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The Lord Mayor gave the Easter dinner on Monday, at the Man- sionhouse, to a party of three hundred. Among the company, were revered of the Foreign Ministers, the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Llandaff, Sir William Follett, and Sir Edward Cust. The healths of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were drunk amidst loud cheers ; that of his Majesty's Ministers was hissed by a great part of the polished assembly. The members of the Middlesex Reform Club met at the Salopian Coffee-house on Wednesday evening. It was resolved to print and circulate a statement, drawn up by Mr. Pounce)', of the views and objects of the Society ; which were declared to be-
1. To enlighten the minds of the electors with regard to the trust placed in their hands, and to enforce on them the duty of exercising it, independent of all private motives, conscientiously, for the benefit of their country. "2. To promote the cause of Reform by all constitutional means.
"8. To watch over the registration of the electors for the county, with the view of getting the names of all those iuserted, and those only, who are legally qualified.
"4. To prevent, counteract, and expose all attempts to intimidate or corrupt the electors. '
A number of itinerant preachers are now going about town, who take up their stations in by-streets just leading out of crowded thorough-
fares, and, not content with dealing forth their thunders on religions subjects, denounce with the utmost bitterness of which they are capable
the Re i Bill and its authors. Is this a new ruse of the Tories ?
L..ard of Woods and Forests strongly object to the proposed plan of carrying a railroad through Greenwich Park. In reply to a memorial against the a profanation," presented from a number of the inhabitants of Greenwich to the Princess Sophia Matilda, who it Ranger of the Park, the Board declare that they do not perceive the utility or propriety of the scheme.
About Wt, was received in pence from the frequenters of the London and Greenwich Railway Mall on Sunday last. The number of persons amounted to nearly ten thousand. There were the usual number of accidents and robberies at the Fair on Monday ; but nothing remarkable occurred, except the arrival in an omnibus of Lord Castlereagh, Lord Elphinstone, Mr. H. Fitzroy, Mr. Charles Manners Sutton, Mr. Oriel, and other elegant gentlemen belonging to Crockford's, who went to the Fair for a alark."
A scene of confusion occurred on Monday at Kensington, on the election of a parish warden for the parish of St. Mary Abbott. The candidates were Mr. Thomas Moss and Mr. William Judson. The latter gentleman, it was stated, was put forward by the party who re- sisted the publication of the parish accounts. After much angry dis- cussion, when the question was going to the poll, one party tried to shut the doors, and the other endeavoured to prevent them : this, after lasting for hull an hour, was put an end to by the Chairman ordering the doors to be kept open. The poll then commenced, and was carried on with great spirit till five o'clock ; when the numbers were declared to be—for Mr. Moss, 253 persons, and for Mr. Judson, 265; and the number of votes—for Mr. .Judson, 540; for Mr. Moss, 353. Mr. Judson was then declared elected, amid great cheering.
Alarm prevails at Hounslow and its vicinity in consequence of the smallpox having appeared there in a more than usually virulent form. The Reverend Dr. Benson, the officiating minister of the parish, bee issued a circular, recommending the parents of families to keep their children within-doors, and where vaccination has not been already adopted, to have immediate recourse to it. Several families have already left the neighbourhood, from fear of the disorder.
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