A requisition to the Lord Mayor has been numerously signed

by many of the Aldermen and Common Council, to take into considera- tion the following motion at the next Court—" That this Court, im- pressed with feelings of sincere gratification at the elevation of our late Common Sergeant to the high office of Lord Chief Justice of England, arising at once from great personal esteem, from a sense of the honour thereby reflected upon this City, and from a regard to the interests of the public, do express the same in an address of congratulation to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Denman upon his appointment."

Mr. Campbell is appointed Solicitor-General. There is no truth in the report of Sir John Leach resigning the office of Master of the Rolls. He has even volunteered the statement that nothing should ever induce him to retire from his Court.—Times. [There is an old fellow, as stout and as determined as Sir John, that will pull Lim off the bench some day, for all his bravery.]

For the current quarter, the County-rate of Middlesex is fixed at Id. in the pound ; at which sum it will produce 2-2,55z3/. The stir made some time back by the Magistrates respecting certain parishes which habitually run into long arrears, and the threat of issuing distress warrants upon the property of the churchwardens and overseers, have not been without their good effects in facilitating the collection of the rate. The amount in arrear on the county-day of the last session, when this rate was made, was about 12,000/. ; of which more than one half has since been paid. Even the parishes of Bethnal Green, Mile- end, and others, which used regularly to be four quarters in arrear, are now never more than two.

A meeting of the promoters of the expedition in discovery of Cap- tain Ross took place on Monday, at the rooms of the Horticultural Society, Regent Street. Captain Beechey, who was in the chair, an-

nounced the subscription to amount to ; and Captain Mlione- chie stated, that two public bodies only waited certain forms to sub- scribe 50/. a piece. A committee of thirteen should be formed, with power to increase their number to twenty-one, and to appoint sub-com- mittees to co-operate with them in different parts of the kingdom. The following gentlemen were named on the Committee,—Sir G. Cockburn (chairman), John Barrow, Esq., of the Admiralty; Captains Beechey, Beaufort, Bowles, Coppnor, and M'Konoehie ; C. J. Be- verley, Esq. ; William P. Crawford, Esq. ; IV.Hay, Esq., Under Secre- tary of State; Admiral Sir W. Hotham ; Admiral Sir C. Ogle ; Robert M'Culloch, Esq. ; D. Richardson, Esq. ; and W. Spence, Esq.

A meeting of gentlemen favourable to a more decorous observance of the Sunday, was held on Tuesday, at the London Coffeehouse, Ludgate Hill. Sir Andrew Agnew presided. It was agreed to peti- tion Parliament on the subject of amending, so as to give increased efficacy to the existing laws for the suppression of Sunday trading, or of passing such further enactments as might be effectual for that pur- pose. A labouring man, who stated that he had come up from Car- shalton (twelve miles), in two hours, for the sole purpose of attending, addressed the meeting with much propriety in approbation of their plans. The meeting was also addressed by the Reverend J. Clayton, the Reverend A. Fletcher, Alderman Venables, Mr. Chambers, the Ma- gistrate, and various other gentlemen. The meeting, previous to breaking up, was constituted into a Society for the purpose of better carrying into effect the objects that had led to its being convened.

A meeting of St. James's parish was held on Wednesday, to con- sider of the best means of obtaining a repeal of the House and Window Tax. A committee was appointed for that purpose.

A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Monck Mason was held yester- day, for the proof of debts and the choice of assignees. Notwith- standing, however, there are numerous creditors, only two appeared to make claims, one for rather above 5,000/. The choice of assignees was consequently postponed. Mr. Monek Mason attended to surrender, and received the protection of the Court.

A correspondent of the Times describes a sort of a row that occurred at the Merchant Tailors' dinner on the 9th. It is well known that the Merchant Tailors' Company is very wealthy—very extravagant in all its forms of expenditure, dinners included; that its affairs are managed by a sort of select vestry, very close and exclusive in its character; and that all the members thereof are very strong Tories, and as little dis- posed to reform the Merchant Tailors' Company as they were to reform Parliament. For a considerable number of months past, the Livery or Commons of the Company have notwithstanding been anxious for reform, though as yet with small prospect of getting it. Among other

