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It is reported that Commodore Napier will become a candidate for the borough of Marylebone at the next election.
A meeting was called on Tuesday, at Willis's Rooms, by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, to deliberate on the means of creating a fund for sending Bishops out to the Colonies. The rooms were more crowded than they have been on any occasion for several years. There were present, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Armagh ; the Bishops of London, Durham, Winches- ter, Lichfield, Salisbury, Chichester, Hereford, Bangor, and Llandaff; se- veral dignitaries of the Church; the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Eldon, Lord Bexley, Lord Redesdale, Lord Radstock, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Sandon, Lord H. Kerr ; Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Baron Alder- son, Mr. Justice Hagermann, Sir Edward Cust, Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., Sir G. Sinclair, M.P., Sir T. D. Acland, M.P., Mr. W. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. H. Pownall, and other persons of influence. The resolu- tions were all carried unaniinnonly in favour of the proposal, and a large subscription was announced.
The anniversary of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, for the support of the decayed members of the profession, was celebrated at Freemasons Tavern, on Thursday. The Duke of Sussex presided. The amount of subscriptions was 6001.; an amount much less than what has been usually subscribed.
The Queen has transmitted, through Sir Henry Wheatley, her an- nual donation of one hundred guineas to the funds of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, of which her Majesty is the patroness.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, a writ of' habeas corpus was obtained, at the ssit of Mr. Williams, a gentleman of large fortune in Cardiganshire, to recover the person of his son, who is detained by some money-lenders, Douglas and Steele, in the house of one Ballard, a Police-officer. Young Williams had for some time been in the hands of these money-lenders, from whom the father had recovered him once before ; and he had then sent him to Holland ; but the money-lenders sent after him, and brought him back, and now detain him.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, an action was brought by the Mayor of Birmingham, as returning-officer for that borough, to re- cover a proportion of the expenses incurred in the erection of hustings, polling-booths, &c., at the election in which Mr. Muntz, the present Member for Birmingham, Sir Charles Wetherell, and the defendant, Mr. Sturge, were nominated as candidates. Two days before the nomi- nation, Mr. Sturge wrote to the Mayor, to state, that if at the nomina- tion the show of hands should be against him, he should decline going to the poll. On the nomination-day, Mr. Sturge was proposed and seconded ; and a show of hands having been called for, it was declared against Mr. Sturge : he accordingly retired from the contest ; which was afterwards continued by the other two candidates, no poll having been demanded or taken for Mr. Sturge. The question was, whether, under those circumstances, Mr. Sturge was liable for the expenses ? Lord Abinger postponed judgment, in order that so important a ques- tion might receive full deliberation.
At Hatton Garden, on Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Daley and his wife were charged with assault. They were walking in Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, lately, when Alfred Newbold, a little boy, accidentally threw a cork in Mrs. Daley's face. She began beating him with her parasol; his father came out of the house, which was close by, and interfered ; a struggle ensued between MT. Newbold and Mr. Daley ; in the course of which the latter drew out a dagger and threatened to stab his antagonist. Mr. Daley told the Magistrate that he carried the dagger to protect his wife. He promised to do so no more : the dagger was given up to be destroyed ; and the pair were let off, on Mr. Daley's entering into his own recog,nizances to keep the peace.
The Chronicle of Wednesday was "requested to state that there is no foundation for the report, so generally gone abroad, that the young female convict who was discovered in male attire in the Westminster Bridewell, is either well-educated, good-looking and attractive, or en- ceinte." The earlier and more interesting reports, it seems, have caused the Governor of the prison to be overwhelmed with anonymous letters and offers of service.
On Sunday, a Policeman discovered, as he supposed, a boy, asleep, in an unfinished house near Hammersmith. The seeming boy turned out to be a young girl—pretty, of course—the daughter of a working-woman named Taylor, who lives near Grosvenor Square. She had read in the papers of "George White," the female prisoner in Westminster Bride- well ; and, putting on her brother's clothes, she went forth to seek adventures, in emulation of the convict girl.
The St. George's Hotel, in Albemarle Street and Dover Street, was burned down last night. The fire is supposed to have originated in an accidental spark dropped by a lodger on leaving one of the rooms. Great fears were entertained for the adjacent houses, and much pro- perty was injured in the hasty removal. Only the two houses, however, comprised in the hotel, were seriously damaged. The loss is very great ; but Mr. Everill, the proprietor, is said to be insured. On Monday morning, in consequence of the rapid sinking of the arches of Westminster Bridge on the Middlesex side, the carriage-way was blocked up from the public by order of the Bridge Committee. Notwithstanding the heavy sum that has been expended on the repairs of this bridge, nearly 100,000/. in ten years, it will be necessary, before it can be opened again, to expend some thousands more, and the repairs will occupy several months.
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