Messrs. Rothschild have been declared the successful bidders for the
new French loan.
A notice has been posted on the County Hall of Middlesex, announcing that it is the intention of the Commissioners of 'Woods and Forests to apply to Parlia- ment for a Bill to abolish the market held in the Haymarket, and substituting in- stead, markets in one or all of York, Cumberland, and Clarence Squares, St. rugs.% The neyr market or marltets to be for tho sale of hay and straw, but. cher's meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables. It is proposed that power shall he given to the Trustees under the Act to erect the necessarybuildings, and levy tolls on the goods brought into the market for sale.
Notice has been given of an application to Parliament, for a Bill for making and maintaining an aqueduct, with feeders, tunnels, &c. for the conveyance of pure water to or near the metropolis, from springs in the parishes of Wimble- don, Kingston, Roehampton, Richmond, Mortlake, East Sheen, Barnes, Putney, Wandsworth, Clapham, Battersea, and Lambeth, upon or near to the line of the said aqueduct. The merchants and shipowners interested in the trade with the new American States, met on Thursday at the North and South American Coffeehouse, for the purpose of receiving a report from the Committee appointed at a former meeting to consider the best means of forming an Association to watch over the interests of the trade. It was proposed that the trade to the whole Of the New American States should become the care of the proposed Association. It was decided, how- ever, that the trades of Mexico and Colombia alone should be under its cogni- zance; and a committee was appointed to carry the plan of the report into effect.
There was a meeting on Tuesday night, at the Paul's Head room, to consider the propriety of presenting a petition to Parliament for the repeal of those laws which inflict death for offences that do not affect the safety of society: -Mr. Hunt was Chairman.
On the 7th instant, a General Court of the Scottish Corporation wai held, for the purpose of considering the propriety of lowering the salary which the secre- tary has for paying the pensioners under the Kinloch Charity. For this spedial duty he has 2501. per annum, while the Society allows him besides 175/. a year and a free house. The matter is to be finally decided upon on the 20th instant. The new Police is to be extended very shortly to the East district of the me- tropolis. Four houses have been taken as barracks for the men—one in Great Alie Street, another in Lemon Street, a third in Prescott Street, and the fourth in Mansell Street.
The method recommended by the Magistrates of Marlborough Street, of cleans- ing the foot-paths front snow, 'by means of salt, has been very generally and effi- caciously adopted in the Metropolis. A bushel basket full of that article was used in front of Somerset House on Thursday afternoon. The publicans and the coal-undertakers have for a long time been in the habit of paying the coal-whippers (men employed to unload coal-vessels) a considerable proportion of their wages in gin and beer. The coal-whippers complain of this imposition, and are determined to rid themselves of it. It caused a riot among them last week at Wapping.
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