ebe Stiletto di& At a Court of Common Council, held

yesterday, 4,000/. was votecT on the motion of Mr. Charles Pearson, for the purchase of a piece of ground without the city, for the interment of persons dying of Choler, and as a future general cemetery for the City. Mr. Pearson stated he the course of his speech, that the deaths from Cholera were rapid's diminishing in number. On Monday, many of the working classes of the metropolis, accont- ponied by the female branches of their families, met at the Copenhagen. Gardens, to celebrate, for the second time, the anniversary of the Frene'la- Revolution. The time appointed for the chair to be taken was three, it which hour the gardens were filled. On Thursday, upwards of one thousand of the inhabitants of St. John's Fulham, assembled to partake of a dinner in celebration of the passing of the Reform Bills. The tables were laid out in the grounds of Mr. Aldridge. Sir John Scott Lillie, Messrs. Lenthill, Fitzgerald, Halswell, and several other magistrates and gentlemen residing in tile neighbourhood, were present. Sir John presided. On Wednesday, a meeting of fruit and vegetable growers and venders; was held at the Rainbow Coffeehouse, Covent Garden, in consequen0 of the opinion that his prevailed,' hat the use of fruit and vegetables contributes to the propagation of cholera. Mr. Fitch, one of the speakers on the occasion, observed that " it was notorious that cholera -raged with the greatest virulence in ships, seaports, the North of Europe, and Russia, where fruit and vegetables were not used, or at least most scantilyused. Bad vegetables no doubt were unwholesome ; -so was bad bread, bad meat, or bad milk. He knew twenty gentlemen (of whom the Chairman was one, and he himself was another) who em- ployed upwards of 1,000 persons all of whom subsisted during the -season chiefly on vegetable diet, and they were the healthiest persons in the empire." We fear, notwithstanding, the fruit-growers will not succeed in arguing the public out of their opinions on the subject—for the plain reason, that they were not argued into them. There can be no doubt of the absurdity of many of the notions entertained respect- ing cholera; but as logic did not generate these notions, neither will logic put them down.

A meeting of the creditors of the late Duke of York was held on Thursday at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, for the purpose of adopting some measures for securing a due inquiry into the affairs of his Royal Highness. A Committee was zippointed to digest a plan for future proceedings, preparatory to calling a general meeting, at which the subject will be more fully discussed.

At the annual meeting of the Great Yarmouth Gas Company, yes- terday, a dividend was declared of 4 per cent., being a larger one than that of last year. The Directors stated, from the prospects of the concern, that a gradual increase in future dividends would, most pro- bably, take place. The proprietors, of course, expressed themselves well pleased.

A meeting of the hotel and tavern-keepers was held on Tuesday evening at the Burlington Hotel, for the purpose of raising a subscrip- tion, and uniting their exertions for the prevention of a gang of well- /dressed thieves, whose robberies at hotels, and other places, have been very extensive within the last few months.

It is in contemplation to form a railway from London to Dovor ; to - commence from Woolwich.

The back part of the Newton Hotel, in Orange Street, has been • pulled down, in order to its being rebuilt ; and on Monday a number of men, in the employ of Mr. Harrison the builder, were clearing away the rubbish and loading the carts with brickbats. At five o'clock, an

old woman was near the building gathering sticks, and was told by one -of the Irish labourers in the yard opposite to go home' which she re- fused, upon which he knocked her down. One of Mr. Harrison's men

came to her assistance, and a scuffle ensued, which was soon over. About a quarter of an hour after, the Irishman, with about twenty others returned, and commenced a regular attack on the small party of Mr. Harrison's men, about seven in number, who were at their work. . A man of the name of Larking was severely wounded on the temple ; . another named Harvey was thrown into the cellar below, about fourteen feet,—his eye was severely cut, and be was otherwise much bruised.

- One of the fellows had a large iron crow-bar raised, which must have hilted the man be was aiming at, but was stopped by one of Mr. Har- rison's men, Who wrested the bar from his grasp. _Another fellow at- tempted to sknock one of Mr. Harrison's men down with a pick-axe- -At this moment, when the greatest consternation prevailed, Captain Fitzroy ordered out the company under his command, and instantly each

