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The proceedings of the Court of Aldermen, held on Tuesday to elect a new Recorder, attracted a large attendance of curious citizens. The offer made to Mr. Stuart Wortley was somewhat unpopular, as he was sup- posed to be unconversant with the practice of criminal law and unversed in the customary law of the City of London ; and it had been hoped that for so handsome a salary the exclusive services of some gentleman having no Parliamentary engagements or ambitions would be secured. Soon after the Court met, Sir Peter Laurie moved, and notwithstanding persuasions and protests insisted, that the doors be closed. The citizens were accord- ingly excluded, and the election proceeded in close conclave. Mr. Ser- geant Merewether, the Town-Clerk, announced to the Court, that " con- sidering the circumstances which had lately transpired," [the offers to Sir Fitzroy Kelly and others, and the " arrangement" with Mr. Stuart Wortley, he was no longer a candidate. The candidates therefore were Mr.Wortley, Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C., City Commissioner, and Mr. Bul- lock, Common Sergeant. In the closed Court there was some ineffectual en- deavour made to reopen the doors—negatived by ten to seven. Alderman Farebrother then moved, and Sir Peter Laurie seconded, a resolution that the Right Honourable J. A. Stuart Wortley, Q.C. and M.P., be elected to the office of Recorder. Alderman Copeland and Alderman Humphery proposed Mr. Gurney. Sir Chapman Marshall, without a se- conder, proposed Mr. Bullock. Mr. Wortley obtained thirteen votes, Mr. Gurney four, Mr. Bullock one. Mr. Stuart Wortley was therefore elected Recorder of London.

The Court of Common Council, on Thursday, debated a motion to af- firm the following recommendation of the Library Committees, General and Select-

" That this Select Committee, having perused with attention the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Public Libraries recently printed, and perceiving how very far behind we are compared with the ma- jority of cities on the Continent in facilities for self-improvement, are of opinion, and recommend, that under proper regulations and restrictions the members of the Corporation should be allowed to take home books from the Guildhall Library. That in allowing this advantage to members of the Cor- poration, it be recommended that all works of reference, works in foreign languages, and illustrated and other costly works, and works that cannot be easily replaced, should be especially excepted."

The resolution was negatived without division. The Court agreed unanimously to the report of the Markets Committee, recommending the adoption of a plan of sanatory arrangements for draining, ventilating, and supplying water for the uses of Billingsgate Market, and for flushing the drains, at an expense not exceeding 18401.

The revision of the Parliamentary registration for the City of London was completed on Wednesday. The mode of statement by the daily journals is not clear, but it would seem that the Liberals made 43 suc- cessful claims and 613 successful objections; the Conservatives 24 suc- cessful claims and 624 successful objections. In the course of the mu- tual compliments with which the professional agents and the Revising Barrister concluded their business, it was stated that the lists have been prepared with an accuracy far beyond that shown by the Overseers and Vestry Clerks in former years, and that far fewer objections are now made by the political agents than formerly, thanks to Mr. M'Christie's energetic treatment of these sins.

We are requested to state on authority, that the only alterations con- templated in St. James's Park are those at present in actual progress of execution—namely, the enclosure of the fore-court of the Palace and the formation of an esplanade in the Park, in connexion with a slight change in the boundary-fence of the public garden on the one side and of the Green Park on the other. The railing to enclose the Palace now will extend about seventy feet in advance of the enclosure which subsisted previously to the erection of the new Eastern front of the building. A portion of the ground within the present wooden hoarding will be restored to the Park, inasmuch as two-thirds of the intended railing will occupy a line within the hoarding. As regards the fences which are now in pro- gress of removal, the formation of the intended esplanade will give to the public on one side of these fences the ground taken from the other. The arrangements within them (that is, in the garden and in the Green Park) will suffer no change whatever. It is not intended to fill up any portion of the water, or to form any ornamental garden in St. James's Park ; and the plan for the formation of such a garden never contemplated the exclusion of the public. —.7Yines.

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In China, too, English /Weirs de net prosier. The ,failure ati Watkins, Mr n,, Mr; Miley, and- ldr.,Pugh, were the speakers. Governor Bonham tomn,plaitte the Daft is ," azipia4114aWiLY " iii71, Mr. Nelson fear:t, mmen of business, thsfzemild now do nothing to

stop, the-workschet a cheek might be ut em future proceedings : the p Commissioners of Woods anitRorests had deceived' the Senate - so he gave notice of a motion calling on Parliament to require that the Commission- ers do "give their notices and put in their plans of alteration; in accord- ance with the standing rules of Parliament."

