... The registrar-general, in his weekly return, states that in the week that ended on Saturday, October 13, the births registered in London and twelve other large towns of the United Kibgdom were 4,2L6; the deaths registered, 2,999. The annual rate of mor- tality was 25 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,052 boys and 1,021 girls, in acl 2,073 children, were registered in the week ...

... THE GARDEN.-BY Me GLMW. SEASONABIH GARDEOG JJOR THfE WEEK 0ENflfl OCTOBER 27 1866 Partial frosts hstve made their marke in some places; slid, although everybody had a right to look for such a visita- tion, it is none the more welcome. We do not anticipate that it will do more than spoil our dahlias, and cut up a few tender things left oat in the open ground; end then, as in former autumnsi, it ...

... ?? 5ij: BRIGHT GLASGOW I . . . . . . -_ 1 As EAT_ 13right W as entertained at breakfast on w en- ort. morning by a numerous body of the Scottish pesdsa Reform league, at the Cobden hotel. Mr. 1S tienal~p occupied the chair, and briefly ail- 5 the meeting in eulogy of the services which dr gsght bad rendered to the cause of Reform. ?? Cranuford, M.P. spoke in warm terms of the 9r trationof the ...

... A very serious and alarming collision happened in the Falkirk tunnel of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway on Sunday morning, by which eight men were injured, six bullocks killed, and a large quan- tity of railway plant destroyed. On Saturday night, at 11.40, a train, consisting of twenty trucks filled with cattle, en route for Dalkeith fair, left Glasgow for Edinburgh, and reached the Falkirk ...

... SPEECH BY IJER MAJESTY. On Tuesday the Queen performed the ceremony of opening the New Gravitation Waterworks, in con. nection with the city of Aberdeen. The ceremony took place at Invercanny, three miles west from Ban- chory in Kincardineshire, and twenty-one miles from Aberden. The works are on a most extensive scale, and are !estimated to convey to tihs city 6,000,000 gallons of water daily ...

... [MR. RaEOTEB'S TELEGRAS.] PRUSSIj AND SAXONY. - - BEE1JN7 ERdaN. Ntis stated that the Prusso-Saxon treaty of peace does not stipulate for the permanent occupation of Eaxony by the Prussians but merely that the latter shall remain there until the reorganisation of the Baxon army. ITALIAN OCCUPATION OF VENICE. VENICE, Friday. in accordance with the convention concluded be- tween General Mrin-g ...

... LT.&EST SUMMARY. MnR LANGoAM held an inquest yesterday imorning, at St. George's hospital, on the body of Thomas Dixon, aged fifty-five, a cab-driver, who was thrown from his cab in ticcadully on Tuesday. -The jury re- turned a verdict, That the deceased was killed by being thrown from the box while intoxicated. AT' the London hospital desteday, Mr. Richards held an inquest on the body of ...

... i FOREIGN INTE'LIGENCE. FRANCE.-The France of Tuesday evening, says: --The emperor, who is in excellent health, will stay-at Biarritz until Sunday next.- It is reported that he intends revieing- the garrison of Paris be- fore going to Compidgne.-The France contradicts, with unnecessary emphasis, a:report which has been current for some time past, to the effect that the go- vernment ...

... 3EWIAOES O' C6NF'EDERATION. NVe return to the subject of the confedera- WD of ?? American provinces; because the banquet which was recently given to the distinrguished delegates from Nova Scotia and Newv Brunswick, appears to have hastened the public mind at a dangerous speed to a ,onclusboio on this vitally important subject. At the banquet there were no opponents of confederation. It seemed ...

... J UReuSSUas, Tuesday Night. -The Lord Mayor of London arrived here to-day, and received a most cordial and hospitable reception. He may almost be said to be the guest of the king, although in the first instance he was received in a most cordial and- hospitable manner byM. de Auspach, the bargo- master. To-day was fixed for a most important and imposing ceremony, the visit of the king to the ...

... - --=CONTMPORARIES. ITALIAN MTcES AND AIl)MSTBATION.-After raieb tlie Italians with a dispositionto grapple 5ith their financial difficulties, and remarking that ,vel the war expenses, and the share of the Loi- .Vard-Venctian debt are little to give for one of the rcht provinces in Europe, the Times goes on to thest n anfortunately, the expenses caused by the p0 at of Venetia will fall on an ...

... THE YAEMOUTH EVLWTION COMMISSION. I At the meeting of the commissioners on Monday. their messenger was examined, and he showed that of the~persoiss whose names he had as being still wanted to depose to bribery, or to having been bribed at electionsfor Yarmouth, thirteen were dead, twelve were at se;, and seventeen had left the town. Mr. C. J. Palmer, late mayor of the borough, was recalled, . ...