Jun e 22,] 



IJdnoTonly were there a n umber of noble equestrians 

 mustered, but likewise many carriages of the nobility, 

 which rendered that crowded thoroughfare nearly impas- 

 sible. Shortly before 7 the carriages began to arrive, 

 , n d while the company were gathering, the band of the 

 Grenadier Guards (the Duke's Regiment), stationed in 

 the vestibule, performed a variety of martial music. The 

 Marquess of Anglesey, Lord Strafford, Lord Saltoun, &c, 

 on being recognised by 'he crowd, were warmly cheered. 

 Prince Albert arrived about half-past 7, and the com- 

 MBf soon afterwards sat down to dinner. The Duke of 

 Wellington was supported on the right by his Royal 

 Highness, and on the left by Prince Castelcicala, the 

 Neapolitan minister, who was an officer at Waterloo. 

 The Marquess of Anglesey sat on the right of Prince 

 Albert The Duke and Prince wore the full uniform of 

 field-marshals. The number of Waterloo officers present 

 was 66; including 3 generals, 6 lieut. -generals, 13 major- 

 generals, 35 colonels, and 9 Iieut.-colonels. 



City of London Wellington Statue. — On Tuesdav, 

 being the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this 

 itatue, placed in the open space between the New Royal 

 Exchange and the Mansion House, was thrown open to 

 the public. The King of Saxony was at breakfast with 

 the Lord Mayor at the Mansion Houses when Mr. Mas- 

 terman, M.P. for the city, and Sir Peter Laurie, uncere- 

 moniously appeared in the middle of the breakfast, as a 

 deputation from the Exchange and Gresham committee, 

 to notify that they were about to open the statue of the 

 Duke of Wellington, and to request his Majesty to 

 honour them by witnessing the ceremony. The King, 

 on hearing the Duke of Wellington's name, expressed 

 hit desire to be present on an occasion of doing honour 

 to his Grace, and proposed to the Lord Mayor and the 

 ladies and gentlemen at the table, to proceed immediately 

 to the spot. At this moment the streets of the neigh- 

 bourhood were not only densely crowded, but the win- 



THE NEWSPAPER, 



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a public assembly, as admission will be only granted 

 through a lady patroness. The surplus fund goes towards 

 the completion of the Scott monument at Edinburgh. 



Court of Aldermen.— flit name of Mr. Thomas John- 

 son, Alderman of Portsoken Ward, having appeared in 

 the Gazette in the list of bankrupts, the citizens expect 

 that his gown will be immediately resigned into the hands 

 of the constituency. Already the following gentlemen 

 have declared their intention to ofler themselves for the 

 office, in the event of the resignation of Alderman John- 

 son : — Mr. David Salomon. Mr. Sheritf Moon, Mr. 

 Pilcher (one of the late Sheriffs). Mr. Bishop, of America- 

 square, and Mr. Harvey, Commissioner of City Police. 



The Shrievalty.— Alderman Challis has applied to be 

 excused from serving the office of Sheriff for the ensuing 

 year ; and the application will no doubt be assented to, 

 as Alderman William Hunter has consented to serve the 

 office. His colleague is not yet decided on, but it is said 

 that the following gentlemen are desirous to serve, viz., 

 Mr. Barber, Wharfinger, the Master of the Drapers' 

 Company ; Mr. Caldicot, of Cheapside ; and Mr. Milne, 

 of Park-street, Grosvenor-square. 



Wood Pavement. — On Tuesday, at the Court of 

 Sewers, it was resolved, by the Chairman's casting vote, 

 to pave the south side of St. Paul's Churchyard and 

 Fleet-street with wood, on the principle adopted at the 

 west-end of Cheapside, and. to pave Ludgate-hill with 

 granite, on the plan of London and Blackfriar's Bridges. 



New Zealand Company. — An adjourned meeting 

 (eleven in number) of the Directors and Shareholders of 

 this Company was held on Friday. Mr. Aglionhy, M.P., 

 presided ; and said that under the charter ihey had been 

 called together on the 31st May last, but the Directors 

 recommended at that time, by reason of certain circum- 

 stances, that the meeting should be adjourned to that 

 morning. The recommendation was agreed to, and they 

 had met accordingly by adjournment. 



