26 OCTOBER 1844, Page 9

The Times publishes a formal defence of Lord Mayor Magnay

from two charges that have been made against him. In the first place, -he has not monopolized 700 tickets for the Royal Exchange : the tickets have been distributed under the management of the Gresham Committee ; and the number allotted to the Lord Mayor, his wife, and friends, is only twelve. Secondly, the present Mayoralty has by no means been distinguished by the inhospitality alleged against it : some -of the servants are, however, likely enough to be dissatisfied ; for the Lord Mayor put them all on board wages' thus reserving to himself the right to apply to the relief of the poor of his own Ward the remains of every public dinner given by him during the season, and that prac- -tice has been strictly observed.