9 AUGUST 1845, Page 11

The Cominittees on the London and York affair have been

working in- defatigably, day and night, to close their labours in time. The witnesses have been ineffably disgusted at their confinement; and on Thursday night strange pranks startled the lobbies of the Commons—reckless wit- nesses playing at leap-frog and ringing the division-bells, in the gayety of despair. The evidence in support of the charges is not very strong.