EISC The members of the Pitt Club dined together at
the City of London Tavern, on Thursday, which was the anniversary of the birth of their ,Patron Saint. Colonel Conolly was chairman • and the Dukt s of Wellington and Newcastle Lord Eldon, and Lord Wynford, were the most distinguished among the company. The usual toasts, songs, and speeches occupied the evening.
A deputation from Paisley, introduced by Sir Daniel Sandford, waited upon Earl Grey on Monday, and presented memorials from Paisley and some parishes in the vicinity, expressive of' attachment to the Established Church, and complaining of the leant of additional churches.
One hundred and twenty gentlemen, supporters of the Artists' Gene- ral Benevolent Institution, dined together at the Freemason's Tavern on Saturday. The Earl of Durham presided, supported by Sir M. A. Shee and Mr. E. J. Stanley. Many healths were drunk amidst much applause, more especially that of the noble Chairman ; who mentioned that he had secured Lord 13roughatn for their President next year. In the course of the evening, Lord Durham gave the health of the ladies subscribers, whose absence he very much regretted and disapproved of, notwithstanding the plare where they were assembled was the Free- mason's Tavern. He hoped that next year the ladies would attend, end that an arraegement would be made to accommodate them ; for Lord Durham declared,. " there did not exist a greater admirer of the ladies than the noble Lord who was on the next occasion to be his sitecessor in the chair." Donations to the institution amounting to about MO/. were announced during the evening.
Sir Charles Flower has resigned his office of Alderman of Cornbill Ward ; and Mr. Sheriff Pine is to be put in Domination to succeed him. Mr. Midge and Mr. Raphael are to be proposed as Sheriffs for the ensuing year. .. . The Reverend Mr. Campbell, who was ejected from the Moorfields Tabernacle on Sunday week, was allowed to resume his place in the pulpit, hist Sunday, and preached to a congregation who filled every part of the building.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, the bankers, whose house was petitioned against a short time ago as a great obstruction in the new line of road from London Bridge through Princes Street and Moor- fields, finding that as the improvements advance their house presents a very palpable eyesore, have consented to remove from that situation, in order to enable the London Bridge Committee to complete the projected improvements in the most desirable manner. The bankers have taken the South Sea House, in which they intend to carry on their business.
The quarrel between the journeymen tailors and their employers was only partially made up last week, and has broken out afresh. The " Executive" of the journeymen having issued a kind of general order, enjoining all the men to return to their work, but to sttbscribe a weekly sum to a general fund (evidently with the view, to a more successful strike at some future time), the masters at a meeting held on Monday agreed, by a majority of 532 to 8, to employ none but those who would Sign a declaration that they did ilot, and would not, belong to any Trades Union. This most of the journeymen have refused to do, in obedience to the directions of the " Executive," and are consequently still out of Work.
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