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Prince Albert, accompanied by Sir William Molesworth as head of the Board of Works, visited St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday, to inspect the proposed site for Wellington's tomb. It having been found inconvenient to execute the original proposition of placing it beside Nelson's, the pro- posal now is, to place the tomb of Wellington at the East end of the centre crypt, immediately under the entrance to the choir, and midway between the monuments of Nelson and Cornwallis.
The jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society has been comme- morated this week. A large meeting composed of members of the various religious denominations, the Quakers being especially prominent, was held in Exeter Hall on Tuesday. The chair was occupied by Lord Shaftesbury : on his right sat the Rajah of Coorg, in an Eastern dress, and the Duke of Argyll ; on the left, the Earl of Carlisle and the Bishop of Winchester; and near these, the Reverend Hugh Stowell, the Re- verend Dr. Duff, and the Reverend Mr. James. From statements made to the meeting it appears, that since the foundation of the Society, fifty years ago, 8000 branch societies have been instituted : the Scriptures have been translated into 148 languages and dialects, of which 121 had never before been printed : upwards of 43,000,000 copies had been disse- minated, among, it was computed, 600,000,000 of the human race : of the languages into which these copies had been rendered, upwards of twenty-five had existed hitherto without an alphabet, and merely in an oral form. The sum subscribed amounted to upwards of 70001., and hopes were expressed that it would be run up to nearly 10,000/. There were two donations of 500/. each and three of 1000/. On Thursday a jubilee sermon was preached in St. Paul's, by the Archbishop of Can- terbury.
The Reverend H. Mackenzie, the Vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, has just made known that Sir Walter James has offered to him to endow the chapel belonging to the parish in Broad Court, Drury Lane, with the sum of 50001.; the chapel to be consecrated, the area to be entirely free, and collections made for its support ; the right of presentation to be in the hands of Sir Walter and his heirs. The Vicar, with whom the patronage at present rests, has expressed his readiness to give up his rights on such terms, and also to add an endowment of 30/. a year.
At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the follow- ing resolution was carried unanimously, on the motion of Mr. Anderton- That this Court do petition both Houses of Parliament to abolish the oath required to be taken by persons appointed to public offices, commonly called the Oath of Abjuration, and thereby remove the disabilities of the Jews from sitting in Parliament."
At a late meeting of the Court of Common Council, the following reso- lution was unanimously passed, on the motion of Mr. Anderton- " That to extend and improve the national education, to develop and en- courage industry, art, and science, and elevate the moral and social condition and thereby promote the welfare and happiness of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, so graciously expressed by her Majesty in her Speech to both Houses of Parliament upon the late dissolution, it is desirable that a free library and a free circulating library should be established in the city of London : there- fore that it be referred to the Library Committee to consider and report how and by what means such libraries can be best established in the City, and whether any portion of the present City Library can be made available to- wards such a purpose." The Lord Mayor will shortly call a public meeting on the subject, at the Mansionhouse.
The City Commissioners of Sewers have increased the salary of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London from 500/. to 800/. a year, "on account of his valuable services."
A parishioner having represented to the Home Secretary that burials at St. Clement's Danes arc still allowed, Lord Palmerston gives assurance that as soon "as the forms required by law can be gone through' the churchyard will be closed.
Sir Richard Mayne, Chief Commissioner of Police, is about to retire, on a full pension. He will be succeeded by Mr. Henry, the able Bow Street Magistrate. Captain Hay, the second Commissioner, could not succeed Sir Richard, for the law requires that henceforth the Chief Com- missioner shall be a barrister of seven years standing.
Government have purchased the Brixton House of Correction, which has ceased to be used as a prison since the completion of the County Gaol on Wandsworth Common. It is supposed that it is intended to convert the building into barracks.
Miss Hutchinson, of Grosvenor Square, a lady of fifty, possessed of con- siderableproperty, has been pronounced insane under a commission of lu- nacy. When examined by the Commissioner, her answers showed her un- happy condition. She said, all her property was now gone, and she herself had been buried, and was to be burnt ; she was buried before she was born.; her house in Grosvenor Square was worth 30,000/. a year, but she had let it for 2001.; she had at one time spent 25,000/. per annum, when she lived In Grosvenor Square, where she had set up a theatre; her head had been cut off, and there were epaulets upon her shoulders. This lady's insanity was dated from 1834.
At the Central Criminal Court, George Corte'', a young man of twenty, has been convicted of stabbing his father "with intent to murder" him. The particulars have been given before. The proof was clear ; and sentence of death was recorded. • James Daniels, a man of forty, has been sent to prison for three months, on a conviction for "unlawfully intending to obstruct and impede the due course of justice by unjustly dissuading Henry Daniels, his eon, from ap- pearing to give evidence" against three people charged with felony.
At the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, what is rather foolishly called "the infernal machine case" was tried—the trial not being about an infernal ma- chine. Several weeks ago, some Frenchmen succeeded partially in duping the French Embassy, and setting Sir Richard Mayne and the Detective Po- lice to work, by a clumsy fabrication of the discovery of an "infernal ma- chine" in a kitchen in Theobald'a Road,—five rusty gun-barrels and some wood-work,---intended to destroy the Emperor of the French ! While the Police were looking after this "plot," they detected something more tangible performed by the Frenchmen. The upshot was, that on Monday. last D'Al- hart and Charon were tried for stealing a trunk belonging to a fellow country- man, containing clothes, pistols, and fifty-two sovereigns. The prosecuting ounsel made a flourish about the " plot," the intentions of the British Go- vernment, and so on—and there ended the "infernal machine" part of the business. D'Albert was convicted of the robbery ; the other man was as- -quitted.
Pierre Brostin, a Frenchman, has been fully committed by Alderman Cubitt for uttering forged bills of exchange, purporting to be drawn and accepted by mercantile people at Cherbourg. He got some money on one of the hills from Mr. Bauer, a foreign banker of Leadenhall Street.
In consequence of numerous complaints of annoyance and abuse in the vicinity of cab-ranks from the drivers and others congregating there, the Commissioners of Police have issued orders that no person, except the actual drivers and the watermen, are to be allowed to remain on the stands, and the cads and " bucks " who loiter about them are to be apprehended. The drivers of cabs standing for hire are in future to remain with their vehicles, and will not be allowed to stand on the footpath ; they must not clean their cabs or horses on the stands, nor smoke nor drink malt or spirituous liquors; and, on request of the driver of any private vehicle, they arebound to move to permit the same to pass. The waterman at each rank is required to see that the litter created by watering and feeding the horses is cleared away.
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