... COMIPETITIVE AND MIDDLE CLASS, EXA3IINATIONS. It is now three years since tile systei n of compe- foi titive examination has been introduced into several or branches of the public service. There are various fai Opinions as to its result. We believe the majority tri of the heads of tlepartments aye of or inion that it fot will not be the means of introducing be tter men'into Ui the service than ...

... | C A R NA RVONSH11I RE. The Cormmission of A~ssizt' for this county was open- t 'ed on Tuesday afternoon last, whimn the Judge arnd thle IUiltdlfer-hiiff were escorted to Sr. Mary's Church, a whore thle Sheriff's Chaplain. VI J.On 'Wednesday moirningq the Court was re-open~ed loi' the, dispatch of civil an'd criminal business, at half- g Plast 11 o'clock, when the following gentlemen were ...

... PURIFICATION OF THE TEAMES. The Select Committee appointed to investigate the various plans presented upon this important question have given in their report, from wvhich we select the most important passages Your committee are of opinion that those parts of Mr. Gurney's plan which relate to the river are not calculated to cffect the purifiuationa of the Thames. Your committee, however, ...

... I LLANDUPNO WAJ.TR AND GAS COMPANY, II Tn 18511, webriefly noticed the proceedings of the first movement of this undertaking. and we now have the pleasure of recording the proceedings of the first General Mfeeting of the Company, which is formed under the limited liability act. The meeting was an- II nonnced by circular, and was hieldat the Board Room of the Comlmiissionets, in Church Walks, ...

... On Monday, Mr. ScIfe the Thamespolice-court magis- trate, and Captain Walker, of the Board of Trade Nau- tical Assessor, opened an inquiry at the Greenwich police-court into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Peninsula and Oriental Stcam Navigation Comn- pany's steamer Ava, on the coast of Ceylon, oln the 16th of last February. Mr. 0. Dowd appeared to conduct the inquiry on the part ...

... COUNTY-COURT LAW. To thre Editor of the North Wales Chronicle. Sir ?? a leading article some time ago, you com- plained of the decision of a County Court Judge, in n case wherein you appeared as defendant, and you ex- pressed a hope that the Judge would re-consider his verdict. \Vhat became of it afterwards, did not trans- pire in any of your subsequent papers; but I presume, that like many ...

... ANOTHER FAILURE OF THE ATLANTIC I The Niagara and Gorgon, attached to the squad- ron for the laying of the Transatlantic cable, arrived _ at an early hour on Monday morning. We regret it having to announce that the object of the expedition 1A has for the present failed, and we shall now give our ti readers such particulars of the events which occurred li in the course of the ulndertaking as we ...

... F1IRE AT MIARYLEBONE. AND GREAT DE- STiIUCTION OF PROPERTY. On Tuesday morning. a ?? fire broke out I Onl the premisesof Mr. R. Saunders, carver and gilder, No. 31, Folev-strcet,Great Portland-street, Marylebone, wvhich was not subdued until one life had becensacrificed, and several persons iuj sred. The premises in question were ill the joint occupation of three families, the incui- bers of ...

... Hor;8E Or LORDS.-Iriday, June 25. COLONISATION IN INDIA. On the motion of the Earl of ALBEMARtLE, a mes- sage was ordered to be sent to the Commons for a copy of the report lately presented by the select committee of that house respecting colonisation and settlement in India. The noble lord followed up his motion by calling attention to the vast importance of an extensive emigra- tion of ...

... PREFERMENTS AND APPOTNTMENTS. tr. Rev. W. Bedford, M.A.; Vicar of Marshfield, Glou- Oan cestcrshire. pr Rev. A. F. Blenwell: Curate of Moor Critchell, Dorset, Rev. J. F. Brindle, MI.A.; Perpetual Curate of Bacup, Manchester. Rev. J. W. Candy, M.A.; Vicar of Barnham, Essex. Rev. I-L. C. Deshon; Rector of East Coulston, Dorset. to Rev. K. H. Digby, B.A.; Honorary Canon in Norwich Cathedral. ic ...

... The foitniglhtly meeting of thid Board took place,, on Saturday l'ast, wicei two ex-officio aind one electedI Guardianes were present, Jarncis Manrice, Esq., ex-offi cco Clah nean Mr John Jecikins, LIanf~wro,7, Vics-Ciccir- nman. The minutes of thle lasit Board were read and corsfiiroedc. Tue Rev. W. Price of Derwect, in answer to al request of ttce GulcardIj,-cce, ceplied thcst Derwen ...

... FOREICN MISCELLANY. A flour-mill, driven by steam power, the first of the kind established in Peru, has been opened at Payta. Several Italians have just been expelled from the French territory. The Russian Government has ordered 15,000 quintals of railway iron from the St. Dizier Ironworls, in France. Among other personages invited to witness the naval fete at Cherbourg, is the King of ...