... Yesterday, being Michaelmas Day, pursuant to the terms the City charters, and in obedience to the Lord Mayor's precept, a Common Hill was held for the election of a chief magistrate for the ensuing year. The announcement by Mr. Alderman T. Wood that though next in rotation he should not seek (in c of the illness of his wife) the distinction to which he has so often aspired, deprived the ...

... Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., resumed, at the Portobcllo Arms, Kensal New Town, the inquest on the bodies of Thomas Hickman, aged 34, and his live children: James Bonnamy, aged 10; John, aged 3; Henry, aged 1 year and 5 months ; Harriet Elizabeth, aged 7; and Mary Ann, aged 5, an account of whose deaths by poison has already appeared this journal. Ann Sullivan said : On Sunday, the 30th May, ...

... ■p v • • Edinburgh, Deo. 27. ever is beginning to diminish in Edinburgh. For the last four weeks the mortality in the infirmary has been 76, 62, 45, and 30. In Paisley the malady is also diminishing, the patients in the house of recovery there having last week been 136, whilst this week it is supposed that they will not be much beyond 100. In the south of Scotland influenza continues ex- ...

... NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETlNG—Tuesday. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for 2-yr olds, 6st 71b ; three, Bst lb; four and upwards, 9st. T. Y.C. Winner to be sold for 50/. (Stubs.) Lord Albemarle's Radulphus (Robinson) 1 Mr. Rolt's Ould Ireland (E. Edwards) 2 Mr. Payne's br fby Buzzard out of Layla (W. Marson) 3 Betting: on Ould lieland. Radulphus took the lead, kept it, and won by a length. ...

... per annum to the widow of the late J. Marsh, whose test for the detection of minute quantities of arsenic and other discoveries in chemistry, had given to his name an European reputation. Charing-cross Bridge Company. A special general meeting of *.he shareholders in this company was held Saturday, at the offices, Villiers-street, Strand. Mr. W. Hawes, the deputy-chairman of the company, ...

... FUNERAL inC THlE LATE I)R. CHALIMERI ?? 'lire funeral of this cmiran's~ and hichtn' distinguished divinie the tick l~ive onn Frindanv mt trio O'c'lockl, from lab house at. Maoinnig- ?? side to tie sent t)'nwtels' vat, the Greante. arid iaxs atlrsnnnlad ?? i rite nouichni of tlie ministercs alldm I emilirs ci' alnmt . Fir n 'niefltiiinialiii1 inn setlnriand, as9 arhel as haY tine cia icr, ...

... de Place on the 19th instant, Mrs Arthur Forbes; a son. Iph At .l 'in Street, Polloksfimas, on the 1 7th instant, Mrs ?? An-lenI er oll, a daiz'hterr. iarj At an e Terrace, Partick, on the 18th instant, Mps lar; na tlie ~ . U mecreddan At Dotnyl, onl tihe l10t1 instant, Mrs James Bennie ; a danghter. on t C'amssraddan Hlouse, oil thle 16th instant, Pi''rs Tlhonison; ra, MARRIAGES. At 7, ...

... , Arran, on the 12th instant, Mrs John Finlay, 166 Stirling's Road, Glasgow; a son. Ay t 28 IndiLa Street, Edinburgh, on the 15th instant, Mrs Frede- rick Alexander: a son. a At Oakbank, Dunoon, on the 16th instant, Mrs iclhardsoni; a d son. ., At Strathblane Manse, on the 15th instant, Mrs Pearson; a i, son. ly At 11 Kinning Place, Paisley Road, on the 17th instant, Mirs h A. Kerr; a son. t- ...

... , on the 27th April, the Lady of T. ?? L. Mae- kean, HEs. ; a daugliter. At Sealdale, Calcutta, on the 2d June last, Mrs D. M. Char- teris; a son. tl At 24 Adeliphi Street, Hutchesontown, on the 3d instant, Mrs. H. :\hir; a daughter. a At SO MIeonteitl Row, on the 4th instant, Mrs William Lerack; a dabghter. a At Pooseknowe, Cathoart, on the 4th instant, MTrs Thoenson, Cliff Cottage. Mill7ort ...

... ag-~~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - A -~0 ,v, Ui8'tim; Edlat'tiago, & oratqlglo. I3IlTIIS. of On the 30th tlt. at ITanyrallt uchal, Trenadoc, the ren I ady of J. XV: Greav es, Esq. of a son. 7en On the 2nd inst. the wife of Alr. John Corbel, WO Tremadoo, of a daughter. tan On the 2nd inst. the wvife of Mr. Roobt. EIdwards, ts, blocknliaker, Pl'nlheli, of a son. Led Cre Cl ARRIAG ES. On the ...

... DIED. At Kidderminster, on Thursday, June loth, Thomas Lainchbury, aged thirty three years. He was one of the most stanch supporters of the Charter and the Land Plaa that the town could boast of. He was always ready to assist in alleviating the condition of his ?? men. lie was the successful member of the Land Company who drew the prize for Kidderminster, at the last ballot in London. At the ...

... MARRIAGES. On Thursday last, at the Parish Church, by the Rev. J. Wilson, Mr. John Jackson, of Warton, to Miss Isabella Marsden, of Cadley. Same day and place, by the Rev. J. Wilson, Mr. John Atherton to Miss Margaret Ramsden; on Sunday last, Mr. Robert Cookson to Miss Ann Wilkinson; on Saturday last, Mr. John Baron to Miss Jane Shaw;--all of this town. On Monday last, at the Parish Church, ...