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Lord Althorp, in a conference with a deputation of gentlemen con- nected with the hemp trade this week, admitted that there were strong grounds for complying with the request to abolish the duty. He how- ever expressed regret that the state of the revenue would prevent him from adopting any course which might reduce the receipts. He at the same time expressed his hope that, in the course of another year, the duty might be reduced or abandoned.
The Comptrollership of the General Post-office has been recentlY abolished.
The state of the votes in Marylebone parish on the subject of the new Vestries Act, was—for the act, 6,816; against it (included in " this few, this happy few" was his Grace of Newcastle), 20 !
The parishioners of Clerkenwell met on Thursday,—Mr. Key, the senior Churchwarden, in the chair; when a petition to the Lords, en- treating them to pass the Reform Bill, was agreed to. The only op- position turned on the question, whether, from the former conduct of the Lords, it was of any use to petition their House on the subject.
The ceremony of consecrating the Spring Gardens Chapel was per- formed on Wednesday; the Bishop of London officiating.
The anniversary dinner of the Infant Orphan Institution was held on Tuesday, at the City of London Tavern ; George Byng, Esq. M.P. in the chair. About eighty gentlemen sat down to dinner.
The anniversary dinner of the London Hospital was held on Wed- nesday at the London Tavern. Mr. Byng, Member for Middlesex, in the absence of the Duke of Gloucester, who was confined to his house by indisposition, presided on this occasion. About one hundred gentlemen were present.
The new City Policemen will commence their duties on Monday. Cope, the Marshal, has been appointed Superintendent. The scale of wages which has been fixed in the county will be adopted in the City. The whole is to be paid out of the City purse, and not by a new rate.
• It is now formally announced, that Covent Garden Theatre is to be let. Laporte, it is said, will be opposed by six other candidates, among whom Mr. Price, late lessee of Drury Lane, is spoken of.
The anniversary festival of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund was held on Wednesday at the Freemasons' Tavern. It was expected that the Duke of Sussex would preside ; but immediately before the hour fixed for dinner, a note was received from his Royal Highness, stating, that indisposition prevented his attendance. The Marquis of !Clamscarde took the chair, and was supported by the Duke of St. Alban's and Lord Mulgrave. Among those who contributed to the sociality of the occasion, were Mathews, Braham, Reeve, and Keeley.
The number of prisoners within the walls of the King's Bench prison on the 1st of February last, was 369; of whom 148 were on execution. The number of rooms for which the Marshal receives rent at Is. per week is 216; but the rent paid in 1831 was only 3431. 16s. 6d. ; as, through the poverty of many of the prisoners, the Marshal had been obliged, in a great many instances, to forego his claims.
Mr. Irving was to have opened a chapel near Popham Terrace, Islington, in the afternoon of Sunday ; but, owing to the crowd in attendance, he adjourned to Britannia Fields, where a lady (said to be the wife of a respectable broker in the City) addressed the assemblage in the " unknown tongue." There is to be a similar exhibition to- morrow.
The Vicar Apostolic of London and his coadjutor have issued a re- script to the Catholic clergy and laity of the metropolis, recommending the burial of bodies of persons that die of cholera, at farthest in twelve hours after death, and in the strongest terms forbidding all waking of the bodies previous to interment.
The remains of the celebrated composer Muzio Clementi were in- terred on Thursday forenoon, in Westminster Abbey. The proceed- ings were merely those usually observed on the interment of a private individual of the better ranks of society. The corpse was deposited in the south cloisters, immediately adjoining the grave of Shield.
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