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The poll for the election of City Chamberlain closed on Thursday : for Brown, 2,319; Heppe], 67; majority for Brown, 2,252. Alderman Brown briefly thanked the Livery for having elected him. Mr. Heppel thanked "the sixty-seven independent men who had come forward to bear testimony to the soundness of the principles for which he con- tended,"—namely, that one of the Livery ought to be put in nomina- tion; and that the contest ought to be carried on without paid agents or canvassing of the constituency, the candidate relying solely on the statement of his claims. He charged his political friends, and also those who declaimed against the increasing corruption and power of the Court of Aldermen, with having deserted him. Both candidates, however, disavowed all acrimonious feeling.
A numerous meeting of the Medical Protection Assembly was held at ExeterHall, on Monday evening ; Mr. D. 0. Edwards in the chair. Several communications had been received from Greenwich, Gravesend, Maid- stone, Brighton, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Liverpool, and York, re- questing advice as to the best means of bringing the local influence of the resident medical men to bear upon their respective Representatives in Parliament. In answer, Dr. Lynch moved resolutions recommend- ing, on the part of the Assembly, "that their professional brethren in the provinces do form themselves into committees, and hold meetings in their several districts, and, at their earliest possible convenience, form deputations to wait upon their Representatives ; that they do urge upon them the injustice to the profession and the injury to the public certain to result from the carrying out of the provisions of Sir James Graham's bill" ; "that the profession in large towns be requested to make arrange- ments to send delegates to represent them at the aggregate meeting, to be held at Exeter Hall on the 30th of this month"; with some other details of advice for agitating the matter. These resolutions were se- conded by Mr. Ross, and carried unanimously.
The South-eastern Railway Company have offered to purchase the Greenwich Railway, or, as it is called, lease it for 999 years. They are to pay a rent of 36,0001. for the first year, and 1,0001. a year additional
each succeeding year until it shall amount to 45,0001. Meetings of the proprietors of both Railways have approved of the proposal; but the manetioa of Parliament is required before it can be carried into effect. It is proposed that the lease should commence on the let January next.
At the half-yearly meeting of the South-eastern Company, on Tues- day, the Directors announced that they had plans under consideration for extending their railway to nearly all the important places in Bent. A branch to Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate, will shortly be com- menced; one to Maidstone is just completed ; they intend to lease the Whitstable Railway. They propose lines from London through Wool- wich, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Sittingbourne, Faversham, and Chilham, to unite with the Canterbury branch ; from Rochester to Maidstone; from the Ramsgate and Canterbury branch to Sandwich and Deal ; and a branch from Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells, and thence to Hastings.
A bold fraud has been committed on the Bank of England, by Mr. Burgess' a clerk, with the aid of a confederate. Mr. Burgess first took steps to have it believed in the Transfer Office, (where he was known as being employed in another part of the establishment,) that a Mr. Oxenford, the holder of stock to the value of 8,0001., was a friend of his, and meant to sell nut. Then, having obtained leave of absence for a few days to facilitate his scheme, he procured a man to personate Mr. Oxenford ; and vouched for his identity when he went to the Transfer Office to effect a fraudulent sale of the stock. They were paid in gold for the whole amount, and have made off with it.
One James Carruthers has professed to act in a very disinterested manner towards Messrs. Coutts and Company, to prevent their be- coming victims to a conspiracy. He wrote to the bankers, that he had got mixed up with a gang of swindlers, who had formed a plan to rob them to an inconceivable extent ; and in an unguarded moment he had taken an oath not to betray the conspiracy ; but, being seized with re- morse, he had entreated his associates to forego their purpose ; and they consented, if he could get a hundred pounds for them from their intended victims : so, to save Coutts and Company from being robbed, he desired them to insert an advertisement in the Times consenting to give the sum required, "in solid gold," and directing them to send the parcel by a boy in the evening to the base of the Monument, where their un- known friend would be in attendance. The bankers did as desired, except that they sent a parcel of lead instead of gold, and put two Po- licemen on the watch. Carruthers was punctual, and took the parcel, but escaped the Police. He then had the impudence to write to Messrs. Coutts, that their clerks had played a trick in making up the parcel ; and he requested that the play might be played over again with real gold. On the second occasion, Mr. Carruthers fell into the trap; being captured by the Policemen. At Be w Street, the prisoner merely said In acted under the direction of another person.
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle copies the following from a notice that was put up at the General Post-office in St. Martin's-le- Grand on Monday- " The Postmaster-General having had the papers laid before him relating to the gross conspiracy which existed among the letter-carriers, Tapson Saunders, Long, Bell, Walker, Skinner, and Croskell, (who have been in the habit of opening the letters of sporting gentlemen,) his Lordship has been pleased to dismiss them the service."
A fire, which destroyed a great deal of property, broke out early on Saturday morning, in the premises of Hooper and Sons, tanners, at Ber- mondsey. The premises were completely consumed, and the surround- ing buildings greatly injured.
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