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At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Monday, a good deal of surprise and amusement was created by the presentation of a petition from the merchants and bankers of London, for a grant ul money to be laid out in rendering the Excise Office comfortable as a temporary Exchange. The estimated expense was 700/. ; and the petitioners did not think that they should be called upon to subscribe so large an amount. The difficulty of procuring the necessary sun was proved by the fact, that the great house of Baring would only contribute 10/. In pity for time iemoverished condition of the mer- chants and bankers of London, Deputy Conley proposed that the Court should grant the sum of 50/. A discussion ensued ; and several members declared that the petition must be a joke. But it was no joke—the money was actually wanted. Mr. Anderton moved to lay the petition on the table, to give the parties to it time for explanation. Deputy Conley, however, withdrew his motion; and finally, the peti- tion, amidst the jeers and laughter of all present, was laid on the table.
The Society for Improving Irish Waste Lands had a meeting at their rooms, in Broad Street Buildings, on Wednesday,—Lord Devoe in the chair,—to receive the report of the Committee. The informa- tion given was satisfactory. The Society had token a lease of 5,7tYCS acres of land in Sligo, which was already in a forward state of inee provement—was divided into farms, and surrounded by good roads. The other estates of the Society were in course of reclamation ; and e very excellent feeling existed on tile part of the inhabitants towards the Society and • .ir agents. There was also an eagerness on the part of the pc become the tenants on the Society's lands:. The balance in hand was upwards of 4000/. ; and the half-year's expensee under 800/.
On Wednesday, workmen were employed, under the direction of Mr. Burton, in erecting it scaffolding around the triumphal arch at 11: de Park Corner, for the pum pose of placing on the top of the arch a we ;den modtl of the intended statue of the Duke of Wellington. Th operations attracted much notice.
Oa 1Vednesday, Queen Adelaide was summoned by the Rate-core lectors of the parish of St. Martin-in.the-Fields, to attend at the Westminster Petty Sessions to answer for the non-payment of 1041. and some shillings due to the parish of St. Martini, as a quarter's poor- rate for her residence, Marlborough house, Pall Mall. Her Majesty, it appears, was willing to pay the rate demanded as a donation, but she objected to pay it as it rate. This the parish refused to accede to, and the present proceedings were instituted. On the opening of the coma, Mr. Sergeant Merewcther, her Majesty's Solicitor-Genernl, was in attendance ; but, in consequence of some arrangement which was en- tered into between the learned Sergeant on the part of her Majesty, and the representatives of the parish, the precise nature of which did not transpire, the further consideration of the case was by consent ad- pruned to Tuesday next.
Some inconvenience has been occasioned at Kensington by the re- fusal of two Magistrates, Messrs. Pilltington and Ballow, who have for some time done nearly all the justice business of the district, to hear any more cases. Consequently all the parties have been obliged to go to the Queen Square Office. The Magistrates were offended by the removal of an Inspector of Police, in whom they placed confi- dence, to another district ; the transfer being made without their know- ledge, and ut the instigation, it is pretended, of a small knot of shop- keepers, by whom die Inspector was disliked on account of the etrict performance of his duty.
A hostile meeting took place on Wednesday afternoon, at Worm- wood Scrubs, between Lord Albert Conyngham, M. P., nnd Fredeeiek Villiers, Esq., late M. P. for Canterbury ; the former attended by Lord George Bentinek, M.P., and the latter by Sir Lytton Bulwer, M. P. After receiving Lord Albert's fire, Mr. V. fired in the air. An explanation then took place, and the principals left the ground together. A good many spectators had collected within a short dis- tance.— Globe.
The Woolwich Magistrates have discharged a constable, named Nicholls, for having got drunk in company with a ptisoner whom he was escorting to Alaidetone Gaol.
A Policeman was sent to prison from the Bow Street Office, on Tuesday, for brutal conduct to a respectable woman, whom lie dragged to the Stationhouse in her night-clothing, without shoes or stockings. and although she was evidently very unwell. She bad come out of bed to let in her husband; who, returning home late at night, had got into some quarrel in the street close to his own house. Time Policeman chose to say that she was implicated in the disturbance; but when he got to the Stationhouse, he had no charge to prefer, and the Inspectar sent the poor woman home again.
A schoolmaster, named Martin, residing in Islington, has been com- mitted to the House of Correction for a month, from Hatson Garden Office, in default of paying a fine of 20s. inflicted upon him for strik- ing one of his pupils several times on the head with a cane.
Two Greenwich steamers, the Nelson and the Gipsy, ran foul of each other on Wednesday afternoon, in the Thames off Pitcher's Point. The Gipsy's paddle-box was much injured ; and she was driven against the Orixa, a very large brig, with such violence that her starboard paddle-box and some of her timbers were carried away. The numerous passengers were saved by great exertions of the crews of the steamer and the brig, and were taken to Greenwich by the Royal Tar.
Several accidents have occurred this week through the careless driv- ing of omnibus and cabriolet people; some of whom have been fined sod imprisoned.
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