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Some members of the Middlesex Reform Club met on Wednesday evening, at the Salopian Coffeehouse • Mr. Ashton Yates in the chair. It was stated that subscriptions clad been received sufficient to justify the Club in undertaking to proceed with the ensuing Parliamen- tary registration, in the hope that additional funds would be forth- coming.
A " Reform and Registration Association " has been formed in the Borough of Marylebone ; whose object, as announced, is to "pro- mote the cause of general and local reform by all legal means, to super- intend and enlarge the registration of Reformers in the borough ; and to detect and expose all fraudulent or illegal attempts to exercise the elective franchise, to the prejudice of the Liberal interest ; and last (not least) to prevent the division of the Liberal interest at an election." The deputies from the several congregrutions of Protestant Dissen- ters of the Three Denominations—Presbyterian, Independent, and Baptist—in and within twelve miles of London, at a special meeting held on Wednesday at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry, came to a resolution that the grant of one million, to be appropriated to the clergy of the Established Church and the lay impropriators of tithe in Ireland out of the public funds of the empire, can be justified by no necessity ; and from a regard to their own interests and from conscientious conviction, they firmly and loudly object to this new ex- ample of and encouragement for indefinite appropriations of the pub-
lic monies towards the Established Churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland.—Morning Chronicle. [Nevertheless, most of these pro- testing gentlemen will support the men who are parties to the scheme of plunder.]
On Wednesday, the Duke of Wellington presided at a crowded meeting, held at the City of London Tavern, to promote the subscrip- tion for the proposed monument to Nelson. The Duke was most cordially received, especially by the ladies who occupied the gallery. He delivered a speech cf some length in laudation of Nelson ; and assured the assembly, that though he had presided at many meetings for charitable and national purposes, he had never failed to pioeure liberal support to the institutions he patronized, and he hoped that on this occasion a most liberal subscription would be commenced. From
the report of the Committee to the subscription, it appeared that 5,51.i/, 19s. Uri., the amount, with accumulation of interest, of a subscription raised in 1805 for a monument to Nelson, had been placed in the hands of the Committee ; that the Queen had given 5351,, and the Queen Dowager 2001. in aid of the fond ; and that Government had sanctioned the proposed site in Trafalgar Square, provided that they approved of the plans and designs. Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were passed unanimously. The Duke of Wellington took the opportunity of contradicting a rumour that he was about to leave England for the Continent ; and retired amidst vehement cheering.
At a meeting of the Society for promoting Practical Design, held on Thursday evening at Saville House, Leicester Square, the President, Mr. Ewart, mentioned that he had received a communication from Lord John Russell in reply to the memorial of the Society presented to the Queen, stating his Lordship's regret that he had been compelled on account of the atmosphere of London to recommend the non-removal of the Cartoons from Hampton Court Palace. [The objection is futile : if valid, it could easily be obviated by a screen of glass. As it is, the Cartoons are suffering from damp, besides being in danger of fire. The true reason is, want of room for them in the paltry picture- place in Trafalgar Square.] The members of the School of Design had a meeting on Tuesday, at their rooms in Somerset House, when premiums were awarded to successful students, by Mr. Poulett Thomson.
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