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The Lord Mayor gave a splendid dinner last Saturday, the particulars of which reached us at too late a period to admit of our using them. The Duke of Sussex, Lord and Lady Grey, the Duke and Duchess of Rich- mond, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lord and Lady Dur- ham;Lord Melbourne, Lord Auckland, Lord Palmerston, Lord and Lady Goderich, Lord and Lady Carlisle the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Sir James and Lady Graham, Lord and Lady Albemarle, the Lord Advocate, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Westminster, Prince Talleyrand, Six J. Hobhouse, several of the Foreign Ambassadors, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Mahon, the Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and a host of other distinguished persons, graced the festive scene. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Althorp, and Lord John Russell, were absent; the two last, and we suspect the Chancellor also, from fatigue and indisposition. Lord Brougham, we understand, is by no means so vigorous as when he took the seals : his enormous labour, in court and out of court, previous ita his brief recess, must have affected him seriously, and the attack of sickness which he experienced just before returning to town still far- ther tended to shake a constitution of uncommon hardihood indeed, but, like all mortal things, obnoxious to derangement and decay.
The Commissioners for the issue of Exchequer Bills in aid of Public ' Works, have declined advancing the loan of 130,000/. requested by the Director's of the Thames Tunnel, for the completion of that work. What is the Duke of Wellington about ? He declared that the work should not stand still for want of funds. Cannot he raise 150,000/. among his Ultra friends ? • Their money would be better employed in boring the Thames than boring the public.
At a large meeting of County Magistrates held on Thursday, at- Clerkenwell, Mr. ('oust was unanimously reelected to fill the office of Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions for the next six months. Mr; Const returned thanks for the additional honour conferred upon him ; he said lie felt at a loss how to decline it when the whole Bench had thus kindly forced it upon him.
A numerous and most respectable meeting of friends of the drama • took place yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of discussing the expediency of petitioning the Legislature for a re- moval of the restrictions enforced against the minor theatres in virtue of the exclusive privileges conferred on the patent ones. Mr. E. L. • Bulwer presided. Several able speeches were made, tending to show the absurdity, as well as the monstrous injustice, of the monopoly which the managers of the principal theatres are exerting themselves to secure, and also the little benefit they would be likely to derive should they succeed. Resolutions expressive of, similar sentiments, - were proposed and carried unanimously; and it was agreed that a peti- tion to the House of Conunons do lie for signature, praying for a re- vision and alteration of the old acts of Parliament, on which the mo- nopoly is claimed, and has been hitherto .enforced.
A good deal of discussion has taken place, and several witnesses have been examined before the House of Commons Committee charged to inquire into the case of Our Lady's Chapel. The London Bridge Committee offer 70 feet for the purpose of allowing the Chapel to be seen, and 130 feet, at least are required. The additional 60 feet will cost the Bridge Committee 5,000/.; without them, the Chapel had better be pulled down altogether. As the cost of which the Com- mittee speak falls on the public and as it is the public gratification
that is sought, we think the public, of Commons need not be very deeply moved at the City representations.
A disturbance took place early on Sunday morning in the Fleet Prison between the son of a noble earl and two captains, his associates, who, after a powerfid resistance, were seized, and conveyed by the 'Officers of the prison to the strong-room for the night, where they re- mained several hours, making a hideous noiSe : at length, by means of an iron bedstead placed in the room, whieb they broke to pieces; they • forced the locks of the doors, broke all the windows, and destroyed the brick and stone work, and got out and sought refuge in one of their : rooms. In the morning, the Warden ordered them to be reconveyed to the strong-room, to remain until they made a proper concession for their conduct, and paid for the damage they had done,,...Tintes-Corre= -
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Mr. Stapylton is gradually improving, and there is great hope he will be able in a day or two to undergo the operation of extracting the ball.
On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at Islington, on the body of Sarah Row-cu, aged twenty-five. • The deceased had cohabited with a maul named Butler, by whom she had a child. He lately left her in a state of destitution, at a house in the Edgware Road. On Wednesday last week, Rowen went to Hornsey, where she found Butler and another paramour together. She fainted away as she entered the room. On recovering, she drew me paper front her pocket, and putting some white powder, which proved to be arsenic, into her hand, swal- lowed it; she died the next day.
On Sunday morning at an early hour, the recruits and single men be- longing to the second battalion Secret' Fusileer Guards, under Colonel Mercer, marched from Westminster 011 -account of the cholvra in its vicinity) to Portman Street Barracks, where they have :joined the first battalion, until that marches to Windsor.—Daily •Poper.
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