At a Court of Directors of the East India Company,
held on Wed- nesday, Mr. Andrew Amos was sworn in fourth ordinary member of the comma of India.
At a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, on Thursday, licences were renewed to the proprietors of the Adelphi, Sadlers' Queen's, Pavilion, Garrick, New Strand, and Norton Folgate Thea- tres, and to the Colosseum. Mr. Thomas Hamlet applied for a licence for the Queen's Bazaar in Oxford Street, which is in process of con. version into a theatre. The claim was earnestly supported by Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Laurie, and opposed by Mr. M' William and Mr. Dyer, junior. The following dialogue took place between Mr. Hamlet and Mr. Dyer; in which the Magistrate does not cut a very creditable figure. Mr. Hamlet (in reply to a question from Mr. Dyer, whether he had not sold the theatre to Mr. Wards)—" I agreed with Mr. Warde for him to manage the theatre. The truth is, Sir, that your opposition arises out of your disappoint. ment. You were in treaty u iris me for the theatre yourself." Mr. Dyer junior —" Never." Mr. Ilandet—" Yes, you were ; but we did not agree."
. Mr. Dyer junior—" I never was." Mr. Ilamlet—" Pardon me, Sir; we have had meetings in my house, in the presence of witnesses, for the purpose of your arranging for the purchase; and I gave you a mouth to consider whether you would come to my terms or would not ; and that I am ready to prove by witnesses now in court." Mr. Dyer appealed to the Court ; and asked whether it would allow petition- ers to persevere in making statements that were quite irrelevant to the question before them ?
Finally, the application was rejected, by a vote of 9 to 8. Mr. James Gibson, after a long discussion, obtained a licence for the Royal Standard Theatre, High Street, Shoreditch, by a vote of 13 to 12. There was loud applause in court on the numbers being an- nounced.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock, book- sellers, was held on Monday afternoon, at the Albion Tavern, Alders- gate Street. The liabilities of the firm were stated in round numbers at 180,5P4)/. ; the assets were estimated to amount to 131,600/., show- ing a deficiency of about 48,8901. It was agreed by the creditors pre- sent that a deed of trust would be preferable to a bankruptcy ; and trustees were appointed for the management of the affairs ; which it is expected, will yield from 10s. to 12s. 6d. in the pound.—Times. The remains of Samuel Wesley were interred on Tuesday, in the family-vault in the burial-ground to the old church, High Street, Mary- lebone. Mr. Turle, the organist, and several eminent singers joined in the funeral service.
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