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The proprietors of East India Stock held a General Court on Wednesday. The only business transacted appears to have been a confirination of a vote of the last General Court, to grant a pension of 400/ a year to Sir John Campbell, late Envoy to the Court of Persia.
A rimii thaw counnerwed on Tuesday, and the SIIoW has almost disappeared from the streets, which have been iti a most filthy condi- tion daring the week. there appears to be no precaution on the part of the local authorities in London to prevent the Working up of what ought at all times to be thoroughfares." by allow; and no efforts worth mentioning are Math- to remove the filth occasioned by a thaw. Surely the tax levied tni hou.eholders, u, the shape of highway- rate, ought to save them from such annoyances as have been univer- sally experienced during the lag ten day:. l'he inhabitants of the most populous and we:dills city in Europe have suffered as much from the incapacity or laziness of their well-paid fume iimaries and parish- officers. as it they dwelt in the ino-t contemptible town in Spain or Portugal. or a logimilt village in the America., back. woods.
Travelling on the Gre. howl, Railway has lint hero impeded by the snow; mid it would oppo.,.r that on fire provineial railways the car. ridges have ilaSS1d to and fro us usual. The Courier says- " All the information whedi we have :iitherto iverwril tends to make us be- lieve that had railways Iris,, Lid . u in ever y dIeetton, the late storm would :scarcely have impeded the communication between tie most distant parts of the kingdom more than an hour or two ; while, with the common roads, we were four days without any communication between London, Dover, Brighton, :Cad Hastings."
On Tuesday, two gentlemen drove a sledge a la tandem round Re- gent's Park.
The number of applicants to the Mendicity Society has been much increased since the late severe frost, from its having thrown many out of work, and otherwise distressed them. On Saturday, 1337 meals were given away, besides money, work, and a quantity of new and left- off clothing.
On Thursday morning, the remains of the Duke of l‘iontrose were removed from Grosvenor Square, for interment in the family vault at Euchannan, Scotland. The cavalcade will be met by the relatives and
tenantry of the deceased on its arrival in Scotland. The mausoleum of the Dukes of Montrose is situated near Auchterarder, in Perth- stire. From some circumstance not perfectly known at the present day, the building is surrounded on all sides by the small estate of a gentleman in the neighbourhood ; the actual spot on which it stands alone belonging to the Montrose family.
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