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At a Wardmote of Coleman Street Ward, on Wednesday, Mr. William Hunter was elected Alderman, in the room of Sir William Heygate. A
vote of thanks to Sir William Heygate, thirty-one years Alderman for the Ward, was passed; 21 voting for the motion, 11 against it, and many more abstaining from voting.
The ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Royal Naval School to be erected at Counter-hill, Deptford, was performed by Prince Albert, on Thursday. Very spacious and commodious marquees were erected for the occasion. There were present, among others, Sir. C. Ogle, the President of the Council of the School, Rear-Admiral Sir A. C. Malcolm, Rear-Admiral Sykes, Admiral Sir W. Lake, Sir R. Dobson, Admiral Dundas, M.P., Sir E. Grace, Lord Bloomfield, the Bishop of Rochester, the Reverend Mr. Sketchley, Reverend T. Chambers, (Head Master of the school,) Captain T. Jones, (Vice-Presi- dent,) and Crmmodore Forbes. The Prince, dressed as a Field-Marshal, arrived at noon ; the Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty, about the same time; and the ceremony at once proceeded. The mallet used by the Prince was made from the relics of Nelson's ship the Victory. Prince Albert keeps up his reputation for a peculiar knack in laying first stones: " it was really refreshing," says the report, "to behold the hearty good-will with which his Royal Highness repeatedly struck the stone with the mallet already alluded to." The Bishop of Rochester performed the due religious observances. Six boys presented an address to the Prince ; which was read by the son of Captain Drew, R.N. Sir C. Ogle thanked his Royal Highness for his condescension in assisting at the ceremony ; and, returning a most gracious answer, the Prince left "the gay and festive scene."
The following annual charitable and religious meetings have been held. The Westminster Hospital's hundred and twenty-fifth anniver- sary was celebrated by a dinner at the Thatched House Tavern, on Sa- turday; the Duke of Cambridge, Chairman. The total number of pa- tients relieved since the foundation has been 295,139: the income is in- adequate; but a long list of subscriptions was read—headed by the Queen, .52l. 10s.; Queen Dowager, 101.; the Duke of Cambridge, 30/. The twenty-fifth annual festival of the Caledonian Asylum was held at Free- mason's Tavern on Saturday ; General the Honourable Sir A. Duff, Chairman. The inmates of the school are 90; the income last year was 1,763/., the expenditure 1,6751.; the Duke of Cambridge headed the subscriptions with 10/. 108. The London Hibernian Society (now in- corporated with the Church Education Society of Ireland) met at Free- mason's Hall on Wednesday ; Lord Sandon, Chairman. The Society has, 1,247 schools in Ireland, and 58,882 scholars ; it has circulated since its establishment 519,468 copies of the Scriptures : the income last year was 6,212/.; the expenditure 7,714/. On Thursday there was the anniversary meeting of the Charity Children of the Metropolitan Parochial schools, 6,000 in number, at St Paul's Cathedral. The Duke of Cambridge was present ; being received by the Lord Mayor. The Bishop of Salisbury delivered an address to the immense congregation. A large collection was made, to be divided among the children.
The second yearly meeting of subscribers and friends of the London Library was held at their rooms in Pall Mall on Saturday ; the Earl of Clareadon in the chair. Since March 1842, 4,000 volumes have been added to the library : the receipts for the past year were 1;768l.; the ex- penditure, 1,5381.; leaving a balance on hand of 2301.
The Anti-Corn-law League had another meeting at the Hall of Com- merce on Monday. The speakers werathe Earl of Ducie, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Moore. The hall was well filled; but Mr. Moore complained of the absence of leading City men.
The Pitt Club held their annual dinner at the London Tavern on Sa- turday. Sir J. B. Walsh was in the chair ; and there were present the Earl of Eldon, Lord Kenyon, Sir J. Chetwode, Sir R. P. Glynn, Mr. Repton, M.P., and other gentlemen.
The Duke of Brunswick and the Satirist newspaper are at deadly warfare. In the Bail Court, on Tuesday, the Duke's counsel obtained a rule to show why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Barnard Gregory, as registered proprietor and publisher of the journal, for a series of libels, insinuating that the Duke was implicated in the murder of Eliza Grimwood, in 1838. Mr. Gregory has an action in the Court of Common Pleas against the Duke and another, for con- spiring and hiring other persons to hoot and hiss Mr. Gregory when he appeared as an actor at Covent Garden Theatre ; whereby he was pre- vented from obtaining an engagement. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and justified the hooting and hissing on account of the libels in the Satirist. Counsel were heard on Wednesday, but on merely technical points.
In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Monday, counsel were heard for and against the examination of the Duke of Argyll and other shareholders in the British North American Emigration Company, as to their con- nexion with the estate of Dr. Rolph, the Secretary of the Company and a bankrupt. Commissioner Holroyd deferred his decision. Mr. Roy, writer to the signet in Edinburgh, attended, and satisfactorily explained the circumstances relative to a letter which he had written to Major Campbell on the subject of the Duke of Argyll's presumed liability : it was written without the privity of Mr. Leslie, the petition- ing creditor ; and it was left entirely to the Major to show to the Duke of Argyll or not as he thought fit. [This letter had been regarded as an indirect threat conveyed from Mr. Leslie to the Duke.]
At the Mansionhouse, on Saturday, the Lord Mayor delivered to the returned emigrants who were to have been conveyed to the British American Emigration Association's land in Prince Edward Island, the subscription collected to indemnify them for the losses they had sustained by the failure of the Association's plans. The number of emigrants Was fifty• men, women, and children. Lieutenant Lean' the Government Emigration Agent, stated that the Duke of Argyll had subscribed 501.; Lord Scarsdale, 501.; the Marquis of Downshire, 301.; Sir James Cockburn, 251.; the Marquis of Bate, 10/.; Kir W. Maxwell, 101.; and a gentleman, who wished his name withheld, had benevolently sent 501. It was understood that the acceptance of the donation did not bar the emigrants from taking legal measures against the responsible parties.
At Queen Square Police-office, on Monday, William Cornelius Fuller, the carman, and George Howse, steward to the late Lord Fitzgerald, were rQx.anained in regard to the recent robbery of plate us Belgrave
Square ; and evidence was given in corroboration of that previously recorded. Henry Yorke Smith, the butler, said that Howse had in- sisted that an alteration of the plate-closet should proceed after Lord Fitzgerald's death ; the plate being moved to the pantry while the altera- tion was in progress. At Howse's private residence were found, several reams of paper of different sizes, with the mark of the Stationery Office on it, and a quantity of sealing-wax, sixteen pounds of whole wax candles, twenty pounds of common candles, and eighty pounds of soap in bars ; all of which articles were such as those used at his master's house. Both men were remanded till Wednesday next.
At Marylebone Police-office, on Saturday, Mr. Stratford, who assaulted Mr. Chisholm the surgeon, in mistake for Mr. Gregory the editor of the Satirist, was released on bail ; Mr. Chisholm being no longer in danger.
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