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At a t:onimon Hall, Inch', on Moilday, for the election of Sheriff's and other officers, Aldermen Wilson and Banner were unanimously appointed Sheriffs for the ensuing :year.

On the motion of A'Ir. Richard Taylor, seconded by Arr. Hunt, stromg resolutions were passed in condemnation of the conduct of the Police at tlw Coldhatlifields meeting., and of the conduct of Govern- ment in employing. them. '1 he proceedings for quashing, the inquisi- tion on the body of Cully were also reprobate.: ; and all attempts to

" supersede the important and essential eel:ail:us between the civil power and the people, by the substitution of a military Government

force," were declared to be at " variance with the chanteter and in.. siitutions of the couutry, tending to mislead the Government and op- press the people." The conduct of the Recorder, in issuing " his warrant with the black seal " for the execution of Job Cox, after he had been present at the Privy Council, wherein his Majesty was pleased to extend his

royal clemency to the culprit, and to commute his sentence, was also brought under the notice of the Court, by Mr. Stevens. A resolution

was passed unanimously, amidst loud cheers, calling upon the Re- corder to resign his office, seeing that, according: to the most charitable construction to be put upon Iris conduct epon tins occasion, his mistake must have proceeded from some "mental infirmity incident to Ids ad- vanced age."

The Recorder has since resigned, on the ground hinted at above. Mr. Law, the COMITIOR Sergeant, will probably sueceed him in the

Recordership ; and Mr. Hill, the member for Hull, is a candidate for the office of COIIIIII0II Sergeant. A Committee is formed to promote the election of lir. 11111, and sanguine hopes are entertained of his Success.

A Wardmote was held at Aldgate Church on IVednestlity—the Lord Mayor in the chair,—for the purpose of electing an Alderman for the Ward of l'ortsoken, in the room of Mr. Scales, wino had been declared ineligible to the office. Mr. Tyers again proposed, and Mr. Ford seconded the nomination of Mr. Scales. Mr. Thomas Johnson was proposed by Mr. Cotton, and seconded by Mr. Good. Mr. Scales addressed the assembly— lie haul been tout hehad not sufficient dignity for the office of Alderman, fie did not know what was meant by sufficient dignity ; but this he could say, that on that very day he had been offered the bill of one of the present Aldermen for the City, at ten shillings in the pound ; trod he had offered five for it ; not that Ire could ever have received five farthings for it, but merely to preduee it to diens on that day. ( Cries " Nome l") Ile could and would name the person, if necessary ( C,iect of "Ni, l") Yet this person was considered of sufficient dignity to uphold the office. Fle would, however, ask if he was lit, according to Act of Parliament, tt diseharge its ditties? lie did not wish to be invidious, but he would take his Lordship himself, and in comparing their genealogy, he believed the halance would be fining' in his favour—his escutcheon would be found as long and as broad as his Lordship's—in short, he believed they were the first of their families who sought distinction. ( Cheers and Mouldier.) A show of hands was taken, and declared to be in favour of Mr. Scales; and a poll was demanded on the part of Mr. Juhuson. It continued (Firing Thursday and Friday ; when Mr. Scales was again declared duly elected, by a majority of 155 to 70.

A meeting of West India Planters was held on Monday, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, Viscount St. Vincent in the chair ; when Mr. Burge, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Philpots, and others, protested against the intention of Government to distribute the com- pensation of 20,000,000/. according to the ratio of the number of ne- groes and of exports. It was contended, that as a third of the slaves in Jamaica were employed in cultivating what was not exported, this mode of distribution among the Colonies would be unfair, and that it should be per capita. Resolutions to this effect were agreed to, and a deputation appointed to wait on Mr. Stanley.

