int gictrapaiii.
A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, at which Sir R. C. Glynn's resignation of the Aldermanic gown was announced ; and Alderman Ansley, as the senior, declared his intention to assume it, according to custom. A long discussion then took place on the suspen- sion of the dinners usually given every Session to the Judges, the Bar, the members of the Corporation, &c. by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs at the Old Bailey. The Lord Mayor said that a difference existed between him and the Sheriffs as to the number of sessional dinners which they were to give, respectively: Their great object in adhering to the opinions they severally entertained, was to prevent their succes- sors from suffering from a wrong precedent. It was heretofore the custom for the Lord Mayor to give the dianers on the first and last of the eight sessions ; but, in consequence of the new Central Criminal Court Bill, the Sessions were increased to twelve in the year. He did not, however, see why the Lord Mayor's expenses should be increased according to the proposition of the Sheriffs ; but be submitted to the Court the letter of those gentlemen, and would willingly abide the re- commendation of its members. " After several Aldermen had de- livered (says the Post), their opinions in feeling and eloquent terms on the subject, the Lord Mayor's announcement to abide by the suggestion of the Court was warmly received."
Mr. T. Wood, Deputy of Cordwainers' Ward, has been unanimously elected Alderman of the ward, vacant by the death of Alderman C. Smith.
Mr. Hume dined with a party of his friends at Hampstead on Wednesday, to celebrate his return; and on the same day Mr. Hawes was entertained at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, by a company of his supporters at the late election. Captain Alsager's supporters also cele- brated the triumph of their Tory Member by a dinner, at Croydon, on Thursday.
The friends of Mr. Wood, the late candidate for Middlesex, dined together at the Freemason's tavern on Monday.
The Third Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the affairs of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields commences thus- " They report that the Reverend Anthony Hamilton, Archdeacon of Taunton, Residentiary Canon of Lichfield, Rector or Vicar of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, Rector or Vicar of Loughton, in Essex, Chaplain in Ordinaiy to the King, and Librarian to St. Martin's Library, is Parish Clerk of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields." In the course of the same report, it appears the office is worth 334/. per annum : while the deputy clerk receives, for discharging the duties of it, only 2,5/. per annum. The Archdeacon has resigned the clerkship, and there was some dispute as to the right of appointing his successor; .the Vicar and the Vestry both claiming it ; but the 'Vicar has very handsomely waived his claim, and the Deputy Clerk has been appointed to the office.
The annual general meeting of the Islington Literary and Scientifie Society, established in the year 1833, was held on Thursday last. From the report of the Committee, it appears that this useful institu- tion promises to be as prosperous as it deserves to be.
On Saturday last, the day appointed for the transfer of public-house licences in the Holborn division, a meeting of the Middlesex Magis- trates was held in the Vestry of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. Most of the applications made were granted : amongst the few rejected, was that for the Fishmongers' Arms, in West Street.
A new drawbridge has been erected over the Tower moat facing the River, and near to the entrance to the Tower by the Traitors' Gate. It has been erected for the purpose of facilitating the deposit of stores in the new warehouses in the Tower. It was necessary to cut through the ramparts, which are seven feet thick.
The John Bull, a very fine vessel of 600 tons, built for the Steam Navigation Company to supply the place of the Superb Hamburg packet, lately lost in the North Sea, was launched on Saturday, from Fletcher and Co.'s dock at Greenwich, amidst tens of thousands of persons collected on the shores and the river to witness the ceremony, and not the slightest accident occurred. In the evening, the Directors of the Company, and several of their friends, dined together at the .Albion, in Aid:a-gate Street. Mr. Wolverley Attwood in the chair.
Mr. Richard Gathorne Butt, the companion in misfortune with the Earl of Dundonsid (better known as Lord Cochrane), was liberated from the Fleet Prison on Thursday night, after a confinement of five
years and two months, for the sum of sittyptr pounds five shillings, debt and costs.—Ilerald.
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