• -end of Orange Street was occupied by his men with their bayonets fixed, and all escape of the assailants was cut off. Shortly after, a man who appeared the foremost in the affray was taken ; and immediately after, the police from St. Ann's watch-house, under Sergeant Ryder, -arrived, and three other men were taken into custody, and lodged in the strong room in St. Anti's watch-house. They were fined .5/. each. On Thursday afternoon, a severe thunderstorm passed over the . metropolis, which was accompanied with fatal consequences to two unfortunate individuals. About half past five o'clock, a waterman named Webb, of Kidney Stairs, Limehouse, was rowing Mr. Alli- son, of the Waterman's .Arms public-house, Limehouse Hole, up the river, they were overtaken by the storm nearly opposite Wapping New Stairs ; and, before they could .put ashore for shelter, a flash of lightning struck the boat and shattered it to pieces. The waterman • and his fare were knocked backwards at almost the same instant by the _shock. Several persons, who witnessed the accident, instantly put off, and succeeded in removing the two men into other wherries before the boat went down, and conveyed them to the Waterman's Arms public- house in High Street, Wapping. Mr. Allison was found to be . quite dead. The lightning appeared to have struck him on the head, and then passed down his body. The crown, and about nine inches of the body of his hat, were separated from the rest, as if cut with a knife, _and were much scorched. Webb, the waterman, lived for but a few . minutes after he was brought ashore. He was also burned about the body. Mr. Allison is said to have been holding an umbrella over his head at the time of the accident, and the point of the fertile is supposed to have attracted the lightning while the stick, covered with brass, acted as a conductor.

A party of four young men hired a pleasure-yacht last Saturday morning for an aquatic excursion, and proceeded down the river, in- tending to remain out three or four days. On Monday night they

• arrived off Blackan11, on their return to town. Two of the party went on shore for the night, and left the other two on board. They retired to rest at eleven o'clock, and soon fell into a profound sleep. About one _o'clock -one of the young men awoke, and missing his companion, called him repeatedly, and sought for him everywhere, but in vain: he aces nowhere to be found. It was conjectured that he arose in a state .. of somnolency, and going on deck, fell into the river and was drowned. The deceased was a remarkably fine young man, only twenty-four years

,of age. .

On Thursday afternoon, a young man, dressed in a very fashionable style, presented at the Bank of Messrs. Coutts and Co., a check for 200/., purporting to be drawn by Mr. J. T. Paxton, wine-merchant in the City. The cashier observed something in the writing that excited his

• suspicion, arid he handed it to one of the partners in the firm, for his _Inspection. Sir Edmund Antrobus, the -partner referred to, having ex- amined the.eleck, turned to the young man to ask him from whom lie Jobtained it; when he observed him in the act of drinking the contents

of a phial-bottle. Sir Edmund knocked the bottle out of the young man's hand, but neatly the whole of the contents (laudanum) had been swallowed. He was immediately taken to the Station-house in Co- vent Garden ; where, with much difficulty, he was induced to swallow an emetic, which soon ejected the poison from his stomach. From a card, found on his person, it appeared that his name was John Levien, and that he lived at Penton Place, Walworth. Mr. Thornas, the Superintendent, visited his parents at Walworth, the same night, and ascertained that they were highly respectable. The young man meant, it appears from letters found on hint, to quit the country for America if he succeeded in his attempt ; he is a clerk in the office of a stock- broker in the City.

A couple of fellows contrived on Thursday night to effect an entrance into the house of Mrs. Casamajor, in Manchester Square, and to col- lect together, with a view to removal, plate and other valuables to the amount of 3,0001. or 4,0001. Unfortunately for them, they were detected in the act of removing; and instead of carrying off the plunder, were themselves carried to the Station-house. They were yesterday fay committed.

A man named Kimbcr, journeyman to Mr. Edmonson, butcher in Walworth Road, was fully committed on Thursday, from Union Hall, on a charge of attempting to poison his master and mistress, by mixing oxalic acid in their coffee. He had been guilty of embezzlement ; and is supposed to have taken this method of revenging himself for the threatened consequences of his conduct.

About eleven o'clock yesterday, a middle-aged man, dressed as a brewer's servant, was suddenly seized with symptoms of cholera, while walking in the Kent Road, near the Elephant and Castle.

* Mr. Everitt, a coach-plate manufacturer in Long Acre, was thrown from his gig about one o'clock yesterday morning, at the corner of Essex Street ; and his head lighting on the curb-stone, he was killed On the spot.

A little after one o'clock. on Wednesday morning, a young woman, of genteel appearance, entered through the Sorry toll-gate of Waterloo Bridge. After walking to and fro on the bridge for some little time, she got over the parapet, and threw herself into the Thames, in the centre of the river.

On Wednesday morning, a policeman passing by the New River, at Islington, observed something floating on the water, and on dragging it out he discovered it to be a box containing the dead body of an infant.

A fire broke out last night, about 12 o'clock, in the house 105, Hol- born, close to the manufactory of Messrs. Day and Martin ; which at one period it seemed seriously to threaten. The house in which the fire broke out—a leather pipe and fire-bucket manufactory—was entirely consumed.

On Thursday, a lady named Ruddal, residing in Elmgrove .Terrace, Uxbridge Road, was thrown•from her horse in Park- Lane : her arm was broken, and she was otherwise very severely injured.