ADDRESSES TO THE KING.—A meeting of the merchants, bankers, and
others, of the city of London, took place yesterday, for the purpose of addressing his Majesty on his accession. It was of the first respect- ability, but very thinly attended—only thirty were present. An address has also been voted by the Bank of England. CITY COMPANIES.--A meeting of Liverymen and Freemen of some of the City Companies was held at the Queen's Arrffs, Cheapside, on Wednesday, to form a committee for the purpose of corresponding with the committee of the Patten-makers in vindicating their right to elect their own officers and manage their own funds. From the statements made by the Chairman and others, it appears that the masters of the Com- panies are not much more conversant with their affairs than the mem- bers. One of them being asked about the Company's rental, said he knew no more than the child unborn ; and, to the same question, another replied, "Damn my wig, if I know any thing about it ; I leave it all to the clerk." The clerk, in one case, could give no information, because he was forbidden by act of Parliament ' • and, in another, the officiary told the inquirer to go to the King's Bench for an answer ! A committee was appointed. SUNDAY DINNERS.—At the meeting of the Society for the Propaga- tion of Christian Knowledge, held for the purpose of addressing his Majesty on his accession, one of the clergymen present threw the mem- bers into a terrible quandary, by proposing to append to the address a petition to the King, not to give Sunday dinners, which he conceived to be matter of evil example in the head of the Church. The proposal was got rid of by moving the previous question—the object of the meeting being to condole with and congratulate the King, not to advise him. The previous question was moved by the Archbishop of Canterbury. If, however, the motion should, as it possibly may, be brought forward in a distinct shape on some future day, it may not be so easily disposed of. The Bishop of London's address on the enormities of shopkeepers and alesellers, will, we rather think, be found to have placed him on ground which it may be as difficult to keep as to yield. It is dangerous for one who haunts the Court to he over-zealous in anything. There is no say- ing what a day may bring forth in that circle; and he will flutter in it most securely, who is most careful in not committing himself to the de- fence of the best and most assured position.
NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.—A meeting was held at the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street on Thursday, to consider of a plan for a voyage of discovery directed to the East of Asia and the great Archipelago of islands that stretch from Java to the Kuriles, to be per- formed by Mr. Buckingham. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex presided ; and the resolutions approving of the object of the voyage, and of Mr. Buckingham's fitness to take the management of it, were moved and seconded by the Duke of Somerset, Lord Durham, Lord John Rus- sell, Sir Sidney Smith, Dr. Lardner, Colonel L. Stanhope, General Bentham, and Mr. James Mill. The peculiar feature of the projected voyage, as explained by Mr. Buckingham, is, that while other voyages have been undertaken for objects purely scientific, this will combine commercial with geographical researches. The individual subscriptions towards the building of a fitting vessel with which to perform the voyage, are limited to five guineas. When one thousand subscriptions are re- ceived, the building of the vessel will be commenced. A committee was appointed 'to carry the plan of a subscription into execution, at the head of which was the name of the Duke of Somerset. Lord Durham moved the thanks of the meeting to the Royal Chairman ; and, in doing so, passed a warm panegyric on the popular manners of his Majesty. The meeting was extremely respectable.
ACCESS TO THE PARE.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Regent Street and Waterloo Place was held on Thursday, to address their thanks to his Majesty, for his goodness in directing the opening at Carlton Terrace to be made. Sir Anthony Carlisle was in the chair. The best instructors are not agreed on what is to be the nature of the opening. The Herald of Monday says it will be a flight of steps of forty feet wide ; the same paper on Tuesday says it will be a stair no wider than one of the small ornamental arches under which it is meant to pass. Such all affair would not be an opening, but a hole.
REDUCTION ON THE POLICE ESTABLISTIMENT.—The Commis- sioners, it is said, intend to dispense with superintendentships and with an inspectorship for each division, and a number of station-houses. If there be any thing that the police especially require, it is superintending.
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