... IBEWAGE OF TOWNS APPLIED I . I. . ~TO LAND. After a long battle between the wet and dc sytmth6 wet 1188 prevailed. wet Oaignddry Meadows below Erhnburgh, Mr. Laws's experj. meait near Rugby, and Mr. Marriage's farm ,at Croydon, and mor' espeoiaily the Metropolitan Sewage Company's great undertaking in carryg the sewage of London to Shoeburyness and to th Msplin-sands, have allgiven strong ...

... I MULTUM IN PAISO. Thw-Tories of Hull have selected, as-their candidate at the next electioni Mr. Bell,-of the firm of -Thomson, Boner, andoi. The number of the Unitan &m;aa of Mian for the 28tf has been mequestr~ted for a letter oe Mazzintentitled Progress and the Monarehy. Some of the ships engaged-in the annualraus from Chhna to London will probably arrive Jfths, course of this week. A ...

... I LOCAIL WNEWBS. *tD LANoAnhME.V.4O.-P. Cnrry, gentleman, to be adjutant, from May 15, 1867. Willlianet, of Edge-hill, whose excjvations are Ia wonder to this day, meeting Dr. BRatles and the late Rev. Mr. Hall arm-in-arm, eried If I had my -way I would make you two into bishops ; and I, isaid the doctor, would return the oompli- ment and make yoiu an archbishop. I The Rev. Dr. Norman ...

... XtSUOI1 SURCA.1 SALI8 TONVUI LEG usRM. DOMESTIC. A further instalment of the Alabamn- cor- *respondence has been made public. Lord Stanley declines to abandon the ground taken 'by Earl Russell, who refused to admit the liability of this country for the claims put forth by the United States. His lordship is, however, fully alive to the inconvenience which arises from the existence of ...

... THE ALARAMA CLAIMS. The correpnadence respecting British and American cl aising out of the late civil war in the United States has just been leiaed. It commences with a despatch from Mr. Seward, dated August 27, 1866 in which an opinion is expressed that a suitale time had arrived for giving just attention to the claims of the United States on the British Government for damages suffered by ...

... | Id WEW CORONER. ?? I ' n 0ri (>ko AeAplnaUX the newvly appointed borough r oroner, commenced the p>erformance Of h ia fl ei duties on Saturday last, on whioh ocoa- ion a large number of hiS profeaSionlA brethren an4d other friends attended the court for the pluf- pose of congratulating him on his appointment. Amongst those present were Messrs. J. B. Aspinall Q. O. (recorder), E. Grocott ...

... I THE CAREER OF A SWIIDLEA At the Preston intermediate sessions js, minated, a man named William HsaA,,i Willlamn Bradshaw, was charged with ; bi good! by rk deaj tences from - udderefield, The eric u of that t haef er pladeyd mot guilty, an th nt the P of consel, he withdrew the ple nd Jo guilty. The swindle thoeorce £50 the soner was ?? eham got aen of labels printed under t£e ame Bef l ...

... ECOLESIASTIcAL NEWS. Pramym AND APPOINTMpN. DonlgsliRev. It, B.A., to incumbeoc.of St. Paul's Church, Jerey.- Hunnybun, Rov. W. M., M.A., to Perpetual curacy of KIRg, Bev. J. F., iLA.; h curacy of S. Marks, Tey,' Laldman, Rev. S. L., M.A., to curacy of the Pemberton ColUery Iron School Churc, Lanceshire. Smith, Rev. O., M.A., to rectory of Crudwel, near Tetury. BEN;=E8IF AND APP&MIUMISN~ ...

... THE 'ONDITION OF IR1LAND. We aye indebted to the Lord Lieutenant of lieland-who, let us say in passin&g not- withstanding his Toryism, thas pefformed ,difficult duties at a difficult time with excellent judgment and more than respectableability- for an interesting and valuable summary of the material and -Socialeondition of the sister island, so far .-as it 'is capable' f being re- presented ...

... LATEST AND rELIEGRAPHIC NEWS. RE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION. The Freematn ?? are to-day enabled to ate in the moat positive terms that the Cathollo ublic In Ireland, priests and prelates, repudiate be suggestion of Earl Russell that the Irish hurch question can be settled by distributing the Dvenues between the several churches. The total endowment and the complete disestablishment E bir. Disraeli' ...

... On Friday afternoon, Francis Emanuel Cook, le water of the barque Constance, at present lying at in the harbour of Glasgow, was apprehended on a ig bharge of cruelty to the vessel's crew, particularly at to Malcolm 'KEinnon, the cook and steward. at The arrest was made on information given by Id several of the crew of the Constance on the vessel's ar arrival at Glasgow. The character of that ...

... I - ~ ~ S . ; 3iC7 , ?? IN.ET;: I, ;> ?? . .1 , I . . . . I. 11 .. ,- I . . I IThe eity wight wbio lleeeha~heiiday :s- Far from the sceheof his ?? broils May here elifoy a brlid elysfuz. 01 meet relre ea and congenial rieds. V-hike our modern palaces, thits inn Rlemalusa homely remnant oI the UtlM : 'When that great oak, which .a the neihbouring field Has braved the teinpeets of three centurei ...