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The election for the City terminated yesterday, in the return of Mr. Lyall, the Conservative. The numbers at the close of the poll were—
For Mr. Lyall 5,569 For Alderman Venables 4.527
Majority for Mr. Lyall 1,042 The Times and the Morning Advertiser have intimated that this result was partly procured by bribery. Mr. Alderman Venables says that there was a
junction against him of a portion of the Radical party with the Tories, whirls
coupled with the apathy of his friends, lost him the election. The real fact we, take to be, that the Reformers, having an eye to what is going on in Parliament, were indifferent as to the party politics of either of the candidates. Politics aside, Mr. Lyall may be the more eligible man of the two ; and, as we have just hinted, there is no political excitement in favour of the Ministerialists. At the election in December, the one of the returned members who stood lowest on the list polled 565 more votes than Mr. Lyall on the present occasion,. and 1,649 more than Mr. Alderman Venables.— Times.
There is a requisition in progress to call on Mr. Young, of Portland Place, to stand as a candidate for the representation of Maqlebone, in the event of Sir William Home's promotion to the bench. Mr. Young was Chairman 4A Sir
William Home's Committee. .
A circular note has been addressed' to the members of the Merchant Tailors Company, stating that the annual dinner which usually takes place on the first Wednesday in March will not be given this year. [The proposed inquiry into the mode in which corporate funds are disposed of, begins already to have some - good effects. More money will be spent in charity and less in feasting during the next ten years than the last. The bellies of Aldermen will lack their lining of "good capon," while those of the poor will begin to enjoy the benefit of old English roast beef.] A number of influential persons resident in the extensive district of the Tower Hamlets, which comprehends a population of 300,000, have determined on ap- plying to the Government to create it a borough wholly independent of the other parts of the county, and to grant them a separate commission of the peace, and court of sessions, and to empower them to levy a rate within the borough to de- fray the necessary expenses of maintaining the same. The proposition is said to have been favourably received by Ministers, and hopes are entertained by. many that a measure to this effect will be introduced into the proposed bill for incorporating the boroughs created by the Reform Act.—Herald.
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