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The Court of Common Council met on Tuesday. Mr. Wire asked the Lord Mayor, what had been done respecting the right of the Lord Mayor . and Aldermen to sit as Commissioners of Queen Aim's Bounty ? Mr. Copeland replied, that it had been ascertained from the law officers, that their right to sit was undoubted ; and he was resolved to use it without delay. Mr, Wire hoped that the Lord Mayor would not only take his seat, but attend to the due collection and appropria- tion of the revenues. This also Mt. Copeland promised faithfully to do it was a subject in which he took great interest.
A meeting of the inhabitants of St. James's parish, Clerkenweil, was held on Tuesday evening, at White Conduit House, to organize an association against "all unjust exactions." Mr. Wakley was called to the chair ; and, in the course of some observations on the business of the meeting, mentioned, that Lord John Russell had pro- mised a satisfactory measure for the settlement of Church-rates. Re- solutions were passed for the formation of a Church-rate Abolition Society.
A considerable body of the inhabitants of Bethnal Green formed themselves into an Anti- Church-rate Society, on Monday.
From 1811 to 1835 inclusive, the parish of Marylebone has paid no less than 252,846/. in Church-rates : the money borrowed by the parish for church purposes during the same period amounts to 170,000/.
On Monday, two pairs of shoes were seized in the shop of Messrs. Engall, Green Street, Kentish Town, for Church-rates. It is expected that this will prove the commsncement of a Church-rate war in the parish of St. Pancras. The Messrs. Engall are Dissenters.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of Bishopsgate Ward, on Monday, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Charles Pearson, to present Alder- man Copeland with a service of plate, in testimony of his services and impartial conduct as Lord Mayor, and especially his attention to the business of the Ward of Bishopsgate.
The mansion and adjoining premises occupied by Lord Hill at West- bourne Green, are said to have been purchased by one of the Railway Companies for 20,0001.
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