A meeting was held on Monday, at the Freemasons Tavern,
to peti- tion Parliament for a repeal of the Poor-law. Earl Stanhope was in the chair ; supported by Lord Teynham, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Mr. John Fielden, General Johnson, and Mr. Walter. Time Chartists gave Lord Stanhope and his friends a good deal of trouble, by efforts to sub- stitute their nostrum for his Lordship's ; but they could not succeed, and the Anti-Poor.law petition was carried. One of the Chartist ora- tors moved an amendment, that no good is to be expected from the House of Commons until the people refuse to pay taxes, which will then be collected at the point of the bayonet ; and he suggested the propriety of making the Queen a present of a skipping-rope and a birch rod !
The Directors of the Bank of England have subscribed 500/. towards the lemilding of a new church in the Eastern part of Loudon ; an act of liberality with other people's money, not peculiarly appropriate to a period of reduction of dividends, and which called forth the following remarks from the Morning Chronicle— "In the olden time, a shiner made hi.4 peitce with Holy Mother Church by bequeathing part of his ill-gotten wealth to her. Has the conscience of the Direction become uneasy under some of its late proceedings, and is the 5007. to be viewed as the fruits of repentance? It is fortunate for the Direction of the Bank of England that the proprietors are perfectly satisfied with their divi- dends, without asking for an examination of accounts. Were it otherwise, we should suppose that the Directors would find it difficult to satisfy the Quakers and other Dissenters, who constitute no inconsiderable portion of the hotly of proprietors, upon what principle the corporate funds are voted for any other than corporate objects. To subscribe to the building of additional churches, is praiseworthy in a Director, when it is his own money which lie contributes : but it does not seem so clear when the Directors subscribe money which belongs to the proprietors as a body, and not to themselves as individuals."
A Court of Directors was held at the East India House on Wednes- day ; when Mr. H. T. Prinsep was appointed a provisional member of the Supreme( 'ouncil of India.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the Queen's Coronation, the bells of some churches were rung, and the Park guns were fired.
The first stone of the new St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, wag laid on Wednesday by the Bishop of Winchester, with the usual solemnities, in the presence of about 300 persons.
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