The Finsbury Reform Club will hold their anniversary dinner on
Monday next. Both the Members, 3Ir. Wakley and Mr. Duncombe, have been invited, and will attend.
Anti-Corn-law meetings have been held this week in the boroughs of Lambeth, the Tower Hamlets, and Marylebone. At the latter, Colonel Thompson was chosen to act as Delegate for the Borough, and a resolution was passed strongly disapproving of the omission of the Corn-laws from the Queen's Speech. The Marylebone petition has re- ceived 20,000 signatures.
Mr. Common Sergeant Mirehouse is ill, and unable to attend to his ditties in the Central Criminal Court.
Lord John Russell has given the vacant Registrarship of hackney Coaches to Mr. Wedgwood, tbrmerly a Police Magistrate.
At a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, on Thursday, it was agreed to sanction a petition to the Lord Chancellor to issue his writ for Lou additional Coroner for Middlesex, and that the Chairman should be requested to convey to his Lordship the Magistrates' approval of such a mei tire. The petition to the Chancellor, it appears, was only signed by lificen persons ; mid it is surmised that the Justices were actuated by soitefid feeling towards Mr. Wakley. That gentleman was present, and said he could get a counter-petition signed by ten thousand freeholders ; but that the Magistrates were too late, as the writ for the election of one Coroner had already been issued, and could not be recalled. [The Lord Chancellor has replied, that he sees no reason to grant the request of the Magistrates.]
Another candidate for the Coronership of Middlesex, Mr. Borchell, has retired from the contest ; and it is probable that Mr. Wakley will be elected without opposition.
The Government School of Design have reduced their scale of fees, with the intentibn of throwing it open more extensively to the public.
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