Itittropral.
It is reported that the candidates for the City will be nominated on Tuesday, and that the election will take place on Thursday, and close on Friday at four.
Mr. James Harmer was elected Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon With out, on Monday last, in the room of the late Mr. Waithman, without oppo- sition.
Among the current transactions at the Bank of England, it has been noticed that, instead of selling silver bullion at a fixed market-price, as formerly, the Directors require an engagement to return an equal weight in silver at some pe- riod to be agreed on, which is then advanced, and security taken for the fulfil- ment of the contract. No motive has been assigned for this, nor is any very apparent on the face of the transaction ; but the inference drawn from it among the inonied circles is, that some measures are in contemplation, or believed to be so by the Directors of the Bank, either for introducing the double standard of gold and silver, or for making silver a legal tender to a greater extent than is at present allowed.— Times. The ninth anniversary of the London Mechanics' Institution was celebrated, at the Theatre of the Institution, on Wednesday last. Dr. Birkbeck, the Pre- sident, was in the chair. The room was much crowded. Various prizes from 1/. to 201. in value' offered for essays and drawings, were presented to the successful candidates. Dr. Birkbeck, Dr. Lardner, Mr. Babbage, Mr. Hopkins, and Mr. Roebuck, addressed the:meeting. Mr. Roebuck appears to have been mis- understood in some remarks which he made upon the necessity of individual ex- ertion to forward the great object of national education. He certainly stated that there was no prospect of the subject being taken up by Government; but he had no intention whatever of introducing party politics into a meeting where they would have been quite out of place. This is the explanation which we find in a letter from Mr. Roebuck to the editor of the Times ; in which paper an in- correct account of his reception and the tendency of his remarks was published. It is said that Mr. T. A. Rainsford, the senior Registrar of the Court of Chancery, has been appointed to the sinecure place of Master of the Report Office of that Court. It will be recollected that Mr. Hume, about ten days since, asked Lord Althorp a question respecting the filling up of this office, and that Lord Althorp replied he knew nothing at all about it.
The damage done by the late gales of wind to the shipping on the coast is very serious. Up to twelve o'clock on Friday, accounts of upwards of twenty wrecks had been received at Lloyd's. .
Twelve of the largest and oldest trees in the Mall, in St. James's Park, have been blown down by the recent storms. They were planted in the first year of the reign of James the First.
A fire broke out on Friday morning, in the laundry belonging to Chelsea Hospital. As soon as it was discovered, the alarm was given by. the beating of drums. The engines were soon on the spot, and the fire was extinguished; but not before the building was considerably injured, and all the linen burnt.
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