If it was sanc- 

 dows and tops of the houses in the adjoining parts of tioned by the meeting the Directors would advise a fur- 

 Cornhill, Mansion-house-street, the Poultry. King Wil- ther adjournment, in consequence of the reception from 



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liam-street, and Prince's-street, were occupied by multi- 

 tudes. The King walked arm in arm with the Lord 

 Mayor, followed by his Lordship's guests, through 

 masses of people from the gates of the Mansion-house to 

 the entrance to the space assigned for the chairman and 

 committee, and was most warmly received. The band 

 struck up the National Anthem as the King of Saxony 

 entered the space before the statue, and the committee 

 received his Majesty with acclamations. The King 

 appeared to be surprised at the scene, and declared 

 that he never beheld such an extraordinary 

 multitude. The committee walked twice round the 

 statue, the covering of which was removed instanta- 

 neously amidst cheers from all around. Mr. R. L. 

 Jones then made a long speech on the claims of the 

 Duke of Wellington on the gratitude of the city, and at 

 its close, three cheers were given for the Duke, the King 

 of baxony pulling off his hat, and joining as heartily in 



ti? C , he . enn S as any one in the assembled multitude, 

 ine daily papers agree in stating that some strange mis- 

 management seemed to prevail amongst those who had 

 undertaken the inauguration of the statue. The whole 

 "air appeared to be in confusion, and the intrusion of a 

 aeputation into the Mansion-house to request without 

 oeiay the presence of the King and the Lord Mayor, at 

 we moment they were partaking of the repast provided 



n ^ ord * h, P» was a s uncourteous as it was ill-timed. 

 Veath of Mr. ■ Thomas Campbell, the Poet. — We 



wh^h ? 1 i eC °/ d the dealh of this distinguished poet, 

 inst \t° i? e at Boulo S ne on Saturday last, the 15th 

 in hi *Y'u pbe11 was a native of Glasgow, and was 

 Hon7» a yCar ' As lhe author of the M Measures of 

 immnrf va th ° Se 8 P iri t-stirring lyrics in which he has 

 our n i 0mc of the most brilliant achievements of 



wlietti »? r"^' Mr ' Campbell's fame is known 

 nothinVnfS?- , gli8h lan * ua & e is spoken. There is 

 eoual tn X .! ! n nd inthe whole ran S e of our literature 

 Eoalanrf" j ttIe of the Baltic," " Ye Mariners of 

 that Mr r \ Hohe nKnden," and Lord Byron's regret 



classes of h amp ? eU did not write more > is feIt bv a11 

 the first nn ♦ admirers - Mr. Campbell was confessedly 



corresnonH ° u time ' and we are 8 lad t0 find from a 

 minster anTi* between the Dean and Chapter of West- 



interred in p*!? 5, xec «ors, that his remains will be 



General P 8 ° rner ' in Westminster Abbey, 

 lotion rel Am °^ ?c<? '— The debate on Mr. Duneombe's 

 Post-officeh 6 a° the P ractice of opening letters at the 

 ^ el y to br 38 - rected attention to the subject, and is 

 public Th^Sr lfc St ^ more prominently before the 

 challeneea Mornin 9 Chronicle of Tuesday states, and 



^reteryshin^ 1 ^ ^ t0 the fact > that durin ° the 

 posted in T j *' 'reeling, the opening of letters 



from the r* r • ° n for the Continent, as well as those 

 Wa » carried ° Vlnces » Passing through the Foreign-office, 

 °f the same n t0 a 8 reat extent, and a correspondent 

 that there are^**- 8tatci that he knows to a certainty 

 v »dual who, i n D ° W m - the I>08t -o ffic e more than one indi- 

 been opened a j arr J' n & letters and packets which had 

 to the Inland offi re " sealed ia the " Espionage-office," 

 Packets stickin * havc found the war on letters and 

 Efficient tim*. ! their hands > from its not having had 

 then situated nn ?u CooL The " Espionage-office " was 

 lnd is now n»li south-west corner of the Post-office, 



n * wJESL Tn a * the Mone y Order-office. 

 f^^Platinn s a J.7~ X & rand f ancy dress ball is in 

 WaJ ter ScoS I W , hlCh *" leadin < characters of Sir 

 "Kuure, ha T . K , ? re *? be sustained. It is said that 

 V th ^concarr? Uk , en iX the duchess of Buccleuch, 

 ^«t,' tin n H C "™ c » of rt e Queen, to promote with her 



U * ^sertei Im n « f P" 1 "* U P of this/e/,. The ball, 



*** witt partake more of a private meeting than 



the colony within two days of despatches which they 

 have not yet prepared to lay before the meeting, as they 

 had not had sufficient time to make a perspicuous digest 

 of them. All he could say at present was that a portion 

 of these despatches were very satisfactory, and another 

 not quite so much so as regarded the affairs of the colony. 

