... LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A NEW INDE- PENDENT CHAPEL,-On Thursday morning se'nnight the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new chapel, for the use of the English Independents of this town, took place. The affair created a considerable amount of interest amongst the inhabitants. Trium- phal arches were erectcd in different places, and the streets were thronged with people, in ...

... @ur Ronton (L-ovvcsganient. f We jwrn :t right to !'bte that we do not at all timer Vdentify ourselves with our correspondent s opinions. I There is one time-honoured joke—a very good one no doubt when it was first made-which turns up towards the end of every Session. Our old friend the massacre of the innocents again makes his ap- pearance, and he will have to do duty till the end of the ...

... FACETLE. f A London correspondent tells us that it is matter; general observation that when the 2500 BELGIANS down to dinner in the Guildhall, it was a very 9^ I ous affair! The brothers Gog and Magog never Wof^ I witnessed the like. I The servant maids are funny in their questions | answers. One asks Have you seen the Suit Ann ? I is the reply, but I have seen a Beige Ann [ The costermongers ...

... During the past week, the quiet town of Alresford has been in rather an excited state, owing to the ar- rival of the claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy on Saturday, the 30th ult. During the two following days, Mr. Adams, solicitor, and a staff of clerks, were busily engaged in drawing up a number of affidavits, nearly 40 in number, in support of a motion for in- junction and the appointment ...

... The inhabitants of Beauvais, the chief town of the department of the Oise, have just celebrated the- anniversary of their heroine, Jeanne Hachette, popu- larly known as the Fete of the Assault. Beauvais v/as besieged in 1472, when Charles the Bold of fciicguntly u'&s'aj; w$i: with Bonis XL The besieged, after a desperate resistance of thre^- hours oij the vvi+lis, were exhausted, and were on ...

... Tire new act to amend the hw of Auctions has been printed, and will take effect on the 1st day of Iext month. It relates to sales of lanel, and lJl the interpretation clause a p¡¡fÎer is statct! to mean a person appointed to bid on the part of an owner. Where sales are invalid in law they are to lie invalid in equity, where a putfer had ùitl. In future all conditions of sales are to state ...

... A coloured man, named Williams, was recenfly executed at New BrunswrckX J for shontill a man nametl Reddick. As the fatal hour drew near the prayers 01' the doomed man grew more fervent, and the six clergymen with him, one of whom was a colourerl preacher, redoubled their exhortations. Hymns appropriate for the dread occasion were sung, durJng which Williams gave forth fretlUellt ejaculations, ...

... liiiscdlib'fS'is liiitiliqciite, HOME, FOgIfU, AND COLONIAL. HAPPY UNCONSCIOUSNESS !—The Lancet states that on the night of March the 5th a woman, aged forty-two, was brought by her husband into the accident ward of the Middlesex Hospital. She had caught her foot in on the metal hoops of her crinoline, had fallen Dmrn stairs, and had sustained a compound fracture of both bones of her leg below ...

... MAXIMILIAN'S EFFORTS TO ESCAPE. El Observadtr of Matamoras tells how, after his condemna- tion to death, the Emperor offered a General Rivadensi a million dollars if he would enable him to escape. The latter agreed to it, got the promise in writing, and then carried it to Escobedo. ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT & EXTRAORDlM ESCAPE. At an early hour on Wednesday momMy man named Roger Williams was found on the metals of the Great Western near Jarrett's Bridge, with his hand crushed severely injured from the wheels of a paJØl train. He was, it appears, found by P.c. frey, and when discovered was nearly sible. He was, however, assisted to the station, and Dr Williams and Mr Thomas at ...

... A PLEASANT RE-UNION. A few months after the breaking out of the war in '61, a party of four ladies and four gentlemen were dining together at Delmonico's, in New York. During the dinner, in talking over the national affairs, the gentlemen, one_ and all, solemnly agreed to volunteer and serve during the war. The ladies were very enthusiastic, and promised to do all in their power to help the ...

... ur (fnalt Contsiwnkitf. rWf deem to stats that we do not at all times kisotify oursetvea witri cur correspon.le.ui's o: !n:ona.] The Belgians have taken their departure, and soon the Sultan will be again back in Constantinople. We are beginning now to settle down to cur normal routine of daily life after the excitement of the last fortnight. But we have really bad stirring times lately. A ...