... .7 The usual weekly Meeting of this board was held ,. yesterday, at the parish offices, High Park-street, ,; Mr. EH. S. Alpass in the chair. There were also present the Rev. Mr. Clementoon, Dr. Warke, and MVessrs. J. Hughes, Bolton, Wilson, flood Carter, Grindrod, Shields, Thomas, Cowan and Forrest o The Governor reported that the number of 'o inmates in the workhouse last week was 638; ...

... THE COMPOUND RATING - IDIFFICULTY. A deputation of persons anxious to avert the loss of parochial rates through the passing of Mr. Hodgkineon's amendment to the Reform BiU b had a conference with Mr. W. E. Gladstone on Mon.l day. After hearing an explanation of the object of the conference v Mr. GLADSTOA said he believed there were three advantages that parishes derived -from the corm. ...

... At the end of last mouth an advertisement appeared in the Glasgow Herald referring to the 9 disappearance from that oity of a young woman I resembling a tradesman's wife. The missing lady ( was described as about 24 years of age, in rather I delicate health, and the solicitude as to her where- . abouts was explained by the fact that, a few days f before, she *as said to have obtained improper ...

... HIAALTH QOMMITTEE. Mr. Tawring presided e the weekly meetinq of the health committee yesterday, and the other members present were Mr. Alderman Dovqr, Dr. re Taylor, Dr. Dawesn, Messrsi S. G. Rathbone, lr E. Samuelson, itobinson, Barton, Bairtbowv, h Whitty, Yates, Harrison, and Whitley. ,. THE DANGERS OF NORTH JOHN- yid 1STREET. ag fMr. Yates said he did not know whether the health oommittee ...

... -ive-poI )(tiv jtuti ALDUS POPULI LEX SUPSXMA. DOMESTIC. The House of Commons resumed its sittings en Thursday after the Whitsuntide recess. The Chancellor of the Exchequer explained the Government plan for the redistribution of seats in connection with the Reform Bill. *In oonsequence of the division on Mr. Laing's motioe the o a d s at D d d th, _snKVTfXtWAYtO been lucieasedl to 45, and ...

... The council finished the business left over from the previous week atthe adjournedmeetingon Wed- nesday. It may be called a day of small things, for the proceedings chiefly related to little odds and ends which have no special importance, but I1 are yet not devoid of interest. First of all, there H was a letter from Lord Derby thanking the a council for the distinguished mark of their di ...

... MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD- . I FELLOWS. At the meeting of the annual moveable aom' .mittee.on Tuesday (at Plymouth),1 everal sub- committees presented reports and reoommeada- tiona. It was decided that the balanoe which renained of the fund contrlbumed for the relief of the Lancashire operatives during the cotton famine should be set aside for the alleviation of any die- tress which may affect ...

... I The Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices of Appeal ?? in the Court of Chancery the case of Howard v. the Earl of Shrewsbury. E This wasoan appeal from a decree of the Master of the Rolls, in which was involved a rather oom- plicated question as to the dealings with some of the Shrewsbury estates. It appeared that il the year 1719, by a private act of arliament, certain estates in several ...

... DOMESTIC. Sir H. L. Bulwer, writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, urges the necessity of more energetic action in the case of the Abyssiniap captives; and says that, with a moderate British and Bepoy force, and such assistance as the Viceroy of Egypt has offered, it would be no-rash engagement to undertake to hang King Thoodorus in the chains that now torture the limbs of his captives. A dividend ...

... CONNAH'S QUXAY. EXTE;NSION OFP DO(KWORKS. Pew persons may be aware that within a short distance from Queen's Ferry, on the river Dee, a depbt for shipping has of late years sprung into existence. Connah's Quay, the place referred to, was, about four years since, taken under thefoster- ing care of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's QuayRlailwayCompany. It posseessedasingle tide- dock or basin ...

... ARRIVAL. OF FENIAN PRISONERS s FROM CORK. E On Monday,lt half.past three p.m.,the prisoners a recently sentenced at Cork arrived in Dublin en o moute to the various prisons to which they have e been consigned in England. AAmonget them were v Captain John, M'Clure, Edward Kelly, David b Jorce, Thomas Bowles alias Cullinane, James f Walsh alias 'Colonel F. O'Brien, Francis Joseph d Kearnes, ...

... From the proceedings of the members of -the Select Vestry at their fortnightly meeting on Tuesday last it will have been seen that 'they are much divided in opinion as to the course which ought to be taken to prepare for D the next borough registration, and that the only conclusion that they have yet been able a to come to is to do just nothing at all. That n is, no doubt, a very easy decision ...