... 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 ...

... _ - . I 1 BURTON'S CHARITY.-The annual meeting of the trustees for Burton's Charity was held in the Guildhall on Monday last, Mr. J. BUiY in the chair. The treasurer's accounts were examined and allowed, showing that £3. Os. 3d. had been paid to each of the fourteen recipients in the Park Lane Almshouses during the year, and a quantity of bread had been divided. A balance of £-53. l9s. ld. ...

... NOTIOES TO CORRESPONDENT?. Fnquirer.-Ask the manager: we know nothing of it. ?? (A-She did not. We havo sent A Jeweller's suggestion to the proper tjurtrter. J. S. , Walsall.-We are not authorised to give the name and address of the writer. K. rnd H.-We believe the letters are published in a volume. Apply to the writer. ?? L.-We do not know the date of Hmammer Lane's death, ...

... THE BIRMINGHAM ALLIANCE LIFE I ASSURANOE COMPANY (LIMITED). The following is the directors' report, to be presented at the meeting of shareholders, on Thursday, March 8: The directors, in presenting this their first renort to the shareholders. desire to record their conviction that the establishmeit of the company upon a sound and safe basis has been accomplished. Tlie incorporation took ...

... SEWS OF THE DAY. The QUEEN left Osborne for Windsor yesterday, and is to arrive in London today to open Parlia- s moint in person. Nothing seems to be known at E>resent as to how far the ceremony is to be shorn e of its wonted splendour-excepting that the state a coach will be dispensed with, and that her MAJESTY t will enter the House of Lords not by the grand entrance, but by the Peers door. ...

... EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A MAIL I BAG. Yesterday morning the Dublin letter-hag (from Dublin for Stoke), was abstracted fromn tho mail train from Orewe to Stoke, and nll tho letters taken out. The bag was after- wards found near Alsager Station. None of the letters have been recovered. The number and value and nature of the letters arc unknown. At present the whole affair if involved in mystery ...

... A public aneeting, originated by the Hanloy Reform Union. and called ly thoe Mayor, in reply to a requisition signed by upwards of 400 persons, was held in the Town Ball], Eanley, on Thursday evening, for thopurpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliasment, when it next assembles, for an efficient mnesuro of l'arliaamentary Reform. The hall was well filled, chiefly ...