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The Bank of England held a meeting on Thursday ; when a peti- tion to Parliament, praying for a renewal of the Bank Charter for twenty-one years, was almost unanimously agreed to. A motion was made for printing the petition, bust it was not even seconded. The petition is to be presented at such a time as the discretion, of the Go- vernor and Directors may think expedient. It was stated to the meet- ing, that no negotiation bad taken place between the Government and the Bank, but that frequent communications had taken place between them. The Governor and functionaries are to continue in office for another year, in order to perfect the arrangements which they bare begun. Their formal election will take place on Tuesday and Wed- nesday next.
The Fifty-eighth Anniversary of the Humane Society was celebrated on Wednesday at the City of London Tavern.
• At the Common Council on Wednesday, an address was agreed to approving highly of the Government plan of education lately adopted for Ireland.
No small excitement was caused in the City,' in the beginning of the week, by the intelligence of the failure of the extensive house of Sillein and Co. of Hamburg. The merchants at Amsterdam are re- ported as great sufferers. The house of Baring are said to be creditors to the amount of 20,000/.
The inhabitants of Marylebone meet on Monday, and afterwards dine together, on the occasion of their triumph over the Select Vestry. Mr. Hume takes the chair.
The parish-officers of Marylebone have already been called upon to pay upwards of 1,600/. for the expenses incurred by the local Board of Health. The anniversary meeting of the Ladies' Hibernian School Society was held on Wednesday at Exeter Hall. From the report, it appeared that there are now 223 schools under the rules of the Society, contain- ing 11,740 female children, one half of whom are Roman Catholics. The London clergy are petitioning Parliament against the Cemetery Bill, on the ground of its diminishing their burial-fees. They ought to petition against the Anatomy Bill also, for the same reason. . At a meeting of the Trinitarian Bible Society, on Thursday, it was resolved that all persons who held Mr. Irving's doctrines should be ex- cluded from the society. It has been suggested to leave the remaining arches of old London Bridge, on the City side, as relics of past times, and as a quay or land-, ing place.
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