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provided that the issue of new bonds should be limited to 
the amount of the old bonds and the arrears of interest ; 
that it was not intended that the bondholders or the public 
should be made acquainted with the surreptitious issue, 
by which from 800,0007, to 900,000. were added to the 
debt ; and that the agents had applied a portion of the 
funds set apart for the payment of the dividends for the 
purpose of paying their own commission. It appeared 
also that the Mexican Minister had condemned the con- 
duct of the agents, and had shown, by a public statement 
of the accounts, that there would have been sufficient, 
and 14,500/. to spare, if the creation of new bonds had 
been confined to the legitimate amount, after paying the 
October dividends in full. The meeting was very nume- 
rously attended, as the whole proceedings had attracted 
much attention for some time past, and resolutions were 
unanimously adopted, expressing dissatisfaction with the 
irregular conduct of the Mexican Government, and the 
surreptitious issue of stock. Strong disapprobation was 
expressed with the conduct of the London Agency, a 
desire made known that it should be placed in other hands, 
and a recommendation was finally passed that the bond- 
holders should cut off the April and October coupons, so 
as to make all their bonds saleable alike in the market. 
The City Election.—Numerous meetings of the friends 
of the two candidates, Mr. Baring and Mr. Pattison, have 
been held this week in different parts of the Metropolis. 
The proceedings and the speeches were of the usual cha- 
racter ; and both parties express themselves confident of 
success. On Thursday evening a meeting to assist the 
election of Mr. Pattison and promote the cause of free 
trade generally, was held in Covent-garden Theatre, under 
the auspices of the Anti-Corn-Law League. The Theatre 
was crowded in every part, and the doors were surrounded 
by numbers of persons who were unable to find room. 
Mr C. P. Villiers presided, and the meeting was addressed 
by Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and Mr. W. J. Fox. 
Election of Lord Mayor.—On Tuesday, a Common 
Hall was held to receive the {official announcement of the 
state of the poll. The Sheriffs reported that the choice 
of the Livery had fallen upon Ald. 'Magnay and the pre- 
sent Lord Mayor, when the Recorder announced that the 
Aldermen had selected Ald. Magnay, who was forthwith 
invested with the insignia of office. A vote of thanks 
was then given to the late Sheriffs and Lord Mayor for 
their conduct during their year of official duty. 
Launch of the Worcester Frigate.—This frigate, of 
50 guns, was launched at Deptford on Tuesday, in the 
presence of a great concourse of spectators. Miss Hill, 
daughter of Sir John Hill, the superintendant of the yard, 
performed the ceremony of naming, and the launch took 
place without any accident. The Worcester has been 
many years on the stocks, her keel having been laid down 
as far back as 1819. She was launched to make room for 
building a new war-steamer, to be called the Terrible. 
The Savoy Chapel.—This ancient chapel, the property 
of the Crown, and maintained by the revenues of the 
Duchy of Lancaster, is now undergoing a complete 
restoration at the expense of her Majesty. The architec- 
tural department has been intrusted to Mr. Sydney 
Smirke, who has restored a very beautiful aitar screen, 
originally designed by Sir Reginald Bray, in the time of 
Henry VII. The old carved roof, which consists partly 
of emblems of the Plantagenets in succession down to the 
dast of the Tudors, and partly of devices emblematic of 
our Saviour’s Passion, has been renovated and emblazoned 
under the superintendence of Mr. Willement. In addi- 
tion to these improvements, her Majesty has determined 
to add a new organ by Mr. Bishop. The works are all 
completed with the exception of a new stained window 
over the altar, which Mr. Willement has designed to har- 
monise with the architecture of the fabric. The Savoy 
Chapel is one of the historical buildings of the metropolis. 
