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At a Court of Aldermen, held at Guildhall on Saturday, among other subjects adverted to was that of Sir John Campbell's Bill for the Abo. lition of Imprisonment for Debt. Mr. Alderman Wood stated, that be referred on the previous night, in the house of Commons, to the strong objections which were so generally entertained by meachants and tradesmen in the City of London to the measure ; and that in reply, Sir John Campbell said, if opposition to his bill was deferred for the present, he was sure that, from the great alterations made in it, and especially in those parts to which the City of London had the greatest objections, they would highly approve of it when it came out of Com- mittee. Mr. Alderman T. Wood said, that Sir John Campbell would find himself quite mistaken if he entertained any such notion, as he was certain the merchants and other tradesmen in the City would never become reconciled to it.

A general Court of Proprietors of Bank of England Stock was held at the Bunk on Tuesday, for the purpose of cleating a ,Governor and Deputy-Governor. A junta of the City Tories had declared their intention' of unscatieg Mr. Paulson, M. I'., the Governor, on account of his Liberal politics ; which, they pretended, rendered him an unfit person to hold communication with Sir Robert Peet. The Timer an..

nounced that the opposition to Mr. Pattison was conducted with " con.. siderable energy " for some days previously to the day of election. It was therefore a matter of some interest to ascertain whether the Tory zeal of the Bank proprietors was really so hot as to induce them to displace so efficient an officer as Mr. Pattison merely on political groands. When the time of election arrived, however, it appeared that the Tory valour had evaporated; for only one proprietor—whose name did not transpire—openly opposed the reelection of the Governor ; and upon proceeding to the ballot, the numbers were found to be—for Mr. Patti- son as Governor, 153 votes ; for Mr. Timothy Curtis as Deputy-Go-

vernor, 173; for the Tory.candidate as Governor, Mr. T. Wrier], 4! .

The next day was appointed for the election of eight Directors to supply vacancies ; and the Misleading Journal gave the public to un.. derstand that the House list would not be chosen ; and that Mr. Pres- cott, who has the misfortune to be Mr. Grote's partner, and a Liberal as well as Mr. Pattison, would be especially objected to. The Pro- prietors, did not take their instructions from the Times, and elected all the gentlemen on the House list, Mr. Prescott included.

The Tories had a hole-and-corner meeting on Monday, at Willis's Rooms in King Street. About two hundred and fifty were present ; including Mr. Horace Twiss, Lord Francis Egerton, Viscount Deer- burst, Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, and General Gascoyne. An address to the King was agreed upon, assuring his Majesty of the support of

the meeting in any measures be might take to ward off the danger with which rdi.gion I and the institutions of the country were threatened. Reporters from the Liberal press were excluded from this meeting.

The address of the " merchants' bankers, traders, and others, of London," to Sir Robert Peel, which, we mentioned last week as being in the course of signature, was presented by a deputation to Sir Robert on Tuesday. The reply of the Premier was any thing but consolatory: Sir Robert estimated the document at its real value, and did not flatter the deputation that a majority in the House of Commons could be overcome by a knot of City Tories.

In the course of the week, many similar addresses were got up by the Tories in various parts of the country, and forwarded for presenta- tion to London. Among the places in which these abortive efforts have been made, are Exeter, Oxford, Birmingham, Canterbury, Liverpool, Leeds, St. Alban's, Stone, Newmarket, Ipswich, and Weymouth. The Tory Englishmen residing in Paris also transmitted an address to Sir Robert. From some of the above places, addresses were sent to the King praying hint to support his Tory Ministers against the House ofCommons.

On Monday, there was a numerous meeting of the freeholders and electors of Middlesex, for the purpose of organizing a Reform Club. In addition to the various members of the Middlesex and Westminster Election Committees, there was a gentleman from each division or district of the county. Mr. Yates took the chair. Resolutions were passed for the formation of the Club, and a Committee was appointed to carry the resolutions into effect. The room was crowdel with the most respectable and influential electors for the County, as well as some of the most active Reformers of Westminster, Tower Hamlets, and other Metropolitan districts. The inhabitents of Brentford have established a Reform Associa- tion, with a view to carry the objects of the Reform Act into full and beneficial operation.

