... NEW MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Several changes have been made in the House of Com mons, death having removed three, elevation to the peer-^B age others, and appointments a third class, who were^B members of the parliament which broke up at the close^H of the session on Monday, the 2nd of August last. few days previous to the pro rogati on—n am el y. on the^B 27 th ofJuly—Sir William ...

... About half-past six o'clock on Saturday night, i° formation was received at the police station that the workshop of Mr. Edwards, carpenter and buildet, Plucca-lane, was on fire. The Superintendent i1' mediately despatched the hose reel, and after sotf, delay, in consequence of the difficulty of procuring horses, the engine was also driven out to the see f of the conflagration. On arriving ...

... LINLITHGOW.—The election of a representative for the county of Linlithgow, in the room of Mr. George Dundas, who has received a colonial appointment, took place on Saturday. The formalities having been gone through, Mr. Blair, of Avonton, proposed the Hon. Charles Bailie, Lord-Advocate of Scotland. Mr. Walker, of Inneravon, seconded the nomination. No other candi- date having been proposed, ...

... Probituial. A NOVEL CHIMNEY SWEE £ .—A curious freak of Reynard the Fox occurred last week at Dursley. Sir Maurice Berkeley's hounds met at Kingcote one day, and having found, the fox made way, skirting the hill right into the town of Dursley. Here he got on the roof of a shed, and, rising gradually from roof to roof, at last gained the top of a house lately occupied as a pawnshop, and popped ...

... DEATH OF THE DEAN OF CHICHESTER.— We regret to learn of the death, on the night of Thursday last, of the very Rev. George Chandler, D.C.L., Dean of Chichester, ...

... The ceremony of opening the French Chambers took place on Monday. It was held in the restored gallery of the Palace of the Louvre called the Salle des Etats, which is oil the-first story of the transverse building separating the two courts, and which is destined for the reception of the great bodies. of the state. When com- pleted it will communicate with the picture-gallery. The hall is an ...

... MILFORD. Feb. 9.—Put back on the 8th the Cam- den, Jones, from Cardiff for Liverpool, with for mast sprung. A survey was held to-day. CARDIFF, Feb. 4.—The barque Glide, about 11 p.m. yesterday, when off the Foreland, ran into the schooner Earl of Mulgrave about the forerigging, carrying away the schooner's foremast, and cutting her down considerably. The crew of the schooner got on board the ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting was held on Saturday, E. David, Esq., in the chair, and was rather numerously attended at one time during the sitting, as there was an evident determination on the part of the country guardians to elect the man of their choice, as as- sistant relieving officer for Cardiff. In the course of a conversation relative to medical charges, Mr. Paine ...

... FRIDAY. (Before the MAYOR and E. J. PHILLIPS, Esq.) THE APPLICATION UNDER THE DIVORCE ACT.- Mr. Champ, on the part of Mary Ann Grant, whose case was adjourned on Friday last, repeated the application for protection. He submitted, in answer to an objection raised by the bench,— that the applicant might send her children to their father, or run her husband into debt, that such could not be the ...

... Swntific, —— THE NOVEL IRON STEAMER, built^ by Messrs. Winans, of Baltimore, a sketch of which recently appeared in this country, has made an experimental trip. The accounts as to the result are very meagre. The Baltimore Sun says:— With a pressure of 56 pounds of steam (half her capacity) a satisfactory headway was made. The points of the bow and stern barely touched the water, and the even ...

... A quarterly meeting of the Town Council was- held on Tuesday (8th: instant). Present the- Mayor (in. the chair), Messrs. Latch, Homfray, H. J. Dav)s,.Lyne,.Hynd- man-r Brown-, Jones, Moore, T. F. Lewis, Llewellin, Knapp, Townsend,, and Morgan. The Town Clerk read the minutes of the previous quarterly meeting,, and the-minutes-of the various com- mittees, were taken as read and confirmed. ...

... MESSIEURS LES SENATETJRS, MESSIEURS LES DEPUTES, France, you are .aware, has seen for six years its welfare advance, :its riches increase, its internal dissen- sions extinguished, its prestige raised; yet there arises at intervals in the midst of the general calm and pro- sperity a Vagtte inquietude; an agitation which, without any weil-deifined cause, carries away certain spirits and affects ...