Within its walls the Savoy Conference finally settled the 
Book of Common Prayer, the preface to the Liturgy was 
ewritten there, and it is said that there is an old authority 
tto show that in this chapel the Liturgy was firs¢ publicly 
wead. Here also, in days of yore, many of the Bishops 
were from time to time consecrated, and among them 
‘Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, by Archbishop Sharpe, 
in 1698. The chapel, according to Pennant, was restored 
and royally endowed by Henry VII., under his will, dated 
1508. This endowment is still kept up, the incumbent 
receiving an annual fee by Royal warrant. The chapel 
will be reopened on the 29th inst., before which it is 
expected her Majesty will make an inspection of the 
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St. Stephen’s, Walbrook.—Another stormy meeting of 
the parishioners and members of the select vestry of this 
parish took place on Friday, but without producing a more 
satisfactory result than the numerous preceding meetings. 
A long discussion ensued on the legality of the meeting, 
and Ald. Gibbs objected to its constitution. He said he was 
amenable only to the select vestry, and to them he was 
willing to render a statement, in order that the accounts 
‘ander his controul might be passed. He was willing to 
stand the fiat of their decision; and, having laid the 
accounts before them, they might post them at Charing- 
cross if they thought proper. He was prepared to render 
an account of his trust to the select vestry, who alone had 
the power to pass it. All he asked was that it might be 
done in a legal way. He was under certain responsibili- 
ties from which that meeting could not absolve him. 
There were many householders present who were not 
vestrymen, and others who were not householders, who 
could have no business there. When the accounts came 
before the parish they would be truly astonished. He 
did not acknowledge the legality of that meeting, and 
therefore he should not produce them. He was ready to 
conform to the, law, but it was too much for those who 
were loaded with responsibility to be goaded on by those 
who had none, to do an illegal act. He should be glad to 
quit office to-morrow, and he certainly would do so at 
Easter next. Another long discussion here arose, with- 
out arriving at any satisfactory conclusion, and at length, 
as neither party would give way, or agree to an adjourned 
meeting, it was settled that the select vestry and the 
parishioners should quit the church simultaneously, with- 
out any reference to their future proceedings. Another 
meeting took place on Thursday, but Ald. Gibbs did not 
attend. A parishioner, Mr. Flight, offered to advance, 
without interest, the requisite sum for the repairs of the 
church ; and after much desultory discussion the vestry 
adjourned to the 26th inst. 
The Parks.—The police have received orders to pre- 
vent the continuance of Sunday preaching in the parks. 
Not one of these preachers appeared in St. James’s-park 
on Sunday, except a person styled by himself on his cards 
“C. Acherley, Esq.,” who was busily employed dis- 
tributing puffs, printed on pink paper, of his ‘ asthmatic 
lamp, or air flame magnet to breath.’”’—According to the 
Police Reports in the daily papers, containing the state- 
ments of the keepers of Hyde-park, it appears there is an 
average number of 50 persons, of both sexes and all ages, 
who have no other shelter by night than what the trees 
and hollows in the embankments afford. The majority of 
them are young girls between the ages of 14 and 17, most 
of whom have been brought up from the country by the 
soldiers and abandoned. They may be found huddled 
together at night in the parks; and there are many men 
and girls whose faces are quite familiar to the park- 
keepers from the time they have thus existed. One poor 
man—a Spanish refugee—has been there for months; 
and, judging from his winter preparation of old matting 
and straw in a hollow part of one of the pits, he appears 
to contemplate passing many months more in the same 
locality. One reason why the park is so overrun with 
houseless persons is, that the police are taken off at 10 
o’clock, and do not come on duty till 8 next morning; 
and also because the duties of the park-keepers are limited 
principally to Kensington-gardens. 
Bishopsgate Ward Schools—On Wednesday morning 
a distribution was made of 5s. each to 30 boys who pro- 
duced specimens of fair writing, bestowed as an “‘ Old 
School-fellow’s Gift,’’ by the Hon. John Wells, formerly 
a boy of the ward school, and now Speaker of the House 
of Assembly in the island of Grenada. The money was 
distributed in the presence of the clergy, the treasurer 
and others, in compliance with the directions of Mr. 
Wells, who is now 65 years of age, and after expressing 
his thankfulness to God for his great goodness, declares 
that ‘‘he feels a pride in having worn the garb of green, 
and the star of his profession, the lackered badge of the 
school, on his breast, greater than if he had ancestors of 
noble blood,’’ and adds, ‘‘ let the master tell the boys how 
by honest industry they may acquire wealth, honour, 
and respect.” 
