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The inauguration dinner of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex took place on Wednesday, at Merchant Tailors' Hall. Nothing re- markable occurred, except the denial of Mr. Law, the Recorder, that in presenting Mr. Monteliore to the Judges he had called him "an Israelite without guile," as reported in a Sunday newspaper : he had said nothing of the sort. Several of the Foreign Ambassadors and some Members of Parliament were present at the entertainment.
At a meeting of the Common Council, On Thursday, it was unani- mously agreed, in compliance with an application made by Lord Dudley Stuart, that the Guildhall, with the di.corations used at the grand enter- tainment on the 9th of November, should be opened for a ball for the relief of the distressed Poles in London. It was announced by the Lord Mayor, that the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs elect would give the annual dinner at the Guildhall as soon as possible after the dinner to the Queen.
'Mil Revising Barristers for tl:e City closed their Court on Thurs- day. According to the Times, the Tuties substantiated fleS'objections out of 477, and 66 claims cut of 114; the Liberals substantiated 65' out of' 97 objectioes, 32 out of 77 Trithe Middlesex Court of Revision, cn Thursday, Mr. Hume at- tended to defend his claim to vete. Ire stated his qualification to be " land-tax redeemed :" he laid purelia-ed it in 1799, end had voted upon it on every election up to the present time, its validity as a free- hold never having been questioned till now. Mr. Adey said, that having been purchased previously to 1502. it was not a freehold, but personalty. Mr. Coventry decided that the claim could not be sus- tained; its, by the :3ath of George the Third, all purchases of land-tax prior to the year 1S0:2 were declared to be personal estate. So Mr. Hume's name was removed from the iegister ; and the objection which he protested against, as merely vexatious, turns out to have bee* well-founded in law.
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