... Mr ELLIS, who was engaged by the Board, wished to know if the arrangement between the Commissioners and himself for the pumping of water into the reservoir was to continue. There were two years of the agreement yet unexpired; his reason for applying to the Board was, if they still required his services he was about to erect a new pump for the purposes of the Board. Mr PELL proposed that the ...

... In the House of tiords the Duke of Abercorn directed attention to the fact of a cot) gmgati on oi &Lethodists worshipping in a gen- tleman's pristtie park, in Ireland, having been dispersed on Sunday lat by A mob of Roman Cutholics. The ex-Lord Lieu- tenant thought thiseircomstunce might be taken as a specimen of the treatment which the Protestants will receive in Ireltnd under the policy ...

... The Jewish Chronicle urges the concurrence of the Jews in the revision of the Bible. The Rev. John Partis Haswell, who had been in the Wes- leyan ministry for fifty-eight years, died suddenly last week, at Newcastle, in the 80th year of his age. Two West Indian clergymen have arrived at Plymouth, by the mail steamer Neva; the object of their visit to England being to appeal to the public for ...

... A discussion on Vagrants took place in the House of Commons last Friday, and in the course of the debate Sir M. BEACH, who made the most practical speech of the evening, said— In the Richmond and Oswestry Unions separate wards had been built for sleeping and for labour for the vagrants. This was good for those traveling in search of work; and with regard to the idle and the professional ...

... VAGRANCY.-—COMMITTAL OF TBREB TRAMPS.—At the Office of the Magistrates' Clerk for the Tre'rddol district, on Wednesday, before Thomas Jones, Esq., Wm. King, Charles and Henry Jones, three disreputable- looking tramps, were brought up in: the custody of P.C. Evan Evans, of Bow-street, charged! with begging at that place early that morning.—Sentenced to one month's im- prisonment each at ...

... THE FRENCH PLEBISCITE. DISTURBANCES IN PARIS. The calculation has been made in official quarters that the final result of the French Plebiscite will be about 6,500,000 ayes and 1,500,000 noes, with abstentions amounting to one-fifth of the registered voters. In 1852, when Louis Napoleon was elected Emperor of the French, the figures were 7,824,189 ayes, 253,145 noes, and 1.692,916 abstentions, ...

... A having bitten a little boy, and the latter having ex- hibite-I symptoms of hydrophobia, the owner of the animal was summoned t, ...

... Miss Ethel: Mamma, dear, I think I shall be a Dutchess.Mamira What nonsence, Ethel What do you mean?—Ethel: Why how would it be if I married a Dutch?-Punch. A TALE OP A TRUMPET.-At one of the entertainments recently given to the Duke of Edinburgh in India an old lady was present, who, being afflicted with deafness, car- ried an ear trumpet. She had occasion to summon one of the table ...

... The House of Lords sat for only a very short time, and tran- sacted no business of public interest. In the House of Commons, Mr Monsell stated the terms of the arrangement which has been come to between the delegates from the Red River Settlement and the Government of the Dominion of Canada. The Red River Settle- ment, it appeared, is to be constituted a province, with a local legislature, and ...

... ANNIVERSARY.—The Baptists of this town held their annual meetings on Thursday and Friday, the 8th and 9th instant. Sermans were preached on the occasion by the following niinisters:-P,evs. R.Ellis, Cynddelw, (,arnarvon; W.Harries, Heolyfelin, Abcrdare R. Hughes, Ilaesteg, Glamorganshire; and H. C. Williams (Hywel Ceanyw), Corwen. There was a meeting the preceding day at Talywern, a ...

... MR HOW ON MR GLADSTONE AND THE IRISH CHURCH. Fi-om the Oswestry Advertiser.) A large number of our readers will read with mcch interest a letter by the Rev. W. Walsham How which we publish in another column. There is no clergy- man in this district, or perhaps in the whole of Shrop- shire, whose opinions carry greater weight than those of the rector of Whittington, and anything that he may ...

... OPEN PLOUGHING MATCH.—A ploughing match, which was open to the whole county, came off on Tuesday last, at Bow-street. The match was got up by a number of the farmers in the neighbourhood, and amongst the sub- scribers were Sir Pryse Pryse, Bart., Colonel Pryse, and Lewis Pugh Pugh, Esq. The day was very unfavourable, and it never ceased raining during the whole of the time the ploughing was ...