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On Monday nigh; the Lord Mayor entertained the Prefect of the Seine, and other gentlemen connected with the Municipality of Paris, at the Mansionhouse. The Prefect, and some of his colleagues, delivered speeches of thanks and compliment in English. One of these, by M. Pelouze, in proposing the health of the Corporation, was more than com- plimentary.
Nothing in the splendours of Paris, be said, could equal what they saw here. There are some monuments in Paris which are admired for their magnificence, but that magnificence obscured by narrow streets and old buildings. In making wide streets and throwing open old and ugly parts of the French capital, they are only following the English example, mud doing what has been done in the City of London. But it was not only the sugges- tion that they owed to England ; they owed to the alliance with England the ability to effect such improvements in the city of Paris, in the midst of the war. They have particular reasons to be grateful, and the French people generally are grateful to the English nation.
The inhabitants of Marylebone held a public meeting on Tuesday to record their deep regret at the loss of Lord Dudley Stuart, to express their sense of his great services, and to appoint a Committee for raising funds to commemorate those services by a becoming testimonial. Sir Benjamin Hall presided, and Lord Ebrington and M. Kossuth spoke from the plat- form. The chairman, in the course of his address, said he remembered that at one time he suffered from a temporary blindness, and it was a sin- gular circumstance that as soon as he recovered his late friend was afflicted in a similar manner. Lord Dudley Stuart often afterwards expressed a wish that he had the means at his disposal to raise, or assist in raising, an hospital or a dispensary for the relief of those who might suffer from blind- ness; and he always looked forward to the time when he would have it in his power either to add a wing to some existing institution or to found one himself. He mentioned that circumstance because, if they could raise an amount so large that it might be applicable to an object of the kind referred to, he thought they could not erect a fitter testimonial to Lord Dudley Stuart, or one which would be more in accordance with the dearest wishes of his heart. A Committee was nominated to carry out the resolutions.
The campaign of the season against the Maynooth grant was opetied on Tuesday, by " an aggregate meeting of Protestants " in the Freemasons' Tavern ; Mr. J. C. Colquhoun in the chair. Strong resolutions were passed denouncing the endowment of Maynootb, rejoicing that a motion will be made in Parliament for repealing the endowment act of 1845, and declaring that " Protestants ought not to vote for the return to Par- liament of any candidate who is not prepared to support the bill for the disendownient of Maynootb." Among the prominent speakers, were Dr. Cowan of Reading, Sir CullinglEardley, the Reverend J. Eddowes Glad- stone, and the Reverend Canon Stowell. Sir Culling Eardley said that Lord Palmerston would be very much mistaken if he supposed it to be a mere Derbyite question : the resolution would be proposed by Mr Spooner and supported by Mr. Dunlop, and on the back of the bill would' appear the names of two Tories and two Liberals.
At a meeting of the Metropolitan Sewers Commission, on Wednesday, Mr. Ward moved a resolution declaring that the trapping of drains and the cleansing of cesspools should be pressed on with the utmost possible activity, with the view of counteracting the cholera which may visit us in the summer. Mr. Jebb, the chairman, suggested legal and financial difficulties which would obstruct the carrying out of the resolution. But it was carried by seven voices to three. The Secretary asked how the resolution was to be carried into effect; and was told that he "must empty all the cesspools and trap all the drains,"—a reply that elicited some merriment.
A rule Nisi for a new trial in the case of Boyle versus Wiseman has been obtained by Mr. Sergeant Shoe, on behalf of the defendant, in the Court of Exchequer, on the ground that certain evidence was improperly admitted, and that the damages were excessive.
At the Central Criminal Court, last week, Charles King, formerly a plain- clothes policeman, was convicted of complicity in picking pockets. The par- ticulars of this extraordinary case have been noted before : Ring, as a boy- thief related, was extensively. engaged in training up young thieves, going out with them on their " business " rounds, and sharing the plunder they obtained. He was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years.
Mr. Bishop, the gunmaker of Bond Street, has been held to bail by the Marlborough Street Magistrate, on a charge of violating an act which Mr. Bishop himself was mainly instrumental in getting passed, and which is known as the " Bishop of Bond Street's Act." This act renders penal the taking of money for the restoration of dogs that have been stolen. Mr. i
Bishop appears to have acted as an agent in getting .back a Newfoundland dog which was stolen in Jermyn Street ; and he received 4/. to be paid to some one who had possession of the dog, John Moore being employed as a go-between. The dog was lost while it was in the care of Miss Knight, the owner being Captain Sutherland. Mr. Bishop says Miss Knight applied in great tribulation to him, and he was induced to attempt the restoration of the dog : Miss Knight now prosecutes him. Mr. Bingham stated that the man to whom Moore paid the money must be found.
A French priest, Florent Vasseur, attached to the French Ambassador's chapel, has been placed in an unpleasant position by a stupid mistake as to identity. Charles Jones, a livery-servant, was made the instrument, on the 24th March, of uttering a forged check for 901. on the Southwark branch of the London and Westminster Bank : a rogue having advertised for a servant, pretended to hire Jones, and then sent him to the bank with the check; the check was paid ; Jones saw no more of his new master at his lodgings; but he thought he recognized him in the street in the person of M. Vasseur, who was in consequence arrested. Jones's pretended employer had sandy whiskers—M. Vasseur had none, and his hair is jet black. The landlady of the house where the forger hired lodgings deposed that the Frenchman was not the culprit, Mr. A'Beckett at once liberated M. Vasseur; expressing re- gret that he should have been annoyed by eueh a charge.
A. report was circulated yesterday that a Frenchman had been arrested for attempting to shoot the Emperor : but it turned out that a Frenchman who tried to cast a letter into the Emperor's carriage had been taken into custody.
Mr. Broughton, the Marylebone Magistrate, has refused to fine Mr. Ware, the landlord of "Jack Straw's Castle" at Hampstead, for supplying a num- ber of persons with "refreshments" during the afternoon of Good Friday : the waiters supplied only those who appeared to have come from a distance, and the Magistrate held them to be " bona fide travellers."
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