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The Lord Mayor gave a grand entertainment, at the Mansionhouse, on Saturday last, to his Majesty's Ministers; most of whom attended, along with their already chosen Speaker, Mr. Manners Sutton—" a foregone conclusion."
Alderman Waithman is stated to be extremely ill, and his retirement from the representation of the City is considered probable. Alderman Venables has been named as likely to succeed him ; but the Anti- Reformers talk of again bringing forward Mr. Lyall. This, however, must be a hopeless project. If Mr. Lyall was defeated when there were four members to be elected, with a chance of split votes from all the candidates, how can he hope to encounter the united strength of the Reformers, when they have but one member to elect ?
Earl Grey has presented the vacant stall at St. Paul's to the Re- verend Dr. Tate, many years Master of the celebrated Grammar School at Richmond, Vorkshire. The new Residentiary was, we believe, tutor to part of the noble Premier's family.— Times.
It appears from the instructions given to the members for the City of London, at a meeting of the Livery in Common Hall, that as long ago as 1769, in the time of Wilkes, the mode of voting by ballot was con- sidered "the most likely method of procuring a return of members on the genuine and uncorrupt sense of the people." Mr. Hunt, therefore, has no claim after all to the merit of having first formally introduced it in this country.
A Convocation of the Clergy of the Established Church, pursuant to a mandate issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assembled at St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday last, for the purpose of electing a i
Prolocutor to represent the Clergy in the new Parliament. '11:e Bi- shop • ,f Hereford, as junior Bishop, read prayers ; and the Reverend Dr. Russell preached a sermon in Latin. The Bishops and Clergy then adjourned to the Chapterhouse, where the mandate of his Ma- jesty was read; after which the Clergy of the Lower House proceeded to the chapel on the north side of the Cathedral, where they unani- mously elected the Dean of Chichester as their Prolocutor. The Convocation then adjourned to February.
The new Church in St. Dunstan's in the West was consecrated on Thursday, by the Bishop of London, in presence of the Lord Mayor and Sherifi's, and a numerous congregation.
A correspondent of the Times has sent to that journal a statement of the comparative decline of British and foreign shipping in the port of London, by which it appears, that British shipping has declined alamt 19 per cent., whilst the decrease in Foreign tonnage is no less than 43 percent. It would certainly win, therefore, that if the shipping of London is on the decline, it has not been taken out of our hands by foreigners.
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