On Wednesday, a considerable minibtr of Mr. But kingliam's friend"
held a meeting, at the Freemason's Tavern, to confider the roprialy ot ratismg a subscription for the purchase of an annuity for the joint lives of Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham, as a compensation for losses Mr. Buckingham bad suffered by the suppression of the Cal- cutta Journal, and his deportation from India. On the plat- form were Lord William Bentinck, who presided, Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Poulter, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Hindley, Mr. Curteis, Mr. Wyse, Sir Charles Forbes, Mr. Gas. kell, and Colonel Leicester Stanhope. Lord William Bentinck de- clined making any general remarks on the subject of Mr. Buckingham's claims ; but bore testimony to the feeling almost universal in Calcutta when he arrived there as Governor-General, that Mr. Buckingham's case was one of very great hardship and very great injustice. He was no particular friend or partisan of Mr. Buckingham, but he was a friend to justice; and he hoped that the public would do that justice, which bad been most improperly refused to Mr. Buckingham by the parties to whom he had naturally and as a matter of right applied.
Mr. Hume, Mr. Curteis, Mr. Trak, Mr. Poulter, Mr. O'Connell, • Mr. Hindley, and Sir Charles 'Forbes, all spoke in behalf of Mr. Buckingham's claims ; and a subscription was immediately commenced, which amounted to nearly 1000/.
A meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor on Monday, to set on foot a subscription for a monument to the memory of Cobbett ; Mr. O'Connell in the chair. About 60/. was subscribed in the room ; and Cobbett's bonds to Sir Francis Burdett were also produced. Mr. W. Cobbett contended that his late father was not indebted to Sir Francis.
The Marylebone Reformers had a public meeting on Tuesday, to petition against the Lyndhurst Bill. Lord Nugent and Mr. II. L. Bulwer were the principal speakers.
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