The sixth anniversary of the establishment of the Infant Orphan Asylum was celebrated on Thursday, by a dinner at the City of London Tavern; Mr. Byng, M.P., in the chair. IVIlen the health of the Members for the Tower Hamlets was proposed, a few Tories made a great uproar. They were mildly rebuked by Mr. Clay; who reminded them that it was bad taste to mix up politics with the object of the meeting. The anniversary of the Orphans Working School was celebrated on Wednesday, by a dinner at the Albion, attended by about a hundred and fifty gentlemen. Mr. Clay, Mr. Baines, and Mr. William Smith, the former Member for Norwich, were among the company; • and Lord Brougham presided. When his Lordship's health was drunk, he took occasion to express his deep mortification at the failure of the London University— There were several most eminent professors in every department of literature and science employed at the 17niversity ; but the truth was, that the people of London were so aristocratically inclined, that they would rather starve them- selves to par aa0/. to send their sons to Oxford or Cambridge, where they might associate with the sons of lords and bishops, than pay la per annum to the University of London, where they might receive an education quite as complete and extensive. It would be very web if they would be persuaded to put the 24)0!. in their pockets, and send five suns to be educated in London for the remainder. The annual meeting of the Labourers' Friend Society was held on Thursday afternoon, at Exeter Hall ; the Bishop of Bath and Wells in the chair. On the platform, were Lord Kenyon, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Townsend, the Honourable H. A Moreton, M.P., and Mr. H. Mackinnon, M. P. The Chairman said, the benefits arising from the allotments of land to the agricultural poor would be appreciated when be assured them that he had on his estates let out small portions of land at 10a. per annum, the produce of which amounted to five guineas. For more than thirty years he had acted on this plan, and not a single thing had occurred that had given him the slightest reason to doubt the benefits the realization of which were held out by the adoption of this system. Resolutions were passed for the purpose of extending the operations of the society to the advancing of loans, and establishing agricultural schools ; and a liberal subscription was entered into for furthering the objects in view.

A numerous and respectable attendance of the fi lends of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund assembled on Wednesday, in the Freemason's Tavern, to celebrate its nineteenth anniversary. The Earl of Mulgrave presided. The subscriptions announced amounted to 8001. There was a grand ball at the Mansionbouse last night. The tinguished guests, with the exception of the Duke of Leinster, seem to have been till Tories. Among them were Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the Duke of Cumberland, Marquis Camden, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Mr. Goulbuxu, and Lord I rancis Egerton.

At the Mansionhouse, on Wednesday, there was a further examina- tion of the three parties charged with the extensive forgeries in the City. In consequence of the non-attendance of a material witness, named Chesterman, Murphy and Charles Foster were remanded. The third prisoner. Samuel Foster, was discharged on entering into hip own securities to attend if called on.

Martha Handcox, the servant of Mrs. Collins of Manchester Square, whose examination on a charge of robbing her mistress of jewels worth 2000/. was mentioned last week, was again brought before the Maryle- bone Magistrates on Monday, together with William 1-hall, Mrs. Cul- lins's butler, on the same charge. It appeared from the evidence of Mary Sumpter, the house-maid, that she herself, together with the two prisoners, had planned the robbery ; and that the jewels were given to _Hall, who disposed of them to some Jew. This woman had confessed the whole affair to her mistress. On Wednesday, sonic corroborative evidence was given ; mid the prisoners remain in custody, while the Police are endeavouring to discover the " fence," or receiver of the stolen property. Miss Gustardin, the daughter of a gentleman residing in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, was dreadfully burnt on Sunday last. She was an invalid, and sitting by her chamber fire, when a spark fell upon her night-dress, and soon reduced it to tinder. Her hair was burnt off her head, and her eyesight completely destroyed : her neck, arms, and face, were also shockingly disfigured.

Some scaffolding attached to the Adelaide Hotel at the foot of Lon- don Bridge gave way on Wednesday morning; and Mr. AVardell, fore- man to a builder, who was standing on it, fell on some flag-stones be- low from a height of sixty feet. He was so much hurt that his death is expected. On Tuesday evening between nine and ten o'clock, a dreadful ex- plosion alarmed the inhabitants of Pickering Place and St. James's Street. The explosion was sufficiently violent to make a wreck of every window in the court, end to shatter the door of No. 4, which is occupied as a low gambling-house. On instituting an investigation, it was discovered that some miscreant had aflixed a hand-grenade to the door of No. 4, and by means of ropes fastened to the railing of the school opposite, had so contrived the destructive machine that it would explode the moment the door of No. 4 was opened. Fortunately no person was hurt, although the case of the grenade was blown into St. James's Street ; but had any one been in the court at the time, there is no doubt something fatal would have occurred. As it was conjec- tured at first that the destruction had been caused by gunpowder or bursting of the gas-pipes, the engines were sent for, but of course the mischief had ceased with the explosion. From the mode in which the grenade was attached to the doer, it appeared quite evident it must have been placed there by some one well acquainted with its effects; and the conjecture is, that the affair had been planned by some military person who had been plundered by the gambling gang, and who took this mode of revenging himself.--11braing Chronicle.

An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Ann Snow, who was found on Thursday with her throat cut, in her house in Whitehorse Yard, Drury Lane. She said, a little before she died, to a surgeon who was called in, that her husband had murdered her. He was taken into custody; but, except the declaration of his wife, there was scarcely any evidence against him ; and it was proved that she was a violent and intemperate woman, and had often threatened to kill her- self. She had also said that she would kill her husband. The Jury found that she was of unsound mind, and that there was no sufficient evidence as to the person by whom she was killed.