... THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—As the 1st November ap- proaches the excitement, anent the forthcoming election of Town Councillors, increases. The retiring members (called by their opponents the Four-horse team) are Mr. G. T. Smith, auctioneer; Mr. J. Watkins, wine merchant. Mr. John Rees, draper and Mr. R. Morris, currier. There are also in the field Mr. Charles Hackney, china dealer • Mr. Peter ...

... It is stated that a large number of the agricultural labourers who emigrated to Brazil have petitioned the Emperor to send them home again. They say they have been deceived and badly used. Information has been received of the total loss of the brig Ocean, of North Shields, while on a voyage from Halsingborg to London. The captain and four of the crew were drowned. The Ocean was 248 tons ...

... THE RAID ON THE CITY BETTING- HOUSES. ■^be examination of the persons apprehended by the Mice took place before the Lord Mayor of London on The Justice-room of the Mansion House was crowded to excess, the defendants alone occupying nearly *be entire portion of the Court set aside for the public. The first case taken was that against Mr. Morgan, the ^fcdlord of the Rising Sun public-house, ...

... The German papers ^criticise the Presidential Message of M. Thiers with great interest, and enter iully into its general purport. The North German Gazette says that the vital point of the Message, so far as it regards foreigners, lies in the enunciation of the principle that Every Government must be Conservative, and that Society will tolerate no other form. It is through the Conservative ...

... John Seller, draper, Norton, nearMalton, Yorkshire. Gregory Cooper, market gardener, Carewell, near Tam- worth, Staffordshire. Samuel Mason Wells, ale merchant, Bedford. William Watson Oldershaw, attorney-at law, Hales- owen, Worcestershire; presented by Lloyd's Banking Company (Limited), Birmingham. James William Fleming, saddler, Walton, Wilts. LIQUIDATIONS. Phineas Cohen, glazier, 4, Bridge ...

... LORD BYRON'S SAVANT. r The men in London who connect the past romantic And poetical age with the distracting, busy present, are fast J d viii o »t; so we like to come across those who are st' living. It'is known to few that a remarkable man now li dds the post of one of the senior messengers in tlj India Office. Giovanni Battista Falcieri is the man on vhose shoulder Lord Byron died at ...

... SUDDEN DEATHS.—There have recently been two cases of sudden death, one a woman named Jane Williams, of Llanste-place, and another, Thomas Lewis, of Catherine- street, but there were no peculiar circumstances con- nected with them. PETTY SESSIONS.—On Monday, before the Mayor, W. de G. Warren, T. L. Philipps, and G. Philipps, Esq.— Edward Richards was sent to gaol for 14 days for beating his ...

... ALARMING ILLNESS OF LADY DOUGHTY. It was stated on Tuesday that the Claimant had suddenly postponed his journey to Glasgow on being informed that Lady Doughty was seriously ill. It seems that a notice, signed by the solicitor to the Treasury, was served on the solicitor for the Claimant, to the effect that Lady Doughty was so dangerously ill that it was deemed advisable, on the fpart of the ...

... The Archbishop of Canterbury has left Addington- lor Stone-house, Broadstaira. ...

... A meeting of farmers was. held on Tuesday at New- market, at which it was anaaounced that above seventy persons had given in their names as members of the proposed agricultural association, to resist strikes and the agitation of professional agitators. The speakers disowned any desire to act in any oppressive way, and stated that their wish was to convince labourers of the fallacies of the ...

... On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of a woman, named Annie Girlin, 29, widow, of Manchester, who poisoned her youngest child, Ada Millicent, aged two and a half years, and afterwards committed siucide by taking prussic acid. Her husband died about eight months ago, since which time she has been in a very depressed state, and has often spoken of killing herself and her children. On ...

... Last night's Gazette contains the text of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, signed on the 5th inst., by the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and France. ...