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The Treasury are said to be in high spirits at the large increase of revenue for the quarter ; which exceeds the most sanguine expectations.
It is now said, with something like an air of authority, that the dis- solution of Parliament will take place early in December.
We are informed the election to the Civic Chair will be strongly contested, and that Sir Peter Laurie will not take possession of it as a matter of course. We understand an opposition of a novel kind is about to be brought forward ; and if such opposition be on secure grounds, the Court of Aldermen will be visited with the punishment they so justly deserve, for infringing on the rights and liberties of the citizens. Some of the most active of the Liverymen, in the cause of civic liberty, are about to bring forward one of their body, of high ta- lent and very considerable influence, who is not a member of the Court of Aldermen. They have come to a conclusion, after a minute exami- nation of the ancient charter of the City, that the citizens have vested in them the right of choosing one from among themselves without refe- rence to the Court of Aldermen.—Morning Advertiser.
A public meeting for the purpose of promoting the erection of a number of almshouses for the reception of distressed inhabitant house- holders of London, as a record of the triumph of Reform, was held on Thursday, at the London Tavern ; the Lord Mayor in the chair. The resolutions were carried unanimously.
More than 100,000 quarters of wheat, and 58,000 cwt. of flour, have recently, it appears, been entered for home consumption. At the pre- sent rate of duty, they will produce nearly 150,000/..to the revenue, and will prove a very unexpected aid to Ministers, who, in consequence of the abundant harvest, had not calculated on any accession through the duties on grain and flour. The holders of the corn thus brought for- ward for home consumption, will, of course, suffer a heavy loss ; but they have no doubt found, in the present price of grain all over Europe, that this was the only mode left them to obtain a market for it.— Times.
A petition has been forwarded to Lord Melbourne, signed by up- wards of 200 persons confined for debt in Whitecross Street Prison, and seeking to be discharged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act, praying that one of the Commissioners of the Court may be directed to continue the sittings during the time of the intended vacation, to decide on their cases.
The Lord Wellington East Indiaman, a large ship of upwards of 1,400 tons burden, has been lately purchased by the agents of Don Pedro, after having made several voyages to the East Indies ; and is now being enlarged, altered, and repaired, at the ship-building yard of Messrs. Cox and Curling, at Limehouse.
On Wednesday, the Lord William Bentinek iron steam-vessel, lately launched at Messrs. IVIaudslay's yard; peiformed her first trip. The steam-engine, of sixty-horse power, and all the apparatus, being com- pleted, Captain Johnson, of the East India Company's service, under whose superintendence she was built, and the partners of the firm of Messrs. Maudslay, with some of their friends, proceeded up the River, for the purpose of trying her speed and the working of the engine. Every thing succeeded beyond expectation. With the engine on board, and a supply of coals, she does not draw more than seventeen inches of water. The Lord William was intended to be sent out to India, to ply on the Ganges; but the East India Company have determined to keep her on the Thames for the purpose of towing their own ships up and down the river.
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