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... The civic banquet with which Lord Mayor's Day is always brought to a close, came off with the wonted eclat in the evening. The grand old medieval hall, so renowned in the municipal history ofthe City of London, lighted up with elegant geseliers, shone with unsurpassed splendour, and without calling in the aid of any extraordinary decorations, and trusting to it own beautiful proportions, ...

... OTTERY ST. MARY.-The first meeting of the Ottery Literary Soriety was held at the Town Hallon Friday last, and was well attended. The Chairman (F. R. Jeffery, Esq.) delivered his inaugural address on the objects of the Literary Society- Preparations are being made for the 5th November. DARIMOUTH.-Mr. Philip Pinhey, who has for many years earried on business at Dartmouth, hung him- self in his ...

... qrfztau's 6ater ,flg# Vost (ESTAiiBESHD 1i63) IS THE ODfBST 4D MOST EXTENSIITELT OIRWULATED COONSBRVATIVE KEIFSPAPER IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1874. .PaIsox discipline has been an anxious subject of debate with social reformers and philanthropists, since the days when HOWARD taught that prisoners were yet men and women, and as such were entitled to humane treatment. There ...

... The life of a clergyman has its special cares and annoy- ances everywhere, no doubt; but of all places in the kingdom where he is peculiarly harassed by insult added to injury, defend us from Exeter. He is there placed on the horns of a dilemma of disagreeables, from which there is no escape whatever. A portion of the income of the clergy of the western capital is derived from an ancient ...

... re. TOTNES.-The weekly meetieg of the Board e in was held on Saturday, Mr. J. B. Paige.Browne n ad in the chair. The master reported the number of inmatea d rnd in the house to be 258, being a decrease of eleven, as corn- t pared with the corresponding week of last year. The out a Bct relief expended during the past week amounted to 190 8e. a he 2Jd., as against £95 8s. 8ad. The number of out ...

... One of the vacancies in the Town Council, created by t1l elevation of the Mayor. (H. C. Lloyd, Esq.) to the Alder. manic Bench, was filled yesterday by the election of Mlr, Sidney Style, of High-street, for St. Paul's Ward. It Will be remembered that on the 2nd November Mr. Wilkinsoa opposed the election of Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Pollard, and was defeated by a majority of seventy in the case of the ...

... BRISTOL AND EXETER. Downr. UP. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p'm. WiranfD. a.m. a.m. a.m. &.M. &.m3. a.m. P.M. p'1m. p.mI Exeter ?? 6 08 50 945 10 30)1145 1225 330 445 6 0 London ?? . 6 45 9 011 45 1030 ?? 150560' Stoke ?? 8 59 .. .. 1155 ?? ..611 Bristol ?? 61S 8 10 10 30 1280 2 26 3 15 ?? 6 0 815 Silverton. 6 22 9 8 .. .. .. .. .6 22 WestonJ 6 43 914 11 5 17 ?? 4 1 ?? 6 50 9 41 ...

... . HE EDITOR OP TRE2VIkN'S MXMTBR FLYING POST. -The subject of the social reverses and misfortunes oilmercial clerks in London, as sadly exemplified at . by the immense number of them out of employment, . unreasonably exciting much public interest and com- -',ion in our metropolis. ipe, as one of the unfortunate order and as a toiler of n years at the desk drudgery of London commercial . ...

... Sounding on ?? for drinks. The Height of Politeness-The Civil War in Spain. Judy. MoarsoNITr MAXIM AS REaxAD6 WIvES.-Bring-'em Young. A citizen of Chicaw is recorded as saying ' I can always tell water when I see it-it looks so much like gin. I'll give that fellow a piece of my mind, said a young fellow.. I would not, replied his uncle; you have . none to spare. HOPEFUL PROooENY.-A ...

... LONDoN, November 2, 1874. Those sardonic old Anglo-Indians were right. It is not the real Simon Pure after all, that the Cameronians are guarding grimly in the iron cage atMorar. At least this is the interpretation that every one is now putting on the Times telegrams, although, of course, it is a little perplexing to find Scindia, a 2,ahratta, who ought to know the head of the Malirattas. and ...

... THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY I ~~~RETURN. In the United Kingdom the births of 274,414 children, ear and the deaths of 161,847 persons of both sexes, were ?PP( registered in the threemonths ending 30th September, 1874. imp! The natural increase of population was thus 112,567. The of li registered number of persons married in the quarter ending find 30th June, 1874, was 129,708. The ...