The following statement shows the amount of Corporation Com- mittee

allowances, previously to the redactions agreed to last week, as well as the sums now slimed to each Committee. The total reduc-

tion is 3,3531. las. 6d.

Former Present Irish Society (exclusive of Deputations to Ire

land) City Lands Committee Bridge House Estates Gresham Commissioners of Sewers Navigation Committee Coal, and Corn, and Finance General Purposes Loudon Bridge (average) Illaekfri.us Bridge (average) Nightly Watch (average)

City or London School (in 1935) Corn Meters in Trust

Markets Committee Library

Former Present lapenses. Allowances.

£870 0 0 .C200 0 0 850 0 0 500 0 0 650 0 0 200 0 0 )00 0 0 25 0 0 650 0 0 300 0 0

650 0 0. 300 0 0 550 0 0 4

f50 0 0 200 0 0

500 0 0 200 0 0

300 0 0 110 0 0

8000 15000 00 00

168 18 6 10000 100 0 0 5000 100 0 0 100 0 0 00 _5_0 £6,028 10 6 £2,675 0 0

A meeting to petition against Church-rates was held at the Ridings school, Burton Crescent, on Monday evening. The pi titioners de- manded a total abolition of the impost, and repudiated any scheme for saddling the rates on the Land-tax or Consolidated Fund.

The householders of St. Andrew's parish, Holborn, assembled yes- terday to consider the propriety of imposing a Church-rate for the en- suing year. The Radicals in the parish assembled in gri at force, de- termined to get rid of the rate. Finding how the majority were dis- posed, the senior Churchwarden suggested that the considt ration of the question be postponed, until it was seen what steps would be taken by Government on the subject of Church-rates : at the same time be stated, that he had only 3/. Os. 7d. to go on with. Mr. Tidmarsh would not agree to a farthing rate—he was against any rate at all. He denounced the harsh conduct of the Rector in levying his tithes, and declared that the grandeur of the Church was supported by a system of persecution. After a good deal of speaking to the same effect, a mo- tion for postponing the consideration of the rate sine ale was agreed to. In consequence of this vote, there will be no funds for paying the organist, sexton, beadles, nor for coals and candles.

The 5000/. Three-and-a-half per Cents. given by Mrs. Mary Fla- herty to the University of London, was transferred on the 4th instant, to the names of Lord Brougham, Mr. Goldsmid, and Mr. Tooke, as Trustees for the Council.

Mr. Green, Mr. Monk Mason, and a Mr. 'Robert Holland, ascended in Mr. Green's balloon from Vauxhall on Tuesday, at one in the after- noon, with the intention of passing over the Channel into France. They passed Canterbury at four and Dover at five o'clock, and were after- wards seen in the direction of St. Omer; but no account of their land. ing has been received.

The bakers throughout the Metropolis have raised the price of the four-pound loaf one penny; the price of the best bread being now eightpence halfpenny and ninepence ; the cheap or second sort, which was formerly sixpence and sixpence halfpenny, is now sevenpence and sevenpence halfpenny. Nor is bread the only necessary of life which bas lately risen in price, as the poor of the Metropolis severely feel in this inclement season. Within the last fortnight, coals have risen from Is. 4d. to Is. 10d. per cwt.; and butter is now dearer by 15 per cent. than it was a few days ago. Bacon also is much dearer.

The Courier states, that gold to the amount of 260,000 sovereigns was shipped on Thursday and yesterday for Dublin : it was insured at Lloyd's at five per cent., and shipped in seven steam-boats from Holy- head.

At a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, on Thursday, a letter from Mr. Hume, with a copy of that gentleman's County-rate Bill, was laid before the Chairman. Mr. Hume expressed his desire to receive suggestions from the Magistrates for the improvement of his bill. Aftera discussion, in the course of which Sir Peter Laurie and others said that Mr. Hume would have acted more respectfully to the Bench had he attended personally, instead of writing to the Magistrates, it was agreed that the Clerk should acknowledge the receipt of the letter, and that the bill should be deposited in the Clerk's office for the inspec. tion of the Magistrates.