... Ipswcltb, COMMISSION SIGNED BtT THE LorD) LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.-East Suffolk Militia Artillery corps: Charles Corton. Esq., to be Captain. 1 EAsT SUIFFOLK HOSPITAL.-The Committee desire ' to express their thanks for the following sums received *1 E as thanks offerings for the late abundant harvest, viz.': -Froma the parish of IBramford, £5 9s.; from the parisha of Bricet, 17s. ...

... LovDoN.-In the week that ended last Saturday the number of-deaths arising from all causes was 2,039. It tie- 10'6orresponding weeks of the years 1844-53 the-ave. rage number sas-1114.'which, if raised in proportion, to crease of population, becomes 1225. The prevailing in- epidemic has produced -an eseess, amounting- to 814, above the corrected average. In thethirty-fourth week of 1849, ...

... The half-yearly meeting of this company was held n Wednesday last, at the offices, 69. Lomrsard.street. Very few proprietors were present. Major Tyndale took the chair at one o'clock. The CHAIRMAN said, that in the unavoidable absence of the excellent chairman of the board of directors (Mr. Peto, M.P.) it was his duty to state that the directors had not thought it right to issue any report, as ...

... A meeting of the General Burial Board was held at the Town Hall, on Tuesday last. There was a nume. rous attendance. The M AYOR, on taking the chair, observed that, as a month had elapsed since the last meeting, it had been found necessary to call the present, in compliance with the Act of Parliament. He believed, however, that the Committee were hardly in a state to furnish a report, but, ...

... IPSWICH, Sattgr~daY, Septemnber 1X, 11144 Sir Fitzroy Kelly and his daughter Mrs. Paley, re. turned to the Chantry on Saturday last, after a tour of visits in Ireland and in Wales. We are happy to inlorna our readers that up to the present time there have been no grounds for serious ap. prehension as to a visitation in this town and nieigh- bourhood, of the prevailing epidemic. At a meeting of ...

... SUFFOLK INSTITUTE OF ARCHzEOLOGY AND INATURAL HISTORY, A general mceting of members and friends of this in- stitute was held in the Council-chamber of the Town- e' hall, Ipswich, on Thursday last. Amongst the members and friends assembled we observed the Hon. and Rev. d Lord Arthur Hervey, the Hon. and Rev. F. De Grey, Sir T. Beevor, Bart., and Miss Beevor, the Rev. H. Hlasted, the Rev. S. J. ...

... The following circular has been addressed by the Poor Law Board to the officials of the Unions in the several counties where the collection of facts relating to agricultural statistics is proposed to be made for the present year:- Poor Law Board, Whitehall, Sept., 1854. You are doubtless aware that (at the request of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade and with the express ...

... THE fRSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR I T _ __iA NOTES. l R The Prussifl Cabinet, on the receipt of the Russian negative answer to the propositions submitted to the Czar by Austria and Pruss~ia, addressed a circular to its representatives at foreign Courts, informing them of the views of the Prussian Government on the Eastern ques- tion generally. The following analysis of the document, published ...

... CO ?PO?DE? CE. To the Editor of the IpsWich Journea. SiS,-I trust that the Magistrates will again investi- gate the case of Abraham Farthing, as two witnesses were not examined who heard the unearthly moans of the poor creature. Mv keeper met by appointment a person of the name of Mullinger at my lodge, for the purpose of night watching. This was a place they often met at. They met about three ...

... TaE PRIVATE B HILs OF THE SEssIONe.-It appears from a return which has been printed at the instance of Mr. Wilson Patten, that in the last session of Parlia- ment there were introduced 362 private bills, of which 4I were brought from the Lords. Of the whole number, those which received the Royal assent were 269, being, of railway bills, 81; roads and bridges, 26; waterworks, 23; ports, piers, ...

... STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ILARMICH AND ANTWERP. The -North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, F encouraged by the s~uccess which bas attended their Ii efforts to establish n regular -system of communuicatiorr s with the countries north of the Scheldt, vid Hull and 1i Lowestoft, and further stimulated by the recent exten- g sion of the Eastern Counties branch railway to Harwieh, o determined ...

... To the Editor ol the Ipswich Journal. Sia,-Having noticed the paragraph in your much. respected and widely-circulated paper relative to the half-holiday movement to the clerks in law and solici- tors' offices now in course of being adopted, I am glad to see that the march of intellect has at last stepped in to their assistance. This class of men (al- though one of the most industrious, useful, ...