less than 10/.

" That all reference to the register of voters for Members of Parliament be re eased.

" That the roll of freemen and citizens be made out in the first week of October ; to be revised by the Aldermen and Common Council, in wardmote, in the first week of N oventh r following ; witless prevision that due notice be

given in each ward of times when and places where Inch revision shall be appointed to take place. " That in the absence of the Alderman the Lord Mayor act in his stead.

" That the qualification' for candidates for the Common Council be the same as those of the electors ; and that provisions be made to prevent any person being a candidate for the office of Alderman or Common Councilman, who may not have paid his debts in full, in the event of his having been. bankrupt, insolvent, or having compounded with his creditors.

" That the qualifications for Alderman be those of the freemen and citi- zens as aforesaid, and that the Aldermen be elected for a period not exceed- ing seven years.

" That the act of 11th George L e. 18, (Election Act,) he farther amended as follows- " That freemen occupiers be entitled to vote in all eleetions in Common Hall in addition to the Liverymen. " That the poll at elections in Common Hall be limited to one day. " That no person be eligible to be a candidate at elections in Common Hall for the offices of Chamberlain and Bridge-master without seven days' notice of his being a candidate. " That all enactments of the present Election Acts inconsistent with the foregoing be repealed."

A very important measure is to be brought before Parliament next ses- sion, having for its object the erection into municipal boroughs of the city of Westminster, of Lambeth, Marylebone, Greenwich, Southwark, Finsbury, and the Tower Hamlets ; to form Chelsea and Kensington into a separate borough; and also to apply for an act to remodel the worn-out Corporation of Westminster, under the Dean and Chapter and High Bai- liff. These eight boroughs will be each divided into Council and Alder- men. They will possess a separate and independent action as regards their respective local interests, and will furnish a means of equalizing the pressure of poor-rates. It is also intended to procure a general act of in- corporation to consolidate the Metropolitan boroughs under one ooramon. President and Council, to be elected by and from the Borough Council.- lora. This body, in its turn, will furnish executive committees, charged with the administration of the water-supply, sewerage, &c., of the entire Metropolis ; which, for the purposes of this act, will be deemed to include all the population within a radius of ten miles from the Post-office. The plan has received the sanction of a number of Members of Parliament sad other influential parties--Standard.

The Commissioners of Sewers are now constructing the great Northern trunk sewer, connecting the sewers of the Northern districts with the leviathan sewer recently formed along Charing Cross and Parliament Street. It passes from the end of the Haymarket, up Great Windmill Street, along Little Windmill Street, Cambridge Street, Fre., to Poland Street and Oxford Street ; the greater portion of this neighbourhood being entirely destitute of sewerage. The great elevation of these spots above the level of the Thames has rendered it necessary to sink the bed of the sewer to an extraordinary depth, upwards of a hundred and twenty (?) feet below the surface.-Morning Chronicle.

A public meeting of merchants and others interested in the communi- cations with India and China by way of Egypt was held at the London Tavern on Tuesday. The object was to consider the best moans of averting the danger to important British interests in our Colonies and the East, through the veto put by the Turkish Government on the con- struction of the railroad in Egypt from Alexandria to Cairo, and through the general crisis of political affairs between the Turkish and Egyptian Governments. The fleeting had been called by advertisement ; it is said to have been respectably and numerously attended. Mr. Samuel Gregson, Chairman of the East India and China Association, presided ; and among those present were Mr. A. Anderson M.P., Mr. M‘Gregor M.P., Mr. Aglionby M.P., General Briggs, Mr. Briggs, Mr. Larkins, 31. De Salle, and Mr. Ewart. It was resolved to present the following memorial to the Prime Minister.

" To the Right Hon. lord John Russell, MF., First Lord Conuniesioner of her Majesty's Treasury, Fc.

" The memorial of the undersigned merchants and others interested in the communications through Egypt with India, China, and ether places in the East, adopted at a public meeting held, showeth-s

" That the safety, facility, and permanent maintenance of the trahsit through Egypt for the public mails and despatches, travellers, treasure, and valuable articles of merchandise, to and from the East, has become an ob- ject of great national importance, whether considered with reference to the commercial, political, or social interests of Great Britain and her vast Oriental dependencies and commercial relations.

" That it therefore merits the anxious solicitude and active support of her

Majesty's Government.

" That, uuder the administration of the Goverriment of Egypt by the late Mehemet All Priebe, Ibrahim Pacha, and more particularly by his Highness Abbas, the present Pacha of Egypt, this transit has been efficiently pro- tected and greatly improved, at a Cost fat exceeding arty peetinffiry Mee& which they have yet derived from it.

" That his Highness the present Pacha, with the view of further improv- ing this transit, has determined to construct a railway through Egypt, and has actually contracted with an eminent engineer, and fot materials to the amount of 200,000/. sterling, for constructing it ; also, that a considerable number of engineers and mechanics have already been sent to Egypt to as- sist in its construction.

