... A special meeting of the Commissioners was held on Wed- nesday evening at the Town Hall, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee appointed to enquire as to the rates or assessments to be levied upon the property using the large northern drain. Mr. PHI'LIPSON in the chair. The Clerk read the report, to the effect that the committee, after a careful consideration of the subject, ...

... EX'1ENSI()N OF riiim FRANCIIISE. IVIIr~trSSVAD TO THR~ ED1i011, OF TIltS SUN. s~,ram onle of those who connider that the electoral franchise ongilt to be extendedl to every hotiest narl iii triCS kiugilomn, Of mature age and sotind fllill, and I have one It, thscnlso after a calmy and careful consideratioln of all that bas ?? urged on both sqides-p4 tile puestiOfl.. 11The systena of ?? is anl ...

... On Friday last the members and friends of the Temperance Society assembled in the large room of the Town Hall, at five o'cloc'k, when about 400 sat down to tea, with the Rev. Mr. Edwards at their head. Every thing was conducted with the greatest order aud regularity, mad all was harmony and good will. At half-past six the Hligh Constable took the chair; and io so doing observed, that he felt ...

... LOCAL NEW-S. WNViilst; lhe P'atriot is Nveckly xtndling itse cilel tluionl WlhichI ?? thallik to a liberal plilitit, equ:als, it it dlo not ?? tltt oljttof Ol uits coteltpolal itst it, thie lcaw1 --(itt prool of 0 Ittell we are readlv to submit to any test),-tle Vt ij:lllt G(tlttldi ialis ofl rapidly ; and so convinced is tle F-tlitor nl that taitttg jouirn: of this, that last week lie was ...

... Sil10E1MIAM. A Vestry AMeeting of the inhaihitants of this town took place on Thursday aftetrnoo n his t, fio' ?? purpose of electing Woar- diatls of time Voor and Way wardlens for the ensuinug vonL'.Mr. W~in. Brad ley was cal led to the chair, and Messr-s. Thomas Clayton, William Tait, and George Butler wvere appointed Gllar- lians tor this district of diha Sho i chai Untion. UL tile, nom11i- ...

... VEGETAB3LES3, FLoWER5, AND .FRUIT.-Tbough theia-. tives of hot and dry climates shutdder and Shiting their sh ul- ders at the rain and damp weather, which mak es so large a por- tion of an En lish year, there are, few countries in which the productions of the earth are enjoyed 'in gre-ater perfection or profusion than in England; and yet, though we have such an abundance of delicious fruits ...

... Tutrs Qu£EN.-Kensington, Friday evening.-ller Majertf on Thursday evening, having been s; pleased with her ride on the previous afternoon, up the Harrow.road, altered her in. tention of driving round the Regent's.park, and proceeded to beyond Hyde, about four miles' from Harrow. ]ler Majesty did not, as on the previous day, alight, but returned to Ken- sington soon after seven o'clock. During ...

... B The Bri'giton Patriot, a paper which I strongly recom- mend to all iny ?? Lst Reqyidter. TUESDAY, MARCH 2G,.1839. GENE RAL NEWS. C(on: LAWS.-After five days ` palaver, the House of Commons divided on Mr. Villiers' motion for the house to go into comnimittee on the Corn Laws, which was lost by a majority of 342 to 195; and thus have the complaints of a despairing people been replied to by ...

... I I-M-PERIA-L PARLIAMENT. . HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1839. Lord BROUGHAM urged upon the government the propriety of pardoning the Glasgow cotton spinners, who were sen- tenced to transportation under the combination laws. They had already suffered a-year and a-half's imprison. inent. Earl STANHOPE presented a petition from a man in his 91st year, who had paid poor rates for a period ...

... BRIGHII'TON RADICAL AND) PATR.'1'R1O(C ASSO- I CIATION. I A nuit1OcrotIS meeting Of this Associatiotn Wtvs hell ait tile Brewers' Arots, Church-street, onl Wlednesday last, Mr. I1harris inl the chair. A fter zsouwt paellininary' business, the Secretary read the VolloIc atu !l5;t'P'OIr 'tile, GENERAL. COMtMI~TTlEs. GesNJ-''l.Nx x,- lI thillr report for tile pcllii'lia'c orfo Ll~ltt' cit e lik e ...

... A numerous'deputation, headed by Dr. Birkbeck,but confined chiefly to Members of tile House of Commons, waited yesterday at two o'clock 6pon Lird Mielbourne, to ask for the entire aboli- tion of the 14evspilker Stmnp. The following gentlemen composed the deputation: Members- Messrs. Warburton, Flume, Grote, Oswald, J3owriug, Aqlionby, Thompson, Williams, Hawes, Bulwer, Leader, Elphiustone, ...

... PERSONALITIES.-A provincial actor named P-, of very a moderate talent, but with an amusing brus querie of manner, f mixed with some humour, in private, was much hissed one evening in the Cambridge Theatre by one of the men (as boys are called at the tniversities5. By -, says P-, I'll mark ?? him forlis ?? me)I Me-t John P-aI The indignant comedian changed his dress at F the end of the ...