25 SEPTEMBER 1841, Page 6

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the freedom

of the City was presented to Sir Robert Stopford and Sir Charles Napier, by Sir J. Shaw, the City Chamberlain. The documents were contained in boxes made of heart of oak, representing the fortress of Acre.

At the same Court, Mr. Stacey gave notice that he should move an address to the Queen praying that Parliament may not be prorogued until the Import-duties, and the Corn-duty especially, shall have been duly considered.

A public meeting was held at Southwark on Monday, to petition the Queen against the prorogation of Parliament until the Corn-laws have been discussed. The Town-hall was densely crowded, and the meeting was very unanimous. The following resolutions were passed-

" That this meeting has watched with great anxiety and alarm accounts from the manufacturing and other districts, which exhibit a rapid increase of commercial distress; want of employment, and all the evils consequent thereon, aggravated by a high price of food. "That, in consequence of the apprehended deficiency of the present harvest, the country is already threatened with a derangement of its currency and mo- netary affairs, from the necessity of importing corn under the unwise provisions of the present laws.

"That this meeting is apprehensive that great danger will arise should the

consideration of the Corn-laws, recommended by the Queen to both Houses of Parliament, be postponed; and it therefore feels it to be an imperative duty to

petition her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament until it shall have given full effect to her Majesty's gracious recommendation; and that for this purpose the following petition be adopted."

Meetings for the same purpose have been held at Camberwell, Ham- mersmith, Baptist Chapel in Holborn, (meeting of a Political Institute,) Great Portland Street, (for the district of All Souls and Trinity,) St. George the Martyr in Southwark, Chelsea, and Stratford.

The Metropolitan Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association have issued an address inviting subscribers. They appeal especially to the rising generation, because they must feel the fullest effects of the policy pursued now, either in increased prosperity or increased distress. The qualification for a young man to be a member of the Association is the payment of one shilling annually : their mode of operation is the diffu- sion of knowledge by the organization of district associations, lectures, and pamphlets : their local habitation is Hart's Temperance Hotel, Aldersgate.

At the Westminster Revision Court, on Thursday, Lord Dinorben claimed to be registered in respect of his residence, No. 75, South Andley Street. Mr. Arnold, the Revising Barrister, objected, that there was a resolution of the House of Commons so early as the year 1699, which said that no Peer had a right to vote in the election of any Member of Parliament. Mr. W. Grant, who appeared for the claimant, said that the only objection which could be made to Lord Dinorbeit arose out of the resolution of the House of Commons, that it was a high breach of the privileges of that House for a Peer to interfere in the election of any Member of Parliament ; but it did not follow, taking that resolution to be good, that disfranchisement was to be the punish- ment for the breach of that privilege. Besides, one branch of the Le- gislature had no right to debar an individual from voting. The resolu- tion of the House of Commons was one that had to be made at every sitting of Parliament, because at the end of each sitting it fell to the ground. There was no statute against a Peer's voting. Lord Dinorben had voted in Carnarvonshire, Flintshire, and Denbighshire; and in Flintshire, where the same objection had been raised, the Revising Barrister had decided in his favour. Mr. Arnold took time to consider his decision.

The following Treasury notice was issued, rather unexpectedly, on Tuesday morning-

" Treasury Chambers. Whitehall. 21st September 1841.

"It having been considered advisable by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to fund a portion of the outstanding Ex- chequer Bills charged on aids and supplies, dated in March and June last, (or in any antecedent month, provided the same have not been advertised to be paid off,) not exceeding 5,000,000/., in Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities; subscriptions for the same will be received at the Bank of England, from nine o'clock in the morning to one o'clock p.m. on Friday the 24th, Saturday the 25th, and Monday the 27th instant. "The terms upon which it is proposed that the Exchequer Bills should be funded are, that 1121. 2s. Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities shall be given for every 100/. principal of Exchequer Bills; and that the interest on the said Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities so to be created shall commence from the 5th July 1841. "It is proposed that the parties intending to subscribe to this funding shall deliver sealed letters at the Bank of England, specifying the sums for which they intend to subscribe, accompanied by sealed parcels, containing in Ex- chequer Bills a deposit of 20 per cent, on such subscriptions ; and that at one o'clock, or as soon after as possible, on Monday the 27th instant, the Bank shall declare the total amount proposed to be subscribed for, allotting to each party, in case the whole of the subscriptions should not exceed the amount of 5,000,000/., the whole sum which be may have offered to subscribe ; and in case the whole amount offered to be subscribed shall exceed 5,000,000/., then such proportion only of the sum tendered by him as the sum of 5,000,000/. may bear to the whole sum offered to be subscribed, retaining in such case the deposit of 20/. per cent, only upon such amount. "The further instalments will be payable as follows, viz.—

