ebe Stetropoi151. Sir Peter Laurie was unanimously elected Lord Mayor
on Saturday last. We noticed the election in our second edition. The lately-elected Sheriffs of London and Middlesex gave their in- auguration dinner on Monday, at the hall of the Tallow Chandlers Company, Dowgate Hill, of which Mr. Humphrey is a member. The room in which the company sat down to dinner was ornamented with a variety of banners and other decorations, and the entertainment itself was served up in that costly style for which all civic festivals are celebrated. The Lord Mayor (Sir J. Key), as usual upon such occa- sions, took the chair. The two members for Middlesex were i present, and were most warmly received. The ceremony of swearing n took place in the morning of the same day.
The Common Council held a meeting on Thursday ; when a peti- tion was presented by Mr. Weston from the Almshouses Scheme Com- mittee, for a grant of public money in order to enable them to show their zeal for the commemoration of the Reform Bill. It was referred to the Committee of Finance.
The next question was the side of meat on Sundays in Farringdon Market. A report from the City Lands Committee recommended that the butchers there should be allowed to sell on Sunday mornings. A Mr. Stubbings spoke in favour of the report, because of the hard- ship which closing the market inflicted on the poor, who were paid their wages so late on Saturday night that they had no time to make their purchases then : he moved that the report be received. Mr. Sa- vage opposed the report. Several other members having spoken on both sides, the Court divided on the amendment, "that the report lie on the table until the decision of Parliament on a similar question (Sir Andrew Agnew's motion for shutting up. all shops on Sundays) be made known ;"—which was carried by a majority of 34.
The " Ancient and Honourable" Lumber Troop celebrated the passing of the Reform Bills on Wednesday, by an entertainment at the White Conduit House Tavern. Among the invited guests, were the Lord Mayor, Messrs. Hume. Byng, and Tennyson, Mr. Grote the banker, and a number of other gentlemen. About 350 members of the troop were present. Joseph Bonaparte, who was invited on the occasion, sent an excuse, because of a domestic calamity,—the long- expected demise of Madame Mere.
The University of London opened on Monday, with an introductory lecture by Dr. Eliotson. We quote his conclusion —" The University is now prospering. Great advantages have resulted from the establish- ment of a Committee of Management within the Council, and of a Senatus Academicus. All labour assiduously--all are animated with the liveliest desire to promote the institution. One good feeling pervades us all, and each is willing to postpone his own immediate advantage to the general good ; knowing that this is, after all, the surest as well as the most honourable path to our immediate success." We are glad to hear it. The University may do well, for all it has done yet.
At the annual meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons, on the 1st instant, Sir Henry Belford was re-elected President ; Dr. Hume, Seninr Censor ; Drs. Macmichael, Southey, and Holland, Censors ; Dr. Francis Hawkins, Registrar; and Dr. Turner, Treasurer.
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