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A meeting of the Electors of Westminster is to be held at the British Coffeehouse on Monday evening, to petition the Lords to pass the Municipal Corporation Bill umnutilated. Colonel Evans takes the chair.
The East India Stock Proprietors voted, by 287 to .56, that copies of the proceedings relative to the cancelling of Lord Ileytcsbury'sappoint- 'Dent to the Governor-Generalship of India shall he laid before the Company; and accordingly, the papers were produced by the Chairman at a Court held on Wednesday. It will be recollected that Ministers Wined to lay these papers before the House of Commons. A discovery has been made in the parish of St. George, Southwark.; regarding the lists ofpersons qualified to vote. It appears that lagt year the assistance of the tax collectors was, either from caprice or some other motive, dispensed with; the consequence was, that the number qualified appeared to be immense. On the present occasion, the tax-collectors of the several districts have revised the lists, and struck off upwards of one-third.
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