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for and granted by the council, in order that certain steps
might be taken to comply with the standing order of the
House of Commons. Those steps did not, however, com-
mit the council to anything. The bill was not as Yet be-

fore the Dcck Committee, because it could not be drawn
up until the estimates and other information had first been

obtained. Those estimates were obtained yesterday, and
the recommendations of the sub-committee would come
before the general committee to-morrow.
Mr. AIKIN said it had been determined that the com-
mittee should go to Parliament for a bill for certain pur-

poses, those purposes being of a minor charact
instance, as the taking of angles off streets, and the wi-
dening of
approaches ;but there was not a hint given in the
committee about the making of docks in the centre of the
town. The first intimation many of the members bad of
that important step was learned from the public prints.
When:he noticed the fact in the Dock Committee, it was
then stated that they were authorised to go to parliament.
Certainly they were authorised to go for a certain purpose,
but they had gone for a totally different purpose ; and
they had done so not only without the sanction of the
council, but without the sanction of the committee. After
stating the case at some length, Mr. Aikin concluded by
saying, that it was for the Council to deal with the matter
as they thought best, either in the shape of a protest or a
censure.

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Mr. num said that Mr. Aikin had been told that the
whole of this proceeding would be laid before the Dock
Committee, and subsequently before the councils he ques-
tioned the good taste of the present discussion—a c
sion origina'

___ed, as he believed, for the purpose of over-
awing the independent proceedings of the Dock Commit-
tee. He contended that it would have been an exceed-
ingly imprudent thing for the Dock Committee to discuss
what land might or might not be wanted, as fictitious
sales and purchases might be made out of doors, under
the very doubtful circumstance as to whether the pro-
perty so disposed of would ever be required.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE complained that the Dock
Committee had taken possession of a piece of land near
the slate yards which was the property of the public, and
to which the committee had no claim whatever. It was a
wilful and gross attack upon the property of the council.
He knew of no aggression equal to it. If the committee
had done it openly, he would have been glad to have dealt
with them in a fair and candid manner; but, instead of
that, they went stealthily, and in the night, and put rail-
ings round it, without any communication or notice what-
ever to the Council. It was really a very serious matte'
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE observed that any discuse.
about the land at the slate-yards was irregulr

andimpro-

per, inasmuch as there was not a word on the subject in
the proceedings. But he was prepared to show that the
Dock Committee had some claim to the land—that they
had not only a right, but a good right to it also
Mr. EVANS moved a' resolution to the effec
notices to parliament having been given without the s
tion of the Council or the Dock Committee, were irregu-
lar and illegal.

hat the

The MAYOR said that, according to the opinion of the
Town-Clerk, this motion could not be. entertained, as it
referred to matters not recorded in the proceedings.
Mr. BRAMLBY-MOORE replied. He courted inquiry
into the whole of the proceedings of the Dock Committee,
satisfied that nothing of an illegal character bad been
transacted. He concluded by showing the propriety of
increasing the salaries of the Dock officers, and said that
the only thing to complain of was, the niggardliness of
the Dock Committee in this respect. _

The proceedings were then confirmed.
The council adjourned at twenty minutes to four, to
Monday (yesterday), the proceedings of which meeting
will be found elsewhere.

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

The number of fires in London in 1845 was 707.
The League Fund now amounts to £BB,OOO.
Mr. Lewis Goldsmith, father of Lady Lyndhurst, die
in Paris on Tuesday last.

in 1844 was 25,943 pipes.
A market boat which left Falmouth on Saturday after-
noon last, unfortunately went down in a squall, and the
three men in it were drowned.
J. Bailey, Esq., M.P. for Worcester, regaled two thou-
sand poor families in that city with substantial food on
Christmas-day.

Miss Martineau has published a letter announcing her
unshaken faith in Mesmerism, and her wonderful success

in practising it on others.
PRESENTATION OF PLATE BY PAIIPERS.—LateIy,
the inmates of the Honiton Union presented a silver
table-spoon to the master and matron, who have resigned.
It is satisfactory to notice the extreme steadiness of the
foreign exchanges, the rates in most cases being favour-
able to this country.

The Earl of Liverpool was invested by her Majesty, on
Saturday, at Windsor, with the insignia of a Civil Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath.
On Friday, the authorities of several of the London
parishes commenced serving the notices, to be filled up,
at the houses of the inhabitants, for the militia lir"—
Circulars have been issued requesting the early
ance of the ministerial members on the meeting of Parli
ment

______
Mr. Berkeley, M.P. for Cheltenham. has apologized
for his rude remarks to the Rev. Mr. Close, at the late
meeting at Cheltenham.

The Rattler, screw steam-sloop, is again in dock at
Portsmouth, to have her propellers, which are fitted so as
to be raised out of the water from the deck through a well,
put in place.
On Saturday, at Covent Garden market, there was a
good show of new potatoes and cucumbers, and amongst
the flowers were camellias, roses, hydrangeas, azalias,
uelargoniums,-heartsease, and violets.

There is now exhibiting in London a " miniature John
Bull," who is in his sixteenth year. and has not grown an
inch since he was four years old. He was born at Kittes-
ford, near Taunton.
The Duke of Buccleuch, the Lord President elect of
the Council, is understood to have obtained an accession
of £25,000 per annum to his grace's large,rent-roll, by
the recent demise of his uncle, Lord Montagu, _ _ _

Saturday last, the premises occupied by Mrs.
a laundress in Paddingtcn, were destroyed by fire,

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The restoration of the Marquis of Londonderry's
splendid seat at Wynyard Park, is rapidly approaching
completion. A magnificent conservatory is now erecting
on a large scale, and when finished will be one of the most
elegant structures of the kind in the kingdom.

CONVERSION TO ROME.-Mr. Henry Mills, of Trinity
College, Cambridge, has been received into the Catholic
Church, at St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. Mr.
Mills is son to a late fellow of Trinity, and is related to
Dr. Chapman, the present head of Caius College.—Post.
The Cambridge Independent says, "Just as we were
going to press we received a communication from a quarter
most likely to be well informed, stating that it is Sir
Robert Peel's jute,. - WOO
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