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A public meeting of the working classes of London is to be held en the 17th of next month, in Palace Yard, Westminster, to petition for the People's Charter.
The revision of the lists of Parliamentary voters for Middlesex is to commence on the 1.5th instant.
It is understood that there have been more frivolous objections made this year by the Tories and their agents to claims of Reformers to vote, than there have been at any former period since the Reform Act passed. This system of annoyance is general throughout the country. —Morning Advertiser.
The new and splendid reading-rooms which have been lately erected in the North wing of the British Museum will be opened to readers after the 7th of next month.
A new synagogue, erected in St. Helen's, in the City, on the site of some premises formerly occupied by the East India Company, has just been finished, and will be consecrated early in the ensuing month. It is a handsome building, capable of accommodating a large congre- gation.
An " American" correspondent of the Chronicle is surprised that in the London omnibuses there is no convenience fur stopping the vehicle. He says- " In New York the omnibuses have a cord within reach of all the passengers, passed round the leg of the driver, so that he has instantaneous notice when to stop and when to proceed. It is singular that so simple a connivance should not have lavn thought of; for the operation of stopping the omnibus at pre- sent is very annoying, as many of your re tilers can possibly testify." Lieutenant Parke, of the Coast Guard, and the boatswain in com- mand of the boat from which shots were fired at the yacht of Mr. Barlow Moore, off Gravesend, have been dismissed.
In addition to the projected improvements to be made at the ancient palace of Kensington, immediately after the vacating of her apartinents by her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, we understand it has been determined on by the Board of Works to do away with the forcing-garden and the kitchen-garden, which have for years been attached to the establishment of the palace ; and on the former to build a range of substantial houses, with a frontage in Church Street, and on the latter, which abuts on the Bayswater Road, to erect two fashionable squares and several streets, which will be not only a great improvement, but also a considerable advantage to the neighbourhood. The determination of Government on the subject has tended much to strengthen the report to which we alluded a few days since, of the in- tention of her Majesty occasionally to reside at Kensington Palace. — Morning Post.
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