On Thursday the Middlesex Magistrates elected Mr. Sergeant Adams their
Chairman, by a majority of 53 to 38 over Mr. Sergeant .Andrews.
The Board of Excise have issued an order for the dismissal of every Orangeman in the employment of the Excise.
It has been calculated that the duty paid to Government annually upon the omnibuses which run from the Bank to Paddington, by the New Road and Oxford Street, amounts to nearly 22,000/.
Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, protests against its being imagined that he has opposed Mr. Rayner's claim for a licence of the Strand Theatre from any personal or improper motives. Ile has sent a communication to the Times, to the effect that be has all along acted in compliance with the orders of his superiors. No doubt of it. But has not Mr. Mash misrepresented the case to Lord Conyngham and his predecessors? It will be impossible to persuade those who know how the Strand Theatre has been attended, and how respectably it has been conducted, that any sound or honest objection exists to its being licensed. In the Rolls Court, on Tuesday, it was decreed, that the Court of Common Pleas should be called upon to decide whether the London and Westminster Bank had the legal right to draw or accept bills of shorter date than six months,—a power which the Bank of England claims to possess exclusively (as regards other joint stock companies) within a certain distance from London.
A Coroner's inquest was held on Saturday, on the body of a child, belonging to St. James's parish, who was said to have died from star- vation and the neglect of the Parish-officers, who had sent it to the Norwood establishment for poor children belonging to the parish, managed by a Mr. Aubin. The Jury found a verdict- .• That the death of the deceased George Costar,was caused by a mesenteric disease of,. severe nature, produced by a scrofulous habit or body. Time this Jitry present, that no blame whatever attaches to Mr. M,tdii. the person at whose establishment the children or this parish have been put to nurse; on a hose part it has been proved that every attention has been manifested by him towards them. That, in the opinion of this Jury, the Governors of the Poor. in choosing Mr. A Olin's establishment. hose been actuattil by the best and purest motives, and have been fully justified by the corrobo- ration of the evidence adduced before the Jury."
Much interest was excited in regard to this investigation, as Mr. Pettigrew, a surgeon, had attacked the Parish-officers of St. James's, in the Morning Chronicle, on account of their alleged neglect of the pauper children committed to their charge. A good deal of party-spirit evinced during the inquest; and the terms: of the verdict savour of it also.
At the Bow Street Office, on Monday, a Mr. John Alldav was . charged with writing the subjoined letter to Sir Hussey Vivian, Master-General of the Ordnance.
" Sir—Twelve months and upwards have you been trifling with me and denying me justice and restitution. You may bend a stick to a certain point and it will return back again; but strain it beyond that and it breaks. So it is with the mind of MOO. 'he office of Ordnance, of which you are the ostensible head, has disreganted my claims, and would not institute an inquiry. Shakspeare says—
lie takes my house when he takes the prop That doth sustain my house. He takes my Life, when he doth take the means whereby I live.'
I assure you of my sacred determination to seek revenge even if it cost me my life.
" I am, Sir, with all respect, your obedient servant, JOHN ALI.DAY."
The prisoner expressed extreme regret for having written the letter, and offered every apology in his power. Sir Hussey Vivian said that he never saw Mr. Allday before ; that he had no hostile feeling to. wards him ; and he hoped Sir Frederick Roe would pass over the offence. Sir Frederick did not consider the apology sufficient for the offence ; but ultimately agreed to take Mr. Allday's personal recog- nizance in 500/. to keep the peace for a twelvemonth; and discharged him.
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