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At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Tuesday, a long address prepared by a Committee of Aldermen, on Sir George Grey's Corporation Reform Bill, was read, and ordered to be printed, and for- warded to all Members of Parliament. The address goes minutely over the heads of the bill, and states at length the most decided objections to the changes proposed. In order to enable readers to understand the remarks of the address, certain passages of Sir George Grey's speech arc reprinted.

At a second meeting of the Court, on Thursday, the Town-Clerk read a letter from the Town-Clerk of York, requesting to be informed whether the City Corporation would meet to celebrate the peace, and in what manner. Mr. Deputy Holt moved "that a reference should be made to the Town-Clerk to ascertain what was done by the Corporation on the occasion of the proclamation of the bat peace." Some of the members of the Court expressed doubts whether the Government in their proposed rejoicings carried with them the feeling of the public ; and an amendment was moved and carried, to the effect that the Town- Clerk of York should be courteously informed that no steps have been taken by the Corporation on the subject

The inhabitants of St. Pancras met in considerable numbers on Mon- day, in the Vestry Hall, to adopt measures for securing the use of Hamp- stead Heath to the public. The meeting seemed to be very earnest in the matter, and apprehensive that, under the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Bill, if it pass, Sir Thomas Wilson will grant building-leases. Among the speakers were Mr. Streeten, the chairman of the meeting, Mr. Garvey, Sir Benjamin Hall, Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr. George Cruik- shank, Dr. 'Williams, and Mr. Baker. Mr. Louden assured the meeting that Sir Thomas Wilson has been misrepresented, and that he really

desires to secure the Heath to the public. Some of the speakers broadly intimated that the Heath ought to be bought by the Government. The principal resolutions were to the effect that Hampstead Heath is of the greatest advantage to the public, and that exclusion would be an incal- culable evil ; and that it is the (tidy of the Metropolitan Board of Works "to investigate the subject, and seek the assistance of Parliament to prevent the threatened enclosure of the Heath."

A deputation of Militia Colonels waited on Lord Panmure last week, to .state the effect of disbanding their regiments on certain officers. Colonel Wilson Patten, Colonel Knox Gore, Colonel Sir John Yarde Buller, Lieutenant-Colonel Ouseley Higgins—all Members of Parliament —pointed out, that a disbanding of the regiments -would operate inju- riously on the future of those noncommissioned officers of the Line who had been promoted to commissions in the Militia ; and also on that of the surgeons, assistant-surgeons, and paymasters, who had looked to a much longer continuance of the Militia. Lord Panmure undertook to lay the views of the Colonels before the Cabinet.

At the thirtieth anniversary of the Printers' Pension Society, cele- brated on Tuesday, the chair was occupied by Sir Roderick Murchison ; supported by Colonel Sykes, Alderman and Sheriff Kennedy, Mr. Kaye, Professor Ramsay, Professor Nicholay, and other gentlemen. The din- ner last year produced only 2431., and the annual subscriptions less than usual by 351. ; but an unusual mortality had reduced the charges on the fund by 201. This year, the dinner, aided by the genial speeches of the Chairman, produced 400/.

The managers and principal employes of the Great Western Railway, 1200 in number, have presented a testimonial of their esteem to Mr. Saunders, who ha8 •been secretary of the line for twenty-three years. About two hundred of the subscribers assembled on Saturday to present the memorial—an epergne and two claret-jugs.

At the Thursday sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench, it was formally arranged that the trial of William Palmer of Rugeley should take place at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday the 14th May. The Judges on that occasion will be Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Cresawell, and Baron Al- derson.

Respites have been granted to the two women—Mary Ann Harris and Celestma Sommer—now in Newgate for murdering their children. Many petitions in their favour have been presented to the Queen.

A reward of 1001. is offered for the apprehension of Fosehini the Italian assassin, who is still at large. None of his victims have died, but two are in a bad state.

At Clerkenwell Police Office, on Monday, Benjamin Allen Howard, one of a gang of American hotel-robbers, arrested at Liverpool, was charged with stealing 5651. of bank-notes. Mr. Stanisland, of Boston in Lincoln- shire, slept in the Great Northern Hotel, King's Cross : he had locked his -door - in the morning he found that his money, 5651., had been stolen from his drawn-pocket. Some of the notes have been traced to Howard. It seems that locked doors are no safeguard against enterprising Yankees. Two instruments were dropt at Manchester, by Branch, one of the gang,— a pair of steel pliers, by which, if the key has been left in a locked door, the door can be unlbcked from the outside, and afterwards relocked in the same way ; and peculiar steel chisel for forcing open boxes, &c. Among the luggage of Branch was found a formidable instrument used by thieves in New York, termed a " knuckle-duster " ; and which was described as a thick -flat piece of metal about three-quarters of a pound.in weight, with holes at .one of the edges, through which the four fingers of the hand can be passed. - When put on for use, and the fingers clinched over it, the larger portion of the metal fills the fist, while the outer edge presents four rings of solid metal over the knuckles of. the second joints of the fingers, calculated to give powerful effects to a blow struck by the wearer. Howard was remanded.

Mm. M'Nair alias Miniken has been committed by Alderman Wire on a

. charge of defrauding the East India Company. As the widow of Captain '3F/fau.' of the East India service, she was entitled to a pension of 136/. whilst she remained unmarried ; it is alleged that in 1846 she married a Mr. Miniken ; a Mrs. M'Nair certainly did marry a Mr. Miniken, and Mrs. IffNair has lived with a man as his wife; yet she has continued to draw -her pension as a widow. For the accused, it is stated that she is not mar-

--vied. The prosecution has not been able to produce the alleged husband. Three brothers named Owen have been remanded by the. Marlborough `Street Magistrates on charges of forgery, amounting in the whole, it is said, 40 30001. They have been carrying on their nefarious practices for eighteen sammths,past, forging and successfully uttering checks on a number of banks in London and the country. Their crimes have been effected mainly in this ingenious manner. Some years since, their father, who had an extensive business as woollendraper at Shrewsbury, failed. Subsequently, one of the sons pretended that he had returned from Australia with a large fortune, and that he intended to pay all his father's debts. He went to each credit- - -gave a check larger than the amount of the debt, and obtained a check from the creditor for the balance : Owen's check was worthless ; of - comae he quickly cashed the one he got, first, however, copying the signa- ture, and afterwards forging a check in the creditor's name.

Policeman George King, and four men employed by Pickford and Co. the carriers, have been committed by the Marylebone Magistrate for stealing s property of various kinds valued at 4001.

A hoax, or rather a tradesman's puff, caused large assemblages of people . at eleven different points of the town on Monday, in the expectation of hearing peace proclaimed. Placards announced that a herald, attended by a pursuivant, would announce "the objects of his important mission" at certain hours : the placard was headed " V. R." " Peace," and so on. The was explained at Marlborough Street Police Office in the afternoon ; -w en Gaspar Collard, a young man, theatrically dressed as a herald, was charged with assaulting a groom. It appears that a printseller in Oxford :'Street intended to "proclaim "—or puff---certain portraits of "the heroes of the Crimea " ; he had issued the placards, and Collard was sent forth on

• _horseback to make the " proclamation." The disappointed and bamboozled crowd hustled and hooted the impostor, and he struck about with his whip in self-defence. Mr. Bingham said Collard had acted indiscreetly ; but he would treat the matter as a piece of tomfoolery rather-than as an assault masc. He warned Collard not to repeat such tricks, and advised him to take nff his absurd, dress forthwith.