... loiters ttf #btt0r, CHEAP GAS. SIR,—The public generally will, I am sure, thank you and Mr. Twigg for your efforts to reduce the exhorbit- ant price of gas in this town; and it will soon be the fault of the consumers themselves if they allow the pre- sent scale of charges to continue. The report of the meeting in your paper of last week has brought the sub- ject before the public, and it only ...

... In mentioning the silversmiths' work in the Exhibition, and confining our attention in the first instance to the most remarkable examples of repousse work, we pass from the fine examples in this field by Antoihe Vechte, exhibited in the cases of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, to the production in the same class of work of the English art'st, Mr. H. Armstead, exhibited by this firm. There are two ...

... In the Chamber of Deputies of Berlin, May 26, the Minister of Finance laid on the table the treaty of com- «Th p Cen Pruss'\and France, and in so doing said: — The Government hopes that all the Zoliverein Go- vernments will give in their adhesion to the treaty, in which case only Prussia is bound towards France The rae another™^ nati°nS 3re hrcuSht ™arer to ...

... THE NEW ENGLISH WESLEYAN CHAPEL. LAYING THE CORNER STONE. Wednesday, though unfavourable in the morning, brightened up towards mid-day, and a little after two, when the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new Wesleyan chapel was begun, the weather proved all that could be desired. A platform having been erected, this was selected as the place for as- sembly, and accordingly when the ...

... (Further particulars frum the Manchester Papers.) DISCOVERY OF THE MURDERED CHILBREN. Immediately after Taylor was placed in custody he gave up to the officers thtee keys, and with these Bateman and Wbtson proceeded at once to the residence of Taylor, in Britannia-buildings, and on searching the house it IUS discovered that Taylor had not only committed one mur- der but four. On entering a ...

... His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has visited nearly all the sacred and historical places in Palestine. On Mount; Gherizim, near Nahlons, he witnessed the interesting ceremony of the Samarians celebrating their Passover. On the 14th of April, travelling over the plain of Esdraelon, on his way to Tiberias, the Prince lunched with a famous Bedouin chief, named Agilse Aga. The repast was in ...

... According to the present arrangements, Her Majesty, with the lloyal Family and su'te, will leave Balmoral on Tuesday morning, the 3J proximo, for Windsor Castle, where she will arrive on the following morning to break- fast, soon after 8 o'clock. The Court will remain at Windsor until Monday, the 16th of June, the day before Ascott Races, when Her Majesty will take her departure for Osborne, ...

... THE Journal de St. Petershourg of May 15 advices the Elector of Hesse to use his subjects in the same words as the King of Bavaria spoke to the Bavarians— I will have peace with my people. The St. Petersburg journals state that the total issue of gold at the State Bank yesterday and the previous day in exchange for paper was only 87,000 silver roubles, while the deposit of gold at the ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE CANAL NAVIGATION. NOTICE is hereby given, that the ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY, of the Company of Pioprietors of this Navigation, will be held at the lÙsG's HEAD hx, in the City of GLOUCESTER, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th day of June next, at the hour of Eleven in the forenoon. THOMAS SHEPHERD, Clerk to the said Company. Navigation House, 14th May; 18G2. ...

... LAXDAFF. CONCERT AT THE NEW SCHOOL came off as announced on Tuesday night last. Nutwiih-; aV i- ing- the unfavourable weather the room was yrcll filial. gentry from the neighbourhood came in their carriage- w-' le „T;hiid »?»c,did not think it too much self-denial to walk to the excellent concert provided. Nearly 300 persons must have been in this fine New Room, and wc understand uie receipts ...

... KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION.—Mr. Huddleston has re- tired from the contes-, so that in all probability Colonel White will be returned without opposition. A nurse-giil, named Ellen Bond, was on Friday fined Is. and 86. costs, by the Oxford magistrates, for wheeling a perambulator on the pavement in the High.street of that city. Hugh Sylvester Kivlehan, a police-constable, who so brutally assaulted a ...

... (Continued from our 7tll page.) MRS. TAYLOR'S EARLY HISTORY, -IIER FIRST MEETING WITll TAYLOR.—THEIR SUBSEQUENT LIFE. WINCANTON, Saturday.—Martha Ann Taylor is the daughter of a well-to-do dairy farmer, named Giles, residing at Hatherleigh Farm, about two miles from this place, which farm he has occupied for the last fourteen years. He has a family of nine children, four .boys and five girls, ...