The Murder of Mr. Westwood.— It was lately 
announced by the daily papers that a convict recently sen- 
tenced had given important information respecting the mur- 
der of Mr. Westwood, and that a police jinspector had been 
entrusted with the prosecution of the affair. The Observer 
contradicts this rumour, and states that the murderer of 
Westwood escaped immediately to America, leaving his 
children to starve in his house, which was but a door or 
two distant from that of his victim. It also states as an 
extraordinary circumstance connected with the murderer 
after his arrival in America, that a young man who had 
emigrated to that country, and to whom the murderer was 
personally known, hunted him out, and threatened to 
arrest and take him back to England, unless he immedi- 
ately handed over to him half the watches and other pro- 
perty which were the fruits of the murder. ‘The murderer 
yielded to this demand, and gave up what was required. 
Fires.—The most serious fire which has occurred in 
London since the destruction of St. Olave’s church, broke 
out at two o’clock on Wednesday morning, in the densely 
inhabited neighbourhood of St. Martin’s-court, between 
St. Martin’s-lane and Leicester-square, and has not only 
proved destructive in its consequences, but has been at- 
tended with the loss of three lives. It broke out on the 
premises of Mr. Labram, a boot and shoe-maker, at a 
shop called the Noah’s Ark, and the alarm was no sooner 
given than the inmates discovered that the back and lower 
part of the premises were in flames, and that all escape, 
except by the windows or roof, was cut off. Mr. Labram 
and his family escaped at the windows, and by scrambling 
along the leads got in at the windows of the adjoining 
house, occupied by Mr. Batsford, comb-maker. In the 
upper part of the house were a Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, who, 
with their two children and brother-in-law, lodged on the 
second floor. As soon as they were made aware of their 
danger, Mr. Pollock and his brother-in-law got upon the 
roof, in order to ascertain the best means of effecting an 
escape with the wife and children, but in the meantime 
the fire had made such rapid progress that the bed-room 
was already enveloped in the flames, and they could not 
get back ; although they heard the screams of the mother 
and her children for assistance, which it was impessible for 
them even to attempt without sharing the same fate. 
Before the engines could arrive, the houses of Mr. King, 
hairdresser, on the same side of the court, of Mr. Aker- 
man, the confectioner, and of Mr. Dalton, the comb- 
maker, on the opposite side, had taken fire, and were 
burning with a rapidity which threatened the destruction 
of the whole court. The flames spread right across from 
one side to the other, forming one burning mass. It is 
stated that some of the persons who came to assist pre- 
air, caused the flames to extend through the premises with 
the greater rapidity. The fire had thus got such a hold 
upon the four houses, that when the engines arrived it 
was found useless to attempt anything beyond preventing 
the destraction of the surrounding houses. In this they 
succeeded, notwithstanding the closeness and crowded 
character of the neighbourhood. | In addition to the lives 
already lost, it is feared that a fourth death may follow ; 
as a little boy, the son of Mr. King, in attempting to get 
along the leads to the next house, rolled off upon the pave- 
ment, and is at present in Charing-cross Hospital in a 
dangerous state. Nothing is known as to the origin of 
the fire, although there is no doubt that it commenced in 
r, Labram’s house. Some of the neighbours state that 
they observed a smell of fire as early as seven o’clock in 
the evening ; and it istherefore probable that the fire had 
been smouldering for a long time before it burst out. 
Mortality of the Metropolis.—The number of deaths 
registered in the week ending Saturday, Sept. 30th, was as 
follows :—West Districts, 143; North Districts, 190; 
Central Districts, 184; East Districts, 270; South Di 
tricts, 256; Total, 1043 (males, 544; females, 499). 
Weekly average for the last five years, 903 (461 males, 442 
females) ; and for the last five summers, 846. 
¥Brobinctal Webs. 
