... WINCHEBTER. Agent-MES. PROUTEN. TEI SOCIETY OF ALIENs.-The annual nomination meeting of the Charitable Society of Aliens was held At the Royal Hotel, Winchester, on Tlursday evening last, and was numerously attended by the -stewards and trus. tees, when six poor boys were nominated to be apprenticed with premiums of 201. each, out of tetfunds collected at the last anniversary At this meeting ...

... . CHURCH ]DECORATIONS. BELTON. The Christmas decorations of this Church will bear comparison with the best examples of the neighbour- hood. They are executed with great taste and skill. Above the communion table are three circles, each con- -taining an appropriate device. On the North side of the table is On oval, with the sacred monogram. On the South is one, having in it a cross and crown of ...

... THE CONGREGATIONAL DENOMINATIOI¶. !I , The following is the annual statistical summary, prepared by the ROT, I. ABshton, and published in the Vongregctienal Year-hook for 1870:- COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS AND UNIONS. England ?? Colonies ?? Wales ?? . 161 cotland ?? , 8 Total ?? -- 7 ?? ?? CHTTURCIMS. England ?? ?? Coromms_ Wales .846 Cape N:atal, &o.; South Scotland . ?? 102 Africa ?? tO Ireland ?? ...

... MR PEABODY'S WILL. Mr. Peabody's will, as we briefly mentioned yesterday, has beeu proved in the Probate Court. As much interest attaches to it, and as many bequests have been erroneously reported, we give the main provisions in full. The per- sonal property in England is sworn under 2400,000: I George Peabody, gentleman, do maake this my last will and testament. Firstly, I direct that my ...

... OA.Uh1TARTEJBN, FAwcy Ditm BALL--Ater the lapse of several .ear A I Z fancy dress ?? held at ?? on Wednes. Id4y night, which was quite as successful, as its prede- Job cessbrs were wont to be, and created no emell amount of OriL ,tmipqt,MO? 0 tyqj, : T Q 9wVany (including the dlito Ohe of Carmartbenshlre anA several lames and gentlemen from BrE adjoining counties) began to asseeble about nine ...

... - To the Editor of the Ipswich Joumal. SrB,-In your valuable Journal of the 17th instant, it was stated, in the account of Miss Sherriffe's death, that To the town and the inhabitants of Southwold the loss will, indeed, be irreparable. That the decease of that most estimable lady will be a great loss to the town there can be no doubt; that it will be an irreparable los1, I should be sorry ...

... lionthanMv. GiflVd himself. It is just fixity of tenure 9 which, without inlringing the rights of property in > land (which, whatever he may say, are essentially r different from other rights), succeeds in communi- eating to the tenant that incentive to exertion and » Self-denial without which it is impossible for hiH\ to I tise in the scale of civilised being. A passing laugh at the Welsh ...

... Settrn t0 tl1£ (Biritor. CANTON LOCAL BOARD. SIR,—Knowing your willingness to ventilate any subject that may cause injustice, I am under the necessity of again asking: your kind indulgence in allowing me spaFe to express myself in your columns as to the short-sighted ignorance ex- isting with the majority at the Canton Local ioard. Nov. 13th you inserted a letter asking the Board ,;0 take ...

... THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT. The leading provisions of the Act 32 and 33 Vie., cap. 71, are sufficiently well known but it may be of service to the members of the commercial community to point out the principal alterations which this statute will effect in the proceedings and practice of the Court of Bankruptcy. Much has been left by the Legislature to the Lord Chancellor and those gentle- men by ...

... G6RAT TA N. IT is said he took Chatham for his model, and there were certainly many points of resemblance between them. Still Grattan's manner WAs distinctive enough to reject all idea of imitatiOi, and there were traces of that Celtic nature so evidejat about him, it would have been impossible for him to have conformed to any discipline that should have curbed the imaginative discursivenes of ...

... - . I . - - - I : - l - - - - ?? - - FRIGrTFUL ACCIDENT AT A BRISTOL I Ii EATRit. The BristlI Pos~t givcs Lths floi I oing account of a to rrible ?? i-t'lr 'c at tho th catre 016ro. line of tii,) os nwiqilalliig c ita-.treihies which it has boeen on:' d aty to c niclid titranu- i a vreiy long poriiid of ','els ?? roe n .\ 1 Iviii -lit ill arkc lRow, Brtistoul Itit to ?? ' Ci the flilt anI ...

... Local xeb)s. I ALDERtMAN5HIP-..There is every probability that the aldermaniship, resigned by Mr. W. Birley, will, at the council meeting to-day, be filled up by the appointment of Mr. Councillor J. J. Myres. Mr. Myres is the oldest member of the Corporation, having been elected a repre- sentative of St. ?? Ward in April, 1842. Ever since that time he has represented the sa ward The gnt man to ...