... BOROUGH OF BIRBMINGHAMI. Ncw tRnscs of disease coming under treatment during the week ending Saturday, tholOth day of Uctober, 1SG3, at the follllinu- Institutiiins. ,te. Discascs . i . '0) s 42s: @ tv SoTotal toulall Pox I _ _ _ I I _ _ measles - - 1 ' Iscadel t fever .. . . S - 17 1 ibilbhta .. .. l - 140oping Cough - - G _ _ Ururlp . . . . Z1 .. Di-rrh-.'- 1 a O vO if 11 O. Dyscntey , _ ...

... At Taunton ches.tnult treles are 110w in f till bloomi. The new word ecobhyccres is used by a New York Con- temporary to characterisO, a esrtttO Ieatch 'Ils Mrqis of West, istr, IC.G., has sentan il ditional donatihon of £200. to thle National Lifeboat Insti- tution. Seven thousand font' hundred and sevenlty-otto persons have been added to the constituentcy a rso ytent ileforrut Bill. Punch ...

... LORD NAPIER IN WORCESTERSHIRE, Yesterday, Lord Napier, -who had boen expected on the previous day, arrived at Droitwich by the 11.6 am. train from London, fid Birminghtiam, on a visit to the Right Hon. Sir John Fakington, Bart, Weetwood. Near the railway station were erected three arches of evergreens, on which were inseribed Welcome Lord Napier of Iag- dale, Long live the Abyssinian hero ...

... THE REV. ]3REIIN GRANT AT LEICESTEIA. The noisiest meetingt that has ever been held in Leicster |occurred onl Meonday iight, scmell the 11ev. lirewill (I.ant, Indepndelit Minister, of Sheflield, formerly of Leicester, |was nnlounced to deliver a lecture ill the Temperance Ithll, oli the Irishl Chiurchi, in oippositioni to3 il Glaldstoli's resolutions. Mri. Albert Iell, the Conservative ...

... LATEST NE w S. [IBY ATIkNTIC TLLEGRAPL. I IFroGz Ounr Spccusf Correspoeldeut.l FIRE ATr SEA. NEAW YORK, Novjanmmsc 16. The steamer Matanzs, of Ncw York, boundl for this city froMn Savannah with a cargo of cotton, has been burnt at sea. The causc of this disaster is not yet known. Six of the crew are saved. CANADA. [BY SPECIAL 'rELEoRAM. I N;EIV YORK, NOVEMBNinr 15. Lord Moncc, the retiring ...

... CORRESPONDENCEI NOTICES TO COORRESPONDENTS. AlU letters intended for publication must be accompanied by the niame and address of the wdite-, not necessarily tar publication, but for the information of the Editor. Corrceondents. who sat any special value upon their con ncnnicions must hap copies of them, as we cannot untde.r take to return unused contributiona. C. C.-The marriage would be ...

... [Fom the Daily Nows.] Shall lwe give up Gibraltar? Admiral Grey, in counselling us to do so, has brought the anthority of his professional reputation and local knowledge to bear on a question which has been too much treated as a mnatter of mnere scntiment or courtesy. Whether we should surrender that famous rock is a point which dleserves very careful examination ; but tire first con. ...

... ' 1IICI-IINGS v. CORDINGLEY. To the BDITOI of toeD.lLY POST. Sir,-The Church Timnes of Saturday last, under the th abLov heading, contabis a report of the Council of the H English Church Union, and as the said report is not so ih accurate as it might have been, I trust you wiil allow me Ct a corner in your paper to correct one or two of the errors D the writer of the report has fallen into, ...

... CLERICAL SUPPORTERS OF MR. GLAD- STONE. At a lecture on the Irish Church, delivered by the Rtev. N. T. Langrilge, at Hinokley, onl Monday, the Rev. J. 0. I'icton, rcGtor of Desford, presided, and exprossed himself unreservedly in favour of the disestablishinent of the Irish Church. At the close of the lecture, the Rev. Mr. Fisher, rector of Higham, spoke, and expressed general con- currenee ...

... THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND MR. LOWE AT THE FTSH3ONGEfS' HATAL, Several members of the new Government were enter- tained at dinner by the Fishmongers, in their hall, on Thursday night. The Lord Chancellor returned thanks for the toast of her Majesty's Ministers. As a Fishmonger of forty years' standing, Lord Hatherlciy appealed to the members of the company to attest the consistency with -which ...

... M ISCELLANEOUS. on Fi iday, the fifthl and last daly, flhe Smittfieild Show wa~s Aviite-d 1by Many thOUSanliS leSs than oil the previous cliiIii dYs, w len each day's takings showed that between ;:uo'00 sed *io,fuo entered threegh the turn-tables. The salles were Very few in nimber. We oender stand that Sir William Snagg, Chief JuStiCe of £antignia, has been appointeti to suc'ceed Chief ...

... I NEWS FORi 'WOVN AND CO 'TRY. It The org0asisatioll for the despatcl and supply of daily .e newspapers is one of the marvels of social nmechanics. d Live where we wvill withill the linmit3 of the three king- d doms, or even beyond then, we have ibat to wvill that a tire news of tire day shall reach us once in every I twoenty-four hours, arid to go through the commercial Is preliminaries of ...