The Common Council assembled on Wednesday, and negatived a resolution
in favour of the Vote by Ballot, proposed by Mr. Heppell; the numbers being 31 for and 57 against the motion.
On Tuesday, Mr. Timothy Abraham Curtis was chosen Governor, and Sir John Rae Reid Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Enf land. The twenty-four Directors on the house list were also chosen.
At a meeting of the Court of Directors of the East India Com- pany, on Wednesday, Mr. John Andrew Dunlop was appointed provi- sionally a member of Council at Bombay.
The parishioners of St. Bride, assembled in Vestry on Monday, ap- proved of the union of parishes under the Poor-law, in which St. Bride's is included, by a vote of 110 to 100.
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states, that the cost of watching and lighting the Ward of Candlewick, containing only 150
bouses, with about 7.50 inhabitants, was in 1837, 622/. 48. 6d. He thinks that by the employment of two active policemen at moderate wages,. mearly the whole of this large sum might have been saved ; the cost of lighting having been only Si. 5s.—not paid to candlemakers in Candle- wick, but for gas. At a Vestry meeting of St. Pancras parish, held on Saturday, the property of the London and Birmingham Railway, within that parish, was valued at 200,0001.; of which the estimated rental was 12,0001. and the rateable value 10,8001. The Company had also about thirty acres of land, which was estimated at 501. per acre, and would make the gross rateable value 12,3001.
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