A Court of Common Council was held yesterday. There was
a good deal of uninteresting conversation ; but the only business of im- portance that was transacted, was the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the amount of the City expenditure, and the sources of its revenues. It was agreed that the salary of the City Solicitor should be fixed at 20001.
The proprietors of the Bank of England elected Mr. Timothy Abraham Curtis to the office of Deputy- Governor, on Wednesday. It appears that the Governor is not compelled to swear that he owns the requisite amount of Bank Stock above his debts, before he takes office. The old principle of rotation will, it is said, be adhered to.
On Saturday morning, Lord Auckland, Mr. Henry Ellis, Clerk of the Pells, and other public functionaries, attended the Exchequer, and, after verifying the amount of monies in the public chests, paid the same over to the Bank of England, and thus concluded their functions. Sir John Newport was also present on this occasion, and took his scut as Controller of the New Exchequer.
Several members of the tea trade are contemplating the erection of a re- spectable and commodious building for the public sales of teas on the site of ground now laid open at the top and fronting Great Tower Street. This spot is at once contiguous to and yet perfectly distinct from the West India market, and extremely convenient for the wholesale trade and Customhouse business. The building to have a coffee and reading- room attached ; and the capital requisite to be raised in shares of att each, three-fourths of which to be held by tea-merchants, brokers, wholesale dealers, and captains trading to China, and the other fourth by persons engaged in the general East India trade.
The requisite notices have been given of an intention to apply to the Legislature for powers to enlarge the East India Docks, to improve Smithfield Market, and to ereet a new bridge across the Thames at Lambeth, from near the Old Church to the Horseferry at Millbank. The funds for the latter are to be furni.died by a joint-stock company.
The members of the Catholic Tract Society held their second meet- ing on Friday, night in Eathbone Place, Oxford Street. The room was crowded to excess. Considerable numbers were disappointed at not being enabled to witness the proveedings. After the delivery of several speeches, resolutions were adopted for establishing district societies throughout London and the suburbs. The Earl of Shrewsbury not long since sent a munificent donation to the Bristol Catholic Tract Society, and signified his maeked approval of its exertions, as being the most peaceable yet effective mode of counteracting calumnies against the Catholic religion.
There was a meeting of most of the rectifiers of London on the 9th instant; when it was resolved that, in consequence of the rise upon malt spirits, gin should be raised in the same proportion.
The Poor-rates in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, have been reduced from 67,3361. to 27,391/. by the adoption of the system recommended by the Poor-Law Commissioners ;. and the Guardians of the Poor in St. Paul's, Covent Garden, have saved 1 IL out of 15/. a week by offering relief to paupers in food and clothing, instead of money.
At a meeting of the creditors of Bentley, Dear, and Co., held in the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday, debts were proved to the amount of 32,400/. The total liabilities of the concern are stated at 123,000/. and the assets at from 40,000/. to ;',0,0041 Mr. Gumersal, a bill-broker, and a Mr. King of Hammersmith, appear to have been largely con- cerned in discounting Bentley's bills and acceptances.
A meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin's was held on Thurs- day morning, in the Vestry-room, for the purpose of taking into con- sideration whether or not they should elect a Select Vestry. A long and most stormy debate ensucd ; which ended in the motion for a Select Vestry being withdrawn, it being evidently against the wish of the majority of the inhabitants.
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