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A Court of Common Council was held on Tuesday, at which the following resolutions were passed.
Tho pet,ons to be sleeted to a corporate office be compelled to be free of the ci,y ; :ma that all persons uceup!mg premises therein, or carrying on say trade, busi• „Ion, shall be compelled to be tree; That the redemption fine for the free- le
i ■• 5/. exclusive of the stamp and fees ; and that a per:ion of the produce
of ti :,• . • i.,r aavnission to the freedom of the city by redemption, at the discretion of• a commi.:ev a mu Common Council, to he appointed for the purpose, be Paid in given h rupurli. ii, to such freemen as have been admitted upon payment the 251. tine during the last two years, provided they are still resident and carlyino on business within the city, and shall apply fur the sante nithin Wave mouths."
On Thursday, at another meeting of the Court, this resolution was modified so as not to be compulsory on mere residents, not traders in the City.
A half-yearly meeting of Bank of England proprietors was held on Thursday. A dividend of 4 per cent. for six months was declared ; to make up which, the Governor admitted that 111,0001. had been taken from the "rest." After some routine business had been gone through, the Governor stated, in reply to some questions by Mr. Young, that there was no doubt but that, during the last twelve months, a drain of gold had existed on the Bank coffers, settle!' the Direstors had endeavoured to stop by sales of securities, and contract- ing the circulation. The Banks of Issue bud, however, increased their issues as the Bank decreased them; and if things went on so, it would be almost impossible to go on without some regulation. A quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock was held at the India House on Wednesday ; when a petition to Par- liament, praying for an equalization of the duty on East mid West India sugars was agreed to. The Members of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick celebrated their fifty-second anniversary on Tuesday, by a dinner at the Freemason's Tavern. Lord Stanley was Chairman, with the Marquis of Londe): • derry on his right hand! The Marquis of Downshi:e, the Earls a Portarlington, Ripon, Kerry, and Clanwilliam, Messrs. Maurice Fitz- gerald, O'Connell, Spring Rice, Westenra, and Bish, were also present. A subscription of one hundred guineas from the King, and several other sums varying from 101. to .50/. were announced in the course of the evening. It was said that Earl Grey would be the next year's Pre- sident.
About 270 of the Lambeth Tories celebrated the return of Captain Alsager for East Surry, by dining together, on Wednesday, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. The only persons of any note in the company seem to have been Mr. Robert Scarlett, Captain Alsager himself, and Alderman Farebrotber.
The Polish exiles in London have formed amongst themselves a so- ciety of mutual instruction. One of its principal purposes is to open gratuitous lectures on the German and French languages for English children, whose parents are not able to pay the teachers of those lan- guage s. These lectures have already been given about eight months. Those on the French language have alone been attended : every boy has the gratuitous use of a grammar, and is instructed three times a sveek. '1 hose who have from the first attended are now going on ex- ceedingly well. The only conditions of admission are, that the pupils should be able to read and write the English language, and that they ;pledge themselves to diligence and good behaviour.
The building of a military chapel at the new barrack in the Bird- cage Walk, St. James's Park, is to be persevered in. A sum of 6,40a. is named for the purpose in the Ordnance Estimates just Kilned- " for the use of the troops quartered it London, and calculated to ac- commodate 1,500 persons."
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