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London, England, 1831-04-28 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF ALDERMAN WOOD.

Yesterday, a very numerous meeting of the Livery of London, was
held at the City Tavern, Queen-sweet, for the purpose of adopting
measures to secure the re-election of Mr. Alderman Wood ; Mr. W.
Smith, in the Chair.
Mr. OLDHAM roe to move the first resolution, and eulogised in
strong terms the parliamentary conduct of Alr. Alderman Wood. No
gentleman had more seslourly served the &ions both in and out of par-
liament. (Cheers.) He should make perusal 'orifices in supporting the
4 reformers who were now to the field, and violas/this feelings, in not sup-
porting Mr. Ward ; he considered he sheuki be guilty of a dereliction of
principles, if he (Mr. Oldham) did not copal* Mr. Ward on the pre-
sent occasion. (Cheers.) He concluded by nurving a resolution decla-
ratory of the high sense entertained by the Livery of the conduct of
Alderman Wood in six Parliaments, as bbd stains Mend of the City
of London. and the opposes of all lavish expenditure of the public
money, and for the establishment of a full, fair, and free representation
of th: people. (Cheers )
Mr. boats accorded the resolution. Nearly ball a °situ* .he had
supported the worthy Alderman—be had ustelled him doecty, and had
farad him always a supporter of the imam* of the
The Resolution was put,And carried imostaly.
Mr. TAYLOR rose to propose the ' Rasolation, aed tied so with .
great pleasure, esptcially. as Alderman :Wood had consirently sup-
ported-Reform. He moved that, as Mr. Alderman Wood had been the
steady friend of Reform, he was deserving the support of the Livery.
The Resolution was seconded, and carded unanimously.
Mr. Alderman Twoare rose to propose a Resolution, that under the
circumstances which mark the present crisis the Meeting deeply felt
the nosusity of re:tuning four Members to Arkansan, pledged to vote
for the Reform Bill.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman THORPE rose to move a vote of thanks to the Chair•
man, who for so many years had been the strenuous supporter of civil
and religious liberty, and an advocate for reform.
Mr. TAYLOR seconded the motion, which was carried with accla-
mation.

Mr. W. Siam returned thanks, and said that if he could claim any
merit, it was that of consistency. He hoped the Livery would follow
up his exertions in the utter of Reform by acting unanimously in fa-
vour of the four candidates.
Mr. Alderman WOOD thanked the Livery for the mark of respect
paid to him. He should always be reedy to render his services to his
fellow-citisens. He did not however think it necessary to state his
principles. (Cheese.)
The meeting then adjourned.

BOW STREET—(Tan Das.)
'ln OUTRAGZ AT DACTAT-LANZ THEATIII.

Mews. R. Beesley, and Luke arealey,brothars, were put forward
ibis day before Sir R. Maxie charged with creating a disturbance
in the above Theatre last night. Amongst the performances
it had been announced that the anthem of " God save the King" would
be sung by the whole of the company. At the end of the second act,
the curtain drew up, and the performers came forward amidst the
loudest cheers. A cry of " Hats off l" resounded. and in a minute after
the attention of the performers was called towards the defendants,
Who eitt In the second tier of boxes, with their hats ou. The galleries
at length became uproarious, and a piece of outage was thrown at R.
Motley, who turned round, and most offensively dried the audience.
The performances of the anthem was stopped. Several gentlemen went
from the stage to the defendants, who had been noticed to hiss loudly,
and eventually the offenders were ousted, but not until they had
assaulted Mr. Broughton and others ; and the hat of Richard Beesley
was completely dattnyed.
Dr. Douches, Mr. &nughton, and other gentlemen belonging to the
Theatre, having proved the above facts,
Sir KUMASI) Beaman said, this was the first time unpopularity
bad been evinced by any one towards his Majesty, and the detendants
smut every substantial bell.
They were not provided with the required eureka, and were ordered
to be locked up.
Carrllli Or ANOTIMIL or TUC MOILDICIOULS tlr BZDTORD.
Bust.—This day Edward Gallagher was brought up sad charged by
Mr. Thome as a principal in the murder of James Ankeny, in
Bedford-Bury, as Sands prisoner is the brother of 'Thomas
Gallagher, before
A considerable a=of boys were brought up charged with break-
ing windows last night; but it not being rend that diey were active
in the outrages, they ware dbeherged, sr ordered te find ball.

The Duke of Cumberland gave a grand entertainment
yesterday to ber.Majesty. The dinner took place at an early
hour, in order that the Royal party should:be enabled to
attend the Concert of Ancient Music.