" 201. per cent, on or before the 8th November;

"201. per cent, on or before the 20th December ;

"201. per cent, on or before the 31st January 1842;

"201. per cent, on or before the 14th March 1842. "Subscribers will be allowed to pay Exchequer Bills in advance, and to re-

ceive the interest upon the amount of Exchequer Bills for the first instalment, from the date of the bills up to the 27th September; and upon the amount of the bills for each subsequent instalment, from the date of the bills up to the day when the instalment would have become due.

"Subscribers will be allowed the option of paying money in lieu of Ex- chequer Bills, to the extent of one-half of the amount of the Exchequer Bills subscribed for, upon paying 12s. for every 100/. so paid in money. "Subscribers paying money will be allowed interest, at the rate of 2i per cent. per diem, from the day of deposit up to the days on which the instalments are payable. "Subscribers completing their whole payments on or before the 2d January 1842, will be entitled to the first half-yearly dividend on the said Consolidated Annuities at the 5th January 1842. 'Scrip receipts will be issued by the Bank in the usual manner."

Some doubt having existed as to whether this notice authorized the taking of money in part payment of the deposits, the Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote a note to one of the parties who made the inquiry, explaining that half the deposit might be made in Exchequer Bills and half in money ; or one instalment entirely in Exchequer Bills and the next entirely in money, provided the whole amount of money does not exceed half the sum subscribed for.

On Tuesday night, a frightful murder was committed on Mr. Bur- don, the landlord of the King's Head, Eastcheap, by a man named Blexley, who had married his wife's sister. The connexion did not prove a happy one, owing to the misconduct of Blexley ; and his wife had lately returned to her brother-in-law, where she acted as bar-maid. Shortly after tea on Tuesday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, the shop-door was heard to open several times, as if pushed by some one. As soon as the shop was clear of customers, Blexley came in, walked deliberately round the counter, drew a knife from his bosom, and stabbed his wife in the lower part of her person. Immediately afterwards he made a rush at Mr. Burdon, who was sleeping in a chair, with a handkerchief thrown over his eyes, and stabbed him in the abdo- men. He then made a hasty attempt to stab Mrs. Burdon, and ran out again, making his escape in the direction of King William Street. As he came out, Blexley struck at a man who was standing outside, and who he thought was going to stop him. The Police have not yet suc- ceeded in taking the murderer. He is very generally supposed to have drowned himself. Mrs. Blexley is only twenty-one years of age. She is still in a dangerous state ; but hopes are entertainedof her recovery.

A Coroner's inquest sat on the body of Mr. Bardon yesterday. It was shown in the evidence that Blexley had been distressed at the se- paration from his wife. He purchased the knife with which he com- mitted the crime, at Davis's, in Aldgate, on Tuesday afternoon. He asked for a common butcher's dressing-knife: he wanted it, he said, for grafting ; and it should cut both ways, so as to cut the bark up and down without turning. A butcher's dressing-knife was sold to him ; and the back was ground to an edge while he waited. The cutler remarked that he was a good-looking, fresh-coloured man, with dark hair ; but there was nothing particular in his manner. The Jury returned a ver- dict of "Wilful Murder" against him.

At Greenwich Police-office, on Tuesday, Richard Eustace and Mary Ann Hazzard were charged with the murder of William Beckworth, alias Hazzard, an old man of seventy-four, who was found murdered in his bed on Saturday. The female prisoner was wife to the deceased, and she appears to have formed an improper connexion with Endue. They were both in the habit of ill-treating the old man ; whose death was caused by blows which he received in a quarrel with them. The Jury returned a verdict of" Wilful Murder" against both.