The City elections commenced On Monday, St. Thomas's Day having
fallen on the Suuday. Most of rho Wife& :returned their old members to the Common Council. In the tenoning ths re were some changes, but no contests.
Tourer Ward—Mr. Rushton resigned, ana Mr. Ma:rlantl a an (leeted. Farrinudon Within—Mr. Ashurst resig teed, Air. Willieme due:tweed, and Mr. Melt and Mr. Falkner mete elected. Castle Baynard—blr. Slade having served forty, seven years, resigned, and Mr. Verinder was elected.
Cheap Ward—Mr. Stevens resigned, and Mr. Under-Sheriff Hudwick was elected.
Bassishato—Mr. Baker resigned, and Mr. Ebenezer Davis was elected. There were contests in Portsoken, Billingsgate, Queenhithe, Cripple. gate Without, and Aldersgate ; which terminated on Wednesday in the following elections.
Portsuhen—Tyers, Howard, Negus, Saul, Parker. Billin,gsgate—Bares, Duke, Old, Curling, Megarey, Redpatb, 13lenham, Child, liossack, Francis.
Queenhithr—Howell, Acocks, Ilooper, Curtis, Goss, Sykes.
Crippkgate Without—Haines, Robinson, Jones, Sweetmg, Atkinson, Dixon, Baylis, Alderman. Aldersgate—Rolle, Mottram, Stacy, Matthews, Lorkin, Walton, Summers, Godson, Allcock, Parry.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange, in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the Cortes Bondholders, agreed on Wednesday to admit the New Spanish Loan into the Stock Market.
Since the accession of the Dear Duke and Sir Robert Peel to office, considerable activity has prevailed in the Tower, of which his High- ness the Dictator is constable ; and it is reported (we believe on very good authority) that a great quantity of ammunition has been recently sent into the fortress. Strangers are forbidden to walk on the ramparts and bastions, and intruders are eyed with great suspicion. A new bridge is in the course of erection over the ditch between the Bloody Tower, and the drawbridge at the East end of the wharf communi- cating with the Gold Chain. This bridge will communicate imme- diately with the Ordnance warehouses, and is intended for the trans- portation of stores and goods over it from the river. The depot in Tooley Street, which has been hitherto maintained at an expense of 15,000/. a year, is about to be given up, and the business transferred to the Tower. Perhaps it is not generally known, that on the 9th of No- vember, 1830—the day on which the King intended to dine with the eitizens of London—several pieces of cannon, in addition to those on the bastions, were placed on various buildings in the fortress, so as to com- mand the principal streets in the neighbourhood. All this was effected under the special directions of the Duke of Wellington. and his Grace has lately been very busy about the Tower.—Morning Chronicle.
Mr. Effingham Wilson, in a letter to the Morning Chronicle, denies that he employed any one to post handbills on the residence of the Duke of Wellington and the Tory nobility, as mentioned in our ac- count of the examination of a bill sticker at the Marlborough street Office last week.
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