be Metropolis.

A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday. Mr. Anderton suggested the abolition of the old practice of giving livery-cloth to Officers of State, Judges, and others. The Recorder, however, was of opinion that it would be unwise to abandon any trivial custom, as it might lead to the abandonment of more, important auee. A report on the City finances was submitted, and approved of.

A quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of Stock of the East India Company was held on Wednesday. Mr. George Thompson submitted once mere the ease of the Rajah of Sanwa; intimating that he should coutiuue to do so till justice were satisfied. His motion, for restoring the Rajah, was negatived. Mr. David Salomon gave notice of his intention to move at the next quarterly Court that some fitting remuneration or acknowledg- ment be given to Lieutenant Waghom for the advantages he has conferred on India. A petition from Mr. Waghom was read, setting forth his ser- vines, and soliciting a pension to enable him to defray debts incurred in Connexion with the perfecting of the overland route.

.At a quarterly Court of the Proprietors of Bank of England Stock, held on Thursday, a dividend of 31. 10s. for the current half-year was declared. The " rest " amounted to 3,689,4301, being an increase of 115,906/. on the year.

The association for promoting public cleanliness and the employment of poor persons in effecting that object have suspended operations on the

streets, but are not inactive in furthering their plans by other mean& Last week, a deputation waited upon the Commissioners of Sewers and submitted a report. The result was favourable; several of the Commis- sioners stating, that if a strong representation were made to the Board by the citizens on the subject of street-cleaning, the Commissioners might be induced to incur the necessary expense. Meanwhile, they have agreed to accept the brooms and barrows and other implements used by the associa- tion. Arrangements are in progress for testing the feeling of the inhabi- tants by a public meeting.

The movement in favour of the establishment of asylums for the re- ception of destitute prisoners at the expiry of their term of imprisonment, has received the impulse of a Metropolitan public meeting. The meeting was held on Saturday at Willis's Rooms; and Mr. Sheriff Laurie, its origin- ator, was called upon to preside. The attendance was influential rather than numerous; including the Bishop of London, Lord Kinnaird, General

Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., Mr. B. B. Cabbell, Mr. Alderman Sidney, Reverend S. R. Catley, Mr. Under-Sheriff Wire, &o.

Letters approving of the object, and apologizing for absence, were sent by the Bishop of Oxford, Lord R. Grosvenor, and some others. The Bishop of London took the lead; Lord Kinnaird, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. Sidney, Mr. Wire, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Bond Cabbell, and Mr. J. Anderton, followed,. in moving or supporting the resolutions; which included the appointment of a Committee to prepare petitions to both Houses of Parliament, and the raising of a fund to defray the necessary expense, aud which were passed unanimously.

The Sixty-third annual dinner of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick took place on Tuesday, at the Freemason's Tavern. Lord Palmerston was the chairman: the sum collected amounted to 980/.

The anniversary festival of the City of London Pension Society wail - celebrated at the London Tavern on Wednesday. The Marquis of Bread- albane was in the chair; about one hundred and fifty gentlemei dined; and ladies filled the galleries. The evening's subscriptions exceeded 9001.

A public meeting in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the Colonies, in connexion with the Church of England, was held on Tuesday, at the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionhouse. The Lord Mayor presided; and the Bishops of London, Llandaff. and Jamaica, Lord John Russell, Lord John Manners, Lord Courtney, Lord John Tynne, a num- ber of merchants and bankers, &c., attended. The merits of the Society and its claims to support were enforced by the Bishops of London and Ja- maica, Lord John Russell, Mr. T. Baring, and others. Among the reso- lutions adopted was one for the immediate opening of a subscription to relieve the Society from financial difficulties.

Rich and poor mingled together under the same roof and at the stents table on Wednesday evening; a public meeting of the Ragged School, Jurston Street, Lambeth New Cut, being the occasion. We quote from the! Morning Chronicle-

" Upwards of three hundred boys and girls of this district, reputed one of the lowest in London, assembled in their large school-room, between five and six o'clock in he evening, to participate in a treat promised by the honourable Member for the borough, Mr. Hawes, and Lord Ashley, some months ago upon condition of good be- haviour. Amongst the company present at this hour were Lord and Lady .Ashley, and his Lordship's two sons, the Honourable Mr. Cooper, M.P., the Reverend Mr. Sherman, of Surrey Chapel, Joseph Payne, Esq., the Reverend J. C. Charleworth, Rector of St. Mildred's, the Reverend Mr. Turner, Chaplain of the Philanthropic, Captain Machonochie the Bishop of Norwich, Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Hawes, Mrs. Harris, and many other influential ladies, together with several members of the Society of Friends. "The Snperintendent of the School, Mr. Clarke, having opened the proceedings with a hymn and short prayer, the children were liberally helped by their teachers to the good things abundantly. provided for them' including 51. worth of plum- cake sent by Mr. Hawes. Thew example was soon followed by the company; and the scions of the aristocracy were seen intermingled with the poor ragged bort of the district; whose appearance answered literally to the title given to theei schools, but whose rough faces beamed forth gratitude for the kindness of their influential patrons. A more striking and interesting scene of this description Mk - been seldom witnessed before in the Metropolis." The children were addressed in appropriate and encouraging terms by. the Bishop of Norwich, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Payne, and the Chairman, Lord Ashley.

