A general meeting of the ('1nmtral Committee of the united
parishes of Westminster for procuring the repeal of the House and Window tax, was held on Thursday evening, at the British Coffee-house in Cockspur Street. Mr. Brown observed, that they ought to put the matter into new hands; that Sergeant Spankie had falsified his pro- mises, and he thought they had better try the county member, Mr. Hume. Mr. Ewen proposed that they should wait upon Sir Robert Peel, and see whether he would do any thing for them: they had tried the Whigs and found them wanting, now let them try the Tories. Nothing definitive was done, and the meeting adjourned for a week.
A similar meeting of the parishioners of St. Clement Danes was held in the Vestry-room on the same night; when Mr. Cordell stated, that Lord Althorp had said, he would, in his next Budget, move the total repeal of the House and Window tax. A vote of censure was passed on Sir Francis Burdett for not voting for Sir Samuel Whalley's motion.
At a numerous meeting of the Merchants, Planters, and others con- nected with the West Indies, held at the Thatched House Tavern on Saturday list, resolutions strongly condemnatory of the plan of Minis. ters for the emancipation of the Negroes were adopted, ands petition tn Parliament against it was agreed upon. Among the gentlemen present, were the Earl of Homewood, Lord Combermere, Lord St. Vincent, Lord Reay, Sir Alexander Grant, Mr. J. E. Baillie,Mr. Godson, and Mr. Marriott.
A meeting of all interested in the West India question is to be held at the City of London Tavern, on Monday next. It is supposed that it will be numerously and most respectably attended.
A numerous body of ladies and gentlemen, principally friends of the Medical pupils at the London University, assembled on Monday after- noon in the Anatomical Theatre of that institution, to witness the distribution of the prizes. Lord John Russell was in the chair. The Duke of Somerset, Dr. Turner, Mr. B. Cooper, Dr. Thomson, and other Professors of Medicine in the University, were present. Dr. Thomson read a report of the proceedings of the Medical School during the session; the prizes were then distributed ; and after an address by the Chairman, time company proceeded to witness the laying of the first stone of the new Hospital, by the Duke of Somerset. The Re- verend Mr. Wordsworth, of South Lambeth, delivered an uppropriat prayer on the occasion. The members of the Literary Fund Society dined together on Saturday, at the Freemason's Tavern. The Duke of Somerset was in the chair. No person of literary pretension was present, except Mr. Croly, and Rammollun Roy. The report stated that the society was stationary in point of funds and usefulness. A meeting was held on Saturday last, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionhouse, for the purpose, of promoting the subscription in Lon- don for the purchase of Abbotsford as a present to Sir Walter Scott's fiunily. Among those who attended were—the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Cadogan, several Bishops, Mr. Willman, Mr. Sotheby, and Mr. Murray. Sir Peter Laurie was in the chair. The resolutions were moved and seconded by the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Alderman Birch the Earl of Cadogan, the Bishops of Exeter, Gloucester, an Llandaff, amid Sir T. 1). Ackland. Sir Peter Laurie stated, that he had received .:•:)01. from Lord Aberdeen, mid several small subscriptions. The subscriptions already received for exceeded the sum expected. The London, Birmingham, und Liverpool railway was begun on Tuesday morning, May 14th, near Hampstead.
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