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REV. W. D. CONYBEARE'S LECTURES.
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AN ELMENTARY COURSE of THEO-
LOGICAL LECTURES, in Three Parts.
Part I.—On the Evidences of Religion, natural and revealed.
Part ll.—On the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible.
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THE MEDICAL ANNUAL ; or BRITISH
MEDICAL ALMANACK for 1839.

Edited by WILLIAM FARR.
Containing a History of the Medical Profession in England ;
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of the Army ; on the Statistics of Public Institutions ; on Prog-
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„,* A fen Copies remain of the preceding Years-1835, 1836,
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TWENTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, in one volume post Svo., elegantly bound, price
One Guinea; or royal Svo., India proofs, 21. 12a. 6d.,
CAUNTER'S and DANIELL'S ORIENTAL
ANNUAL, 1839.—EASTERN LEGENDS.
By the Rev. HOBART CAUNTER, B.D.
With Ttacnty-two Engravings, from Drawings by the late
WILLIAM DANIELL, Esq., R.A.
" It contains no fewer than twenty-two plates of Indian scenery,
architecture, and natural history, all after drawings by the truthful
and chaste pencil of the late William Daniell."—Metro. Mag,
" The engravings are executed in the highest style of the sit. "—.
Monthly Mag.
" Admirable engravings of admirable subjects.",
Magazine. _

'—New Aionthlll

The work is outwardly richly appointed, and embellishedwith_
in by engravings from twenty-two drawings, from the vast collec-
tion of the late 'W. Daniell, R. A.,
*executed, for the most part, in
the very best manner. " R.A.
Lieutenant Bacon skims the
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the bottom."—Oriental Herald.
~ Mr. Caunter excels in historical narrative, and the graphic
delineation of reality. • "' 4" Daniell, the best Oriental artist
we ever had."—Court Mag.
~ Tilt's Oriental Annual attained to its high and established cele,
gives
brity w a
title to thishen conducte"—Md and
onth suplypliedßevie by the very persons whose ;lame
.w.
"No artist has hitherto approached Daniell, in depleting Indian
scenery."—Sunday Times.
Whittaker and Ca,, Ave Maria-lane.
_ _ _

On Monday night an inquest was held at the George
the Fourth beer-shop, T-dounslow-heath, on the body of
Joseph Baylis, aged sixty years, who was killed by the fall-
ing in of a gravel-pit. Prom the evidence it appeared that
the deceased, who was formerly in the service of the Duke
of Northumberland as gravel-(1:- had
ger, latterly worktd a:
a jobber. On Thurowith oier n!e
digging gr,,.dtceased was
hen a portion
Net on the heath for the pari4u w .
was four;i
4 earth which had been undermined suddenly gave way
and overwhelmed him. On being extricated he
quite dead and dreadfully crushed. Ve rdict---': AAsHi-
deAtal Death."

[An unusual pressure in our columns has prevented the
earlier insertion of the following.]
SCHEME OF REFORM PREPARED BY THE COMMITTEE Or
MANAGEMRNT FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE ASSO-.
TION AT THEIR MEETING, THURSDAY EVENING (NOV. 29).
• 1. That, with a view to the attainment of the most ef-
feetive and least expensive system of local government, it
is the opinion of this Association that all Corporate Reform
should have for its object to place the election of the repre-
sentatives and governing officers of the citizens, and the
administration of their public funds, under the effectual
controul of the citizens.
2. That a unform right of voting should be established
for the election of the Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, Cham-
berlain or Treasurer, Common Councilmen, and Auditors
of this City.

3. That such right of voting should be enjoyed by all
persons who shall have been for a period of not less than
six months occupiers of houses, lands, tenements, or pre-
mises within the City, of the annual value of not less than
101., and who, by virtue of such occupancy, and during the
continuance of the same, shall be deemed to be free of the
City ; and that all fines and fees now payable on admission
to freedom and all exclusive li.hts of trading ought to ba
•
abolished.

4. That the boundaries of the several wards should be
altered, so as to make them as. nearly equal with respect
to the number of electors in each ward as may be prac-
ticable.

5. That the number of wards in the City should be
twelve, and that there should be elected for each ward one
Alderman and eight Common Councilmen.
6. That the Common. Councilmen should be elected
annually by the electors of each ward assembled in their
respective wardmotes.

7. That the Aldermen should be elected triennially by
the electors of each ward assembled in their respective
wardmotes.

8. That the Mayor, Sheriffs, Chamberlain or Treasurer,
and Auditors should be elected annually in the Common
Hall by all the electors there assembled, and without any
veto on the part of the Aldermen.

9. That the times for holding elections should be con-
solidated, and that there should be two days for nomination
and one day for election, viz., one day for the nomination of
Mayor, Sheriffs, Chamberiain or Treasurer, and Auditors,
in Common Hall ; and one other day for the nomination of
Aldermen, Common Councilmen, and other ward officers, in
the several wardmotes ; the former to take place a few days
before the latter ; and in the event of a poll being de-
manded in either Common Hall or wardmote elections, the
poll to be taken in each ward of the several electors therein
on the day following the wardmote nominations.
10, That the vigilance of the electors is sufficient to pre-
serve the respectability and character of their representa-
tives without requiring any pecuniary qualification, which
with bad men is illusory, and with good men unnecessary ;
and that every person qualified to vote in the choice of
Aldermen and Common Councilmen should be qualified to
be elected to those offices.
11. That every Alderman elected as before mentioned
should, on such his election, be deemed a fit and proper
person to receive her Majesty's commission to act as a jus-
tice of the peace of the City of London and liberties there-
of, and be nominated as such to her Majesty by the Court
of Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council
assembled. That that Court should also be authorised and
required from time to time to nominate so many other fit.
find proper persons, not exceeding twelve, as to such Court
should seem expedient, as being qualified to receive such
her Majesty's commission ; and that so many of the Alder-
men and other persons so nominated as to her Majesty
shall seem fit should therefore be assigned by her Majesty
to act as justices of the peace for the City and its liberties,
provided that every person so to be nominated and as-
signed be resident within the City of London, or within ten
miles thereof, during the time he shall act as such justice of
the peace.

