A meeting of the Common Council was held on Thursday.
Mr. Williams presented a report from the Committee on the expenses of the Lord Mayor's office, which were stated at 25,000/. per annum. Several members and the Lord Mayor maintained that the statement was at variance with the facts. The report was received arid ordered to be printed. It is extremely probable, in consequence of Mr. Alderman Cope- land's Tory votes in the late session of Parliament, that Alderman Harmer will be set op in opposition to him as Lord Mayor for the year ensuing, on Michaelmas.day next. If a poll be demanded, there is very little doubt of the election of the latter gentleman.—Globe.
A circumstance took place in the Stock-Exchange on Saturday moreing whitdi excited a good deal of interest among the members, and may probably be a warning to future speculators in the Foreign Funds, who, when the card turns up against them, desert their brokers. It was the public posting of four parties who have hitherto moved in respectable or fashionable circles, for not yet having paid the differ- ences to their brokere.
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