... - - -- -- !5! - - Midtrict TiTtelft-vurt. MAN011ESTER. CIVIC RANQUET TO0 TUE LORD MAYOR OF' LONDON. ' Ore Friday evening last, John Potter, Epq., Mayrror of fiI Manchester, gave a Rrand entertainmenti at thit Town sltrol, to Sir James Duke, M.P.. Lord Ma~yor of London, 5tly to meet whom various Other mujlc~pal flineticinritir, a a number of memnbers of P. litiment,the leadiing bankers, Lr ved ...

... of THE ROYAL VISIT. red The general committee, at the adjourned meeting at IO the Mansion-house, on Saturday, determined to recoin-i 1j11 mend general illuminations in honour of her Majesty ; ux and it is understood that the Lord Mayor will immedi- ately issue an ukase on the subject, so as to afford time latto the householders to make arrangements worthy of the latevent. By changing the ...

... z¢ILTU2Z RN PJarve. -. ?? According to the weekly returne of the idacric of Enigland, piub- hished on Friday, the amiount of notes In nelual eirculrtimn, in the week endilyg Satur~day, Sept. 2.9, iircluiding seven days and other bills, ovas X19,1445Oil, ail increase during; tle week of 4~2,32:the amount of gol an silver coin ajj birliio la i the hands of the Bank, 115,201,3S3, ani increase of ...

... The Mayor eat on Thursday last, in the Crown Court, to hear informations against shopkeepers and others for b e using illegal weights and measurer. It will be seen that ( one person was fined for literally using a stone to n represent a stone weigh', or 14 lbs. The following is a n o list of the persons convicted, with the amount of their n Y respective flaps, to which must be added the sum ...

... u-. ?? R JVr 1Ups2u fe, poVeL FLAGELLATION.-.oDuring thv current week a 'Or tnarllbe mode of dealing summary punish. menthas com ounder r ournotice. AcoUntrygentlema, residin in the vicinity of Rarnecy, has for some time' past been excessively annoyed by repeated attacks made ire upon individual character, through tile medium of a dis- tY, reputable publication issued in Dougl by. Under thein ...

... 'HE PROTECTIONI i.8 OLU1OPs 01 A Panv,-rru A DIe OLtfl'Ot OF k FROTSMTO?, AfseyTI,- e Oxfordshire Asisociation for the preie t- of-T trarec has beea dissolved. It appears t. et ~ a farmers who belonged to it hadlogb1 e because they had no voice in it, su e.a5 opposed by the ruling powers wea t~ a meeting of the body for the repelf ' a cotisequeflee ?? this opposition thygt - emet g n carried ...

... NUMBER IL v3 THE GOVERNESS. so There cannot be found a more unhappily placed B re being than a young girl in the situation of a of governess. She has been graphically described as at o resembling the green swing door between the family 1 m rooms and the Kitchen, not precisely belonging to of o either portion of the house. The governess is A gr seeed by the servants as being towards them B lF a ...

... Tho two following profs mayn servo to sttengthen Mr. Boern Pitrnin's argurment, Lhat there is a necessity for L sucb a refurmn inI the ?? of our language, as will provide oni:e siga only for nny one sound. At present (Ib combinbsd letters o u g h are ueed to represent nine diffozent sounds; and there are no fewer than eighteen 01 modem of indicdting the sound of the word Mo. -u It in owing to ...

... SUR FACE WVATER. ex WARNING To rnE PIKE PHILANTHROPISTS. wI The 10ll Packet of Friday last publishes a th memorial to the municipal authorities, setting forth, RI from experience, the evil consequences of a supply Ri of surface water only, and praying that the town th mnay be furnished with pure spiing water for drink- th ing purposes, in addition to the river supply for td other uses. It is ...

... I I DELEGATE MEETING, YESTERDAY, OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS. fi Yesterday, at noon, a meeting of deputations of Boards c of Guardians in this county, was held at the Legh Arms y Hotel, Newton, to take into consideration, and fully discuss, the whole question of county rate exp nditure, L and the best means of effecting a more economic expen- diture. Deputations from the following places were ...

... Among the many offices which persons are occasionally called upon by their fellow-citizens to fill, we know of none more important than that of Guardian of the poor. Not merely as the dispenser of the funds of others for a specific purpose, but as an officer to whom is entrusted the responsibility of caring for the physical wants, and the social and moral welfare of a large and unfortunate ...

... Il U E.ETIN . . G . . . . G.. , GURDA MEET , ;ING. The usual weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians was held on Tuesday last, when the following gentlemen were present:-T. B.; Addison, Esq., in the chair; the Rev. J. 0. Parr; T. Birchall, Esq.; T. Walmsley, Esq.; J. German, Esq.; Dr. Winstanley; Messrs. Taberney, Tuson, H. P. Watson, Gornall, Humber, Satterthwaite, Dobson, Livesey, J. ...