ConsussmNEns OF atisxnurrs.—An important meeting on the subject of these
Commissioners was held at the London Tavern yesterday, Mr. Alderman Thomomin in the chair. Resolutions were unanimously passed, and a petition to Parliament agreed on, calling for an alteration of the whole system, as productive only of inconvenience and expense, and for the establishment of a regular court in which the public could repose Confidence. THE LONDON DOCK COMPANY.—A meeting of the Proprietors took place yesterday ; when a statement of the receipts and expenditure of .the last half year was read. The receipts amounted to 131,396/. ; the expenditure to 73,097/. Several members urged a communication with the St. Katherine Docks Company, with a view to put down the competition that at present exists between the two companies ; but the suggestion was not concurred in by the majority. The tonnage of London, in 1829, was 999,678 tons—in 1830, 930,000 tons ; the entries in the London Docks, in the former year, 137,737 tons—in the latter, 136,020.
norm—It is intended to honour the new member for Preston, on his return to town on Monday, with a grand procession ; at which it IS calculated not less than 100,600 of his admirers and friends will be present. There will be a six-shilling dinner in the evening, at the Crown and Anchor.
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