means of obtaining their wishes, these Commons have printed and cir- culated certain papers, commenting on the enormous expenditure of the Select, and complaining bitterly, as Reformers always do, of the refusal to give to the public the smallest hint of the grounds on which it was justified, or even to state its particulars. At the dinner in question, one of these obnoxious papers was respectfully handed to the Chair- man. Now, Mr. Matthias Attwood, though a great advocate for paper generally, has a very determined aversion to Reform paper; he eyed the hated document with somewhat of the same look that Tom cast upon Lord Lyndhurst's judgment the other day; and his rage kin- dling as he read, lie at length started from his seat, tore the libellous statement in tatters, and roared out—" Thus I reply!" This burst of • Conservative wrath and eloquence produced a retort, and the retort a rejoinder; and the upshot was the introduction, by th:, Clerk of the Company, of five or six police-officers to keep the peace,—in other words, to put down the Reformers. Several of the Livery were thrown on their backs, and trampled on ; and the publisher of the paper was summarily seized by a policeman, in the disguise of a tailor; who, how- ever. released his hold 011 Ills Nvarrant being called for. The affiiir, it is said, will be the subject of islawaui t,—the common course of English reverse in such eases; no Mall in England being entitled to revenge or any thing else, unless he can purchase it. The fluids of the Company will no doubt be freely used to protect the assailants.

Some leading houses in the City, connected with the Mauritius, have prepared a memorial to Government on the subject of the late transactions there, and the expulsion of Mr. Jeremie. It has received many most respectable signatures—nearly the whole of those, in fact, who have a direct interest in the colony, and who have made advances on mortgage or otherwise to the owners of plantations there. The me- morialists 'do not offer any justification of the violent conduct of the planters, nor do they object to the appointment of Mr. Jeremie • but they endeavour to show that a perseverance in the intention of Go- vernment to send that gentleman back to the Mauritius will produce a dangerous degree of excitement amnong the planters, by which they, who have a large stake in the colony, must either be ruined or suffer very severe losses.— Times. [The plain English of this is—the people of Mauritius are rebels, but if you don't indulge them, our pockets will suffer. There is no petition to which the prospect of a suffering purse will not procure signatures. It was precisely the same feeling that, when the rope was round Fauntlero.y's neck, induced his considerate creditors to beg a week or two's respite, not to enable the poor wretch to make up his accounts with Heaven, but to balance his cash-book on earth.]

For some time past, placards have been posted advertising the sale of 50,000 trees, on the nursery-ground of Mr. Phillips, Wandsworth

Road, Lambeth. Counter placards were posted by Mr. Phillips, stating that the property described was to be sold to satisfy the de- mand of the late Rector of Streatham for tithes. At one o'clock on Tues- day, Mr. Closs, the auctioneer, commenced. The first lot consisted of twenty-six fruit-trees - for which five shillings were bid ; at which they were knocked down. Three or four other lots were knocked down, some of them consisting of upwards of 100 trees, for Is. Gd. each lot. The per- son who purchased the first lot asked of the auctioneer, whether he would indemnify him, if, in taking the trees away, he took sufficient earth to preserve the roots ? To which the auctioneer replied, that he could but sell the trees. Mr. Phillips now interfered, amid demanded a sight of the warrant authorizing the sale; which, after some altercation, was read aloud by the Sheriff's officer in possession. The sale was then about to proceed, when a notice was served upon the auctioneer, to tlaa effect that the trees were the property of Mr. Phillips senior, the father

of the supposed occupier of the land. The auctioneer then left the ground to consult with the solicitors, his employers ; and the sale was consequently postponed until sonic future day. The sale, it seems, had been noticed the previous evening at the Lambeth Political 'Union; when the President advised the members to attend.

On.Monday, the Bank of England sent a bill of 5001. to be pre- sented for payment to a .house in Regent Street. The bill was taken up stairs, and the clerk was desired to wait a little in an apartment on the ground floor. .A long time having elapsed without either money, check, bill, or answer, being forthcoming, the clerk proceeded up stairs, and found to his great astonishment that the parties, servants and all, bad decamped, and taken the bill with them. The Bank applied to the endorsers for payment, who replied, " Give us the bill, and we will pay." The transaction is supposed to be a premeditated swindling tuck.—Times. [If true, it is a regular thieving trick.]