Several residents in the parish of St. Nicholas Glove have appeared at Guild- hall Police Office to answer summonses for poor-rates. The defendants ex- plained that they had not been able to pay because the rates were enormously heavy : one man rents a house and shop at 481. ; 12/. was demanded for a six-months rate, and 121. more will be imposed for the succeeding six months —half the rent. The Churchwardens stated how this excessive rating had arisen. A new union-house has been erected for the Cityparishes, at a cost of 60,0001. ; this sum was borrowed, to be repaid out of the rates in forty but were compelled by the law to summon them. Alderman Fining granted two months to pay the rates, and promised to extend the time if necessary.

An extraordinary robbery was committed in Aldersgate Street on Satur- day. Mr. Cureton, of the British Museum, the eminent Eastern scholar, lodges in the second-floor of the house 81 Aldersgate Street. On Saturday afternoon, three men, fashionably dressed, inquired in the lower part of the house for Mr. Cureton, and were directed to go up-stairs ; they did so, and in about a quarter of an hour descended, and left the place. A few minutes later, a Mrs. Wilson took some milk for Mr: Cureton's, tea, and on entering his room she found him extended on the floor, insensible, his face quite black, and blood flowing from a wound in his forehead. Seven hours elapsed before Mr. Cureton was restored to eonseiousness. He then intimated that he had been robbed. It seems that the three men pretended that they wished to purchase a crown-piece of William and Mary. Mr. Cureton showed them one. While two of the gang were inspecting it, the third stood by the• door—probably watching if any one ascended the stairs. Mr. Cureton turned to ask him to be seated ; at that instant an instrument was pressed round his throat, depriving him of all power ; and he was struck a violent blow over the right eye which made him fall senseless. Then, it appears, the villains ransacked the place ; carrying off a watch, a diamond pin, a box of cigars, and old coins worth from 3001. to 4001. as antiques but not so many shillings if melted down for silver. It is supposed that the vice in which Mr. Cureton's neck was grasped was formed of two "life-preservers" tied together at one end. A reward of 501. has been offered for the appre- hension of the criminals. Mr. Cureton was convalescent on Monday.

At Bow Street Police Office, on Saturday, Antonio Moltini was reexamined a charge of having in his possession forged notes of the Venetian-Lom- bardy Bank. Mr. Lee, the engraver employed by the prisoner, stated that Moltini pretended the notes were to be used as tickets by labourers on the Continent, in the mode of the truck-system, to get provisions before their wages were paid : but Mr. Lee ascertained the meaning of the Italian words on the notes, and thenceforward .proceeded to act in conjunction with the Police. Besides 3600 notes for 5 lire each, Moltini ordered a note for 60 lire to be copied, and 1000 copies to be printed. He was again remanded, as an Austrian witness is required to prove that the notes are fac-similes of those used in Lombardy.

At Marylebone Polk* Office, on Tuesday, Mr. Alexander Shiver junior, a draper of Cheltenham, was charged with having thrown a bottle from a train on the Great Western Railway, seriously wounding James Wise, a guard. As an express-train dashed past the Farringdon Road station, a glass bottle was cast from a window; Wise was standing on the platform,. and the bottle struck him on the head; he fell senselesa, the blood streaming from his forehead. The number of the carriage was noted ; at London an in- quiry was made of the passengers within ; and Mr. Shiver admitted that he threw the bottle out of the window, at the request of another passenger. Before the Magistrate, the accused said the affair was quite accidental ; for to the best of his belief he had not thrown the bottle away at a station. He was held to bail.

On Wednesday, the wounded man appeared, with his head strapped up. A surgeon's certificate stated that some weeks would elapse before the wound would be cured. The bottle seems to have been a pint porter-bottle. Mr. Shiver, through his solicitor, applied to be allowed to compromise the matter by making a money compensation to Wise. But Mr. Broughton said he could not consent to anything like a compromise, inasmuch as the offence was one of a nature in which the public generally are materially interested. He had given due and attentive consideration to the case in all bearings, and was of opinion that what had arisen could not be looked upon as an "accident," although he believed at the same time that there was no inten- tion of doing injury to any particular person. Eventually, he enlarged the recognizances for a week Mr. Shiver to attend the local Magistrates if they should sit in the mean time.

