Star.
London, England, 1825-01-21 00:00:00

THE PROPOSED QUAY.

Mr. Alderman WarrosiaN presented a Petition
from several Owners of Wharfs ou the North Bank of
the Thames, rerrobating the proposed improvement of
Colonel Trench, as depreciating materially the value
of their property. When the plan had been originally
proposed, doling his Mayoralty, he had carefully re-
frailied from expressing any opinion on the subject
then, as he entettained no doubt that the question
would be agitated in that Court. He would now ex-
press, as his opinion, that if the thing could be done
without seriously iojuting these persons' property, it
would lie a mo• t es eiitial improvement to the City lo
gent ral.—The Pr. ition w as then *Aeries' to the Thames
Navigation Committee.
ITALIAN AND SPANISH REFUGEES.
OLDITAM gave notice of a motion relative to the
sulocription that was going on for these unfortunate
eii:es. Ile thought it high time that the Corporation
should take some steps in the business.
bT. BRIDE'S, PLFET-STREET.
Mr. SLADE btolight np a Petition from several of the
inhabitants of Flet t-st t eta, ielative to the throw ing open
to the public the view of the Spire of St. Par-
liameot, in the time of Chat les H. had granted a duty
• on coals to meet the expenses of the necessat y improve-
ments in die City, hut that dot) hod long been appro-
priated to other I.m prises. The e-tonare of the present
improvement anoitrae:l to 7.010. of which I.ooo'. had
alteady been subscribed, and he tinged that the Corpo-
ration would nook their sense of the undettaking, by
furwai ding the subsctiotion.
Mi. Alderman WAITIIMAN would support this Pe-
t:tion, as he had uniformly done every °tie that he
thought likely to condoce to the improvement of the
metropolis, but he riuld not help cam essing his sor-
prise, that as Alderman of the Ward in which the
Church of St. 13t ides oas situated, no asp; lication had
been made to him thioughout the who:e affair. The
only notices that he had teceised even of the meetings,
mete &titer through the public prints, or else by the
common printed circulars that were distributed to every
inhabitant of the Ward. Float what this neglect arose,
he could not divine; be never had any quarrel with any
of the inhabitants, and he scarcely could believe that
any political consideration-could be the cause of such
conduct. Ile could not, however, for a moment doubt,
that it was intended as a pointed insult to himself. It
should not, however, pi event him from supporting the
viyer of the Petition.
The Lotto Nlayon said, that on the occasion of his
being requested to take the_ chair at the public meeting
that had been held on the business, he had obsei ved to
the I, • r sons who had proposed that honour to him,
whether it would not have been better to have applied
to the worthy Alder matt (Waithnto) for that purpose,
as the thing ar reared to him merely local? The an-
swer, however, teas, that the thing was considered as a
general impo.vement to the City at large, and on that
understanding hid consented to preside.
Mto Aide] in. WavritmaN wag glad his Lordship
had given that. explanation, not that he supposed the
iasrlt tit all tested with his Lordship; brit because he
gatherea from what his Lordship h :•aid, that the
affair had snuck him iii the o-me light as it had him-
self.—The Petitipo was than reforred to the Improve-
• went Committee.
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CAMIZT t.r IttliVENTs
llerrt was received from the General Purposes'
Committee, upon the duties and emoluments of the
Chief Clerk or the Court of Requests, and on the quuli-
,fications of the different Candidie.es, before the present
vaealier• is 2; filled up. -
\fir. JONES hoped, that in future the office would be
by a professional man.
Mr. Dom siroan hoe ed, that the Repot t would he sent
back to the Committee of General Purposes, to consider
the prowler,' of applying to Parliament foi lease to
etteiid the jiiiikl.ctirin Of the Court at Requests.
The Petition Was finally ordered to be bent back to
the Committee,
an_ :It - I-If4-.• Nest floor the Court adjourned.

Lltor FnnaEs, Eq. lately appointed a
T.ord or S,ssiott, in Fiinborgh, took the oaths, ar.d his stat on the
/leach, by the this: of Lord Meowvx.