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Islands; and the former government 
has therefore firmly protested against 
it. As popular’ governments dare 
not compromise-public rights, we trust 
the flight of the ravenous Siberian 
Incidents in and near London. 
{June 4, 
eagle will be restrainedin this quarter 
of the world, where no Russian settle- 
ment ought to be tolerated on the Con- 
tinent, and where the Kurile Islands 
serve every legitimate purpose. 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS In anp neAR LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
— 
CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 
Atees the 30th.—In the Court of 
£% King’s Bench this day, Mr. Evans 
moved for a new trial in the cause of 
Redford v. Birley and others, but the 
application was refused by the court. 
May 2. Anumerous meeting of Bank 
proprietors took place this day. The 
proposition of the government for the ex- 
tension of the Bank Charter to 1844, but 
allowing the establishment of Banks with 
more than six partners for the issue of 
notes under 5/. in value within sixty-five 
miles of London, was assented to. 
— 6, St, Paul’s Cathedral first lighted 
with gas, to try the effect. ; 
—6, The Dukes of Bedford and 
Buckingham met in Kensington Gardens, 
in consequence of a challenge from the 
latter, for severe public reflections of the 
former at the Bedford county meeting; 
when, after an exchange of fires, the dis- 
pute was amicably adjusted. 
— 7. A meeting of merchants, bankers, 
and others, was held this day at the City of 
London Tavern, for the purpose of taking 
into consideration the present deplorable 
situation of the southern provinces of 
{reland.; Thomas Wilson, esq. m.P. in the 
chair. Mr. Reed moved, ‘That a sub- 
scription be now commenced,” which was 
earried unanimously, and has since been 
supported with munificent spirit, although 
it is notorious that the distresses in ques- 
tion .arise. entirely from. misgovernment, 
and nothing is yet heard of ameliorations. 
—7. The new splendid church at St. 
Pancras, consecrated by the Bishop of 
London, with the accustomed ceremonies, 
— 7. Mr. Alderman Lucas presented a 
petition to the Court of Aldermen, against 
the swearing inof Mr. Denman, as com- 
mon serjeant, founded on an obsolete bye 
law of the time of Elizabeth. After many 
severe animadversions on the petition, by 
several members of the court, Mr, Denman 
was sworn in and took his seat. 
— 9. An iron steam-boat exhibited on 
the Thames hetween London and Battersea 
bridges: she drew one foot water Jess than 
any steam-boat that has ever been built; 
was one hundred and six feet long, and 
seventeen broad, and was pranelea by a 
thirty-horse engine. She is to navigate 
between London and Paris, being the first 
instance of a direct water communication 
between the capitals of France and 
England. 
— 15, A numerous meeting was held at 
the City of London Tavern to take into 
consideration Mr. Owen's ‘‘ Plan for the 
Permanent Relief of the British Agricul- 
tural and Manufacturing Labourers, and 
the Irish Peasantry, from the niisery and 
distress by which they are now over- 
whelmed.” Several gentlemen were pre- 
sent, and it was stated that 45,0001. have 
been subscribed towards the erection of 
an establishment upon Mr. Owen’s plan 
in Scotland, and that the foundation of a 
square, of about the size of Lincoln’s Inn- 
fields, will shortly be laid out two miles 
from Lanark, 
— 16. In the House of Commons, Mr. 
Martin, of Galway, presented a petition _ 
from a number of respectable inhabitants 
of Camberwell, in support of the Bill now 
pending to prevent cruelty to animals, 
The Hon. Member detailed the conduct 
of the man who keeps a place in West- 
minster, where Jacco Macacco, a monkey, 
has exhibited his prowess; ‘ this unfortu- 
nate animal, (said Mr. M.) after having 
fought many pitched battles, was pitted 
against a dog of double its weight; Jacco, 
fought the dog for half an hour, and the 
battle terminated by the dog tearing away 
the whole of the monkey’s lower jaw, and 
the monkey’s ripping up the dog’s sto- 
mach. Both animals died in a few mi- 
nutes.” Even the carcase butchers of 
Whitechapel, aware of the atrocious cru- 
elties committed, have united in a peti- 
tion for a Bill to restrain the unfeeling 
practices of. mankind, 
— 18, The Marquis of Westmeath sen- 
tenced to three months’ imprisonment in 
the King’s Bench for challenging Mr. 
W oods to fight a duel. 
20, At the annual meeting of the Lite- 
rary Fund, a donation of Andrew Strahan, 
esq. of 10001. was announced, which, with 
other donations, swells the capital of this 
society to an amount which might be be- 
neficial to literature if directed with due 
practical knowledge of the feelings and 
circumstances of literary men in distress. 
— 20, The proprietors of the profligate 
John Bull newspaper were this day brought 
up for judgment for several libels on the 
late Queen. The sentence of the court 
was, “That Thomas Arrowsmith should 
pay a fine of 300/.; and that W. Shackell 
and J. Weaver should be imprisoned three 
months, and pay a fine of 1001. each, with 
securities,” 
— 25. 
