A meeting of the proprietors of the University College, London,
was held ou Skiturday; when, after sotne discussion respecting the operation of the unrepealed portion of the Act of Uniformity, it was temnimottely (+greed to accept the lie .c charter offered by the Crown; anal thanks were voted to the King's Ministers for their services in obtaining it.
The City of London School was opened on Thuredey, by the Lord
.Mayor', attended by the Sheriffs tied other civic. authorities. Mr. Kelly addressed the assembly ckl' vii iers and boys, of whom there are about 400 ; kind informed thee-. that the fluid!: out of which the school was established were bequeathed by Mr. John Carpenter, the friend awl trustee of tile celebrated Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London." After the ceremony was completed, the School Committee and other gentlemen dined toetether, at the Loudon Coffeehouse.
On Thursday, a number of elergy:nen and Churchwardens, from seve- ral parishes in the City of London, assembled ut the hector Butler's Head Tavern, Coleman Street, and passed a long string of resolutiore against the introduction of the Poor-law into the City parikkhes. As a specimen of the spirit which actuated thev persons, we give all extract from the speech of a Mr. S‘auiders, Vestry Clerk of St. Martin's, Vintry- " Now was the thee for all pariebee to conic forward and express their opinions; fur if they ilid not, they would have to answer for the deaths of
many a worn out filiow-ereature, who lewd,' most decidedly he precipitated into their graves as sultry as they *nth of the fatal broth and gruel of the.
Poor-law Commissioners. lie was a Vestry-Clerk, but in an of sense he
was quite indifferent to the measure—he only spoke from a sense of duty as an Englishman and a Christian !"
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