 It was then resolved, •' That the meeting should be fur- 

 ther adjourned to Friday, the 2Sth inst." 



Sale of Mr. B. II. Bright 1 s Manuscripts. — This valu- 

 able collection was sold on Tuesday at Sotherby's Rooms, 

 and, almost without exception, the lots brought enormous 

 prices. Independently of others, there were two grand 

 prize* — the "Illuminated Psalter" and the "York 

 Miracle-plays." The first sold for 225/., and the last for 

 305/. The Psalter was very beautiful as a work of art of 

 an early period ; but the collection of Miracle-plays was 

 most precious as a literary curiosity ; it is a complete j 

 series of dramatised stories from the Old and New Tes- 

 taments. The British Museum bid 300/. for it, but 

 would not exceed that sum. It secured, however, a lot 

 called M Treasury," for 30/., which consists of copies of all 

 the Privy Seals, &c, issued between October 1G11 and the 

 same month in 1614, and which originally came from Sir 

 Julius Caesar's collection. The Museum also purchased 

 an original MS. of Sir P. Sydney's " Astrophel and 

 Stella," partly in the hand- writing of the author, his 

 sister, and Samuel Daniel, the poet, together with some 

 other articles of great interest. The MS. of Chaucer's 

 *' Canterbury Tales" was bought by Lord Ashburnham 

 for 70/., and it was understood in the room that Sir T. 

 Phillips was a buyer to a considerable amount. 



Walbrook Church. — Such is the dilapidated state of 

 the church of St. Stephen, Walbrook, the master-piece 

 of Sir C. Wren, that the large front window fell into the 

 street, frame and all, last week. Fortunately no person 

 was passing at the time. The circumstance has naturally 

 caused a sensation in the parish. The parish surveyor 

 has reported that the church is in extreme danger, and it 

 will of course remain closed for the present. 



Greenwich Park. — During the past week Greenwich 

 and the neighbourhood of Blackheath have been the scene 

 of great excitement, in consequence of the erection of a 

 reservoir in the park being commenced by order of the 

 Commissioners of Woods and Forests, for the purpose of 

 suppressing any fire which may break out in Deptford 

 Dockyard, or at the Hospital. It is to be oval-shaped, 

 eighty yards wide, twelve feet deep, and surrounded by 

 a mound twenty feet wide at the base, and six feet high, 

 to be formed of the shingle dug out from the foundation. 

 The spot selected is on the high ground near Croom's- 

 hill, the finest part of the park. Another source of 

 annoyance to the inhabitants is the building two villas on 

 the other side of the park, near C room's- hill, for two 

 Commissioners of the Hospital. On Friday night a 

 crowded meeting of the inhabitants took place, which was 

 presided over by the rector, the Rev. W. F. Soames, for 

 the purpose of taking into consideration the best means 

 to prevent the encroachments upon the park. The 

 meeting was addressed by Mr. Angerstein, late M.P. for 

 the borough, and several other gentlemen. The rector 

 stated that in addition to the objections mentioned above, 

 there were in the upper part of the park several valuable 

 and ancient barrows ; indeed, so valuable were they con- 

 sidered, that an attempt had been made to shield them 

 from destruction by the members of the Archaiological 

 Society, who had stepped forward to preserve the bar- 

 rows, admitted to be upwards of 1000 years old, all of 

 which would be swept away by the construction of the 

 reservoir. Resolutions expressive of their determination 

 to resist the encroachments were carried, and it was 

 agreed, without a dissentient voice, that a petition should 





oe prepared and presented to Parliament forthwith, to 

 stay the encroachments. This petition was presented on 

 Monday by Mr. Hawes, and in reply to his questions on 

 the subject, the Earl of Lincoln said he hnd great plea- 

 sure in assuring him that the anxiety of the petitioners 

 was not justified by any application to or conduct of the 

 Commissioners of Woods and Forests. There was no 

 intention on the part of the Commissioners to build 

 houses within the park. The fact wa«, that there was a 

 strip of land adjoining the park which belonged to 

 Greenwich Hospital, and some arrangements respecting 

 increased accommodation for the establishment in 

 Greenwich being in contemplation, the authorities 

 sought to exchange that piece of land for an equivalent 

 slip within the park, to be used for a garden. He had. 

 however, informed the authorities that their plan was 

 objectionable, and it had been taken back for revision. 

 It had never been in contemplation to erect buildings 

 in the park, and there was no foundation for the report. 