Those Railway schemes which have passed their first ordeal, that of the Committee on Standing Orders, will now be considered in groups by the respective Committees to which they are referred. The first sittings of three of the Committees took place on Monday; and a rush for admission signalized the opening. In the room allotted for the accommodation of ther Committee intrusted with the Kent group, the pressure was so groat that it WRS found impossible to proceed; and application was to be made for • larger accommodation. To allow the preliminary business to be trans- - acted, the room was cleared by strength of arms, and the door was shut; but the pressure from the outside could not be controlled, and the door • was forced from its hinges. Mr. O'Connell, acting on the voluntary prin- ciple, is presiding over the South-eastern and Brighton Group 14: his age , relieved him for compulsory service. He conducts the business with tact, and gives and takes a joke with obvious relish.

Mr. G. P. Elliott, of the Western Circuit, has been appointed to seemed IV. Henry at the Lambeth Police-court, on the promotion of the latter to Bow Street, vice Mr. Twyford. We understand that Mr. Grove, of the Greenwich Policat- court, has tendered his resignation.—Times.

It is stated that Mr. Grove retires on account of ill health; besides, he luta come into the possession of an ample fortune by the death of his father. Mr. Traill, one of the Magistrates at the Southwark Police-court, succeeds Mr. Grove. Mr. Traill will be succeeded at the Southwark court by Mr. Henry Lockett, of Bath, a barrister on the Chester circuit.

An information against a railway company, for neglect to register, was disposed

of at Lambeth Police-office on Saturday. The party summoned was Mr. Samna Henry Powell, a gentleman residing at North Brixton: the informer, Mr. Samuel White, a surveyor of Missenden in Buckinghamshire, alleged that Mr. Powell, being one of the promoters of the "Grand Junction, Great Western, and South- western Railway Junction," had neglected to register the Company, as required by the Joint Stock Companies Act, and so had rendered himself liable to a penalty not exceeding 201. It appeared that Mr. White had been employed by hissers. Dempsey, surveyors to the company, to survey a portion of the line, and his bill amounted to 2801. This he could not obtain from IMessrs. Dempsey, the compa.ny not having paid them. On Mr. White inquiring, he found that the projieted company had not been registered at the proper office; hence this' information. For Mr. Powell it was admitted that the charge laid in the information was corrects but it was denied that Mr. White had any claim on the company: Messrs. Demp- sey employed him; they had undertaken to survey the whole line, but so neglected the business that the proper documents were not ready on the 80th November, and the project was thus put an end to. The Magistrate, Mr. Norton, considered the charge to have been proved, and fined Mr. Powell 201. and costs.

Mr. Rolfe, the unfortunate man who attempted to cut his son's throat, afforded an additional evidence of his insanity by self-destruction. With the cunning of a madman, as the time for taking him again to the Worship Street Police-office approached, he tricked those who watched him, into allowing him a few momenta' aence, and immediately hanged himself.

Mary Murray, an elderly woman, has been killed in a court at St. Luke's, by Jennings, a young man who thought the woman had robbed him of a shilling in a public-house: he struck her several times on the head, and then went for a policeman to give her into custody for robbing him; on his return with the con- stable the woman was dying, and he was himself taken prisoner.

In July last year, the Warwick and Leamington Bank at Leamington was plundered of one hundred ten-pound notes, it is supposed by a clerk, who is now m custody. Recently, attempts have been made to put the notes in circulation in London, and in some cases with success. This week, a young man named Myers, & general dealer living at Spitalfields, has been brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with possessing a number of the notes; and sufficient evidence to warrant his removal having been adduced, he has been delivered up to the Superintendent of the Leamington Police, to be conveyed to that place.

The civil war in the City between the Corporation and the Watermen's Steam- packet Company has terminated. After long negotiations, the Navigation Com- mittee have rescinded the order prohibiting the Watermen's steamers from calling at Blackfriars pier; and on Thursday, lVatermen Nos. 1 and 12 landed and em- barked passengers as usual at the pier on their way to and from Woolwich and Greenwich. All legal proceedings between the Company and the City are for the present suspended.

A fire having occurred in the shop of Mr. Plant, a linendraper in Gracechurch Street, early on Sunday morning, under suspicious circumstances, Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, has held an inquest to inquire into the cause of it. When the fire had been got under, it was found that money had been stolen from a box in the shop, hosiery had been disarranged, and other things which excited suspicion were observed. The evidence, however, did not point to the culprit; and the Jury returned this verdict..." That the premises, No. 6, Gracechurch Street, were wil- fully set on fire by some person or persons unknown."

Zrliotic (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious) Diseases .... Dropsy, Cancer,and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Diseases of the Brain. Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses .... Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, Childbirth, disease, of the Uterus, re Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, dr- Old Age .

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes)

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 62.2° in the sun to 30.7° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 2.30. The mean direction of the wind for the week was South- west, but from the 9th to the 12th the air was nearly always calm.

The Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week end- ing on Saturday last shows the following general results.

Number,of Winter Annual deaths, avenge. average.

163 93 153 272 39 74 15 12 7 6 41 24 902

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