A public meeting of tradesmen, shopkeepers, and others interested in the welfare of the sugar-refining trade in the Eastern district of London, was held on Monday evening at the Court House, Osbourne. Street, Whitechapel, Mr. G. Offer in the chair. The Chairman said, that out of two hundred refining-houses in London, more than one hun- dred were. in the Tower Hamlets. In the latter, the sugar-refiners used to pay for labour more than 600,000/. per annum ; now it was under 200,000/. If Brazil sugars were allowed to be mixed with Colonial sugars, this country would be able to supply foreign markets at a fair price. This would give employment to capital and shipping, and the sugar would be paid for by our manufactures. If foreign sugars con- tinued under prohibition, refining-houses in all parts of the Continent would be established ; and if the trade was onee lust, it xvould not be easy to regain it. There were ten complete sets of apparatus fm. re- fining-houses now manufacturing in London for one city alone on the Continent. It was agreed to present petitions to the King and the Parliainent, setting fia.th the distress of the sugar-relining trade, and the necessity of taking off the restrietive duties on Brazil and other sugars. A deputation was also appointed to wait on Lord Althorn.

Another meeting of the Country Bankers was held at Brown's Hotel on Monday • it was attended by a numerous body of members

of Parliament. long• and desultery conversation took place respect- ing the Government plan for retioxilig the Bank Charter ; but no re- soilltiolls Were passed nor definitive measure agreed upon. It was considered advisable, that another interview should be had with Lord Althorp on the subject.

.A preliminary meeting of the friends of A frican Colonization was held at the Thatched House Tavern on Wednesday, ill order to take measures for establishing a society, similar to the Aineriean Coloniza- tion Society. Lord Bexley %vas in the chair; Mr. Hawes, Mr. Potter, Archdeacon Stopford, and some other gentlemen, were present. Mr. Cresson, an American gentleman, and one of the prineipal founders of the society established in his own country, addressed the meeting in explanation of the objects of the seeiely. Ilteadutions were passed expressive of the interest taken by tile meeting in the pro- ject, and for the formation of a committee to prepare measures for a general meeting, to be held on Wednesday next; when the Duke of Sussex is expected to preside.

At the anniversary festival of the S0115" of the Clergy, which was celebrated on Thursday-, at St. Paul's Cathedral, the sum of :3:301. was collected ; which was considerably more than has beef received for several years. The sermon \vas preached by Dr. Davys, Dean of Chester.

The criminal information against Josiah Phillips for a libel on the Duke of Cumberland, contained in a hook entitled Authentic Reeords. y. the (Inirt gt. Enpland j;,1 tke last Ser,ntll 1; arY, of %%.hit-h Phillips was the, printer and publieher, was tried Oil "ftle,,day, in the Court of King's Bench. Sir Charles Wetherell stated the case for the Duke of Cumberland. The libel consisted la a detail of the circumstances \Odell occurred at the time of the death of Sell is. the Duke's servant, who is sup. posed to have first attempted the murder of his master and then to have killed himself. The object of the writer of this account was evidently to insinuate that the Dake of Cumberland had murdered his servant, and then inflicted sonic slight wounds upon himself in order to give the appearance of having been attacked in bed by him. The motive for the perpetration of this crime was intimated to be a desire to get rid of Sellis, who had detected his Royal flightless with another man-servant named Neale. The person and mind of the Duke were said to accord perfectly, both being hideous. Every at- tempt was made, as the libel further declared, to obtain it false verdict from the Coroner's Jury ; the first Jury being dismissed as refractory, and a second more accommodating one being summoned, who returned a verdict that Sellis had died by his own hand. A priacipal witness, named Joseph Joux, was in the meanwhile kept out of the way ; and part of a statement of particulars respecting Sellis's death, said to have been made by this man to the late Lord Ellenborough, was given in the book as the real account of the matter. This evidence contradicted the story of the witnesses before the Coroner's Jury in several import- ant points ; especially those which related to the appearance of Sellis when lying in bed with his throat cut—the place Where the razor was found, at a distance from the bed—the bison filled with bloody water' as if some one bad first murdered the man, and then .washed his hands in it—and other particulars. The evidence adduced on the part of the Duke of Cumberland %Vela to rebut all these charges. The statement of Sir Everard Home (since deceased) was read, as to the severity of the wounds received by the Duke, and of that by which Sellis was killed ; which was described to be long and regular, and un- questionably to have been indicted by Sellis himself. Sellis's coat was hanging upon a chair at a distance from the bed ; his position %vas un- changed, and there was not the least appearance of his having struggled with an assassin. The shirt and pillow of the Duke of Cumberland were found deluged with blood : his night-ribband, which was wadded —the cap, scalp, and skull—were obliquely divided, so that the pulsa- tions of the arteries of the brain were distinguishable. Sir Benjamin Stephenson, and Sir Wathen Waller confirmed the statement of Sir E. Home. The Duke was said to have suffered excessively; so that he screamed out when any one touched the bedclothes, and could not bear the scratching of a pen when any one wrote in the room. Mr. Adams, the Coroner, and Mr. Francis Place, the foreman of the Jury which sat upon the body of Sellis, gave very decided testimony as to the regular mode in which the inquest was conducted, and the perfect conviction on the minds of the Jury that Sellis had murdered himself. Every thing was done properly ; the inquest was an open one ; and fifty or sixty persons were going in and coming out while it was in progress. Joseph Joux, the man upon whose supposed statement to Lord Ellen-, borough so much of the libel was founded, was called as a witness, and utterly denied every thing attributed to him in it : all that was stated respecting liimehf was fidse. The Duke of Cumberland also appeared, and stated the circumstances of the attack upon him ; it Nvas made, he said, about two or three in the morning on the 21st :May 1810, by 3 man with a sabre, who cut at him ill bed, and followed him out of the room into the passage, striking at him wherever he could. The evi- dence to provi the utter falsehood of the charges against the Duke was very complete ; and the Jury, without hesitatiun, found the defendant guilty of the libel. In the Court of King's Bench, on Saturday last, Lady Jane Sarah. Briscoe was found guilty of perjury. In a former trial ill this Court,. when a witness upon her oath, she had denied that she had ever passed under the name of Wildey, or lived with a person of that name. Both these facts were proved against her, and others which she had also denied.

