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At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, Mr. Peter Laurie was elected a Common Pleader, in the room of Mr. Bullock, who has been appointed a Judge of the Sheriffs Court. The other candidates were Mr. J. Locke and Sir W. Riddell. Mr. Richard Taylor withdrew a motion "to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the revival in time of peace of the inquisitorial powers of the In- come-tax " ; but he announced that he should repeat his motion on a future day.
The Court of East India Proprietors assembled at their quarterly meeting on Thursday. A motion was carried by Mr. Weeding, for papers connected with the emigration of Hill Coolies from India to Mauritius ; and another by Mr. Marriott, for papers relating to a case of suttee which has lately been permitted in the territory of the Nizam. Mr. Lyall, the Chairman, stated in reply to Mr. Weeding, that the Directors have received no official accounts of the occurrences in Af- ghanistan; but they considered that Dr. Brydon's account was true. Mr. Montgomery Martin, moving for papers, denounced the continu- ance of the war; but he withdrew his motion ; Mr. Salomons giving notice that he should renew it in another form at the next Court.
Among the earlier opponents of the Income-tax in London, has been the Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association ; which held a meeting en Monday, at the Political Institute in the Old Bailey. It was re- solved, "That the meeting strongly deprecates Sir Robert Peel's plan for making up the deficit of revenue by increasing the burdens of the people, rather than by lightening the already too severe pressure upon the industry and productive power of the country." The speakers were strong in their denunciation of the tax ; but not unqualified in their disapprobation of Ministers : Mr. Lyon, for instance, "considered
some acknowledgment due to Sir Robert Peel for the duties he had reduced in his Tariff, and even for the change, inefficient though it be, which he proposed in the Corn-laws" ; and Mr. Robert Peckham "had great confidence, if not in the wisdom, at least in the integrity of the present Ministers "; an announcement at which some in the meet- ing cried " Oh!" Another resolution pledged the Association not to relax in their efforts until the Corn-laws be abolished.
A meeting of the parishioners of St. Mary Newington, on Thursday, adopted a resolution admitting the existence of financial embarrassment and the necessity of equilizing the public income and expenditure, pro- fessing willingness cheerfully to submit to additional taxes for the pur- pose, and great satisfaction at the prospect of alteration in the Tariff, but condemning the Income-tax, and especially the absence of a dis- tinction between income derived from property and income derived from enterprise, skill, and industry. A petition to the House of Lords, praying for the refusal of their assent to the tax, was adopted.
A public meeting of master and journeymen boot and shoemakers, at the Crown and Anchor, on Wednesday, passed resolutions against the proposed alteration of the duty on the importation of boots and shoes.
The London Shipowners Society have refused the invitation of the Newcastle and Gateshead Society to petition Parliament against the contemplated change in the Timber-duties.
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Vice-Chancellor Wigram gave judgment, on Monday, in the case of Bulteel versus Lord A binger, Sir Edmund Curry, and Mr. Benjamin Curry. The defendants were trustees of the late Duke of Gloucester for the sale of certain estates ; and Mr. Curry had concluded a sale of the Ripley or Bagshot estate to Mr. Bulteel ; but Lord Abinger withheld his assent, as he had the offer of a larger price from Mr. Scarlett, his son. Mr. Bulteel now sought to compel a specific performance of the contract. Sir James Wigram observed, that the defendants had always acted on one uniform plan with respect to treaties for sale by private contract ; which was to seek for bids, and when they got one to apply to other parties to know if they would increase their offer. He there- fore dismissed the bill ; with costs as against Lord Abinger and Sir Edmund Curry, but as against Mr. Benjamin Curry, who though morally innocent was unfortunately the cause of the litigation, without costs.
The Duke of Bedford has already received from the Treasury up- wards of 100,0001. for the purchase of his property to enable the Com- missioners to carry into operation the projected improvements by the extension of Oxford Street in a direct line through the rookery of St. Giles's, into Holborn. The buildings intersecting the new streets to be formed by the continuation of Coventry Street through Leicester Square, Castle Street, &c. have already been purchased to a consider- able extent upon the settled valuation of the surveyors.—Sun.
Workmen are engaged in sinking an Artesian well in Piccadilly, just by St. James's Church. The machinery, which is placed under a tall covering of canvas, attracts great numbers of persons to view the operation of boring.
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