A meeting was held on tits' 11th instant, at Brown's
Hotel, Palace Yard, for the pureose of fdreling an honorary association to act in con- cert with the Irish South Australian Association recently formed in Dublin. Lord Clemetds was in the chair ; supported by Mr. Wyse, M.P., Cohn e'l 't'ers'e ;: (110 Reverent'. 11r. 1.a ng, awl Mr. Waymouth. Colonel Ttntrens being called upon by tilt, Chairmaa, explained the nature and objeet of Oh! 11.-1S11 South A lie-J.:lien A seociation.
On Thursday, 'Mr. Brunel appeared beforelbe Lord Mayor to make affidavit of the expenses incurred in the eon:true:ion of the Thames Tunnel within ecetsin periods. The Lord Mayor asked Mr. Brunel when lie expected to reach the Midlles•.,x shore S The engineer re- plied, that every datiger ;Intl ditlien!!y had been conquered, and that his men were hard at work within five Icct of low water-mark on the Middlesex side ; he expected in one we; lc to he quite clear, so that the undertaking might then be said to be perfected.
On Sunday, the American packet-ship President was towed into St. Katherine's Dock, haring oe bear I a stupendous elephant and two hyanas, consigned to iii. Van Amburgh. the brute-tamer. The ele- phant was formerly in the menagerie of the Tower of London. and was taken to New York about seven years back, where he has been taught to dance and balance a large pole on the end of his truck. Captain Chadwick, the commander of the President, stated that Bolivar, the elephent, had behaved exceedingly well on the coya D!, his keeper having had very little trouble with him.
The Reverend J. II. Fish has presented 1,0 et/ to the funds of the King's College 1E0st:ital. The wooden pavement at the Old Bailey has been thrown open as a public thoroughfare, ,and proved most effectually to answer the purpose of deadening the sound in the street. The greater part of the roadway had been open for some days, and heavy waggons and coaches had passed over without the slightest disarrangement of the blocks. The space laid down with the new pavement extends the {filmic of the frontage of the Criminal Court and court-yard which adjoin the wall of Newgate.
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