PA men or MARY-LE-BONE.—A meeting of the householders was held
on Monday evening; at which it was resolved to attempt to have the select vestry system overturned in Parliament. Mr. Hume, Mr. Hobhouse, and Sir Francis Burdett were present, and promised their assistance.
Tee Tu Asses Teesieh AGAIN.—A deputation consisting of the Lord Mayor' Lord Ahhorp, Mr. Denison, M.P., Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Pallmer, M.P., Mr Rothschild, and Mr. Brunel, the engineer, waited upon the Duke of Wellington, on Tuesday, in order to have his sanction to an application to Parliament for a loan of 250,000/. In answer to a question by the Duke, it was stated, that the probable receipts of the tunnel would be about 22,000/. a year. The Duke said that he could not, without having documents before hint specifying the probable expense and the practicability of the undertaking, attempt to sanction any measure of the kind ; and he desired the necessary information should be transmitted to him as soon as possible.
The annual meeting of the proprietors of the tunnel was held on Wednesday, in the City of London Tavern ; Mr. John Smith, M.P., in the chair. From the report, it appeared that seventy-one thousand persons had visited the works since they were opened. The expenditure of the company was stated to he 176,476/. 18s. 9d.; the receipts in every way, 176,5094 Mr. Brunel expressed his perfect confidence of overcomine every difficulty when the work was resumed. Sir Edward Cudrington was elected a director in plaett of the late Dr. Wollaston.
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