... WOLVEIHDi&PrOx. THE 1NTEW WAiD s It ThH SOUTH 8TAFFOUDSHIe, I HOSPITAL.-A very gratifying, and almost extraordinary, amountof interest i8 displayed bythepublio lathe new wards of the South Staffordshire Hospital. Two fine wards have just been finished. The Weekly Committee of Governors very wisely determined that before patlents'were admitted the public should be invited to Inspect the ...

... SMALL-POX IN WOLVERHAMPTON | U UNION. There has been a decrease of one In the total number of small.pox pauper oares treated by the seven surgeons of the Wolverhampton Union In the part week. The patients now on the books number 41. There are 10 in Wolver. bampton, but half that number are In the Workhouse hospital. There are 18 in Bilston, and 13 in Willenhall, Wedneafield, and Heath Town ...

... ST. MARTIN'S, BIRMING11M.-St. Martin's vestry meeting was held yesterday, at the Town Hall, the Rector (the Rev. Dr. Wilkinson) presiding. The attendance was small. Mr. Arnold acted as veatry ?? RECTOR nominated Mr. W. W. Riddell as his warden, and Alder. rman BIRNSLBY nominated Mr. J. Gough as pariah warden. Mr. W. WILLIAMS, a member of the congregationa, saup- ported the nomaination of Mr. ...

... The Poster Sessioza for the county of Worcester were commenced at the Shirohall, yesterday; the Earl of Dudley presiding. There was a large attendance of magistrates. COUNTY BUSINESS. NEW MAGItTRT}k.-Mr. H. Wiggin, of Hrborne, near Bixminghanm, and Mr. W. R. Acton, of Wolverton. took the usoal oaths of qualification. WowEasTM ASA MILITARY CENTRu.-Sir . Pakiagton moved that the rules at the ...

... PROPOSED MONUMENT TO RICHARD 13AXTER, AT KIDDERMINSTER. A public meeting was held at the Gulldhall, Kidder. minster, on Tuesday evening, to consider the desirability of erecting a suitable monument to Richard Baxter, whose connections with Kidderminster Is well-known. The meeting originated with a resolution passed at the Town Council recently, where the subject was first publicly mooted by ...

... QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE BOROUGH DIAGISTRATES. YesterdAy morning, the Quarterly Meeting of IThe Borough Magistrates were held in the Council Chamnber. The Mayor presided, and there were also present Messrs Avery, Juffray, Poncia, Holliday. Maniton, Gooiul,,na, Goodrick, Sturge, Cooksey, Phillips, Middlemnore, arad Dr. Melson. The Visiting Justices reported that the prison and cells were clean ...

... ARCHDEACON DENISON. ON THE OHUROIL On Monday Archdeacon Denison held a vialtatlon at Taunton, at vwhich he delivered his customary charge to the clergy of the deanery of Taunton. He said he did not suppose he should live to see the Church of England dis- established and disendowed, but he was unable to doubt that both events would happen. One thing, howecver, was worse than. disestablishmeit ...

... * FOUR'THE1 DAY. [Bcy our Sppecial Beporter.I Saturday inado amnewils for many shorloMningS of the previous oay, and although three sufficiently inmpor- taut pictuns by Ward, Nos. 240, 241, and 242 were with- drawn from the sale, the sixtylive remaining works realiked the vcry satisfactory total of £36 830. 12s., or £430. pcr canvas, bringing up the total proceeds to this tinte to rather more ...

... WE TRIAL OF DANKS'S PUDDLING MACHINE AT MIDDLESBROUGr. i:SPEIAL RLTORT.] MIIDDLIsIIouGIa, Saturday. Yesterday, the first rotary puddling machine, invented by Mr. Dank;, was on view to the members of the Iron and Steel Institute, a body to whom the iron trade of Great Britain and the world is indebted for sending out a eommission to America to report upon the praotioability of the machine. That ...

... Yesterday evening, birs. Josephine Butler, of Liver. pool, delivered a lecture on The Unjust Judgments Prevalent in Society on Subjects of Morality, to a crowded audience at the Royal Hotel, Temple Row. The Rev. J. J. Brown presided, and In Introduoing Mrs. Butler made a few appropriate remarks In defence of the cause in which she is engaged. Mrs. BUTLER said the unequal judgment of society ...

... THE FIREIRON MAKERS' STRIKL. A public meeting of operative fireiron makers now on strike was held last evening at the Public Office, Moor Street; Mr. John Sale presided over a good audience.- The Chairman stated that the employers had received a deputation from the men with the view of arranging matters to settle the dispute. The masters received the proposals for advanced wages in a manner ...

... :. - * THE GROSS OUTRAGE AT LEISESTER. At the Leicester Town HAl, yesterday, before the Mayor (Mr. John Stafford) and a ful Benoh a diminutive mcno, apparently about 30 yeas of age, was charged with attempting to strangle an elderly maiden lady, named! Elizabeth Scott Burgess, who ?? at 20, Stoughtou Street. Leloentecr, g Saturday-night lat. ,, Tho asese excite d considerable IssterastI It ...