... The Mayor of Rochdale has received the follow- ing letter on the conduct of the British authorities in Japan from Mr. Cobden, M.P.:— My dear Sir,-Circumstances will prevent me from paying my accustomed visit to Rochdale previous to the 9th inst., and I fear I shall therefore not have the satisfaction of attending a public meeting under your presidency as mayor. I regret this both on personal ...

... In the hidipendento of Naples, M. Alexandre Dumas has just published, under the title of u Memoires de Monsieur de Paris, the following curious and characteristic narrative:— I had read. says the writer, ill many narrati-rcs of 'he death of Louis XVI. that ho refused to ascend the scaffold, that it was found necessary to use force, and that a struggle took place between him and the ...

... Two persons were fined the other day by the Stalybridge magistrates, for quitting a railway car- riage whilst the train was in motion. Accidents have frequently happened at Stalybridge from this cause, and these persons were only saved by the. activity-of the railway servants. A characteristic letter from Mr. Buskin has appeared, in which that eminent critic excuses himself from attending an ...

... On Monday the Rev Hugh Stowell Brown, of Liver- pool, delivered a very interesting lecture at the Town Hall, on behalf of the above association, the subject being Common Sense. David Lawrence, Esq., in- troduced the lecturer, who began by saying that be had been induced to notice this subject from the vastness of its importance. There are few things on which such high value ought to be set as ...

... One cannot but regret, says the London and China Telegraph, when such valuable lives as those of Captains Josling and Wilmot, with eleven British seamen have been sacrinced also 180,000 harmless people burned out of house and. home in Kagosima, that the cause should have originated in the arrogance and disregard for national customs of a party of our countrymen, who we may say deliberately ...

... THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN. In consequence of some dissatisfaction the out-of- door labourers employed by the Blackburn Relief Committee in making some improvements, which can be accomplished by the employment of unskilled labour in the Corporation-park, ceased working on Wednes- day morning, and a slight disturbance ensued. The origin of this dissatisfaction appears to be in the dis- charge of ...

... UAo UALTlES. SHIPWRECK IN THE THAMES—A fine barque, called the Benlida, which has recently discharged a cargo from China in St. Katherine's Dock, was wrecked on Thursday while being towed down the river from those docks. On getting abreast of the Wappmg entrance of the London Docks, a sudden and heavy squall of wind from the southward and west- ward caught the ship, and being light, having not ...

... THE MAYOR.—George Willis, Esq., M.D., has been re- elected to occupy the civic chair for the ensuing year. DROWNED.—A few days since, a woman named Neate, the wife of a forgeman in the employ of Mr. Whitehouse, fell into the river Monnow, a little above the mill-pond, on her way home, and was drowned ...

... CHURCH CONSECRATION.—On Wednesday last, the Pontlottyn new church, in the parish of Gellygaer, situ- ated about a mile from this place, was consecrated and opened for Divine worship. Sermons were preached upon the occasion as fullows:In the morning, at eleven, by the Right Rev. Lord bishop of Llandaff, (in English); in the afternoon, at 3,15, by the Rev. James Newman, B.A., curate of Maindee, ...

... SATURDAY.—Before Lieut.-Colonel Bird and John Lawrence, Esq. TRYING IT ON.-J amcs Wallace was charged with having stolen a hat, the property of John Evans. Prose- cutor said—I live at the Gam, and went into a public house called the British Constitution between the hours of nine and ten o'clock on the night of Saturday last. I was not drunk, but whilst there I fell asleep, and when I awoke I ...

... See the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial, ragged ring: Round and round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose. SIR,-The above air seems most appropriate to open puddkrs' meetings with in Blaenafon, according to the statement of your correspondent Thomas Thomas. The ...

... Fraster's Magazine for November has a good article on fish, from which we select the following capital suggestions on their increase:— OBSERVING SEA PISH. Sea fish grow up unheeded-quite, so to speak, out of the bounds of observation. Naturalists can only guess at what rate a cod-fish grows. Even the life of a herring is still a mystery, and at what age the mackerel or any other fish becomes ...