... EXEIER TOWN COUNCIL. The Municipal body met specially ot the Guildhall on t Monday to contidor the report of a Comimittee appointed to investigate the canal and narket dehts. The Mayor pro- aided. The Towx COtii read the following report:- 2 Your Commitee find that the public debts of the city j conhiet of specifdc mortgages and general bends on r municipal property, mortgages under the Exeter ...

... i,15ONI OU1 OWN COItUUt'ONDENT). r NEWiv Yoas, 3rd October, 1873. t Lilko the approach of the cholera in the far east the corcing of this financial panie which is amongst us hbs bocu dreaded with a fear difficult to describe. Why ? Beciatuise poioplo have becn living icIprudently, too fast, too recklessly. o'er the most part they have existed upon the little honour t they could pawn to the ...

... In accordance with the provisions of an International 1 Treaty concluded at Berne on the .9th October last, ?? I = whole of the States of Europe, the United States of America, o and Egypt have formed themselves into a General Postal c, - Union, for the reciprocal exchange of correspondence, and tl have agreed to adopt low and uniform rates of postage for it ameall correspondence despatched ...

... The stamp of civilisation-the postage stamp. Soldiers must be a jolly set of fellows at sea, for they are generally carried away in transports. As a man drinks he generally grows reckless; in his ease, the more drams the fewer scruples. The Mifference between the cook and her lover is-the one coras the meal, and the other meets the cook. It was said of na inveterate gossip that she even ...

... OF LORDS. ?? HOUSE OF LORDS. doi THURSDAY-There was an unusually full House, and he a number of ladies occupied seats in the peeresses' gallery det and at the bar. Several petitions were presented by Earl red GRANVTILLE and the Duke of RUTLAND against the Royal the Titles Bill.-After the formal committal of the Oxford exi University Bill for the insertion of the Marquis of we SALISBURY'S ...

... I NEWS BY ELWETRIO . LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET. Pries- for wheat were sigfhtly in favour of buyers Although not e1oient to tjustitf a quotation. Not much bueiuess doing. Floursolowat late rates. Beaus and peas nallerbd. Irdieni corn *as in only very moderate reuest, at a reductlon'of 3d; per qr. -Mixed Amerloan, 32s. 6. to 82s. 9d, per 489 lbe. THE DBUTSCHLAND ENQUIRY. The .Destefslveld cnquiry ...

... A NAMELESS DErn.-Anunoigned will.-Judy. A PRACTICAL Go1ie.-Miss Deeds.-Puncs andThicty. SIGHING FiRuIT.-Pine-apples.-77Will-s'-tfle. WiFsp. Mrs. Miffine save her daughter is worse than a misfor- ?? a gal-aooity.-Panch. Fond mother: And what would Johnny do if mamma were to die ? Eat up all the sugar. When Unmarried Ladies get Votes, what will their rule be but Miss-rule?- Punch. SOON ...

... HOBGOBLIN RUSSIA AMR. GLADSTONE. Three speeches that have been delivered within the last week have attracted much attention, that of Mr. Forster, at Bradford, another of the Duke of Somerset, atWarminster, and the third, of Colonel lloyd Lindsay At Reading. Mr. forster ham lately returned from the East, where he went to verify the atrocities that bad i been committed in Bulgaria, and upon that ...

... EXErER TOWN COUNCIL ?? LJVli, V V - . THE EXETER UNION OP BENEFICES BILL. A special meeting of the Counoil was held at the Guildhall on Monday for the purpose of considering the Bill introduced into the Houee of Lorde by tho Bishop of the Diocese, intituled , An Act to make better provision for the union of contiguous benesfices withia the oity of Exeter. The Right Worehipfuil the Mayor (H. ...

... D TORQUAY. Her Grace the Duchses of Sutherland, Lady. Alexandra Leveson-Gower, Mr. Arthur Holmes Sumner and Lady ?? and family, arrived at the Impoiaf Hotel on Saturday afterneon. MAMHE13AD. Our obituary records the death of Mr. William Carroll Adams, of Langdon Barton, one of the oldest and mont respected tenants on Sir Lydeton Newman's estates. Deceased was well knowa as a thoroughly ...

... NEWS BY ELECTRIC TELEGEAPH. THE OLDHAM ELiCTION. The Oldham nomination is fixed for Siaturday, and the r polling for Thursday, March lat. WRECK OFF PADSTOW. is The brigantine Aeinooee of C ranville, was totally wrecked la off Padstow yesterday moriing, and all hands lost. Id lIHALIFAX ELECTION. The polling at Halifax, whioh was brisk in most wards, f wae closed at foer, The result of the ...

... lONDON, June 14, 1875. Ile is here-the Sultan I mean, for we have elevated him to the dignity of a Pronoun with a capital H at once, and Londoners are all as happy as Sandboys. I hope we shall not kill him with luncheons and dinners and that.sort of thing, for he is, when at home, a man of very abstemious habits, keeps early hours, and spreads his carpet pretty regularly to say his prayers; ...