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A Committee of the whole Court of Common Council assembled on Monday, to take into consideration the conduct of the Lord Mayor, in suddenly breaking up the last General Court, before any business could be transacted. Mr. Pritchard, who introduced the matter, said that "a slight glance at the proceedings of the last twelve or fifteen months must satisfy any impartial person, that the conduct of the Lord Mayor had its origin, not in any thing he had formed on an abstract or incidental point, but in a determination, systematically acted upon by him and his immediate predecessor, to use not only the legitimate but an usurped authority of the Mayoralty to delay, in the hope of thereby contributing to the ultimate defeat of the important reforms recommended by the Committee; and this from a feeling that those reforms were calculated to secure the constitutional privileges of the Court, and col b fur the future any attempt at unreasoning and despotic power on the part of the Lord Mayor."
Mr. Charles Pearson moved, that at the next General Court, Mr. Pritchard should bring forward the subject by a resolution that the Lord Mayor had violated the privileges of the Court of Common Council, and Mr. Pritchard read a motion to that effect, which the Committee approved of.
On Tuesday there was a special meeting of the Court, for the put.rm.! o' addressing the King on the change of Ministers. Resolutions approving of the dismissal of the Tories, and of extensive reforms, were moved by Mr. Wire. After a long discussion they were carried by a majority of 98 to 60. The principal speaker on the Tory side was Sir Peter Laurie ; who delivered a considerable quantity of abuse of Mr O'Connell, in very absurd language. Although the Court was summoned to address the King, it does not appear that any address was proposed.
A General Court was held on Thursday, at which Mr. Pritchard moved the resolution respecting the breach of privilege which bad been agreed to in Committee on Monday ; but the Lord Mayor refused to allow the subject to be discussed, and broke up the Court in great indignation. After .Lord Winchester's departure, Alderman Wood endeavoured to effect a compromise; but the angry Common Councilmen would not enter into any kind of accommodation.
The Marylebone Tories intend to invite Sir Robert Peel to a magnificent banquet next week. One hundred gentlemen have set their names down as stewards.
The British and Foreign Bible Society held their thirty-first an niversary meeting, at Exeter Hall, on Wednesday: The attendance was unusually numerous ; and the affairs of the Society were said to be very flourishing. The gross receipts of the year were stated at 107,9261. and the balance in hand at 23,6761. Lord Bexley was Chairman; Lord Teignmouth and the Bishops of Lichfield and Ohio were
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anew:tent have come to the determination to have the Green Park laid out and planted in a ,t; le to correspond with St. James' s Park. An entrance tor earriigs is t be made from Piccadilly, oppo site the Duke of Devonshir0s, to the grand entiance of the new Palace. Buckingham Palace will then be nearly surrounded by plan. rations.--Post.
A grand dinner is to be given on the 10th to the Earl of Chesterfield, at the Clarendon Hotel, by thirty of the most distinguished sportsmen who have hunted with his Lordship while he was Master of his Majesty's Staghounds. It is offered as a mark of the respect and esteem entertained for him by those who have witnessed the perfect style in which the noble lord filled the high situation so appropriately bestowed on him during the late Administration.—Standard. [What! are the Tories, the holy Tories, going to profane the Sabbath by a sporting dinner at a tavern The foundation of that splendid mansion on the north side of Cavendish Square, upon which Mr. Watson Taylor expended upwards of 100,000/. has given way in all directions ; it is now shored up. Lord Beresford bought it after the failure of the house of Mr. Taylor. It was formerly called " Amelia House" having been built in 1762 for the sister of George the Third.
The Duke of Bedford East Indiaman, a large ship of 700 tons register, from China, was hauled into the St. Eatharine's dock on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. She has brought home nearly 1000 tons of tea, consigned to merchants in London ; and although she has encountered some rough weather on the voyage, and lost one of her top-masts, she has made a very expeditious, and, in other respects, safe passage. The ship, as she came up the River in tow of a steamer, presented a very interesting spectacle. Her arrival had been looked for with much anxiety.
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