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At a Special General Court of the East India Company, on Wednes- day, Mr. Russell Ellice, the Chairman, submitted a motion to the effect that the Court concurred with the Court of Directors in accepting the G .- vernment Bill. Thereupon Mr. Holt Mackenzie, strongly condemning the bill, moved resolutions by way of amendment. They complained of the arbitrary reduction of the number of Directors, the objectionable mode of reducing them, and the intrusion of nominees ; but declared the willingness of the Court to agree to that intrusion providing the nominees were selected by some authority independent of the Crown. The postponement of all provision relative to the Government in India was recommended ; and the denial to the Secret Committee of the right of advising the President of the • Board of Control was deprecated. This motion was supported by Sir Thomas Colebrook and Mr. Ilume. Mr. Lewin and Mr. Ayrton criticized the bill, the petition, and the Court of Directors. After much conversation, it was agreed that the original mo- tion should be withdrawn, and the amendment with it. Mr. Ilu,pie pro- posed that the resolutions should be thrown into the form of a petition and presented to the House of Lords. This was carried, and the seal of the Company was affixed.

The first public meeting of a "City of London Municipal Reform As- sociation " was held on Wednesday, in Farringdon Hall, Snow Hill. The business proceedings consisted of the appointment of a committee of management and the nomination of officers. Mr. J. Weightman occu- pied the chair, and Mr. Acland was the chief spokesman. Layard M.P. presided at the distribution of prizes to the pupils of the junior school at London University College, on Wednesday. Mr. Grote and other friends of the institution were present. The labourers in one department of the London Docks struck' for tut increase of pay on Monday morning. The directors- quickly issued a placard promising to protect the men who 'remained at work. The di- rectors designate the strike as an " unbecoming proceeding,'" seeing that the men bad made no previous representation of their desire for an ad- vance. The existing rate was fixed in 1824, when the necessaries of life were dearer than they are now in spite of the recent rise.

The masons and their labourers employed on the parish-work of Mary- lebone having respectfully asked for an increase of their pay—hitherto rather below the average—the authorities have granted their request.

The case of the Hospital of St. Cross, which has been before.theEalls Court for some time, was decided on Monday ; when Sir John Romillycgave judgment on an information to obtain a decree for the regulation and future mauagement of two charities, the one the Hospital of St. Cross at'Witiches, ter, and the other the Almshouse of Noble Poverty at Winchester, practi- cally united in the same charity. The Hospital was founded-in the twelfth century, by Henry de Blois ; the Almshouse in 1446, by Cardinal Beaufort; and they were intended for the support of thirteen poor men, and the giving of a dinner every day to one hundred poor men, with other benefits for the indigent. Three several times the Masterof the Hospitalhad attempted,to obtain the revenues for his own use : once in the fourteenth century, when William of Wvkeham successfully resisted the attempt ; again an the reign of Elizabeth, when an act of Parliament was passed .to confirm the original trust; and yet again in 1696. In this year the brethren and two chaplains agreed to- a document called a " cone suetudinarium," or settlement of the custom of administering the funds of the Hospital, making over the revenues to the Master. This the Bishop of Winchester, the visitor, sanctioned. " A more barefaced dean meat than this could not be irnagieed, nor a more manifestand wilfulbreach of trust." Nevertheless, it had subsisted for upwards of one hundred and fifty years, though not without warnings. The present Master is the Reverend the Earl of Guildford, and the estates are very valuable. SirJohn Romilly decreed, that there must be an injunction to restrain future grants by lease, and a reference to inquire if the leases now in existence were granted by fine. With respect to the Earl of Guildford, he must account for monies received from the date of the information, and be held answer- able to keep the buildings in a state of repair.

Mr. Commissioner Law has decided in the case of Richard Dunn, the per- son who has so long and so impertinently persecuted Miss Burdett Cones, that he is entitled to the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and to his discharge after ten months' imprisonment. The Court detains the absurd order for 100,000/. on Coutts's bank, whieh Dunn pretends that Miss Coats sent him; and refused to order the opposing creditor to make allowance for Dunn's maintenance in prison.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, Sarah-Prior was convicted of steal- ing plate and other articles worth 801., the property of Mr. 11`Culloeh. The ease was a very bad one. Prior had kept an improper house ; .by false state- ments she obtained the situation of housekeeper at Mr. DUCtilloeh's; then pawned the plate, hiring other articles from a silversmith to prevent her crime from being discovered. When she was detected, she.trumped up a villanons tale that what she had done was by Mrs. AL`Culloeh's orden accused that lady of an improper intimacy with a gentleman who visited; at the house,—an entire tissne of lies. The abandoned wretch was sentenced to imprisonment for a year. [This trial was enlivened by a senes of squabbles 'between Mr. Ribton, the prisoner's counsel, and the Asaistalit- Judge ; the counsel declaring that the Judge made a practice of treatinglita harshly and unfair]y, and the Judge retorting that Mr. Ilibton was theMily advocate who assailed him, though he had been kind to him both in-riblie and in private.] On Tuesday afternoon, Edouard Baynaud, a Frenchman, was brought be- fore the Bow Street Magistrate on a ,charge of conspiring to murder the Em- peror of the French. He had been arrested at Southampton, on his way to Jersey from London. The case was not gone into; and, the prisoner offer- ing no objection, he was remanded, in order that Prince de Jouiville might attend as a witness. It seems that Raynaud wrote two letters to the 'Prince, proposing in the one a scheme to assassinate Louis Napoleon, and requesting the Prince's cooperation and assistance ; in the ether offering to murder Louis Napoleon if 201. were advanced.

