... EFFIGY BURNING IN ILAcAsTA. _ I . I EX TR AORDINA'Z Y DISPLAY OF POLTAL YlSG On Friday evening, an extraca'dhy ,nistra. tion took plsos in the publid streets 6f LanotZ'ter. The events comneoted yfith 4id-anidareg out of 'the late election' and terininating in' the total disfran- ohisement0'f the borough, aroused in the towh a strong feelin ' of animoity towarls certain prominent individuals ...

... THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED SYSTEMS OF REPRESENTATION When Parliament re-assembles to-morrow, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will bring before the House of Commons the new plan of the Govern- ment for distributing the 45 seats which are at present at the disposal of Parliamerit, and any other seats which may be acquired by the group-. ing of 'the smaller class of boroughs or by other means ...

... ut | A gold albert guard and appeindages have been eat presented to Mr. John Gough Brown the seore. ge tary of the Liverpool Temperance ue, in , ppreciatiorn of valuable servicee rendered Suring a ier period of 29 years, for A| OIDANT A A BIRWXnY.-Early on Friday ~he morning last, William Carr the nightman at Lane's 6rewery, Oriel-street, fell into a vat con. vea taining boiling water, and was ...

... ,(FROM TR!AITS ANZD STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE, BY THE REV. CHARLES ROGERS, LIiD., ?? A young farmer, of Cumnock. Ayreshire, con- sidered that the daughter of a neighbour at Auchin- leck would suit him as a wife. Having made up his mind, he made proposals to the fair one without the usual preliminaries. The young lady's reply. was, Deed, Jamie, I'll tak' ye, but ye mann gie my dues ...

... THE COnBRAX CASE. To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald. Sir,-My attention has been called to a corre- spondence which appeared in an Edinburgh paper, last week, between the Rev. Mr Robertson of Greenock and the Procurator. In speacing on the case in the General Assembly, the Procurator had said that the Preabytery allowed page after page of trash in regard to the quality of the dis- courses to ...

... The Manchester Courier says :-About twenty-one years ago, in the rural parish of Sandiford, which lies between Penkridge and Brewood, in the county of Stafford, resided a maiden named Susan Simister, She was of the humbler walk of life, and not above receiving the attentions of Robert Tomkinson, fol. lowing the then comparatively new occupation of a platelayer upon the Grand Junction Line, and ...

... AN AmttL SoMw.—A thumb-screw., CON. BY lb. CAUDM.—Why is a wife likely to bd come equestrian ?—Because she's always on the nag. A DISGUSTING FEAT.-The man who bolted the dooif with a boiled carrot has paid the penalty of his glut- tony. He is suffering from internal hinge-eries. Didn't you tell me yon could hold the plough? said a farmer to an Irishman he had taken on trial. How could I ...

... ^°nday ni&ht, Mr. Young, who is to command the Livingstone search expedition, reported that the steel boat is finished, and that he will leave England in the mail steamer on the 8th of this month for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he will proceed to the mouth of the ZambesL There the boat will be put together, and the party will go up the river to the Murchison Falls. Here the boat will be ...

... The inhabitants of Woburn-square, Bloomsbury, were annoyed during last week by largo numbers of the ragged and noisy population of St. Giles in quest of a ghost said to be a denizen of the square garden. So great and increasing has been the crowd that police have been told off for the special service of maintaining order and making the populace move on. The excitement appears to date from tho ...

... On Friday, May 31, at the London Bail Court, before Mr. Justice Lush, a case of Stacey v. Firth and wife was tried. The plaintiff, Miss Stacey, is a milliner and dressmaker, carrying on business at Weston-super-Mare. The plaintiff's case was that Mrs. Firth, formerly Miss Fanny Sharland, resided with Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, wealthy people ( residing at the Grove, Weston-super-Mare, and ...

... AT the general election of i865 four candidates made their appearance for the borough of Weymouth-on the Conservative side, the two sitting members, Mr. Brooks, a merchant and shipowner, and Lord Grey de Wilton; from the Liberal camp Captain Gridley, an unsuccessful candidate at B3everley in i86o, and Mr. Henry Edwards, politically candidus. Mr. Brooks was popular in W~eymouth; Lord Grey de ...

... gim w, M4 Y ,IAE ainryw o'r defodwyr enwocaf, yn er mysg y rhai yr oedd Dr. Pasey a'r Arehddi- da acon Denison, wedi anfon anerchiad at oN A' Charles Thomas, Arglwydd Archesgob C( Caergaint, yn yr hwn y meent yn gosod ra allan en golygiadau am yr elfenau a arferir Ce yn ngweinyddiad y Swper sanctaidd. Ym- oe ddengys en bod yn credu yr athrawiaeth o ys gyd sylweddiad yn hytrach na thraws-syl- ...