... , I Q- ?? - - -- -. . . - n On Sunday a most welcome change took place in X the weather in this neighbourhood, the temperature, I t in the afternoon, being warm and seasonable, and the I trees and hedges, after genial showers, bursting, I almost at once, into leaf and bloom. Yesterday was e 1, dull and cloudy, but with a mild temperature. 'Wee a subjoin a few particulars respecting other parts ...

... nTHE FIRE-POLICE AND THE WEST I OF ENGLAND FIREMEN. t ALLEGED ASSAULT. o Yesterday a case came before the Recorder, arising th out of a collision or dispute between the fire brigade and hi tthe men belonging to the West ef England fire engine, hi e which took place on the 31st ult.,at a fire in Blacketock- ,street. The defendants were John M'Donald and James to . Byrne. and the charge against ...

... n:E Convention of Burghs has entered on a crusade for regulating, in some degree, the numnbor of Town Coun. U11orsmin small Burghs, in proportion to their popula. tion. They have even thought an Act of Parliament not unnecessary, and applied to the Lord-Advocate to effect their purpose; but that gentleman, desirous though he be to impress everY part of Scottish legislation with some memorial ...

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... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—April 19. Their Jordships met at five o’clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from a place in Cornwall, complaining of the imprisonment of the Reverend J. Shore. The Marquis LANSDOWNE gave notice, that on Tuesday next he should move the thanks of their lordships to the Go- vernor-General, the Commander-in-Chief, and the officers and army in India, for ...

... TENANT RIGHT-HOW TO WORK IT. We publish in another column the report of a case which lately occurred in the north. It is cu- rious as affording an insight into the mode whereby some landlords work the tenant right-recognising ?? principle, but in practice extracting twenty per cent. of the purchase money, and to that extent pocketing the fruits of the tenants' industry and ca- pita]. An action ...

... Bafore Walter Coffin, Esq., mayor, and R. L. lieece, Esq. Mr. John George Elkington, a lIub-contractor on the South Wales by John Anderson, a navigator on the same hne, for payment of nine days' wages, which amounted to AI /s- ye'endant said that Anderson had received shop goods to the amoun of 7s. M., and asked worship to deduct that amount.—His worship said lie did not know whether he would ...

... LIGHT READINGS. It was said by Fuller: Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning, it is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all the night, with some serious work. Peoole would rather pardon the defects you have, than the affectation of virtues you have not. If a man do not make new acquaintances as lie advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man ...

... M O X M o U T H S II I It K On Monday hi-t the Veil. Archdeacon Crawley held his visitation at Xewpu-t, when the churchwardens for the present year were sworn into olli-'e. The old ones passed their accounts, and IlIlde their usual reports. There was a large attendance of clergy, and the business was not Iinished until nearly three o'clock. We perceive by a placard, that Mr. Vincent, the ...

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... MARITIME CASUAiTiS. - The Andromeda dragged her anchors and went on t hore at Odessa, in a gale, April 2, where she remains to' hip and cargo, it is feared, are ?? TheNeptune shi American ship), was passed Jan. 7, in lat. 47 S., long. s 24 B., with loss of rudder, by the Angelina, arrived at a o lavre The George Andrew, Neustadt to Stockton. ?? -n shor( on Knudshoved March 28, was got off ...