21 JANUARY 1837, Page 2

In the Court of Chancery, on Thursday, Mr. Temple informed

Lord Cottenham, that by order of Lord Clive and Mr. Clive, the deeds of the old Ludlow Corporation, the delivery of which had been refused at the instance of Mr. Lechmere Charlton, had been sent up to London by the Ludlow bankers, and deposited in the Master's Office. The Lord Chancellor expressed his satisfaction with the con- duct of Lord Clive and his brother.

The influenza is still very prevalent in the Metropolis. The busi- ness in the Courts at Westminster has been impeded by the absence of the Judges ; of whom Justices Bosanquet, Coleridge, and Littledale, . and Baron Gurney, have suffered from the epidemic. Mr. Sergeant Wilde, Mr. M. D. Hill, Sir William Follett, Mr. Maule, and Mr. Crowder, have also been laid up.

For several hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, about the middle of the day, a thick fog, accompanied with a drizzling rain, came over London ; said the darkness was such, that even in open situations can- dles were needed. There were some accidents, but none remarkable; and many petty robberies were committed during the continuance of the fog.

In the Strand Union of Parishes, the saving on the Poor-rates for the quarter ending ut Christmas, over the previous quarter, is 1,214/. ; the charge for the Michaelmas quarter being 3,4481., for the last only 2,232/.

The Common Council has appointed a committee to correspond with the Commissioners of Poor Laws, respecting the union of all the City parishes into our Union ; which is expected to take place in March next.

On Monday morning, a considerable interest was excited by a ru- mour, which gradually increased until it became the sole topic of con- versation, that the old and respectable banking firm of Esdaile and Co. was placed in such difficulties from the want of an immediate command of cash, that they had found it necessary to make an appli- cation to the Bank of England for assistance. This intelligence, which was at first conveyed in whispers and half sentences, was fully justified shortly after noon, by the house suspending its payments, while the question of affording the required relief was under consider- ation in the Bank parlour. It is understood that the unprecedented step was adopted by the City bunkers, of addressing an appeal to the Directors of the Bunk of England, calling upon them to come to the aid of the banking-house in question, not with a view to its reesta- blishment, but to avert the mischief which would have resulted, parti- cularly iu the country, had a stop been at once put to its payments. Of the eventual solvency of the firm not a doubt can exist, when it is known that this application to the Bank was signed by all the City bankers, with, at most, two or three exceptions, and who further mani- fested the sincerity of such being their conviction by subscribing a large sum to meet the actual demands, and consenting to postpone their claim for the repayment of it until the amount which might be required from the Bank should be returned. Of the embarrassment and difficulty that would have spread through the country, had not an ample and speedy remedy been thus afforded, some idea may be formed when it is taken into consideration that no less than seventy-two country banks drew upon this firm. With this timely relief, the cre- ditors of the banking-house are rendered perfectly secure ; but it will involve the necessity of winding up the affairs of the house, and ex. tinguishing its banking existence.—Morning Chronicle.