At Guildhall Police Office, on Monday, Dr. Little, of Finsbury Square, was charged with assaulting L'harles Day, the conductor of a Chelsea omni- bus. Day stated that one of his horses had a "jibbing fit" on Ludgate Hill, and there was a delay of five minutes. Dr. Little got out of the vehicle, re- fused to pay his fare, and struck Day in the face. Four respectable wit- nesses contradicted this. There was a delay of ten minutes ; the grossest. and most disgusting cruelty was employed to force the horse to proceed ; when Dr. Little got out of the vehicle, Day was violent, seized an eye-glass from the gentleman's neck, and dragged him to the Police-station. The charge was dismissed. Day was then glad to make a public apology to Dr. Little, to avoid legal proceedings against himself.

An insolent cabman has been punished by the Marlborough Street Magis- trate for wishing that Lady Middleton may break her neck. William Webb was hired by a maid-servant to take her and her luggage—two carpet-bags. and two boxes—from No. 2 toNo. 17 Mount Street, the residence of Viscount- ess Middleton. Of course the fare was 8d. ; but the modest driver demanded 2s. In consequence of the dispute in the hall, Lady Middleton left the drawingroom to see what was amiss ; when she learnt theparticulars, and that Webb had already been paid Is. 6d., she desired him to leave the house.

He went, but loudly expressed a hope that she, might break her neck the next cab she got into. Before the Magistrate, the fellow attempted to ex-

plain away his insolence. Mr. Hardwick sent him to prison for a fortnight.

At Lambeth Police Office, on Saturday, Alfred Batham, a notorious swell- mob man, and a young woman whose name is not published, were cha with attempting to pick pockets at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. A liceman saw Batham try several pockets ; the young woman was on his arm. The notable part of the case referred to the female: though Batham is a. precious metal, will increase the riches of the United States, years : but though the law allows money to be borrowed for building pur- ittoesilnot permit thisfor any other ;. 7000/. has been expended in fur- not so much absolutely in the au,,Tmentation of produce, as rela- P?seiPmust be pad has of the current rates of the. lively in the market of the world ; wealth will increase 1 • parishes. ;t. Nicholas gtovpeatyini8e88Z;v1enddefendants, h e n hence t the then begins the recess of degeneration : productive industry, high rates. The ChurchwarInsa poor parish, to o-

thief, she appears to belong to a very respectable family; Batham had been

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keessing company" with her for some time, but it is explained that his I real character was unknown to her and her friends. Mr. Elliott sent the =onto the House of- Correction for three months ; he discharged the sweet-' heatt,,hoping that the peril she had-been in would be a caution to her.

On-Monday; Eliza Jones alias Long and Esther Stone were finally exam- ined on charges of defrauding divers persons. These women appear- to have been offending for a long time. Their scheme was peculiar : they entered a shop, purchased a small article, and tendered a sovereign in payment ; when they had received the change, they chaffered about the price, and eventually declined- to take the goods ; the sovereign was-returned and the change giv.en- to the -shopkeeper ; then the women changed their minds; resolved to take-the articles, and got possession of them and the change, talking much, buying_ some other article, and confusing the tradesman as much as possible, so -that he should not perceive that he had not received the sovereign. In this way they frequently got off clear with sovereign, goods, and change A tradesman was thus defrauded about two years ago ; six months alter, the trick was tried again ; he threatened to send for the Police, and then the women pretended to pick up the sovereign from the floor, where-, they said, it must have accidentally fallen. They depended upon utterly confusing the shopman by talking, bating, and worrying him, so that he really should not

-whether he had got the sovereign or -not. They were committed for trial on four charges.

A Black has been committed to prison from the Mansionhouse for walking the streets at nights dressed as a woman. The impostor said he had escaped from slavery in America some time since, and he was destitute of means of He called himself "Eliza Scott," and his voice and looks were feminine.. He had been disguised for months.

The Corn Exchange has been further damaged in consequence of the fire in Mark Lane. An. immense wall fell down on Saturday ; had_ not precau- tions been taken to give it a direction from the Exchange, that structure might have been ruined by it ; as it was, part of the roof was destroyed, a large mass of brisk-work and timber falling into the area of the Exchange— fortunately, no one was near at the time. Another large wall threatened the building ; but workmen were immediately employed to pull it down, and the dower was thus averted. Temporary arrangements were made for carrying- ing-orothe. Monday market. The numerous firms who have suffered by this fire are insured in divers offices. to the extent of 115,9081. • the Plias= is liable for 23,0001., the Alliance for 20,0001., the Sun for 18;0004 and other companies forlees amounts,

Ramsay, a young man working in the formation of the Great Northern Railway, has perished by a fall of earth near the Maiden Lane Bridge. His companions saw.the descending mass and evaded it ; but Ramsay was over- whelmed. '•