Commost HALL. —At the Common Hall that met on Monday, resolutions

in favour of Radical Reform were unanimously passed. From a statement of Mr. C. Pearson, it appears that the people of London are more anxious to reform their neighbours than themselves. The Committee appointed to report on his proposal of lowering the salaries of the City functionaries, have treated him and it very cavalierly.

BANK DIRECTION—Oil Tuesday, John Horsley Palmer, Esq. was chosen Governor, and Andrew Henry Thomson, Esq. Deputy Governor, of

the Bank of England. ,

THE Fo on PER CENT. Sr ocantainEas.—On Monday morning the books were opened at the Bank to receive the names of the dissentients to the reduction of the Four per Cents. At present they are very inconsider- able. On the first day of the opening of the books they did not exceed 100,000/. nor one-fourth of that sum on the second.

EAST INDIA DinEcTioN.—The election of the Directors of the East India Company, in the room of Messrs. Bebb and Pattison, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The candidates on Tuesday were Messrs. Forbes and Mackinnon—the former obtained 1009 votes—the latter 554. Mr. Shank was opposed on Wednesday by Mr. Ellice, but was returned by 1056 votes to 408.

The election of six Directors in the roam of those who go out by rotation, takes place on Wednesday next. The candidates are Messrs. Baillie, Carnac, Lushington, Muspratt, Wigram, Baring, Ellice, Lyall, and Mackinnon. The first five of these gentlemen are ex-members of the Court, and compose what is termed the House List. The other candidates come forward to sup- ply the place of the late Sir Robert Farquhar, who died when out by'rota- tion. Sir. Lyall, it is understood, will have the support of the Directors, and will most probably be elected ; but, as we stated in a former number, it is not impossible that in the struggle more than one new candidate may ob- tain admission, to the exclusion of old members of the Court.

MEETING OF HANKERS.—A dinner-party assembled at Grillon's hotel on Monday, which consisted of the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, some Directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, and the Deputies now in town from the Dublin Royal Bank. The parties hitherto have been far from manifesting any great goodwill towards each other, and the conjunction perhaps is to be taken as ominous of some farther ex.. tension of the paper system.— Times. SCOTTISH HOSPITAL—The anniversary festival was held on Saturday last, at the Freemasons' Tavern. The Duke of Clarence presided. The subscription was most liberal. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—On Tuesday, a special meeting was held for the purpose of filling up the late resignations in the Council. The mem-

bers chosen were the Earl of Carnarvon, Mr. William Harrison, Mr. Richard Bligh, Mr. Peter Grant, and Dlr. George Bentham. The mismanagement of the Society's affairs was dwelt upon in very emphatic terms by several of the members.

THE DISTILLERS.—On Monday, a deputation appointed by the English, Irish, and Scotch distillers, had an interview with the Duke of Wellington

in Downing Street, to remonstrate against the proposed increase of duty on spirits. His Grace promised that their arguments should be carefully weighed, but declined giving any further pledge on the subject.

EXTENSION OF THE NEW POL IC E.—A meeting was held in the Crown and Anchor on Thursday, to consider of the best means of opposing the

contemplated extension of the New Police. The meeting consisted chiefly of occupiers of land, farmers, and market-gardeners in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. By the extension, it appears that all these parties, who neither require protection nor can in the nature of things receive it, will be subjected to a rate of eightpence in the pound on the whole amount of their rental,—a rate which would fall on them in something like the proportion of twenty to one compared with the rate levied on houses. The Chairman very reasonably asked, what a policeman could do in a district where, for miles (he was speaking of Fulham), there was neither road nor footway, and where the guardian of property durst not place his foot under the penalty of an action of trespass ? There is, however, we think, a stronger objection to the apparently unlimited existence of the police than the expense. The causes which called for a change of system in London, were the very peculiar circumstances of an immense and crowded capital, into which, as a sink, all the moral filth of the kingdom is perpetually run- ning. There, a system which trenched on constitutional principles

might well be tolerated for the good it brought along with it ; and in the metropolis there is an ever-watchful spirit at work, that must prevent any serious attack on the liberty of the subject, were such meditated. But

though the bad parts of the police system may be wholly neutralized in London, it does not follow that a band of men, lodged in barracks, disciplined as soldiers, amenable to three officers who hold their places at the nod of the Secretary of State, will be equally harmless in a rural district, where the people are scattered, where combination to resist petty tyranny is with dif- ficulty effected, and where great and grievous wrong may be sustained before a remedy be even sought. Lord Holland, it appears, has been consulted by the parishioners of Hackney; and his reply was, that the bill had good

points about it, and he would be sorry to lose it. He said also he would

consult the Duke of Wellington about their case. The good points of the bill we fully admit—indeed we have on more than one occasion advocated them ; but the way, we conceive, to preserve the advantage of the good points, is to put an end to the had points,—and that not by consulting the Duke of Wellington, and thus making the continuance or non-conti- nuance of what must in its operation prove extremely injurious, dependent on the caprice of a Cabinet, but by consulting the Legislature, and making the safety and freedom of the people depend, as it has heretofore done, on the law of the land.