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A long and stormy discussion took place at the Common Hall on Thursday, on the subject of the City New Police Bill. Mr. C. Pear- ikon severely censured the alterations in the bill, by which the manage- ment of the Police was given wholly to the Aldermen. Resolutions against the alterations were unanimously adopted.
Sir Peter Laurie was sacrificed on Wednesday, at an adjourned meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, to cholera. We understand the Knight has entered a strong protest against being killed in his absence by cholera or any one else.
The Lord Mayor has been rather seriously indisposed during the Week. He is said to be mending, but still remains at Herne Hill.
A meeting was held at the Rainbow Tavern on Tuesday, at which 3'Ir. C. Calvert presided, to consider upon the best means of dispelling the mistaken notion that fruit and vegetables have a tendency to pro- duce cholera. A memorial on the subject was presented to the Board of Health on Wednesday : it stated an important fact, that none of the labourers of the gardeners, who live almost entirely on vegetables, lad been seized with cholera. The Board, has been graciously pleased, in answer to this memorial, to state that fruit and vegetables, taken in moderation, do not tend to produce cholera. Raw vegetables and 'unripe fruits, we believe, invariably tend to produce bowel complaints ; stone fruits also, at least the skins of them, are exceedingly indigestible. But it required no fiat of the Cholera Board to let the public know that well-boiled vegetables and ripe fruits,.eaten even freely, are, to use a phrase of the day, eminently conservative. Dr. Moore mentions a case of obstinate diarrlicea as completely cured by eating daily and 1)1entiful1y of ripe strawberries.
The National Union intend to dine at the Eyre Tavern on the fourth day after the Royal assent shall be given to the Irish Bill. The illumi- nation, it is anticipated, will take place the same day.
A meeting respecting a monument of Sir James Mackintosh was Ield on Monday, at which the Marquis of Lansdowne and Viscount Al- thorp attended.
A highly respectable meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor, on Wednesday, to evince the sympathy felt by Englishmen in the fate of the German States, and their abhorrence of the attempts recently made to stifle public liberty by the German Confederation at Frank- fort. Mr. Campbell the poet presided ; and Colonel Evans, Mr. Wyse, Dr. Wade, Mr. Lawless, and Mr. Bach a German, took a part in-the proceedings.
The General Cemetery Company held its first general meeting on Tuesday. Lord Ingestrie was in the chair. Mr. Carden, the founder of the Society, was appointed Registrar; the other office-bearers described iu the Act were also appointed. There are twelve Directors!
On Monday, the freemen inhabitants of the ward of Cornhill dined at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, to celebrate the triumph of Reform ; with Mr. Barnwell in the chair, supported by the other Common Councilmen of the ward.
At the review at Wormwood Scrubs on Monday, the reticule of the Countess of St. Germains was stolen from the carriage of Lady Lin- coln, where she had left it. A fellow named Eats was immediately seized with the reticule in his possession. The Countess attended at Marlborough Street Office on Thursday, for the purpose of swearing to the reticule and its contents.
Mr. Marks, a jeweller in Oxford Street, was held to bail on Tues- day, for selling Major-General Huskisson and Colonel Wilson a plated eyeglass, each of which he had warranted as fine gold.
A female named Mary O'Brien having, the other day, applied in vw to Mr. White of Queen Square Office for relief to herself and her itatldren, on t.sudden pulled a Urge stone out of her pocket, and threw it with all her force at Mr. White, exclaiming, "Take that, and be damned to you, you old vagabond." Mr. White had just time to put his head on one side, or he must have received a tremendous blow. The female O'Brien afterwards seized an ink-glass, and threw the con- tents over two females in the office, and the glass at the office-window. She was with great difficulty secured from doing further mischief.
On Thursday, Brown and Kennedy, two of the men charged with murdering Mr. Wilkinson on the River, were fully committed. Lyon has been discharged, and Kitley and Flack were admitted King's evi- dence. When asked if they wished to say any thing in defence, Ken- nedy said, " I have nothing more to say than I am not guilty of the crime ; I know nothing of it ; I was in the boat at the time, but nei- ther one nor the other struck the man. His own friend made a stroke at me once, and instead of striking me, he struck his own friend. When Mr. Smales struck the man, he leaped against the boat and caught it, and went over hand till he'got to the stem of the boat. He was never inside our boat. In taking a leap into our boat, he was just as if he was coming head first, Sir; and the answer he made was, Oh, I've hurt myself.' He said this very low. I should suppose he came face first on boat's stern, Sir ; that's all, Sir—that's the truth, and nothing but the truth, if I was to go to be hanged this moment, Sir." Brown, in his defence, said, " All I've got to say is this here; I touched no coat, Sir, nor never got off my seat, Sir, what I sat On; nor never struck no blows ; nor lifted nothing to strike with. I'll take my oath of all that."
The prisoners are all young men, and look much younger than they really are. They have been long known to the Thames Police as the most desperate thieves along shore. Kennedy was an apprentice to a Lambeth fisherman named Woodcock, who had very little for him to do, and from whom he ran away. Lyons is a fisherman, and Flack is a carman. Brown and Kitley never had any fixed occupation, but sometimes acted as "Jacks-in-the-water" at the plying places, and oc- casionally went about the River dredging for coals and plundering the craft. They have all been convicted at the Thames Police-office for committing petty thefts ; and to the officers' knowledge of their bad characters, their speedy apprehension may be ascribed.
Mrs. Jane Ward, of Park Road; Portland Terrace, and Henry Oakes, were fined 20/. each on Tuesday at Marlborough Street Office ; the former giving a false character of the latter to the Honourable F. Byng, of the Foreign Office, with a view to get him engaged, and the latter with sanctioning the imposition. It came out that Oakes had given the lady 21. for the character, and she had been twice before punished for similar offences. In default of payment, both parties were ordered to three months' hard labour.
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