ED/CT AGAINST Docs.—In consequence of the great excitement respecting the
prevalence of hydrophobia, the Lord Mayor has received many letters, requesting his interference in preventing dogs from being allowed to frequent the streets without being :nuzzled. His Lordship has accordingly issued the following notice :— " Mansion House, 2nd June, 1830. The Lord hiayor having received various letters, complaining of the number of dogs which are permitted to ranee about the streets of the City, to the great alarm and danger of the inhabitants, requests that those who keep dogs within the City will not permit them to be et large without being muzzled or otherwise secured ; and doth hereby give notice, that the utmost severity of die law will be enforced on all persons who neglect the above precautions. By order of the Lord Mayor." (Signed) FRANCI8 BOBLER." METROPOLITAN CHARITY SCHOOLS.—The annual assemblage of the children of these schools was held in St. Paul's on Thursday. The rain poured in torrents, and many of the poor little creatures were drenched in their progress to the Cathedral. The company was great, notwithstanding the state of the weather. In the evening the annual dinner took place at the Albion ; the Lord Mayor in the chair. It was but indifferently attended. NATIONAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.—At a meeting of this Society, held on Wednesday morning, 6401. was voted in aid of schools to be erected
in eleven places ; and nineteen schools were received into union with the Society. The Archbishop of Yost: was in the chair, supported by seven Bishops and a number of nobility and gentry.
War Ent.° o Bainen.—From the accounts submitted to the hawyearly meeting on Thursday, it appears that there has been a falling off, last year, of 1,0151.—nearly 20 per cent., the whole tollage receipts being short of 6,000/. Nothing has been done respecting the new street, which it was stated would cost, to carry it into Charles Street, at least 85,009/. The total income of time bridge last year was 0,356/. ; which, at twenty. five years' purchase, would amount to 158,909!.! How absurd is it in Government, for the sake of so small a sum, to deny to the public the free use in perpetuity of this noble building ! YoRKSIII nr. SOCIETy.—The anniversary dinner of this Society, the object of which is to maintain, clothe, and educate the children of indi
gent Yorkshiremen, and which has at present on its books twenty-three boys and six girls, met place at Freemasons' Tavern on Tuesday. Earl Harewood was in the chair ; supported by Martin Stapylton, Esq., J. Raine, Esq.., the Honourable W. buncombe, Honourable W. Lascelles, and a number of other gentlemen connected with the county.
BRITISH AND FoREmeN Assocterron.—A meeting of this Society was held in Finsbury Chapel on Wednesday ; when several resolutions in
favour of free inquiry and religions liberty were adopted. Dr. Bowring brought forward a motion on behalf of the Jews, stating that until complete religions freedom had been obtained for all, the triumph of any of its advocates was insecure and imperfect. The Dissenters were bound to reject and to repel the application given by the Government to the doctrines they had themselves avowed during the Catholic discussions, viz., " that religions opinions ought not to interfere with civil rights." From this it now seems Jews and Quakers are to be excepted ; so that this proviso should have been added—" that those only were to have the
benefit of the tolerant principle, who could force the Government by their numbers to apply it to their particular case." He concluded with the following resolution ; which, being seconded by Christopher Richmond, Esq., was unaninumsly adopted. " That as this Association have, on every occasion, without exception or reserve, advocated the principle that no civil distinctions or disabilities should attach to opinions on re
ligious matters, they sincerely regret the failure of the attempts made in Parliament to obtain for the Jews the equal rights of citizenship ; that they deem it incumbent on them to continue their exertions in favour of religions liberty until its triumph shall have been complete; and they hereby instruct their Committee to take such measures as shall assist to remove from their Jewish brethren the stigma inflicted on them by exclusive statutes, and from their country the opprobrium of intolerance and persecution."
CANADA COMPANY.—The annual meeting took place on Thursday; Mr. Bosanquet, the Governor, in the chair. From the conversation that
took place, it would appear that the affairs of the Company are in a very' respectable condition. The number of emigrants is increasing, and the sale of lands last year amounted to above forty thousand acres at an average of ten shillings each.
OPEN AIR Putecneits.—We were not aware that a Socirey for the purpose of extending Preachings at Fairs and elsewhere existed, until we
saw an announcement of a general meeting of such a society, in the City of London Tavern, for Tuesday last. Mr. Thomas Phillips was in the chair. An address was read, in which it was set forth that the first pulpit ever made was made of wood ; and the example of the Saviour and the Apostles, as well as of the Patriarchs, was cited, as authorizing the using of pulpits either of wood or any other kind in the street. The Patriarchs we shall not meddle with ; but we would submit, that time preachings in the open air, by the first promulgators of Christianity, may have arisen from their not having churches in which to preach. The Reverend Mr. Smith, of Brunswick Theatre and Sailors' Home notoriety, addressed the Meeting in a speech of three hours long, in which he in veighed bitterly against Greenwich fair, and announced the determination of the Meeting and himself against its longer tolerance. 'We think this determination rather hasty ; for if fairs be put down, how is Mr. Smith to preach at fairs ? At the same time, we must say, that the extreme zeal of Magistrates to prevent the people from listening to a minister, while they allow them without molestation to listen to a MerryAndrew, speaks as strongly for their love of mirth as of morals. Granting the harangue of the serious orator to be as devoid of logic as that of his pyebald competitor for the ear of the public is of wit, he ought at least to be allowed the same freedom from molestation. As to attracting crowds, whatever force there may be in such an argument in the streets of the metropolis, there is no room for it in the fields, much less at a fair, where there is a crowd already collected.
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