... GELL v,. TEE BIRMFIGHAM CORPORATION. In this action, which involves the question of the rights of the Clerks and Sextons to certain fees in respect of intermiients at WVitton, a summons has been taken out by tho defendants to substitute lr. Mellish as arbitrator in place of Mr. Kynnerslcy. We understand that the Judge has dismiised the application with costs. DIISLAN D FINANCIAL COXIPANtY,-Mr. ...

... TOWvN COUNCIL MEETING.-Am&ENDED CATTLE PLAGUE PEEu ULATIONS, -A quarterly meeting of the Town Council was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. if. Brewer, jun. (Mavor), ?? usual statement of accounts showed an expenditure during the quarter as ?? Fend account. £1,:344. iSs. id.; Burial Beard account, £111. Iis. 3d:;- and Free Library account, £63. 4s. A sum of £250. was ordered to be carried from the ...

... BIRMINGHAM ANNUAL STEEPLE. OHASES. - a- Stewards . tire Earl of Coventry,.Earl Posriott, J. d(l Holey Chad- Ad wick, Eeq., W. D. Bromley, &eq., Mit, Captain Kfayos, Hon. W. Hi. J. North. bfr. E. Johnson, Judge and Handicapper. Mr. J: ShlelonClerrk of the Cousae. YESTERDAY. Thre iruinifgham. Annual Meeting being about the Irast legitL- mate gatheringin the year, Is always looked forwardlto with ...

... WEDNEJSBURY. w. R E-VAv1 Timn L&w oF MASTERS AND WOR5IMEN.-A public meetirng was held yesterdlay, in tho largo room of the ~orkieg ^Ien's Cluh, for the pyvr ose ofadopting measures to aid the Glasgow Conunittoe Wf lorking Men in their efforts to obtasin aL repeal or amendment of the law affect. lg workmen lunder their contraot of service. Mr. Lawton, Preside nt of the blillien's Asseoiation, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... :ANOT1If, MNINCEN. It FROM MR. PEABY..li h- lle ptlcC ys tbo TiMla 4 hnive U latelj been r ). reminded of r. PesOy' Fift of £G156,000 to the T. poor of LUndon: and have been informed by the of repott of the trustee. of the incaloulable benefitu le, whicdi have already bqen derived from the artisi ,e, application of this munificeane. They vih be in Hth better position,' therefore, to appcixte ...

... M1EE.TING OF WORKINGIAENL AT Ciu BIRKENHEAD. lit tol1 OnWednesday~ineeting ofi worcin~ men, friends of GQ of the church, wvas held in the Workcman's HaltaI lsirkenhead,. to express their opnids onth taineq attempts now~ being made to hintrodce1 Roaisinlg, rare e pr-actices into the Established ,Qiurob. %Mlllr. Ea- Veeti shwawe called to the chair aind ?? those of thf prsn eethe Revs. W. Ellott ...

... IADMTIRAWJ-7 FEB.& - Lieutenant Frederick Semple hbaD ens n es t the rank of retired commander in her Mtoesty' fect with senlority from the let instaut, under t flee Yr tiiou _ of the Orders in Council of 1860 ad 18¢4s ADYIL4LTY, Fee. t PLE The following promotions have this' ay been made M1. Thomns William Henmy Ramsay to be first-class assistant engineer in her Majesty's fleet with sanlority ...

... A meeting of the mnagistrates ap~pointed as a flilt Committee to take such steps as may be deemed tall necessary in reference to the cattle plague was Be0 held at the Sessions House, Kirkdale, yesterday. cb The proceedings were private, but we understand Bef that a memorial Was submitted fromx The butchers be and. cattle salesmen. requesting that some of the mi reulations recently' ordered by ...

... I , THOMAS HENRY SATCHELL AND ,, , d NEALE'LOMAX. ,o TO TIM RDDIORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY, I d Gentlemen,-Ravicg lid a letter of mine upon Catho. d lie Crime quoted from memory a circumstance that S y occurred about eight years since, I unfortunately attrl- buted it to. the Elev. Thomas Carter instead of to J. S. 7 Mansfield, Esq., ourlate stipendlarymagistrate: I there- f d fore take ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY, A-DUMALTY, F8lE. 14. 5B ArOINTNETST.-Surgeon.. Daniel Finucane, to the Prince Albert.-Master: John F. Chmppla, to the Prince 'Albert.-Assistant-paymnaster: George (1. Iloberts, super- numnerary, to the Victory.-4hief Engineer: Frederick W. Sutton ?? (coemlsaoncd).-' L clagneer Pefiter Baldwino t~he ?? Tlhert,-,Flrst.t 0 1eda n n iol a HanA. 9 IS ArTEuPr TO POISON A FAmmy. ...