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A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, at which it was agreed, with only one dissentient voice, to repeal the standing order which required that all the officers of the Court should be elected by ballot. Mr. Wire, who brought forward the motion to that effect, clearly stated the distinction which existed between the principle of electing representatives by constituents, and the election of their offi- cers by the Council.

The right of choosing Members of Parliament was a personal right, which

he who possessed it ought to exercise according to the dictates of his own con- science, unshackled by the opinions of others; whereas the elective faculty en- joyed by the members of that Court was a delegated right, and ought to be exer- cised only for the benefit and in conformity with the opinions of those who elected them.

_ A Coed of Directors was held on Wednesday at the East India House, when Mr. William Byam Martin, was appointed third Mem- ber of the Supreme Council of India, and Lieutenant-Colonel William Morison C:B., of the Madras Artillery, was appointed Provisional Membe;of the same Council, to succeed thereto upon the first vacancy.

A meeting of the subscribers to Lloyd's was held on Wednesday,

for the purpose of receiving the resignation of Alderman Thompson as Chairman. A motion was brought forward, that the House regretted the step taken by the Chairman, and requesting him to remain in the situation which he held. An amendment was proposed, that his re- signation should be accepted, upon the ground of his being Vice-Pre- sident to a Marine Insurance Company established at Sunderland. The amendment was carried.; the numbers being for the original mo- tion'82, for the amendment 105.

Messrs. W. Marshall, H. Cheap*, and G. Penning, were elected by ballot on Thursday evening members of the Committee at Lloyd's.

A vestry meeting of the _parishioners of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, was held on Thursday night, at the parish-church, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the repeal of the Local Church Act of that parish, " together with all other acts respecting tithes and compulsory payments for the support of the hierarchy." The following resolution was then moved and seconded.

" That as the important questions of Tithes and other ecclesiastical demands will oc. copy the deliberations of the Legislature when they reassemble, we consider it to be our duty, not only on our own behalf, burin unison with the majority of the nation, and for the good of posterity, respectfully to address both. Houses of Parliament by petition, humbly representing the injurious consequences which result from the union of an ecclesiastical establishment with the civil government ; and praying that our local act for raising customary payments in lieu of tithes in this parish, bearing date the 221 of June 1825. together a ith all other acts respecting tithes and compulsory payments for the support of the hierarchy, may be repealed; beseeching them not to be satisfied with any modification of the present system, but to take effectual measures for the entire re- moval of all such imposts and the disunion of the hierarchy from the civil government."

Two of the parishioners spoke against the resolution, and moved an amendment ; but the original resolution was carried by a large majority ; and petitions to both Houses of Parliament, embodying the substance of it, were agreed to.

The Exchequer suits, instituted by the Reverend Gilbert Beresford, for the imposition of tithes in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, are revived with the utmost rigour, after lying a long time dormant. The

Committee for conducting the defence have therefore called a meeting of the inhabitants, to be held at the Workhouse, Gray's Inn Lane, at

ten o'clock on Monday next, for the purpose of resolving upon the most effectual mode of resisting the demands attempted to be imposed upon them and their successors.

About one hundred and fifty friends of Dr. Lushington dined together at the London Coffeehouse, on Thursday, to celebrate the anniversary of that gentleman's return for the Tower Hamlets. Mr. William Smith, formerly Member for Norwich, was in the chair; and Mr. Craw- ford, Member for the City, Sir John Hall, and other gentlemen, electors

of the Tower Hamlets, were present. After the usual toasts had been drunk, Dr. Lushington's health was proposed ; and the Doctor in re- turning thanks said—

He had been accused of being the slave of the present Ministry. In attending the electors of the Tower Hamlets to explain his sentiments, lie was always ready to answer any and every question ; but he never gave a pledge to a parti- cular point ; and, so help him God, he never would ! As to his being the slave of the nistry, he voted against them on the following questions—the Property- tax, the Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, the Impressment of Seamen, Flogging in the Army, and sonic others of great importance. He confessed that he was attached to the present Ministers, because he had fought side by side with them in the cause of Reform, Retrenchment, Civil and Religious liberty, and the cause of humanity and freedom. He was attached to them because they in- tended to go further—because they intended to effect a reform in our Legal Jurisprudence—because they were determined to take measures to extinguish

Tithes—because they were determined to effect a complete Radical Reform in the Church. He thought he had said enough to justify his support of the present Ministry; and he begged to remind his constituents, that great objects were not always fo be obtained without making. some minor sacrifices. He should commence his duties next session with the Intention of acting as he had done : he should ever consider hiniself as their representative, but not their delegate —to act as their member, but not as their slave.

This address was received with much applause, especially those pas- sages of it which referred to the promised extinction of Tithes and the

Radical Reform in the Church. The health of Messrs. Clay and Crawford was drunk ; and after a good deal of singing, the party separated.

The public inquiry into the affairs of the Corporation of London will commence on Monday at eleven precisely ; a letter to that effect having been written to the Lord. Mayor by the Secretary of the Commissioners, Mr. Parkes.

The Fishmongers' Company has honourably determined to admit the fullest investigation of their constitution and municipal conduct.

There are said to be negotiations on foot between the Bank of England and some of the large joint-stock banks in the country, for

circulating the notes of the former preferably to making issues of local notes by those banks. The only obstacle is the settlement of the rate of interest at which such notes are to be issued. The local banks are willing to pay 21, but the Bank of England demands 3 per cent. This fractional difference is held to be so important to the local banks,

whose transactions are in most instances on a very large scale, that they show no disposition to give way, but on the contrary they declare, that

if the higher rate is insisted on, they will be driven to the necessity of issuing their own paper. As the Bank Directors are known to enter- tain the desire to make their notes the universal ci. Illation of the country, it is not thought unlikely that they may be induced to yield on this occasion.— Times.

A company has been just established to run steam-coaches in various parts of England. The capital of the company exceeds 300,0001. They have ordered fifty coaches to be built at Birmingham, and six at Maudslay's.

A meeting of more than two thousand operatives was held on Mon- day evening, at the Equitable Labour Exchange, in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, at which the resolutions passed on the 25th of last month at Manchester, proposing to limit the hours of labour to eight hours daily, and to oppose a reduction of wages by means of combination among the workmen, formed the subject of much animated discussion. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Owen, Mr. Hetherington, and others ; and resolutions similar to those passed at Manchester were carried by acclamation. About eighty persons assembled last night at the Burton Rooms, to hear another lecture from the St. Simonian apostle, Dr. Prati. There was no novelty in his nonsense.