Cbe Sitetropolio.
Several public meetings have been held in the Metropolis during the week, to pass resolutions and to petition the Legislature in favour of the
Municipal Bill ; but there is little in their proceedings that requires especial notice. The inhabitants of St. Paul's Covent Garden parish refused—very properly—to intrust their petition for presentation to the House of Commons to Sir Francis Burdett, their renegade Member, but resolved to place it in the hands of Mr. Hume.
tsf The will left by the late William Cobbett has not been proved in due course ; and a monition has been applied for and obtained in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, by Jesse Oldfield, a creditor of the deceased, in order to compel William Cobbett, the son and sole exe- cutor, to bring the will into that Court, and either to accept or renounce probate. This decree will be returnable on the 9th of September ; and unless cause can be shown to the contrary, letters of administration will be granted to Mr. Oldfield, the creditor, who will consequently be bound in sureties to administer the effects of Mr. Cobbett instead of his son, who has been appointed sole executor. The affair has excited some interest in Doctors' Commons.
At the Bow Street Office, on Tuesday, Mr. Barclay Watson, a solicitor, was held to bail in two sureties of 1001. each, and himself in 200/., to keep the peace, in consequence of having challenged Mr. War- ringer, a barrister on the Home Circuit, to fight a duel. The quarrel arose in consequence of some very severe remarks on Mr. Watson in his professional capacity, made by Mr. Warringer, when addressing the Jury at the Croydon Assizes. The matter was taken up by the bar- risters of the circuit, who were of opinion that it would be establishing a bad precedent if Mr. Warringer met the defendant ; and an appeal to a Magistrate was therefore determined upon.
An inquest was held on Monday, at Watford, on the bodies of nine men, killed by the falling in of the tunnel of the Birmingham and Lon- don Railway ; and the Jury found a verdict of to Accidental Death," levying a deodand of .51. on the bricks and timbers. They also stated, that in their opinion every possible care and attention had been used on the part of the Company, their agents, and superintendents, in the con- struction of the shafts and works which had been brought under their notice.
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