On Wednesday, the Prince de Joinville attended. He seemed--to suffer from extreme deafness. Ho deposed that the prisoner had written to him asking an interview, which was declined ; then he receiveii the .two letters offering to assassinate the Emperor. The Prince sent these letters to the Home Office. The letters were produced and read. This is a translation of a passage in one of them-

" I leave for Paris. My journey is for you, and for you alone. I swear it on the grave of my mother and father. lily life is a burden to me. I cannot suffer it, my Prince. My n-ife, who is seventeen years of age, 1 wish to.place under.your pram. tion. I have found an excuse for my voyage, and she consents. But the poor child rill be the only victim of my project. I do not sleep. I must alone take charge of the infamous wretch. He and his people must perish. It is a terrible thing forme to be an assassin, but it must be if I sell my last shirt. I am now -writing in theab- score of my poor wife. I must hasten to finish. May you read in my heart the sentiments I have for you and your dear family. Adieu, my Prince. All I desire is, that you may soon be upon the throne, making the people happier, and all France loving you. EATILIT'D as cles.xxennts." The last letter asked for 201. " I again take the liberty- of writing to you these few lines previous tom). departure. I I have collected the little money due to me, but it will not suffice in carrying out My views. I alone undertake to blow up the tyrant and hie accompliees,-and all,thisee around him. I r ill give my best guarantees for the.advances you might make.me. I leave my furniture. I leave my wife, who is possessed of the value of 12,000 francs besides her venue in a business. I employ several workmen. Your Royal Ffigheess, it is money I require, but not a heavy sum—I must have 2W.; and I give the right to any one to stab me anywhere, wherever I may be, if I donot change the French Government."

llaynaud is a tailor; he lived in Sherrard Street. His landlord said he had heard him complain of periodical attacks in the head, which made him confussd and deranged.

The prisoner did not deny that he wrote the letters; but he urged-that his mind was not right at the time, as he had been for a long while suffering from illness, which occasionally affected his intellect. [He looked ill.] Under these circumstances, and for the sake of his wife, he implored the mercy of the Court. Mr. Jardine committed him to be tried for misde- meanour; but offered to take moderate bail.

The Marlborough Street Magistrate has decided that a cabman may law- fully refuse to receive a passenger who is intoxicated.

Sarah Lipman, a widow, living near Welleloselquare, -is in -custody for the suspected murder of her illegitimate infant. It is supposed that she de- livered herself of a living child. A' servant-girl discovered the head of the 'infant on a fire ; and a policeman found more- human remains on the stove and among the ashes. A surgeon has given evidence that the woman is subject to fits ; and it'is intimatefftliat she may hate lost rational control over her actions. {a NS bUi111,1 eve e.d uodw AsCity tollsoolleetor has been fined by Alderman Sidney for extorting a toll from a gentleman who had personallumage in his own dog-cart. Ia reply. to the Alderman, the defendant said, he h.ad half the tolls he collected, but# did not amount to more than 9s. or 10s. per week. He was appointed by gr. West, who farmed the tolls from Levy, who contracted with the City for them. Alderman Sidney said, it was disgraceful to the City to have any tolls at ill, for the mortgage upon which they were raised had been liquidated long ago : but it was a still greater disgrace that the tolls should be farmed by se Irliany persons that even the collectors could share in the profits as

partners; ' - Lanceister, a private in the Grenadier Guards, has received fifty lashes, at the Portman Street Barracks, for knocking down a lance-corporal who hadasiported.his insolence to him on a former occasion, which led to his trial by a court-martial. After the punishment, Lancaster, who is only twenty years old, exclaimed as loud as he could, "Bravo ! I have stood it like a man."

Mr. Whitcombe, a solicitor residing at Cheam, has been killed at New Cross station, through his own incautiousness. He was returning at night from London; wishing to change his carriage at New Cross, he attempted to get out of the train before it had come to a stand ; he was thrown down between the carriages and the platform, and so crushed that he died in a few hours.

Mrs. Sadler, a lady residing at Pimlico, was accidentally killed at the West- minster Palace on Saturday. As she and her daughter ascended the steps leading into St. Stephen's Hall, another party of visitors allowed a heavy door to swing back ; the door struck Mrs. Sadler ; she was thrown upon the marble pavement with great violence, and a concussion of the brain was in- stantly fatal.

There was an extensive fire in Holland Street, Blackfriars Road, on Tues- day morning, by which a large part of the premises of the Patent Cocoa-nut Fibre Company was destroyed. The flames burst out a few moments after the workmen had quitted the place to breakfast. A number of surrounding buildings were damaged by fire, and the upper part of a row of dwellings was crushed by the fall of a high wall.