... ail; gust. SATURDAY, JULY 22. TnnfLiberal gains yesterday, fully make unusual equality shown in Hhursday's returns. No less than five seats were wrested from Tories, making the net Liberal gain, the most moderate computation, twenty-seven. The Great Eastern arrived Valentia, yesterday, and everything was made ready for the land connection, which to effected to-day (Saturday). Constance Kent, ...

... [From the London. Gazette of Frhlay Night.] BANKRUPTS. Samuel Proctor, Road, Chesterton, Staffordshire, builder, August 26, at 12, Bankrupts' Court, Birmingham, Joheph Bird, Lyttelton Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, chartermaster, August 25, at 12, at Bankrupts' Court, Birmingham. Geokue PRiDnEY, Worcester, builder and carpenter, August 25, 12, at Bankrupts' Court, Birmingham. William ...

... Union Passage, Biimingham, on Tuesday ; .Mr. K. C. Cliawner in the chair. The other shareholders present were Messrs. J. K. McLean, 11. M. Wain wright, I{. Jesson, 8. Lloyd, L. Jones, Thomas Johnston, .Tames Hart, J. Cremonini, C. J. I-iatt, Kev. ])r. I'rowne, J. N. Browne, G. Unite, A. Groves, John illiams, Joseph Barrows, and H. Hilton. The Si'ec v (Mr. If. Hasleden) read the notice ...

... fiymittgbffls fast. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY V>, 18G5, In the House of Lords, last night, the Lord Chancellor stated the results of the Act passed last Session giving him power to dispose of the small livings in his patronage. Sixty-three livings, it seems, have been sold, realising /113,12:>., while of .£10,)20. realised for the sale of three of them under the 22nd section of the Act, £i,joo. had ...

... call prominent attention it. Many of the Duddeston burgesses are favourable to the removal of the cattle market from Smithfield to Duddeston ; and with one exception, the representatives of the ward in the Town Council are prepared to support the views of their constituents. One of the Councillors for Duddeston, Mr. Wadhams, takes the opposite view. that the cattle market had better be kept w ...

... Stealing.—A respectably dressed wom»n, named Hannah Phillips, was brought before tho and other Magistrates, at the Guildhall, yesterday, oa a charge of stealing 21bs. of beef. Prisoner went to the tof Mr. Smith, butcher, of the Ty thing, and while there the piece of beef waa found In her possession. stated that the beef had been given to her, and also that she had had the money given to her ...

... :^o.st. MONDAY. APRIL Ms:. Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Hoard of Works, will, it said, receive the honour knighthood the occasion of the opening of the great system for intercepting sewers oil both aides of the Thames. The states, upon the authority of Gii'C.um's medi.al attendants, that this eminent tenor being rapidly restored to health. Although .his illness has been severe, has ...

... [From our City Correspondent. Moxday Evening. Business continues extremely dull, and with some slight exceptions, prices are flatter, the sole cause being the unaccountable lassitude with which dealers and the public seem to overcome. The only exception to the depression is few of the speculative Foreign Stocks, for which there has been some demand, but it is a demand chiefly in connection ...

... [From our City Correspondent.] London, Wednesday Evening. A little better tone has been prevailing in nearly all the markets, the result, probably, of a prudent desire not to force prices too low down, lest the reaction should correspondingly severe. The public have come in, to some extent, buyers, and the money market is likely to confirm their foresight in investing present quotations, ...

... lUiLr.i, Catii.gtj.n, this Maria Kith Davis, daughter Mr. Thomas Davis, CiriatTew, Oxfordshire. the Lust , St. Paul's Church. F. tf. Hamburg, * > daughter oi Mr. of this town. cards. DIED. the 24th inst., aged 29 year--, Harriett, the beloved wife of Bkookk, High Street, West Bromwion, and daughter Mr. Jackson, Summer Lane, this to»u , deeply lamented. the inst., Beech Lanes, aged years, Petkk ...

... | Frorr our Cil.il C'Ufr.tpfV.'l'i'i.] ! London, WVdiiosd.'iy Evening. i not yet - ■'! its ordinary eour.e- | the Stock ,*?» it |;>'t.s, and there is il good «!• .1! ...

... Town Coincil Meeting.—The quarterly meeting of the Town Council and Local Board of Healtn was held in the Town Hall yesterday morning, the Mayor (Mr. Hargreaves) in the chair. The Town Clerk stated that he had no business of committees connected with the Council to bring forward. The business of the Local Board was then proceeded with. Dr. Gooday, medical officer to the Board, reported that ...