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Messrs. Tamlyn and Falconer, the Revising Barristers for. Fins4 bury, will hold their first court on Monday week.
It is in contemplation to petition the King in Council for additional polling-places for Middlesex, at Bethnal Green, one in the City of London, one in Westminster, and a fourth at Hampstead. The necessary notices on the subject have been given for the October Quarter-. sessions.
The Provisional Committee of the Church-rate Abolition Society have summoned a public meeting at the City of London Tavern, for Wednesday the 19th instant. Mr. Charles Lushington, M. P., is to take the chair.
On Monday evening, the Hunterian Lecture-room, Great Windmill Street, was crowded by gentlemen of the medical profession, to hear Mr. Pettigrew, late surgeon, and Dr. Sigmond, late physician to the Charing Cross Hospital, defend themselves from charges brought against them by certain managing Directors of that institution. The two gentlemen satisfied the meeting that they had been infamously used ; and resolutions were passed by acclamation condemning in strong terms the general management of the Charing Cross Hospital, and the treatment of Dr. Sigmond and Mr. Pettigrew.
Mr. Green's balloon ascent, the last, it is said, for this season, took place from Vauxhall Gardens on Thursday, notwithstanding the rain was unusually heavy and constant. Besides Mr. Green and his brother, the following persons took their places in the car—Captain Ogle, the Honourable W. Talbot, Baroness de Talbot, Miss Harrison, Mr. 1Voodroofe, and Mr. Back.
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