Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry, was introduced on
Wednesday night to about sixty Lambeth Tories, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington ; and after hearing sundry speeches from gentlemen who talked largely about the success of the Conservative cause in Lambeth, pledged himself to become their candidate at the next election. A public dinner was given on Monday, at White Conduit House Tavern, to Messrs. Hetherington and Cleave, to celebrate the reduc- tion of the Stamp-duty on newspapers. Mr. Augustus Beaumont was in the chair, supported by Mr. Wakley, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Harvey, and Dr. Wade. There was a good deal of speaking, enlivened by some sparring between Mr. Wakley and Mr. Harvey. The former defended the instalment principle, and maintained that the Radicals ought to support the present Ministry to keep out the Tories. Mr. Harvey said, he detested the policy of abandoning principles on the ground that the people were to get an instalment. The ultimate suc- cess of great questions was always retarded by it. He pledged himself, if the Members who had undertaken to bring forward the Ballot, the Repeal of the Septennial Act, and the Extension of the Suffrage, did not redeem their promises, to put the sincerity of their Radical pro- fessions to the test by bringing them forward himself. It is understood that another application from a Joint Stock Bank to the Bank of England for assistance has been under consideration this morning ; but the result has not transpired, though there is little doubt that it has been or must be complied with. It seems to be ad- mitted by the Bank Directors themselves, that having established a precedent of this kind, it must be followed whenever cases of the same urgent description are brought before them.—Times,—City article of Monday. The Times on Tuesday gave the name of the bank alluded to ; and then\ the report was proved to be unfounded. This is not the first time, of late, that we have had occasion• to remark that little reliance is to be placed on the positive statements in the City article of the Times. On Saturday, the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Sheriffs, at- tended in the Bird-cage Walk, St. James's Park, to lay the first stone of an extensive range of buildings now in the course of being erected by Mr. Charles Pearson, for Parliamentary agency offices. The Lord Mayor was met at Storey's Gate by the parochial audit titles of St. John's, Westminster, and proceeded to the ground ; %%here he was received by several Members of Parliament, barristeis, Common Councilmen, and other friends of Mr. Pearson. Several appropriate speeches were made by the Lord Mayor and others. '1 he party pro. ceeded to partake of a sumptuous collation at Workman's Coffee- house, Storey's Gate, and to drink success to the undertaking.
At a meeting of the subscribers to a petition to the King praying his Majesty's patent for and patronage of a new theatre, for the put. pose of acting operas composed by native musicians, and ballets,— Mr. Bishop in the chair,—a letter was read from Lord John Russell, stating his Majesty's willingness to comply with the request of the petitioners as soon as 50,000/. can be raised for building a theatre.
The Reverend C. Hotham has resigned the office of Librarian and Evening Preacher of Lincoln's Inn. The barristers who ho are in the habit of attending the Hall of that Society, in which Mr. Hotham has for the last ten years officiated as chaplain, have presented to him a piece of plate. There are no fewer than seventeen candidates for the vacant situation.
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