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ferior article. In his opinion, if something was not done, beef would soon be ten instead of six dollars per pound. A petition offered by Mr. Griffin from Joseph Hall, deputy jailor, asking that he be allowed $1,200 additional for exacting from the prisoners before they are confined in jail every article of value, save clothing, in their possession, was laid on the table. Mr. Walker presented a petition, signed by over seven hundred citizens of Richmond, asking that Capt James B Pleasants, recently removed by the Council from the head of the City Watch, be reinstated. Afthe reading of this document, Mr. W made an elaborate argument in its favor. He pronounced the offence of Capt. R, If it could be considered an offence at all, a trivial one, and demanded to know who was the informant against him. It was done, he said, by one John J Green, of New Kent, whom the Council had unanimously rejected for a position in the police, after he had been recommended by the Mayor.--Subse