be SbIatrOptall.
Sir John Key will go out in a blaze ; he means to give no fewer than three balls next week.
On Thursday, Mr. Marriot was elected Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions, in the place of Mr. Const. Of nearly fifty Magistrates pre- sent, only two expressed their dissent from the choice. Mr. Marriot attempted to return thanks, but was unable. These little things are great to little men.
A numerous meeting of the ratepayers of-St. Paul's, Covent Garden, took place on Thursday night, to consider of the conduct of the Crown Surveyor. Mr. Churchwarden Smith was in the Chair. He stated, that much pains had been bestowed by the parish on an attempt to equalize the rates. The attempt had produced a reduction ; with which the Crown Surveyor was not satisfied, and he had called for an augmentation. It was stated in the course of the meeting, that the Surveyor was paid a percentage on the surcharges ; which affords a
• very natural reason for his making them. Resolutions, declaring the attempted surcharges vexatious and unjust—the mode of remunerating surveyors unjust and injurious—and that a memorial embodying the resolutions should be submitted to the Treasury—were passed unani- mously. In the course of the discussion, Mr. Yoekney asked con- cerning a petition relative to the Assessed Taxes, presented to Parlia- ment by Sir John Hobhouse. Mr. Corder said, Sir John presented it, and it was laid on the table, or thrust under it. Another petition had been given last session to Sir Francis Burdett ; but he never conde- scended to present it.
Mr. Coghill—" Did not he give any reason for his neglect?" The Vestry Clerk—" None, except that the petition was more in the way of his colleague, Sir John Hobhouse. And this excuse came in the shape of a slovenly note, formed of the back of an old letter, and penned in the Lobby of the House of Commons."
Who are to be the Members for Westminster in the next Parliament? We think the symptoms of change are discernible in the sky, though the cloud as yet may seem no bigger than a man's hand.
On Tuesday evening, there was a meeting, in Sackville Street, of the Committee of Management, friends, and subscribers to the parent institution for the useful employment of the peasantry and other in- dustrious poor in this country, upon the principle of the Dutch colony at Frederick's-Oord. Earl Stanhope took the chair, and detailed to the meeting, in a most elaborate manner, the result of his own inquiries in Germany and in Ireland, as well as his practical experience on his own estates, showing the advantages which would result to the capitalist and landholder by making grants or liberal: investments in land in aid of the objects of this benevolent institution. Captain Brenton and se- veral other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and showed that a return of 4 per cent, per annum on the capital invested under the security of the institution would result.
A splendid Bazaar was opened at the IVIansionhouse on Tuesday, for the benefit of the British Orphan Asylum. It appears to have met the success which the benevolence of the design merited.
Mr. Irving's new chapel, in Newman Street, Oxford Street (formerly Mr. West's Picture-gallery), was regularly opened on Sunday. last. There was a preliminary meeting on the previous Friday, at which Mr. H. Drummond the banker, according to newspaper report, addressed the congregation in "the tongues." The place of meeting has ac- commodation for about 1,600 sitters.
A vessel has arrived from Swan River with a small consignment of wool, the first produce of the kind in that new colony. The quality is such as to afford a fair prospect that the application of capital to the rearing of sheep there will meet with a suitable return.
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