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Courts of Aldermen and Common Council met yesterday, and adopted addresses of congratulation to the Queen on the birth of the infant Prince.
A Committee of Aldermen was held on Saturday, for the purpose of hearing any objections which parties interested in the steam navigation of the Thames might have to the draft-rules suggested to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen for the regulation of steam-vessels, pursuant to the provisions of the Watermen's Act. Among the regulations, one was that no steamer should be licensed to carry more than one passenger for every four square feet of the deck; and another, that the speed of river steam-boats should not exceed six miles an hour with the tide and four against it. Several objections were made to the proposed regulations ; and the Committee promised to take them into consideration.
The Clothworkers Company gave a splendid entertainment in their Hall, on Thursday, to Sir Robert Peel and several of his colleagues in the Government. Many gentlemen connected with the 'City were among the guests. The display of plate exceeded that of eloquence ; for the speeches were worth little, the plate was worth 50,000/.
A Special General Court of the Caledonian Asylum was held on Monday, at Freemasons Tavern, to decide of what religious opinion the schoolmaster of the Asylum should be; some of the supporters of the charity desiring that he should be "a member of the Church of Scotland as by law established," while others wished for" an Orthodox Presbyterian,' one "ready to sign the Westminster Confession of Faith"—in other words, a member of the Free Church. Mr. P. M.
Stewart moved that the schoolmaster should be of the latter description; but on a division, his motion was rejected by 24 to 19. A report of the Court of Directors declaring that the schoolmaster must be a member of the Church of Scotland as by law established was then confirmed.
The Anti-Corn-law League, after an interval of five weeks, held their knit meeting for the season in Covent Garden Theatre, on Wednesday. As usual, the theatre was crowded. Mr. Wilson, the Chairman, gave an account of the League's proceedings ; for they had been busy, though the newspapers were not so prominently occupied with their reports. They had been attending to the ill-managed registration of Parliamentary electors in one hundred and forty boroughs ; and they had held several public meetings about the country. At a meeting in Northampton, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, the Member, had declined to attend ; and Mr. Feargus O'Connor, who was supported by Mr. O'Brien's usual supporters, opposed the League, but was defeated. The other speakers -were Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. W. J. Fox. At the close, the Chairman thanked the meeting for their attention ; praised the decorum observed at that and previous meetings ; and, with a solemn blessing, bade the assemblage farewell for the present session.
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