LORD MAYOR'S DAY. —The King having expressed a wish that the
dinner at Guildhall should take place at an early hour, the Corn.
mittee have determined on four o'clock. The Lord Mayor's procession to Westminster will therefore take place in the morning, and the Civic cavalcade will afterwards meet the Royal procession at Temple Bar, and from thence proceed in state through the City, followed by the whole of the Royal Family, Great Officers of State, Foreign Ambassadors, &c. The citizens in the line of streets through which the Royal party will return, will illuminate their houses. In the mean time, preparations for the banquet are already commenced. The Council-chamber is undergoing a complete repair, and will, with the old Court of King's Bench, the Chamberlain's office, and the various other apartments, be elegantly fitted up. A new and permanent music-gallery is to be erected in the hall directly opposite to the old gallery over the grand entrance.
FUNDS OF THE COMPANY OF FISHMONCERS.—A correspondent has sent us the following account of a curious and novel scene which he
says occurred at the dinner of the Fishmonger's Company, on Wednes day. This Company, the government of which is mostly in the hands of Dissenters and soi-disant Liberals,—among whom are Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. R. Sharpe, Mr. John Towgood, Mr. William Smith, and others of the same stamp,—possesses immense wealth ; but as to the sources from whence it is derived, and the manner in which it is dis bursed, "the Livery" are as ignorant as they are of the affairs of the Khan of Tartary. Now and then the Livery are invited to meet their Sovereign and his Court at a sumptuous dinner, they having at their in troduction to the Company solemnly invested the Court with authority to make what arrangements it shall deem fit in the grave matter of gastronomy and invitation. The coasequence is, there are two lists of Liverymen—the patrician friends of the men in office, who are asked often; and the plebeian mass, who are invited seldom to the festal board. The Court choose themselves, and one another, without any the slightest interference of, or reference to, the Livery ; and the whole ma chine of government is as nicely a compacted "family union" as was ever the oligarchy of an Italian republic or the burgomastery of a Dutch province. On the occasion of a toast given by the Prime Warden on Wednesday, Dr. Bowring addressed the company on the subject of their total ignorance of the manner in which their affairs were conducted by the Court, and those highly important trusts discharged which were delegated to them ; that on no occasion had there, in his recollection, been any communication made respecting the incoming and outgoing of the revenues of the Company ; and that it was impossible, in days like these, to keep matters of such interest shrouded in impenetrable secresy. The Doctor was stopped by the Prime Warden, who declared that the festivity of the meeting ought not to be so interrupted, and required the speaker to desist; but as a very large proportion of the Livery insiste. •n his right to be heard, the Second Warden interfered to stop the discus sion, which interference only increased the hubbub, and the Court, alarmed at the gathering storm, and "fluttered like the Volscians in Corioli," hastily fled, headed by the Prime Warden, on which the com
pany voted Dr. Bowring, by acclamations, to the chair, and drank with enthusiasm the toast, "May the rights of the many never be successfully invaded by the few." Our correspondent expresses an opinion, that the matter will not be suffered to rest here.—Courier.
WESTMINSTER HosrtrAL.—A meeting of the Governors took place this week, to receive the report of the correspondence between the
Treasurer and the Woods and Forest Commissioners respecting the re moval of the hospital from its present site to Charing Cross. It was stated, that the new site would cost 800/. per annum, while the present
costs nothing. Of this 800/. however, the medical attendants have offered to pay 400/. so long as they hold their appointments ; and Dr. Guthrie stated, that were the hospital removed, the increased funds would amply compensate for the increased rent. The hospital at present does not, it seems, accommodate a sufficient number of patients to qualify it for a medical school; and only three operations have been performed in it for the last twelvemonths. Several of the Governors were, notwithstanding Dr. Guthrie's arguments, so averse from removing the Hospital, that they were for rejecting the report altogether ; and it was only by the casting vote of the Chairman that it was received, it being distinctly understood that its reception was a mere matter of form, and in no respect precluded the future discussion of the question of removal. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AT HACENEY:This edifice was formally opened on Saturday ; the Bishop of London and a number of reverend and lay gentlemen being present. In the evening, about one hundred of the promoters of the building dined in the Mermaid; Mr. Thomas Wilson, formerly member of the City, in the chair: NEW BREWED.IES.-.41 is said that no fewer than a -hundred and fifty new . establishments for brewing beer will be opened within ten 'miles of London in a few weeks. The great houses have .declared their
intention to brew ale as well as beer. The deduction, id consequence-of the removal of the duty, is rated at twelve shillings u barrel. Many publicans sell their beer at three-pence per quart, but a few still cling to the old Wes'. The 'brewers' deductions do not commence until the 10th.
PROJECTEDIMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY.—Ths danger and inconvenience arising from the crowding of the omnibrisses in Bartholomew Lane, Lothbury, Coleman Street, &c. are likely to hurry on the improvements intended in that affluent and busy neighbourhood. The following notice has been, within the last few days, stuck upon the Churches :—" Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for an Act for making, constructing, and maintaining an arcade or covered way for foot passengers, with all suitable and commoeious erections, works, and conveniences attacked thereto or connected therewith, which arcade is intended to commence at the south side of London Wall, in the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, in the City of London, and extending to or passing over, through, and into the said parish ; and also the several parishes of St. Margaret, Lothbury, and St. Bartholomew, by the Exchange ; St. Peter Le Poor and All Hallows, on London Wall ; to terminate at or near a place called the Bank Chambers, in Lothbury, at the north end of Bartholomew Lane ; and that it is also intended to obtain power, by the said Act, for authorizing the taking and purchasing of lands, tenements, buildings, and other property, within the said parishes, &c. &c." LORD JOHN RTJSSELT..—HiS Lordship has politely but firmly declined the assistance proffered him in the canvass for Southwark by the Dissenting interest.
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