The Grand Jury of Westminster, on Thursday. returned a true bill

against William John Ilankes, Esq.. P. for Dorset, and Thomas Flowers, the private soldier, for the misdetneanutir of which they stand accused. Both the :a cti,cd having removed their trials by Writs of err- tnorari into the Court of Mee's Bench, they will not be tried until Mi- chaelmas term. On the same th,v, Mr. Smith, an eating-house In eper

in the Vauxhall livad, and l'ol:ej.inan Edwards. of the B No.

-21, two of the witnesses Mr. Bankes, stated to Mr. White, at

the Queen Square ()dive, that Mr. Stafford. the Clerk of the Indict- ments, Lad directed them to inform the Queen Square Magistrates, that Balker, a principill witness in the cese ageinst Mr. Bankes, was out of the way, and ma to he fmnid. Mr. White said, at first, be had nothing to do with the matter ; hut afterwards informed the constable, that if he met with Bark, r he might apprehend him. It is stated that Barker sailed on Tuesday \\ elk for America.

At the Middlesex Sessioas, on Monday, four men were tried, and three convicted, for tom:aural offences.

flue Chnrchwardtats of St. Mary's parish, Whiteeltapel, indicted Mr. :.ivales lit the Middlesex S,-im.s, on Wednesday, for re- fusing to sk rye the oflice of ovei-secr, to whieh he bad been appointed ut March last by the laglstrates of the district. 'The defence was, that the parislt lies partly jilthe county of AlidtilLscx, partly in the city London, and partly iii the Tower Rovtti Liberty; end that the Alagis- trates had only pow V1* I., appeint for the district wherein they were act- ing justices. The Court detailed the oli.» (1 1)11 valid ; and it was said, that the appointment WO uld only be good if signed by the Magistrates of each district.

Jolla Byers, the ii .former, and Georg.e Stapleton, one of Ms journey- men, have bLen held to hail at the •Atithliesex Sessions, to am.wer a charge of eonspiracy ageinst certain coach. proprietors.

The Aiiddiesex Gent III Quarter Sessioi,s \Via etailIONIee 011 Mon- next, Cie Admilaity Sessions on Tursdily, the London Sessions on the following day. and tilt, Old Bailey Se-sions on the doy at ter. The calendar:, though numerically heavy, are light with respect to the mag- nitude of the out II t.s Of WhiCh the prisoners stand aecused.

W. RAISIN', C:iptaill of the Lord of the Isles stea.a,lioat, was senteneed, ill the Admil;lity I 'oar:. Oa ,hiesthiy, tO pay fifty pounds

and costs for hoisting theI iiuu Jaek on the Dece.aher last, ia the river Douro, in con:invention of an act of Purliztinelit.