Mr. Acland was on Thursday sentenced, for a series of libels on the Hull Magistrates, to an imprisonment of eighteen months in the gaol of Bury St. Edmund's. Mr. Justice J. Parke spoke of a libel of Mr. Acland on him—the Judge. He said he would not let it weigh in the judgment—he contemned it. No doubt ; but how came he to mention it at all ?

Mr. Cording, the pawnbroker, was in the early part of the week committed by Mr. Ballantyne, of the Thames Police Office, for non- restitution of certain pledges that had been destroyed by fire. Mr. Ballantyne's law runs thus, that loss by fire is to be attributed to " de- fault, neglect, or wilful misbehaviour,"—because, though fire-offices will not insure pawnbrokers, pawnbrokers may insure one another ; and that Magistrates being empowered to imprison pawnbrokers in case of refusal to deliver up pledges which they have, they may therefore im- prison pawnbrokers in case of refusal to deliver up pledges .which they have not; and lastly, that as the Pawnbroker's Act bars appeal in some cases, it bars appeal in all. Mr. Ballantyne's law was regularly sub mitted to the consideration of the Court of King's Bench on Thurs- day, on a motion for a Habeas Corpus. Sir James Scarlett and Mr. Follett spoke against the commitment of Mr. Cording, and Mr. Camp- bell in favour of it.

The Chief Justice said—" No subject of the King is to be restrained of his liberty without a good legal warrant to be shown for his imprisonment. I am not prepared to say that all the objections taken to this warrant are not good. It is however, enough to say, that in my opinion there is no power of commit- ment given by the Act of Parliament, even supposing the destruction of proL. perty by fire is such a ' loss' as that contemplated by Act of Parliament."

bbsJustice James Parke was of the same opinion; and added, that he for one

did not assent to the doctrine that pawnbrokers could be held responsible for the loss or destruction of property which had occurred without their " default, ne- glect, or wilful misbehaviour." Mr. Justice Taunton and Mr. Justice Patteson were also of opinion that a loss by fire was not a loss which this statute contemplated.

Mr. Cording was immediately discharged. So much for Mr. Bal. lantyne's law.

Some time ago, what was called a libel on a Dr. Ramage apla rued in the Lancet journal. It imputed to Dr. Ramage gross wart of medical skill, in his treatment of a patient labouring under typhus fever; and stated, that a regular practitioner, who was called in, refused to consult with Dr. Ramage, on account of a correspondence he had maintained with Mr. St. John Long. Dr. Ramage brought his action against Mr. Wukley, of the Lancet, and recovered one fiwthing damages. The libel which bore these weighty damages was copied into the Medical Journal; and against that journal Ramage also brought his ac- tion, and recovered 5001. ! An attempt was made on Thursday to have the verdict set aside ; and Sergeant Toddy was heard in favour of a rule for that purpose, before the Judges of the Common Pleas. The point on which he chiefly insisted was, the declaration of one of the jurors hi the second trial—that he had made up his mind, from the issue of the first, to give heavy damages in the second. This he was said to have declared on leaving the -Court, after the first trial. The words were sworn to by two gentlemen, members of the Medical Society, and denied by the juror hiniself,—an attorney, who was described to have been struck off the rolls for fraud and misconduct. The Court believed the affidavit of the juror, rather than those of the two gentlemen; and refused to disturb the verdict.

Lord Valletort appeared at Marlborough Street on Thursday, to charge a fellow with endeavouring to extort money from him by means of begging letters.

Iiis Lordship said, that a few days before, a petition under cover was sent to him, which purported to be from Mr. John Harrison, box-keeper at the King's name, soliciting in urgent terms a small donation, on account of the destitu- tion to xvhicli hiuLself and his family were reduced. This petition appeared to lie signed by Lords Burghersh, Palffier,ton, Goderich, Count d'Orsay, Countess Carlisle, Countess Cower, Mr. Creville, and a number of other gentlemen. lie had some knowledge of the handwriting of two or three of the signing parties, and suspected the signatures were forgeries; and upon sending a servant to make inquiries, lie found his suspicious to be correct.

The prisoner was recognized as a John Williams, with half a dozen of aliases. He chose the alias of Lyon. He declared that he was an agent only, not the principal in the petition. - He was committed, after a few remarks from Mr. Dyer, on the injury that such a fraud was cal- culated to inflict upon Mr. Harrison.