... BANKRUPTS IN FRIDAY'S GAZETTE.—J. T. Ick, New- port, draper. W. Johnson, late of Swansea, patent fuel manufacturer. COLLAPSE OF ANOTHER ASSURANCE COMPANY.—WE learn by a special telegram that a petition for the wind- ing-up of the Imperial Guardian Assurance Company, has been presented in the Court of Chancery. The petition will be heard before Vice-Chancellor James, at the beginning of the ...

... Jural ^xAtUxQtm. SHIPPING CASUALTY.—The pilot cutter Mystery came in collision in the Bristol Channel on the 23rd of Oct. with the tug Ely, and sank; crew saved. OUTRAGE ON A SEAMAN.—On Sunday evening a dis- turbance took place in Bute-road, when a sailor, named Joseph Habbett, had a part of his nose bitten completely off by another seaman. The wound was dressed by Dr. Jones. The assailant has ...

... ADVANCE NOTES. LATELY much intereet has been manifested in the term at which advance notes to seamen should be issued at this port. For many years the practice li»s been here, to issue them payable at three days after the ship for which the seaman signed agreement, leaves the dock. This term has always been con- sidered un.airly short in the circumstances of the port The. danger attending them ...

... The promised amnesty demonstration in Hyde Park took place on Sunday without any material deviation from the pro- gramme decided upon by the committee early in last week. Like all previous out-door gatherings of a kindred nature, un- hindered by the police, it passed off without any public dis- turbance or breach of the peace. Trafalgar-square, as here- tofore, was the head-centre of the ...

... The weekly meeting on Saturday was very nume- rously attended by country guardians. Mr. E. W. David presided, and there were also present Messrs. J. Cory, Ensor, T. H. Stephens, Pride, J. Evans, P. Bird, R. Cory, sen., Eli Evans, W. Williams, French, and E. Davies, the Revs. W. Evans, and C. Lewis, and Dr. Paine. THE MASTERS' REPORTS. The master's report stated that 95 loaves per sack had been ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. The writ for the county of Tipperary will, it ir. i.iteJ, be issued in about a fortnight. Dn inquiry at Mr. Peabody's town residence this •fteruoou, we were informed that he had passed a restless I; ; ...

... lltcdds. (From the Mark Lane Gazette.) LONDON CORN MARKET, MONDAY.—Wheat has mostly sold at an advance of Is. per qr. Although heaviness has continued to be the feature of the grain trade, the depression has been less marked, and farmers have held their produce with rather more firmness The provincial markets held on Saturday were fairly supplied with wheat. The demand was inactive, and buyers ...

... THE QUARTERLY REVIEW ON THE BYRON MYSTERY. The new number of the Quarterly Review contains an elaborate article on the controversy raised by Mrs Stowe's True Story of Lady Byron's Life. The Reviewer writes in a atyle of which the present generation has had little experience, that of the slashing pamphleteer. He begins by apparently repudiating the plea put forward by some of Byron's ...

... THE WALLASEY WRECKERS AGAIN. A case of some interest to the maritime community was heard before the justices at the Birkenhead County Hall, on Monday. A vessel called the Empress, belonging to St. John, New Brunswick, laden with a miscellaneous cargo, composed chiefly of men and women's apparel, was stranded on Sunday, the 26th September, at the mouth of the Mersey, between Crosby and Formby. ...

... A MODERN HIGHWAYMAN. About half-past four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, whilst it was still broad daylight, a lady named Perkins, the wife of Mr. H. Perkins (a magistrate for the county) was returning from Cambridge to Triplow, about twelve miles from Cambridge. She was being driven by a man-servant in a brougham. Just after turning off the high road into the road leading thence to the ...

... DEATH OF THE MAGISTRATES' CLERK.—It is our melan- •holy duty to chronicle the death of Mr. R. Waters, who TLS officiated as magistrates' clerk for something like +VrtV years. By his death vacancies occur in the magis- +al and poor-law departments, he having held both a3 rtmettts. He was a liberal patron of every good and be a l°n £ time before his place in cau.se' •, giled up. His death took ...

... TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—On Tuesday even- ing the Rev. David Davies, the curate of St. Martin's Church. Caerphilly, was presented with a handsome testimonial by the inhabitants of Derri, in the parish of Gellygaer. Derri is a new colony, if we may use the term. in the parish of Gellygaer. Since the Rev. Gilbert Harries has been appointed rector of the parish, he has built a new school-room ...