At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on
Thursday, the Lord 'Mayor complainea that he had received a letter from Mr. An. derton, a member of the Court, alluding to a current report that be had never got his patent of baronetcy, and threatening to bring the subject before the Common Council. The Lord Mayor said, that this was a matter in which the Court had nothing to do. He believed that the report might be traced to Mr. Anderton alone. At once to put a stop to it, however, he would produce the patent to the Court. He then exhibited the patent. Mr. Anderton said that the report was current: it was a matter in which the dignity of the Corporation was concerned, and he believed that be had done right in noticing the report.
An animated discussion took place at a meeting of the Governors of Christ's Hospital on Friday last, on the question, whether Mr. Tar. but, one of the Governors, should not be dismissed from the Board. Mr. Turbot, it appeared, had obtained from the Queen, through the Earl of Albermarle, a copy of the address presented to her Majesty on the 9th of November by Henry Sharp, the senior Christ Church scholar, with the Queen's autograph appended thereto. It was alleged that Mr. Turbut had procured this document under pretence that it was for the Board of Governors, whereas it was to gratify his own vanity by the exhibition of it. On being applied to by the Board, he refused to give it up ; and for this offence, by a large majority of the
Governors present, he has been expelled from the Board. We may add our opinion that the correspondence produced did not substantiate the original charge against him.
About three hundred subscribers to Lloyd's dined together on Wed- nesday, at the London Tavern. The object of the dinner was to tes- tify gratit ide to the proprietor of the London Tatvern for the accom- modation lie had afforded the gentlemen of Lloyd's when expelled from their own premises by the fire at the Exchange. There was, of course, a good deal of talk about the fire, and the exertions of the Lord Mayor; and as time company consisted chiefly of Tories, praise of the Due of Wellington occupied a prominent place in the speeches of the eve.iiiig.
On Tuesday, Sir Henry Willoek was elected a director of the East India Cotnpany, in the room of Mr. John Morris, who resigned. Thaw commenced on Monday; but the navigation of the river still remains alarost impracticable, owing to the large masses of floating ice. A feie vessels and barges are drifted up arid down the stream im- bedded in the ice, which in quantity does not seem to have in the least diminishe I: the tinier broke up the extensive fields of ice near the shore, but last night there was again a severe frost; and it is feared that anoth r week must elapse before the business of the river and docks is resumed.
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