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At the Court of Common Council held yesterday, notice of a mo- tion was given for a committee to consider what amount of the corpo- ration funds should be set apart to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bills. The matter will be discussed on an early day.

A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants of the tower Hamlets district took place on Wednesday evening, at the George Tavern, in the Commercial Road, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of forming a District Committee, and insuring the return of two independent and well-qualified members to represent them in Parliament. The Chairman, Mr. A. Gole, ex- plained the object of the meeting, and the benefits which the inhabitants generally would derive from having two independent and thoroughly qualified members to represent them in Parliament. " They did not want Bond Street dandies, St. James's lordlings, nor creeping courtiers, for the purpose. No! they wanted men of known talent, integrity, mdependence, and, above all, men of the world and of business. It was also, he thought, essential that their members should be quite con- versant with the shipping interest, from the vast property which was appropriated to this particular branch of commerce in the district, and that they should be such persons as the inhabitants could frequently have access to, that they might consult them on the different questions of interest affecting their persons or properties. The best way to in-

. sure the return of such mess, was by forming themselves into a District Committee, and, above all things, not to give promises of, their vote tee any individual candidate, or until they had an opportunity of canvassing the principles and pretensions of all the candidates who offered them selves for their suffrages."

The Parish Reformers have prevailed in Marylebone, and returned forty-five men of their choice to represent them in Vestry, by one.of the most triumphant majorities that the history of elections presents.- At the final close of the poll, the numbers were-

' For the candidates of the Reform interest

2,851 For the Old Vestry or Tory interest 545 .

Split votes 325 Thus he wing a clear majority of upwards of 2,000

Among the gentlemen returned is Mr. Hume.

. • The fifteenth anniversary of the Caledonian Society was celebrated on Wednesday, at the Freemen's's Tavent. Lieutenant- Colonel D'Este presided on the occasion, in the absence of his father, the Duke of Sussex; and very ably and satisfactorily fulfilled the duties of the chair. The company was unusually small, not exceeding at the utmost sixty persons. Notwithstanding, a subscription amounting to about 360/. was announced; which, however, included handsome donation's from the King, Queen, and Duchess of Kent. Clarke, the well-known piper of the Seventy-first Regiment, was present ; and, what was an extraordinary coincidence, Colonel- Macdonald, whose life Clarke had saved, was of the same party. Their healths were enthusiastically cheered.

The seventh anniversary festival of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution was held on Saturday, at the Freemason's Tavern. Sir M. A. Shee presided. The company was numerous and respectable, and a large list of contributions was announced in the course of the evening.

A Court of Directors was held on Wednesday, at the East India House ; when the ships Langton and Recovery, taken up for one voy- age to and from Bengal, were timed. They are to be afloat the 1st of gine and to sail from Gravesend, the former on the 14th and the latter

on the 21st of the same month.

Mr. Granville Penn, a gentleman of unwearied benevolence, opened his grounds in Spring Gardens on Wednesday and following days of the week, for a " Fancy Fair," for the behoof of the Charing Cross Hos- pital. The Duchess of St. .Alban's' Lady Bridges, of Beddington, Mrs. Marrystt, of Wimbledon House, and various other ladies, presented the choicest flowers from their conservatories. The Marchioness of Chol- mondeley, the Countesses of Essex and Mansfield, the Ladies Wil- loughby d'Eresby and Greville, Henry Chohnondeley, and Maria West, and numberless other distinguished persons, presented numerous drawings and articles of taste of their own preparing. We borrow the followiug description of the scene on Wednesday from the Morning IIeiiiIdl- " The blue sky looked down Smilingly upon the pleasure-grounds or Spring Gardens. and ripen a gay seen% which would make the angels rough to behold in what a pleasant way goad things are done under the dispensation of Fashion. Mier ha% Mg been borne along upon hassles of silk and stillest muslin. wil Lout being conscious of retaining the usrhs hivur.11.rolmo of a pair of legs, through a hall and louer so,ms of J. Penn, Esq.'s 111:11:,wl, we thand ourselves once more in contact: with terra firma in his yurdens. The pen aTasso might enable us to describe the Paradise which, wethere begat with some colour of truth ; but our unhappy 'stumpie,' as Burns says, b; quite unequal to such a task. Suffice it to say, that beneath awnings of every graceful variety, festooned with. the prettiest acme:denoted gimcrackerie, .stead or sat the fairest of mortals en prisette, aud winning tiro hundred per cent. profit on their merchandise for the New Hospital."

The principal merchandise, he afterwards informs us, was babies; of which, "though elderly, and addicted. to the gentlemanly vice of avarice," he purchased one banibbiella; for what purpose we do not pre- tend to guess—was it for dissection ?

A number of the parishioners of St. Matthew's, Brixton, have pre- sented to their neighbour, Mr. Blacket, an elegant silver vase and cover, for services commemorated in the following inscription- " To John Blacket, Esq., 'Brixton Hill, Sorry ; who, by his =trap, and talents, indt• vidually exerted, freed the Parishioners of St. Matthew's, Brixton, -from a church-rate illegally collected by the Select Vestry."

St. Matthew's is one of the four new district churches of Lambeth; and we are credibly informed that upwards of 20,0001. have been ille- gally collected by the Select Vestries within the four districts. The following card has been handed about in the City. " Mr. AI- derman Scales solicits the honour of being elected one of the members of Parlitunent for the city of London,—not the nominee of a despotic Court of Aldermen, but a representative chosen by the unbought votes of his fellow-citizens."

Mr. Roe, one of the stipendiary Magistrates Of Marlborough Street, has been appointed Chief Magistrate at the Head Police-office, Bow Street.

On Monday morning, an unfortunate man named Salisbury, a lamp. manufacturer, in Long Acre, jumped in a fit of insanity from a three- pair window into the street, and was killed instantly. His head and shoulders first came in contact with the, pavement, and the spine was dislocated, and the brain very much injured. He has left a widow and eight children.