At a numerous meeting of the parishioners of Clerkenwell, on
Wed- nesday, a petition for the total repeal of the Corn-laws was adopted. At a numerous meeting of the parishioners of Clerkenwell, on Wed- nesday, a petition for the total repeal of the Corn-laws was adopted.
The coffee-house and eating-house keepers of the Metropolis assem- bled at Anderton's Hotel, on Monday, and adopted a petition to the inhabitants of Greenwich, on Thursday, adopted a petition to be heard at the liar of the House of Commons in favour of total abolition of the Corn-duty. The petition is to be presented bv Mr. Villiers ; letters having been received from Mr. Barnard and 111r. Attwood, Members for Greenwich, declaring themselves averse to alteration of the present system,—an announcement which was received with hisses. Captain Napier attended this meeting, and spoke with energy in favour of a free trade in grain.
Large quantities of potatoes have been shipped from Salcombe to London ; but the markets in the Metropolis are so glutted that a loss has bee!' submitted to by the Devonshire dealers of Is. per bag of two buslncl la,sides their expenses out of pocket ; the price they paid at King,,Ixidge being Is. more than they fetched in London.
five candidates for the vacant Coronership for the Western division of Mida =cx have announced themselves since the death of the late Mr. Stirling, four of whom are still in the field,—Mr. Harebell, (brother of the 1:11,1,a--Sherilf,) Mr. Ades-, Mr. Wakley, and Mr. J. Duncombe, (nephew of the Member for Finsbury). Messrs. Burehell, Adey, and Duman:dna are solicitors ; the two former are Conservatives, the latter is a Liberal. [Mr. Duncombe has since retired in Mr. Wakley's favour.] Mr. Peter Laurie, nephew of the Alderman, is to be one of the Tory candidates for Marylebone at the next election.
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