East India Company. — The Quarterly General Court 

 of this Company was held on Wednesday. The business 

 was chiefly of a routine character, the motions on the 

 support of Juggernaut, on the question of appeals from 

 India, on the loan in Scinde, and on the employment of 

 natives in situations of trust being all withdrawn. Before 

 the Court adjourned, several proprietors expressed their 

 approbation of the Directors in recalling Lord Ellen- 

 borough, and their continued confidence in their manage- 

 ment of the Company's affairs. 



Anli-Corn-Ltne League. — The meeting of the League 

 took place on Wednesday, in Covent Garden Theatre, 

 and possessed more than usual interest, in consequence 

 of the recent decision on the sugar duties, the differ- 

 ence which took place on that question amongst the free- 

 trade members, and the circumstance that Sir Robert 

 Peel's proposition and retention of office were carried by 

 the more immediate votes of the League members. Mr. 

 G. Wilson, the Chairman of the League, presided. Mr. 

 Cobden first addressed the meeting, and said that he and 

 the other ten members who supported him, voted with 

 Government on the ground of free trade, whereas the 

 Liberal party generally voted on party erounds, for the 

 purpose of turning out Sir R. Peel. The meeting was 

 then addressed by t'ue Rev. Mr. Spencer, of Somerset- 

 shire, and Mr. W. J. Fox. The chairman said that as 

 next week Mr. Villiers's motion would come on, the 

 League would not meet till that night fortnight. 



The Statue of Lord Byron — The statement of the 

 Morning Chronicle, which was noticed in this paper a 

 fortnight since, relative to the disappearance of Thor- 

 waldsen's statue of Byron, is contradicted. It appears 

 that it never was in the warehouses belonging to the 

 Custom House, but in the warehouses of the London 

 Docks, and that the customs' duties were regularly paid 

 on the first arrival of the statue by Thorwaldsen himself, 

 who intended to present the statue to Westminster 

 Abbey. In consequence of the report alluded to, the 

 Board of Customs have instituted an inquiry into the 

 affair, and the result has been the discovery of the statue 

 in the London Docks, in a state of perfect preservation, 

 the case never having been disturbed since it first came 

 over. The most curious part of the story is the state- 

 ment, that the executors were not aware that the statue 

 was ever placed in the London Docks. 



Mortality of the Mrtropolis.— -The following is the 

 number of Deaths registered in the week ending June 15. 

 —West Districts, 131; Northern, 168; Central, 150; 

 Eastern, 174; Southern, 282; Total, 855. Weekly 

 average for the last five years, 94G. 



^3tobincial Neto« 



Birmingham. — On Monday a meeting of the inhabit- 

 ants of this town was held, the mayor presiding, for the 

 purpose of addressing the Crown and adopting other 

 measures, in consequence of the imprisonment of Mr. 

 O'Connell. Mr. Joseph Sturge moved the adoption of 

 a protest in the form of a series of resolutions, which 

 was agreed to ; and a memorial to the Queen, founded 

 upon the protest, was unanimously carried. Another 

 resolution was adopted, approving of the suggestion to 

 set on foot a subscription to pay the fines of Mr. O'Con- 

 nell and his colleagues. Similar meetings have been 

 held at Leicester, Edinburgh, and other places. 



Bristol. A curious dispute has arisen between the 



Peninsular Company and the Greet Western Steam Com- 

 pany. The former, it appears, purchased the steam ship 

 Great Western for 32,000/., the owners undertaking to 

 do whatever the Admiralty surveyors might deem neces- 

 sary to qualify the vessel for the mail service. Some 

 delay having taken place, the owners considered the con- 

 tract at an end, and took on themselves to withhold the 

 vessel, thus virtually cancelling the contract, and, with- 

 out notice to the Peninsular Company, advertised her 

 departure for New York. The Peninsular Company 

 feeling that the delay was not to be laid to their account, 

 but to that of the Admiralty, and not disposed to yield 

 to this summary extinguishment of what was considered 

 a desirable purchase, an application was made to the 

 Court of Chancery to prohibit the vessel beiDg sent to 

 sea, and immediately granted. The other Company, 

 however, have since obtained a dissolution of the in- 

 junction, and the Great Western is to sail for New Yorir, 

 as originally announced. . .,„* 



Chelmsford.— At a meeting of the Essex Agricultural 

 Society, held on Monday, in this town, the Her. j. v, o* 

 in the chair, resolutions were agreed ^ ^emnatory of 

 some of the details of Sir R. Peel's Bank .Charter 

 Bill, and a petition to Parliament, founded *PO^»{ 

 was adopted by the meeting, with only two hands held 



up against it. w 