12. That if the Court of Common Council before men-
tioned should think it requisite that a salaried police ma-
gistrate or magistrates should be appointed for the City
and its liberties, they should be authorised to nominate
such fit and proper person or persons for that office, and
to direct such salary or salaries to be paid to him or them
out of the corporate funds as to such Court shall seem ex-
pedient ; and that the person or persons so nominated
should thereupon, if her Majesty shall think fit, be ap-
pointed by her Majesty a police magistrate or magistrates,
and a justice or justices of the peace for the City and its
liberties, during her Majesty's pleasure. In all cases of a
vacancy in such office of police magistrate the same course
to be pursued with reference to any new appointment.
13. That the Mayor should be chosen from the Alderr.nett
of the City who have served the office of Sheriff.
14. That the Court of Mayor or Aldermen in 'Ate inner
chamber should be abolished, and its civil functions in the
election or admission of officers, or otherwise, transferred
to the Court of Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Com-
mon Council assembled, and that for the future the funds
and income of the City should be under the control and
expended only by the authority of such Court of Common
Council, as being the representatives of the citizens.
15. That the number of members required to be present
in order to constitute a Court of Common Council should
not he I,ss than ofthe whole Council ; that the Mayor,
if present, or in his absence such Alderman, or in the, ab-
sence of all the Aldermen, such Common Councilman as shall
be chosen by a majority of the members present, should pre-
side at such Court, and have a sacred or casting vote in all
cases of an equality of votes ; and that in case the Mayor
should at any time refuse to call a Court of Common Coun-
cil, after a requisition for that pulpose, signed by at least
five members of the Council, such Court should be called by
the five members signing the requisition.
16. That by two several charters in Parliament of the
Isth of Edward 111., and 7th of Richard 11., it Le granted
and confirmed to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty
of the City of London, that if any customs of the City shall
be harsh or defective, or any new emergencies arising
therein shall need amendment, for which no remedy had
been before provided, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com-
monalty may, as often as it shall seem to them expedient,
ordain and provide a remedy, according to good faith and
consonant to reason, for the common advantage of thet
citizens and the people resorting thither, provided that
such ordinances be useful to the King and his peor;te,
agreeable to good faith, and consonant to reason Eta afore-
said. That such legislative power was, with all the other
rights and privileges of the citizens of London, confirmed
by the statute of the 2d 'William and Mary, passed on the
completion of the revolution of 1688 ; that it has been
constantly exercised, and forms the foundation of many of
the moat useful andimportantordinances made by the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commonalty, from the earliest possession of
the power to the present time • that it bas also been esta-
blished by various decisions of the Courts of Law during the
same period ; and that in the opinion of this Association
such legislative power of remedying defects in the civic con-
stitution is essential to the maintenance of th a rights and
privileges of the citizens, and should, therefor% be preserved
unimpaired.
17. That the Commissioners of Sewr,rs, the Corporation
of the Irish Society, and all other Commissioners or Com-
mittees appointed by, or emanating from, the Court of
Common Council, under Acts of Parliament or otherwise,
should be under the direct control of, and amenable to,
that body.
18. That such further legal powers should be conferred
on the Court of Common Council as may be required to
enable that Court to abolish all useless offices and places,
and to consolidate such as it may be expedient so to deal
with.

19. That the right of addressing the Sovereign on the
throne, and all other the powers and privileges of the Court
of Common Council not hereby proposed to lie altered,
and not inconsistent with the principles here;.n-before de-
clared, should be continued to that body.
20. That the Court of Hustings, the Court o Mayor
and Aldermen in the outer chamber, and the two Sheriffs'
Court, should be consolidated into one Court, of which the
Recorder and one or more qualified persons, as may be ne-
cessary, shall be the judges ; and that all barristers and
attorneys practising in the superior Courts should be per-
mitted to practise in such newly-constituted Court.
That the Act of the Ic. 18, for regu- •
lating elections within the City, should sGhe;kl"bo repealed, and
such other Legislative measure applied forasmayebevre-
quired to carry into effect the preceding resolutions,
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It is understood that amendments will be suggested to
the following effect :-
1. That the number of Common Councilmen. Ishould be
nine in each ward
instead of eight. That the,' should be
elected triennially instead of annually, ono-third of them
arroually.
(bto.gmthaotsethloenAgeldsterinmeonffischeo)uglodinbge oduetr.
I,,ed every six years,
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one-half of them (being those longes in office) going out
every three years.
a. That salaried Police MagiP:trates should be appointed
for the City, without leaving any option in that respect to
the new Common Crjuncii.
4. That the
in adt.xelve Muistrates to be appointed as pro-
posed,
'.,
,ttion to the twelve Aldermen, should be se-
lected f*..-om the Common Council.
l'..OTE.—The two first amendments are in conformity
co the late Act for the improvement of the other corpora-
tions of England. The option referred to in the 3d is by
that Act given to the Town Councils, as in these resolu-
tions, but proposed by the amendment to be taken away.