... THE MtIUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT Or LOND ON. An influential iepntatiou waited upon Mr. Cross, an Wednesday, at tbe Home-offiEce, with rerard to the munieipal goverrnment of London. Lord Eli;Co briefly introduced the deputation, and thanked dIr. Cross for his courtesy. Their object, he explained, was to get an imprroved government for London, to get unity of authority and of action, and an efficient ...

... THE PUNCTIONS Or SUDGES AND JURZlES. TO THE EDITOR OF REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. SIR,-I have read with much satisfaction your article under the heading of Sqaint-caed Mercy, and, with your kind permission, would wish to say a word or two. You draw a comparison between the cases of poor Coppin, who was recently hanged, and Parsen Watson, who was respited by the Crown and got off with his life, ...

... A correspondent writes to the Daily NM ivs asking for pecunia- aid in behalf, as he says, of the daughter of an old Trafalgar officer, who g-eatly distinguished himself on that day, and was left at his death in 1869 an orphan, and entirely unpro- vided for. She is at present without any means to support herself, and was found last week by the police seeking shelter for the night in an un- ...

... TO CORRESPO Oxpizuj.-You should not expect a thrifty young Apple tree of Blenheim Orange to fruit too freely when young. Lay bare the thick parts of the main roots a few feet around the bole, and let the air and frost get to them. Take a few incies off the poiuts of all strong shoots at once, and do so more particularly next September also. INQUISITIVE ELLEN (PlymOUth).-Simplyfil the HacIth ...

... PUBLIC MEN ON PURLIC ArLPMRS. On Monday the annal dinner of the Preston licensee victuallers was hold at the Castle Inn, under the presi- dency of the Solicitor.General. The Solicitor.General (Sir J. Holker), in proposing the toast of the evening, Prosperity to the Preston Licensed Victuallers' Association, referred to the importance of the trade, and said it bad a capital of 117 millions-a ...

... QAR DE N I NGi 1o0 THE WEEK TuEiATITNA 5 NOVEsxPE 7TH, BY MR. GLENNY. OUR WEEKLY CALENDAR. THEi IFLOWi GARDEirN. The weather that affects all out-door gardens troubles the window- eardeners hlt little. Thiey have opportiiuities olevater- leg, shading, washing, and coaxing their plants, which eutof- door gardenlers havos tint. The burning salt, the pelting 'rain, the te:aring winds, chilly ...

... THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY RUND. Onl Mondgy,an influentially-attended meeting, convened by circular, in connexio vwith the above movement was held at the offices of the treasurer of the fund, Fleet-street. Mr. Hamilton Hoare, the chairman, said: As all present were men of business, he wvoald, w thout any general re- mark3, at once enter upon the tinfstion which had called them together. In carrying ...

... PROPOSITION FOR A PBROSCUTION. Mr. C. W. Stokes, describing himselt as a London merchant (says the Pall Mall Gacett,), has published an inquiry as to whether Professor Tyndall has not sub. jected himself to the penalty on persons expressing blasphemous opinions, 9 and 10 Will. III, cip. 32. The inquiry is addressed to Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary; and with his pamphlet Mr. Stokes has ...

... o To E EufToR 01' R13YNOJLDS'S NEWSPAPER. Slc-'The corporation of the City of London r one of thsee iustitutions which Englishmen, almot from their cradle, are taught to rever- ,elce and idmkir. Probably the more sen- sil ase it3 they grow up. discover that the thinigs in early youth they so highly revered are ?? the most corrrupt, rotten, and obnox- jOla5 of our institutiors. Many who before ...

... TUE REPU13LICANS AND THE nOYALVSIT TO BIUXMINGHAM, A meeting of Republicans was held at the Public Office, Aloor.strcet, for the purpose of protesting against the expenditure of the public funds in illuminating end decorating the town at the forthcoming royal visit. Mr. Potter presided. There was but a moderate attend- ance. Mr. REDDALLS complained of the manner in which they bad been treated ...

... ' THE GOVER NBNT OF LONDON A numerous and influent-ial 'depu-tatioi vaited upon the Right Hon. IL A. Cross on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of urging ?? the Government the desirability of instituting such changes in the government of the me- tropolis as would give to it unity and greater powers and cheaper and better government. The memorial presented was as follows.- That the present ...

... Mr. Ehihu Bnrritt is dangerously ill. Mr. William Tweedie, the well-known temperance publisher, died on Tnesday morning, at his residence, Campdeu.hill-road, Kensington. The sentence of death passed on George Neilan for the Glasgow lodging-hons6 murder has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The Stroud petition has been fixed to be trie, before Baron Pigott (one of the new election ...