... SUBRPISING CURB Or LONG-STANDING ASTHMA BY TAXINq LAERT ASTHMATIC BALaaS.00rnl2rniatod throngk Mr. B. M. Graham, Chemist, 21, East Holborn, South Shields, May 2,1868.--To Mr. Wmi. Lambert, Chemist. After suffering from Asthma for the lost twelve years, and hasing tried althe different sooalled pepoifle for tbeconplalntvsith. out benefit, I .waa recommended by Mr. R. M. Grabaem, of this town, ...

... THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FO1. THIE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. abE The President's address forma the inaugural ceremony of of the meeting. This was delivered in the Victoria Hall OnL fro Wednesday evening, under the presidency of the Right an Worshipful the Mayor (H. S. Ellia, Esq.), and never has a def larger or more brilliant gathering bean, witnesaed in Exeter. of The ...

... There is still one trifling flaw in the arrangements for the reception of the British Association, and that is that the Finance Committee are still about £500 short of the amount absolutely required to do honour to our guests as an ancient and flourishing city like Exeter ought and must do honour to them in the way cf, hospitality. Every means for raising this sum, says the Chairman of the ...

... SILVERTON.-A servant girl named Quant, living with Mr. Berry, wheelwright, whilst at play on Saturday with the youngest daughter of her master, fell from a loft and sustained such injuries as to need her being conveyed to the Devon and Exeter Hospital,-[The half-yearly exami- nation of the Silverton School took place at the close of last term under the superintendence of the Rev. A. H. ...

... CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT SIDMOUTHa The Conservatives of Sidmouth and its district met toge- ther on Monday afternoon to the number of 200 and upwards, comprising most of the leading men of the town and its neighbourhood, to celebrate, by a public banquet, the trium- phant return of Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart., and Viscount Courtenay as the Conservative representatives of the Eastern Division of ...

... Opinions considerably varied repepcting 'Mr. Blogue, or the O'd sa Bloke, as hie was more familiarly termed in the social circle. in Blogue's admirers maintained that he was a 'Thinker, and a it philosopher, and a man of recondite and curious research. 'V 1liogue had a large telescope ostentatiously displayed at one of B his front Wir~dowa, andl it is also undeniable that he used to I attend ...

... NORTHAM. .The 'oastguaxdsmen at Northam on Thursday night saw'the light of a vessel evidentlyin distress. The men started with a rocket appar tus to Coraborough- thence to Shipartown and Portedge. The menrenained on the wwthe all through thf uighf, But at daylightno vessel was visible. The next day portioai of a wreck cams ashore, and this leads :to the euppositoio that the vessel with the ...

... LONDON, February 22nd, 1869. I must ask you to-day to suppose me sitting down to write this letter in a white sheet, with a couple of wax tapers by say side, and ejaculating at every third line Peceavi. Per- haps it may require an effort of imagination, for newspapers And newspaper writers are nothing if not infallible; and I suppose you, like the Timens, act upon the old maxim, ?? Never ...

... I BY' ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. . LONDON, TUESDAY NIGHT.- The Hon. C. L. Wood, eldest son of Lord Halifax, will shortly be married to Lady Agnes Courtenay, only daughter of the Earl of Devon. VALETTA, MARCHL 9.-The steamer .Rkeefeil from Syracese, has brought in Richard Otimmins and eleven other seamen, the entire crewt of the British barque lf ome, of Sunderleud, which foundered yesterday morning ...

... The Tekegraph has taken to task very severely Viscount Folketone, andother Wiltshire magistrates, for hawing inflicted a penalty of 40s. upon two girls for stealing a larg6 quantity of rape greens from an field, and in defaul o. payment committing them for a month's imprisonment. Thei- value of the property stolee gwas one shilling, but the injury done co the crop must have amounted to many ...

... I FUIDAY.L.-Present: Sir X. .Botori#n, St., C. Tucker, A. fiarswright, W. Barnes, and d. H. A4. Hwamilton, Mr'el ?? and the Rev, .7. Heiy'she Mr.! Pelly HEaper, solicitor, on behalf of Mr. William' Mortimer, applied for a lioeinse to sell 'spirits at the New Inn, Broadolyst, previously a beer house. Where was a petition signed by the overseers of the parish in support of the application; bu t ...

... I: ; EXi . . : TER. - -, On Friday in the House of Commons Sir Massey lopes Drese ted a petition from the Devonshire Chamber of i griilturongainsthe present unjust anduunequalpreesu of ?? burdens upon real property. The st Thomas iWoca1 Board met on Wednesday in reference to the alleged nuisance caused at Mr. Hidlk' ammonia works, near the Basin. Mr. Friend presided; san Messrs. Farraut, Heath ...