Bolton.—On Friday night an attempt was made to set 
fire to the cotton-mill of Messrs. Ainsworth and Cromp- 
ton, in Little Bolton. It appears that the incendiaries had 
thrown a piece of burning cotton waste through the venti- 
ator of one of the lower windows, where it burnt away 
without doing any damage. On the previous day a quan- 
tity of cotton was lying at the place where the fire was 
thrown; but it had fortunately been removed before the 
mill was closed, and thus the intention of the parties was 
frustrated. There have been two or three attempts of the 
kind within a very short period. 
Carmarthen.—A special commission for the trial of the 
prisoners concerned in the recent outbreaks in South 
Wales has been forwarded from London this week. The 
commission nominates Baron Parke, Baron Gurney, and 
Mr. Justice Cresswell, as the judges. It has been consi- 
dered advisable that the trials of the rioters shall take 
place at a distance from the principal scene of the dis- 
turbances, and it is accordingly arranged to be held at 
Cardiff, in Glamorganshire. The day named for the first 
sitting of the commission is Saturday, the 21st inst.—On 
Friday two men, David and James Evans, were arrested 
and lodged in Carmarthen gaol, for having, on the 30th 
Sept., broken into the house of a farmer named Thomas, 
assaulting and demanding 40s. from him. Upon his in- 
formation the prisoners were arrested. Their associates 
were determined upon revenge; and at an early hour on 
Saturday morning the farm-house of Thomas, in the 
parish of Llanfiangel, Rhos-y-Cwm, was surrounded by 
hundreds of persons, set fire to, and burned to the 
ground. The infuriated mob encircled the house with 
guards, so as to prevent the approach of any one to extin- 
guish the fire. Whilst they so remained, they employed 
themselves in hooting and firing shots. There seems to 
be a general anticipation that the approaching hiring-time 
in November, when farm servants are changed, will lead 
to extensive information of the recent outrages being given. 
On Monday a meeting was held at Llechryd, about three 
miles from Cardigan, which was attended by 1200 persons, 
while from 800 to 1000 more were collected outside the 
building. An address to her Majesty was adopted, ex- 
pressive of the loyalty of the people, and their determina- 
tion to use their utmost power to preserve the peace in 
this part of her Majesty’s dominions. It was also re- 
solved that the weir which was so obnoxious to the people 
shall be removed. It is to be purchased from the pro- 
prietor, and early next year it was promised to the meet- 
ing by Mr. Lloyd Williams, on the part of the landholders, 
that all cause for complaint, as far as this grievance is 
concerned, should be put an end to. The result was very 
satisfactory, for the poor, who felt themselves injured by 
the weir, perceiving the inclination on the part of the 
ratify their wishes, insisted upon drawing home 
f ge Mr. Lloyd Williams, the chairman of the 
meeting, with Mr. Lloyd, the proprietor, and Mr. Gower, 
the lessee of the weir. 
erby.—A melancholy accident happened on Wednes- 
day evening to Sir Henry Wilmot, Bart., who was thrown 
from his horse on returning from the meeting of the 
South Derbyshire Agricultural Association at Swarke- 
stone, at which he had presided. The right collar-bona 
was fractured, and there is reason to believe that there is 
concussion of the brain. Sir Henry was conveyed to the 
King’s Head, Derby, where he still remains in great 
danger.» : 
#almouth.—The 11th annual exhibition of the Royal 
Cornwall Polytechnic Society commenced on the 3d, and 
continued for three days. Sir Charles Lemon presided at 
the meetings, and alluded to the success which had 
attended the recent introduction into Tresavean mine of 
the man machine for the descent and ascent of miners, 
towards the expense of which 5007. were given in aid by 
the Polytechnic Society, which first started the idea, and 
gave many prizes for various plans proposed prior to the 
one now in operation, which will shortly be constructed in 
many other mines, and particularly in the deep ones. The 
number of visitors attending the exhibition much exceeded 
that of any previous year. i " 
Frampton.—In the will of Miss Ann Wicks, Jate. of 
Cheltenham, the following legacies occur :—after desiring 
to be buried in the chancel of Frampton church, 500/. fora 
to be erected to her memory ; 1,000. for com- 
viously to the arrival of the firemen, inj 1 
out the panels of the doors, and, by admitting a current o 
munion plate for Frampton church 3 604 for a cloth for 