"That your memorialists have learned with considerable alarm, that the Ottoman Porte has claimed a power to annul the arrangements made by the Pacha for constructing this railway.

"Also, that the Porte seeks to deprive the Pacha of the authority which his predecessors have since the treaty of 1841 possessed and exercised in Egypt, and which is considered indispensable to enable him to maintain the necessary subordination and order in that country.

"That your memorialists, and particularly some of them tele have resided in and are well acquainted with the circumstances of Egypt, are of opinion, that should the Porte enforce these pretensions, not only will the construc- tion of the railway be indefinitely postponed, and all other improvements stopped, but the security which the transit of the mails, &c. has hitherto en- joyed, as well as its permanency, will be seriously endangered. "Your memorialists therefore respectfully address you, as the head of her Majesty's Government, with the view of averting a result fraught with such serious dangers to the important British interests involved in the questions now pending between the Porte and the Pasha of Egypt, praying that the prompt and active interference of the Executive Government may be used to induce the Porte to withdraw the interference which she now, for the first time, has put forward, and which your memorialists consider cannot be sustained under the arrangement of 1841, for vesting the hereditary ed- ministration of Egypt is the family of the late Mehemet Ali " Your memorialists would further suggest and recommend, that a formal convention or contract be entered into with a view 'to secure.permanently the facility and safety of the mail .transit through Egypt."

At the Mansionhouse, on Thursday, Edward Evans, clerk at Messrs. Hoares the bankers, was charged with robbing his employers pf 14001. On his accounts being found to be wrong, he had at once admitted his guilt, and given full information about this transaction. He had been employed in an inner room; he could pay customers there by obtaining money from the till outside : orrthe 8th April a check for 14001. was paid over the counter; and on the 10th he got a second 14001. for the check,. and appropriated the money to his own use---the payment to his stock-broker of sums lost by spebulations. Committed for trial. Messrs. Hoares, the bankers, are said to have discovered that a confi- dential clerk, of twenty years standing, is a defaulter to the extent of some 10,0001. He had been speculating on the Stock Exchange ; incurred heavy losses ; and to meet them altered figures in thrsbank-books; so as to abstract money without immediate detection. A foreigner was to have appeared before the Westminster Magistrate on Saturday on a charge of defacing the; wall of Henry the Seventh's Chapel ; but he absented himself, though his passport had been detained to compel him to appear. Mr. Foster Owen, High Constable of Westminster, stated that the last few months' experience at Westminster Abbby showed that it is a popular error to suppose that foreignets do net deface public structures. A waiter at the Great Exhibition has been fined 5s. by Sir Peter Laurie for drunkenness and assaulting four Policemen. This was the man's wrens° :- Mr. Younghusband, the refreshment-contraetor, gave a banquet to two hundred waiters ; and as they drank port and sherry ad libitum from half-past seven in the evening till two next Morning, the waiter got so intoxicated that he did not know what he was about. Sir Peter Laurie remarked,. that Mr. Younghusband had better have distributed- the money the banquet cost among the waiters.

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Mrs. Faucett, the unfortunate widow of the man who murdered two of . VS children and killed 'himself at Camberwell, died on Wednesday : she had gradually sunk under the shock. Three children are left ; two are in service ; the third, the little girl who was wounded, is unprovided for. Mr. Lee, the printer who received the widow and child into his house, is endeavouring to raise a subscription for the orphan : the Lambeth Ma- gistrate has headed it with a donation from the poor-box. A tragedy somewhat similar to that at Camberwell has been enacted at Bermondsey. In the afternoon of Friday last week, Mary Anna Newman, a young married woman, cut the throat of her little daughter, six years of age, and then destroyed herself. The child ran down stairs with its throat bleed- ing, exclaiming " Mother' has done it!" surgical aid was obtained, but the poor child soon died. ledgers in the house went to the woman's room ; where she was found on the floor, dead, with a frightful gash in her throat, and a bloody razor lying near. It appeared at the inquest, that the woman had been ill from fever, and the disease had affected her mind. Her husband believed her to be "partly insane," though he had not expected her to do "any rash act." The husband is an industrious man ; the couple were much attached to each other; and the mother was fond of her child. The evi- dence proved clearly that she had killed herself and child, and that she was not in a responsible state at the time. The Coroner stated, that no matter in what state of mind a party may be, if he or she kill another, it is by law an act of homicide or murder; and the Coroner's court has no power of discharging the party, no matter how insane he might be. Superior courts may do so. In the recent case that occurred at Camberwell, the verdict was one of wilful murder against the father, though the verdict also recorded that he destroyed himself whilst in a state of insanity. The Jury returned the following verdict—" That the deceased, Harriet Newman, was in law wilfully murdered by her mother, Mary Anna Newman ; and that the said Mary Anna Newman committed suicide, being at the time in an unsound state of mind."