The members of the Literary Fund Society had their anniversary
dinner on Wednesday ; the Duke of Somerset in the chair. Among the company, were Lord Stanley. Sir John Elley, Sir R. Bateson, Dr. Roget, Mr. Jerdan, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Macrone, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Crofton Croker, Mr. Ainsworth, and other gentlemen known as authors or publishers. In tbe course of the evening, after several routine toasts bad been given, Mr. Jerdan stated that the Society pos. messed a fund of 25,1100/., and was in receipt of a considerable amount of annual subscriptions.
On Saturday, an attempt to procure a Church-rate in Marylebone parish was unsuccessful; the consideration of the motion for the rate being adjourned sine die.
In the Court of King's Bench, yesterday, a rule for a criminal in- formation was granted against Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, for writing a letter to Mr. Wuson, the Member for Ipswich, tending to provoke him to a breach of the peace.
The Vice-Chancellor, on Thursday, granted an injunction to restrain the Directors of the Kent Railway Company from proceeding with that undertaking. The ground of the application, which was from a shareholder of the company, was that subscriptions for shares had been illegally obtained from men of straw, thereby unfairly in- creasing the liabilities of bond fide shareholders.
At the meeting of Middlesex Magistrates on Thursday, after some discussion on the opposition of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, to the enlargement of the county Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, it was agreed that the sum of 20,000/. voted for that purpose should be raised by a mortgage on the county-rate. No other business of im- portance was transacted.
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