The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury entertained a
large party of fashionablea yesterday evening, at her house
in Arlington-street.
Dinners were given yesterday by the Dowager Mar-
chioness of Exeter, Mrs. E. Dawkins, Portman-square; Sir
George Staunton, Earl of Guilford, Earl of Rosebery, Earl
of Charlemont, &c.
The Rev. Paul Whittingham, Minor Canon of the Ca-
thedral Church of Norwich, has been presented to the Rec-
tory of Baddingham ; and the Rev. John Chevalier, M.D.
has also been presented to the Rectory of Cranford, both
In Norfolk.

On Friday week the Rev. H. Walpole Nevill, M.A. of
Magdalen College, was instituted to the Rectories of Bergh
Ampton, Norfolk, and Ottley, Suffolk, on the presentation
of the arl of Abergavenny.

Perhaps one of the most surnptuouous entertainments was
given on Tuesday last at his Grace the Lord chamberlain's
unique chateau at Chiswick, ever witnessed in this
country, consisting of every rare delicacy, including green
peas imported from Paris. The Queen, previously to the
banquet, promenaded through the extensive grounds in this
Garden of Eden. At half-past four, the breakfast took

place.
ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISE•SIS OF THE EAR.—
The anniversary dinner of this charity took place yesterday
at the Thatchedahonse Tavern ; Lord Bexley in the chair.
It appeared from the printed statement circulated among tl e
guests, that from 1816, the period of the establishment of thia
institution, to last year, the total number of patients admitted
was 8,782 ; of whom 3,780 were cured, and 2,097 reheat d.
The King and Queen, the Duke of Cumbeeand, and the
Duchess of Kent patronize the Royal Dispensary, and a long
list of noblemen and gentlemen of the first distinction are
among the viccepresitlents. After the usual series of loyal
toasts was gone through, that of " Prosperity to the Royal
Dispensary" was drunk with great applause. Messrs. Mears,
Healey, Ransford, and Morgan, treated the company with
a variety of songs and glees suited to the occasion, arid the
conviviality of the meeting was kept up till a late hour.
MURDER IN BEDFORDBURY.—Thomas Gallagher,
Edward Gallagher, Thomas Moran, and Bridget, hit wife,
were this day fully committed for the wilful murder of
James Dockemy, in Bedfordbury. The other prisoners
were discharged.
[We beg to recommend to the notice of Persona afilicted
with that dangerous and painful diseaste Hernia, the Trusses of Mr.
Cole's Manufactory, at 3, Charing-cross, Truss-maker to bis 31ajoity't
forces. From the numerous testimonials borne to the menet et Ho
simplidty of his Patent by the first Practitioners in Surgery, including
also ewer eases of actual cure, published by consent, in Cole's (layette,
it is gratifying to find that necessity—which is the mother of inten-
tion, should have compelled him to earn his Blechanieal gcniu',
whereby alone the molt effectual means are thus offered to re, tue tire
victims of this distressing malady from their sufferings.l

