At a meeting of the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, the
President, Lord Stanhope, announced that Mr. Frost had delivered up part of the property or the Society, and had pledged himself to give up the rest as soon as possible. Mr. Booth and Mr. Copeland, the late Sheriffs of Middlesex, attended at Hick's Hall on Thursday, to give bail to a bill of indictment for a misdemeanour. Mr. QoeeLazda la a letter to the editor of the Times, has stated that ha and his
colleague were out of office three months before the alleged misdemeanour was committed. But had they been in office, they could not, Mr. Copeland contends, have been called on to answer it, otherwise than by civil process. A deputation of the retail spirit-dealers attended at the adjourned Middlesex Sessions on Thursday, to present a petition against the • resolutions which had been passed on the subject of the spirit trade by the Court of Magistrates in Oc- tober last. Those resolutions were contradictory of former resolutions, and both were extremely vague. The Chairman ordered the petition to he lodged with the Clerk of the Peace, upon an understanding that its contents Should be dis- cussed at the next County-day.
A meeting was held on Monday of the householders of St. Clement Danes parish, respecting the distressed condition of the poor at this inclement season. It was stated by the gentlemen who addressed the meeting, that, from the great want or employment amongst the lower classes, and the severity of the winter suson, great distress existed in the parish. Several families were destitute of sl and the common necessaries of life. It was also stated that pauperism was increasing, and that the workhouse was crowded:Sidi inmates beyond all former precedent. It was resolved that a subscription should be entered into for the relief of the poor, and that instead of money they should receive bread, potatoes, coals, blankets, and other necessaries.
Messrs. Polhill and Jones, snuff-merchants in, High Street, Southwark, had 13,1001., awarded them on Thursday by a jury, as a fair compensation for the removal of their premises, which the improvements in that quarter require. Nearly two hundred articled clerks have given notice that they intend to apply next Easter term to be admitted attoruies of his Majesty's Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster.
Some rumours of the complete failure of the Swan River scheme were in cir- culation in the City in the early part of the week, but accounts since received have in a great measure rempved the alarm previously excited. The Governor's official report has arrived in town, and is understood to be favourable. The num- ber of settlers is supposed to be somewhere about 1800.
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