... . ?? .v 1 -v , 1 - MooIt's AMERICAN FLOATING BALL WASHING MA. m a CHINE.-We are indebted to the Americans for the intro te duction into English homesteads of several articles which di al contribute to domestic comfort and convenience, and now be d another inventioni has found its way hither from across m s the Atlantic which conies within the same category. Some two or three years, ago one ...

... LINE-STREET WARD. bO GREAT MEETING oF THE FRIENDS OF MR J. it ho I l. JEFFERY, LAST NIGHT.I its A meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. J. F,, Jefry of the opponent of MIi' . J. B. Lloyd in the caudiditure lor the r-Z da e-presentation of Lime-sltreet ward in the town council, took vo 10 place last evening, in the Freemasons' Halil, Lime-street. The ?? was densely crowded, end there ...

... MILTIJM IN PARVO. Mr. Bright, M.P. for Manchester, is sejournina at Liandudno for the benefit of his health. Mr. Mayhew estimates that a London pickpocket com. mits 1250 thefts for every one detecttd. Tho King of Portugal has sent as a present to Prince Albert a magnificent copy of Camoens, elaboratelv orne. mented aud hound in vellum. Last week the births of 782 boys and 757 girls in all b ...

... SOCIETY IN AMERICA-ERAILWAYS AND RE- VOLVERS IN GEORGIA. A most extraordinary narrative of- duels and murders in a exile, railway train in Georgia is given in Wednesday's Times, by 'An d g, Eye-witness. The incidents are said to have occurred in the dung train between Maeon andAugnEita (both in Georgia). It appears large that among the passengers in the car were A and B, two Young the .A ...

... - . . - : cer, FRANCE. her Le Nord states that at Berlin the bedlief gathers strength that folla Ruseia hits demanded the resumption of the Paris conferences by hual th etigo tescodr lenpoenaries who had seats in dest the Peace Congress. Frat and rSia it is said, readily cpu-n varn sent to this-proposition, cons The Pea-fe (Government nrgan) states that Russia and Austria. tiers desire all ...

... Monday, Oct. 0. toI The usual monthly Meeting of the Council was held this pax day--Sir Thomas Blaikie -presiding. yes PnsESENT-Bailies Smith and M'Hardy; the Dean of age Guild ;tlicsCity Treasurer-;Messr-sLaing, Webster, lknt Williams, Gordon, Henderson, Oswald, Duncan, BNo Sins, and J. Blaikie. (thi Messrs ,h~ln Taylor, upholsterer, and John Stracban, the Shoemaker, were admitted burgesses ...

... THlE FRENC'E PRESS. On Mbnday evening, IU. CeerniutonY, formerly secretary to H. Kossuth, delivered a lecture, at the Bristol AihenSlirm, on ?he Freuich press. The lecture was generally non.polutical. being conilned to rapid historical skdijhes of French periodical liter- ature, und to a description of its characteristics at tire present day. He said the first French newspaper was ?t?f ted in ...

... STAFFORDSIIIR., ~.I TJIF. BISHiOP 0 LlI1fFIELD 0M;EDUCATION. A large aind influential meeting sa's helsi at t ile oilidhall, d Liclifield, on Tueseday eveninig, in Support of the Naii,m111 Society for thle EduLIcation of the Poor in the Principles of thle Established Church. Among those preient wore- Trhe Bilshop d Of Lichifield, in thle chair ; the Bishop of Sodor and Ilan, tile Del o ihfed ...

... BRIDlGE VWAIRD, t A meeting of the electomrs of tids Ward was held at the St. s Alkminund's Scool.-room, on tlondiay evening last, 31r. I Parkins, clotiler,' il) the chlair. The business oF thle meeting c WaS to nni nlalat two gentlemein to represemt the ward in t mime Towu n Council in tlhe place of Air. Win. Taylor end Mr. 5 Ie James Hlollintgswrorth, who bave resigned. Thir-e gent lenmen n ...

... DERBY TOWN COUNCIL.-ADDRESS TO LORD BELPER. at A special meeting of this Corporation was held in the Guild. y. hall, yesterday (Tuesday), at noon, for the purpose of con- !ar siderhig the propriety of presenting a congratulatory address ,as to Lord Belper, on his elevation to the peerage. There were ry present the Mayor (in the chair), Aldermen Bent, Moss, Dir F65maO, S. Fox, Dunnicliffl, Peet ...

... (From our own Correspondent.) MONDAT. Oct. 6. ARCHITECTURAL COMPtETITION. A very, considerable amount of interest has been awakened in Liverpool during thle past week, by the B public and gratuitous exhibition of a numerous collection la of designs, sent in for competition, in answer to an jB advertiselment offering a premium of 1501. for the best SI and of 1001. for the second best plan of an ...

... A FAST CATrHiiOLIC- TiIF. following case illustrates the facility With which Catholics are manufactured:- At the late meeting of the Gahway Poor Law Union, Thle MASTER brouglht lip a boy named William Wobber, who he stated lhd beetl recoived into the house on the previous Friday, =nd, being the son of a Protestant, was registered as such on the books, hut as the boy stated he had become a ...