The Corporation Commissioners, having given notice that they should pursue
their•inquiries into the state of the property and other matters, of several of the Civic Companies, have held three meetings this week ; but no one has appeared before them to give the requisite infor- mation. The parish authorities of St. Pancras haw not followed the example of the Marylebone Vestry.; but have determined to lose no time in forwarding their answers to the questions of the Poor-Law Commis. sioners. In Greenwich, outadoor relief is now refused to the poor. but in the neighbouring parishes of St. Paul and St. Nicholas, Dept. ford, the old system will be adhered to until it is altered by orders from the Commissioners.
The Committee of inquiry into the expenditure of St. Martin's parish recommend a reduction of 3,8581. in the expense of lighting, paving, and cleansing the streets.
At a meeting of some masters and workmen in the building trade,
held on Thursday, in the Mechanics Institution, resolutions were passed recommending the formation of a society to oppose the capitalists, and prevent any one person or one establishment from undertaking work in the various branches of the building trade—such as carpenters, masons, painters, &c., whose business ought, in the opinion of the meeting to be kept distinct. The persons present (as will readily he believed) seemed to have very vague notions as to the manner in whith their object could be effected.
The late strike on the part of the builders' workmen is fast dwind. ling into insignificance, and the instigators of it are likely in a very short
time to be the sole remnants of the conspiracy. Many of the masters have already obtained their complement of men, and the remainder are only waiting to make a selection of the best hands ere they complete their number. All those workmen, too, who have returned to their work, have signed the masters' requisition.— Globe.
A fresh receptacle has at length been found for the public records; which, since their removal from the temporary sheds in Westminster Hall, have been placed in the centre part of the King's Mews, at Char- ing Cross, now wanted for the National Gallery. They are now to be placed for temporary safety in the stables heretofore attached to Carlton House ; which have just been emptied of furniture, which has been conveyed to the New Palace.—Herald.
Messrs. Keen and Coventry, the Revising Barristers for Middlesex, decided on Monday, that persons entitled to property in reversion were not thereby qualified to vote; the actual possession of property being considered indispensable.
It is said, that by the operation of the new Central Court Act, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex will be put to an additional expense of nearly 5001. per annum, from the additional number of Sessional dinners to be given in consequence.
Dr. Richards having resigned the vicarage of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, a Committee of the most respectable inhabi• tants has been formed for opening a subscription for the purpose of presenting him " with a memento, as a token of the esteem in which he was held by his parishioners."
An arrangernent has been made with the General Steam Navigation Company for despatching mails twice a week to Hamburg during the ensuing winter.
The street leading from London Bridge to the Greenwich Railway was commenced on Monday last. It is named Dottin Street, after the Chairman of the Company.
It has been proposed to add to the libraries of the principal Inns of Court, a reading-room, to he furnished with newspapers, magazines, maps, &c. as are found in the different clubhouses.
Some cunning fellow, who knows how to hit the taste of the English vulgar, took the house where Steinberg murdered his family, and has got up an exhibition of the horrid scene, which draws such crowds that the neighbours have complained of the nuisance. The effigies of the victims in waxwork, dressed in the clothes (so it is said) in which they died, are placed just as they were found lying when the murder was discovered ; and a bloody knife, with which it is pretended the deed was perpetrated, is exhibited (the precious relic itself is in the pos- session of the parish, constable), with the accompaniments doubtless of real blood, and any other accessories of assassination that may be necessary to give effect to the scene.
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