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The Kinn held a, ee yesterday, at his Palace in St. I
James's.
His MAJESTY entered the state-rooms about two o'clock,
and gave audiences to the Field Officer in waiting, and the
Colonel of the Guard, who made a report of the state of dm 1
three Regiments of Foot Guards. •
The hon. corps of Gentlemen Pensioners were stationed
in the Presence Chamber, under the command of Lieutenant
HINRICM and Mr. HAWCOCK, the Clerk of the Check.
At the the entre levee, Baron von OMPTEDA, the new
Hanoverian Minister, was introduced to the Kura by tbe
Lord in waiting.
M. le Duc de BRooLIE, Peer of France, and Monsieur
CASIMIR PERRIER, attache to the French Embassy, were
presented to the KtNG by the Prince de TALLEYAWD, Am-
bassador from the KING of the FRENCH.
The Earl of M u LORA V E had an audience of the KING,
and returned the ribband worn by his father, the late Earl,
as a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.
There were present at the entre levee, the Duke of Sue..
sex and Prince LzoroLD.
Also—The Russian, French, Austrian, and Netherlands
Ambassadors; the Spanish, Danish, Prussian, Sardinian,
Neapolitan, American, Bavarian, Wurtemberg, and Mexi-
can Ministers ; the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, the Lord
Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretaries
of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeo-
man Guard, the Master General of the Ordnance, the
Treasurer of the Household, the Master of the Buckhouitds,
the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, the Clerk
Marshal, the Master of the Ceremonies, Monsieur Bourke,
Secretary to the Danish Embassy, the Rev. Dr. Dakins, Prin-
cipal Chaplain to his Majesty's Forces, Mr. Ley, Clerk to
the House of Commons, and Mr. Justice Christie, from the
Mauritius.
At the general Levee were—
Dukes—Richmond, Portland.
Marquisses—Titchfirld, Downshire, Camden, Westmeath, Bland.
ford.
Earls—Harwood, Denbigh, Mulgrave, Talbot, Mount Edgecumbe,
Grosvenor, Cavan, Shrewsbury, Mayo, Sheffield, Radnor, Stradbroke,
Warwick.
Viscount—Allen.
Lords—Byron, J. O'Bryen Wynford, Yarborough, Andover, Dor-
mer, Stafford, Forester, Belhaven, Rendlesham, Bolton, Montagu, H.
de Walden, J. S. Churchill, Da;re, Begot, Garvagh, Gardner, F.
Beauclerk,tavensworth.
Honourable' Arthur Lasalle', General Alexander Duff, W.
Bathunt, W. White, the Champion Dymoke, John Ponsoaby, Field-
ing, Begot.
Sirs—Charles Ibbetsoc, George Nayler (Garter), R. Gardiner, C.
Grant, Hobert Listen, 0. Mosley, Sir G. Ouseley, J. Duckworth,
J. Fitzgerald, J. Mengel, W. Ogilvie, J. Oude, H. Parnell, Joshua
Meredith, Sandford Graham, George Pococke.
Baron—De Kutzleben.
Archdeacons—Hamilton, Berner., Lindsay.
Rev. Doctor—Dakins.
Rev. Messieurs—Augustus P. Clayton, Reginald Chandos Pole,
Grey Porter, J. Merewether, E. Bouverie, J. S. Grover, J. Hewlett,
P. W. Pettus, J. Briggs, Stopford.
Doctors—Baird, Dawson.
bleasieurs—W. Rae Wilson, of Kelvinbank, Lanarkshire. on having
presented his Book of Travels in the Holy Land, At. dedicated' by ape.
gig permission to his Majesty; Sebright, Ley, Dawkins Penitent, John
Round, Richard Gascoyne, Courtenay, Lawley, Justice Christie, Ed-
ward Stafford Jerningbarn' Walton, Browne, Hering, Micklethwaite,
Duckett, Samuel Hancock, George Bonaquet, Henry Heneage, West.
enacott, R. A. Dixon, Willimott, Robert B. Hale, J. Macdonald, Lys.
ky, H. Vansittart, Beamont, T. C. Brooksbank, Michael Jones, h. S.
Holford, Congreve, R. W. Brandling, Oswald Mosley, G. Mitchell, S.
Gilley, Martin, A. Thellusson, Pocock, C. Long, Smith Wright, D.
Griffith, Godsal, P. S. Pierrepootl Pettiward, G. Holford, Du Pre, C.
R. Pemberton Collingwood, Herbert Saunders, Dickson, F. C. Forde,
Musgrave, Brand,
Augustus Smith, William Rose, John Frost, F.S.A.
W. Courtenay, James Cocks, Chandos Leigh, Start, Marston, B. Bet.
field, Joseph Yorke, Cottin, Gordon, Clarke Jervoiae A. G. Campbell,
Bayly, Courtenay, Scott, A Kirkland, Walling Everard, Spec. Da-
niell, W. Maitland, C. Stapleton, Nugent, T. Heneage, W. L. Fox,
H. Pierrepont.
Admirals—Sir Charles Rowley, Sir Richard King, Sir Thomas
Livingstone, Hardyman, C. B. Fellowes, Sir Charles Hamilton, Rodd,
Stuart, Sir Robert Otway.
Generals—Hon. Duff, Sir John Keane, Sir Thomas Bradford,
Sir Thomas Dyer, Sir Colquhoun Grant, Salmon, Moore, Lloyd, Smith,
Clifton. Buller, Anderson, Chown; Hardwicke, Gardiner, O'Loghlin,
Brooke Chetwynd, Stapylton, Sir A. Bryce, Finch.
Colonels--Helap, Des Voeux, Lascelles Baker, Sir John Maces
Sir Charles Dance, Shee, Mayne, Purvis, Rolt, Greenwood, Lacy, Bush'
Sir Charles Broke Vere, Downman, Mills, Munn', J. M. F. Smith'
Badcock, Brooke, James Campbell, William Jordan Cameron, Mon.
teith, P. Hawker, T. S. St. Clair, Sir A. Dickson, Elphinstone, Jones,
Campbell, Scott.
blajon--Wrottesley, Johnstone, Butler, Crokat, Brackenbury, K.
T.S. Croasdaile, F. B. Head, Olivier, Newton, Paine, R. Macdonald,
Danse}, Hyde, Wyndham.
Commanders—P. Christie, M. Montague, C. Bentham, Marsh, G.
Feud, William Holt, D. Willoughby, Arthur Douglas, Delafosse,
Stopfurd, Alexander, (Jostling, S. Brisbane.
Captains—Cates, Frederick Nladon, Arden Adderley, R.N. Pinney,
James Fraser. William Rooke, C. Ramaden, Waller, Scott, Sir T.
Marion Wilson, James Montague, R.N George Pechell, R. N. Foy,
Pringle, Rainier, R.N. C.D. Grace, R.N. Falcon, R.N. Sir Nesbit
Willoughby, Mangin, R. N. T. A. Underwood, M•Donall, Barring.
ton R. N. Macpherson, Mackay, R. N. Boileau, James Hay, R. N.
Colville, land John Hay, It. N. 'suite, G. Walter Story, Henry
Jevopp, Sotheby, R. N. Edward Sparshott, Bentinek, Cuppage,R.N.
Saw bridge, C. Newport.
Lieutenants—J. W Aldridge, R.N. H. G. Hamilton, R.N. N.
Evans, R.N. Henry Cotgreave, D. Henderson, R.N. Tyler, R. B.
Burnaby, H. Deschamps, Jay, George Spong, R.N. Robinson.
Cornet—lt. C. Fullerton.
Ensigns—Elliot, 11. Darby, Giiffitb, Marie.
Addreases in favour of the reform bill were presented to
his Majesty from the following places :
By the Lord Chancellor—From the Graduates and Students of the
University of Glasgow; Inhabitants of Melrose, N. B; Freeholders,
Magistrates, Ac. of the County of Roxburgh, N. B ; Magistrates and
'town Council of the Burgh of Hawick, N. B ; Merchants, Traders,
de. of Stornaway, in the Island of Lewis, N, B ; Freeholders of the
County of Pembroke ; Inhabitants of the Parish of Arnold, in the
County of Nottingham ; Inhabitants of Preston, Lancashire ; Inhabi-
tants of the Parish of Wath.upon-Dearne, Yorkshire ; Freeholders and
Inhabitants of the Towns of Milford and Hakin, in Pembrokeshire;
Protestabt Dissenters of Finsbury Chapel, London.
By Earl Grey.-- From the working classes of Edinburgh; Hatters,
nuns, Manufacturers, and Householders of the parish of Eastwood,
in Renfrewshire ; Inhabitants of the city and liberty of Westminster;
Inbabinioti. of Hastings, thanking his Majesty for dissolving Pulls,
men% ; Inhabitant Householders of Stoke, and Penknall, Staffordshire
Potteries.
Lord Yarborough, from Glanford Briggs, Barton on Humber, and
Wint.non.
Mr. Lawley, from Warwick.
C.ptain Isacke, a loyal address from the Government and inhabitants
of the island of St. Helena.
After the Levee his Majesty held a Privy Council, at
which Earl Fortescue was re-sworn Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Devon.

