... PROPOSED WORKING MEN'S TESTIMONIAL TO DRl MILLER. A letter appeared in the Daily Post of yesterday, signed Artizan, asking the working men of Birmingham to meet the writer in the Provident Rooms, Ann Street, for the purpose of organising a working men's testimonial to the Rev. Dr. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, who is, as our readers are aware, about to leave the town for Greenwich. In ...

... THIE STOURBRIDGE COMMISSIONERS. The monthly meeting of the Commissioners was held in the Board Room, yesterday, Mr. Hughes presiding. There was an application from Mr. Smith, lessee of the market tolls, for seme compensation for the loss he had sustained lately by the cattle market being suspended. Mr. Smith stated that lie had been losing 2.e, a week from this cause. It was resolved to defer ...

... lifter nn interval of ore weok, during which no fatal oses o-curred, five persons died of Asiatic cholera in finsford in the course of last week, the third of it' rehellcC in the township. On Mlonday Jeoli Oilier, aged 2, died after an illness of fourteen hours. Then followled y1ien Thomas, aged 11, who died in less than twolvo Jours; William Sproston, aged 14, who was al8o ill only iwolvo ...

... wirmloughas Natig wooto, FRIDAY, MARCH 203, 1866. NEWS OF THE DAY. IN the HIouse of Lords last night Lord ST. LEONARDS submitted a bill to estab- lish Councils of Conciliation between masters and operatives, for the prevention of strikes among the latter. The bill was read a first time. A conversation, originated by the Marquis of YasrTNA1'1, took place respecting the dangers to foot ...

... SKETCHES OF STATESMEN: MIR. NEWDEGAiT] : [From the PU ?? Gamutte.] There is a touch of pathos about DIr. Newdegate. The manly independence of his attitude among the country squires, his almost tender recollection of the time when Lord 1'almerston noticed him as a rising politician, the gleams of genuine political good sense which visit him session by session, and the viscid fluid of his ...

... THE BIRMINGHAM S&NATORIUM. I A meeting of the Committee for establishing a Sana- torium in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, was held in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday; Mr, George Dixon in the chair. The following letter was read from the Rev. Dr. Miller :- It will be out of m3y power to take any further part in the Sanatorin a deliberations. In resigning my seat on the ...

... PRIVATE CO9RESPONDENCE. LoNsDoN, Saturday, The rumour of a moderate Liberal or coalition Government, to which I adverted last week, has acquired an unexpected prominence since I wrote. Many right hononrable gentlemen on the Ministerial benches view with doubt and misgivings the approxima- tion in political ideas which is taking place between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Bright, It ...

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... COMPANY (LIMITED). The following is the Report of the Directors to be pre- sented at the goneral meeting of the.shareholders, on Friday, lot Juno:- * The directors have the uasatisfaotory duty of report- ing that, notwithstanding all their olorts to attain a contrary result, the year's'trading has-againrboen attended with Ions. The accounts show that, in addition to the deficiency of £174. 2s. ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. A,e -Twenty-one. Gilder, 'itoke-upcnTrnt.-The rersia.I Money.-The coin muslt not be defaced } (1. S.-(l) Dudley only; (2) South; (3) OYConnor. J. GT, 1-The property mustbhe vosted in trustees for her bonofit, a W. HI,` heltonham. -Received; and under considern- a tion. W. H.-The nationality of the parents determines that a. of the children, A. D,, ...

... THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BIRMINGHAM GUN TRADE. It is already known that some time ago orders were given to convert 20,000 Enfield rifles into breech-loaders, on the Snider principle, and before Lord HAUTwrGTON quitted oflice, this number was increased to 40,000, the Governmeunt factory at Enfleld undertaking to do tho whole of the work. General PInEL'S first act on becoming Secro- tary for War, ...

... TEE REFORAI QUESTION. PUBLIC MEETING AT HANLEY. A public meeting, called by tho Mayor, in complianca vith a .reqlilitlon signed by 710 persons, wee held o01 Wcdresday evon- tog In thie large hall of thie Meclianics t laaritution, Hanlaey, for tbe conbideration of the Government ?? Bill. The seats hald been removed, and the hall wag densely crowded by a staerding audience, composed chiefly of ...