The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe was re-sworn Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county of Cornwall.
Sir R. Liston and the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe were re-
sworn Members of his Majesty's Privy Council.
Sir Henry Parnell was sworn in a member of the
King's Privy Council, and took his seat at the Board
accordingly.
The Honourable William Bathurst attended as Clerk of
Lim Council.

The King gave audiences to Earl Grey, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Albemarle, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, Lords Hill and Byron, Viscounts Palmerston and
Melbourne.

The Earl of Denbigh and General Finch were the Lord'
awl Groom in waiting.
• 'King entertained at dinner, the Archbishops
;ork, Armagh, find Cashel; the Bishops of
Rochester, Chichester, and Landau ;

the Lord Chief Justice of England, Right Hon. Sir J.
Nicholl, Judge of the Arches Court; Earl Mount Edge-
Kenyon, and Farnborough ; Sirs
cumbe, Lords Wynford,
H. Halford, W. Fremantle. and F. Watson : and the ICiug's
Advocate.
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, gave a griod
dinner yesterday evening to the Queen. Her Majesty was
received by the Duke and Duchess, attended by Baron Lin-
Bingen, Sir C. Grant, and General Slade. The Queen was
attended by Earl and Countess Howe. There were present
to meet her Majesty the Duke and Duchess of Glocester,
the lAngravine of Hesse Homberg, and a select party of
nobility. After dinner the royal and noble party proceeded
to the concert of ancient music. The Duke of Cumberland
was director for the evening. _ .

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent entertained a
large and distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at tie
King's palace, Kensington.
The Duchess of Kent and Prince Leopold honoured the
King's Theatre with their presence on Tuesday evening, to
witness the debut of Signor Rubini in Bellini's opera of
Il Pirata.

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