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few purchases to be made by the local bidders. The sale | been stated from the chair that the larger sum could only 
of the sculpture and paihtings has taken place this week ; | bé declared at thé expelise of bitty. over the half year 
the pictures realised good prices, the great attraction of ne charge of Bays ire n the 30th of June Saat, 
gallery, the Vandervelde, fetched 1,186/ 10s... The | to the end o a “After a very stormy dis- 
sculptures numbered upwards of 90 lots, and the sae cussion, and ed “opibaition from Sir I, L.. Goldsmid 
realised by the whole was feat 0007, and others, the dividend of 10s, per share was carried by a 
Seuthampton.— I his town was a ep of? great excite- | majority;of 43 against 37, and the report was adopted.— 
ment on Saturday, in ton sbauenee of thé nomination of | The meeting of the York and North Midland Company 
candidates for the representation of the borough. The | wis held on the 2d inst From the report it appeared that 
proceedings lasted eight, hours, and were remarkable for | the gross revenue for the last half-year amounted to 
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the violent language | Mk passed between Lord Nugent | 39,5287. ae and that the expenditure amounted. to 
and some of the principal electors on the Conservative | 18,835/. 2 s. 10d., the expenses of working, &c., being 
side. Lord ugent eM atied Alderman, Lefeuvre wit 4,6471. 155. and the interest on debentures 4,1872. 
bribery, upou which the psn retorted in such terms as|7s. 10d. The directots recommended the continu- 
led to a hostile doutnanion at the close of the election. | ahce of a dividend of 2/, 10s. each upon the whole 
ie vr trac the lang pplied | shares, and of 15s. each upon the half shares, to 
é d Nugent, who explained that he did not intend to | pay which a small amount was necessary to be abstracted 
charge him with bribery; the affait then terminated with- m the reserve fund. This was agreed to, and the 
out any further consequences, The official declaration ‘of | report of the directors adopted: The Income-tax will be 
the poll was announced on Tuesday, when the numbers paid out of the funds of the company, so that there will 
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through this heme on, Monday on her way from Gopsal | to have reached 113,661/. 12s. To this would be added 
seat of the Ma vite of Exe er Majesty was met by | ment of the dividend, with the charge for the Income-tax, 
the clergy, the mayor, an a the principal inhabitants, a | there would be left 5,4957. 14s. Id., to be earried to 
short distance out of town, and escorted to the lo dges “of cred * of ne gent ie eek, ane fa aap to future divis 
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thabiinbst on the part of the assembled multitudes, On rapidity ' with which despatches. way be forwarded by rail- 
Tuesday about five hundred children connected with the | way, that the Government messénger, Who arrived from 
parochial national schools of the neighbourhood, met at | Lisbon on Saturday with despatches, started from the 
Burghley House, and were regaled on the lawn in front of | terminus at eit by by a spec ial tr train, and arrived 
the mansion. e christening of ‘the infant son of the | at Nine-elm includin 
Marquis and Marchioness took place on the same day. | two stoppages. The Montioes Lhe “Lisb bon on ‘the pre- 
he iit Dowager took her departure on Thursday, on | vious Wednesday, and Lord Aberdeen was enabled to 
her return to Gopsall Hall, the seat of Earl Howe, and | answer his despatchés by the tail of Satutday night,— 
it is criderstaea that pst pss will visit Malvern in the | The reduction of fare on the Canterbury and Whitstable 
early part of next week ailway has been productive of a considerable increase of 
St. Asaph. enw s fare i 
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sary to obtain an Act of Parliament to ciiable his lord- | number carried rose 7244 5 and i in J aly of the present 
ship to rebuild the mansion destroyed by fire, without year, with mt 6a. fare, the number has stil further in- 
diminishing the fortune set apart for the junior branches | creased to 4,116. 
of his family he edifice will shortly be commenced, an 
will afford employment to a large number of workmen in _ REL AND. 
Denbighshire. ce Dublin.—~An active canvass for the representation of 
Winchéstey The local papers state that among. the Ksagirsde Colle has ee Pe cep on by a committee, on 
few vestiges of anciént hospitals, or almonries, now exist- the p of Me. L and by Mr, G. A. Hamilton, 
ing throughout the kingdom, may be_ SAME. Ee) of | on tee ain behalf, % ihe Ai pe of Mr. Solieitor- 
St. Croix, situated about.a mile from this city, on the road General Jackson elas elevated to the vacaney on, the 
to Southampton. By the will of the ame every traveler, bench, caused by the death of | Judge Foster. Nothing de+ 
“ excepting Fopihe and ease who knocks at the doo finitive has peg coiet relative to the law appointments, 
this hostel, on ie? Wa’ sh or from ‘ee phate, ig entitled o but it is still ee 1. raLi mervanon that Mr, Jackson will 
receive from th “4 iy n bread and a e the new. Jud ~The i iety 
of atone eh of wich table pers have vote 10007 rs the prose of laying the foundation 
have, ou Feat if pate Acs i Hosa i isa little 6f an exhibition. in ‘the Unive rsity, for galing fr apane 
way off t d gar- | acquainted. with tie Irish ap ag Mes er that they may 
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den, ene is get nds eae gk oe _Few persone s who | preach in the mative tongue. ed the 
travel on the road are aware that such an institution is Earl of Roden, Dr. Singer, and three other gentlemen to 
still in existence, and gp Ww that the Southampton railway | act as trustees of the fund.—The dere ae st 
rne, has 
very probable fa ie shorn tal Me in the course of a few been brought to a close. The Jury foul ee that this des 
years, me come little, if at Higa me Ne 0. ceased gentleman ‘' was found dead in his bed on Saturday, 
Win othe i n. C, eth Water, he Master of her the 9th ult. 3 that he met with his death at his own house 
Majesty’ 8 “halle ehold, ang Ag gered wh another member | between the 3d and 9th ult., under very mysterious cir- 
of the royal establishin ent that he would kill forty rabbits | camstan¢es; and that the strongest possible suspicions 
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with a single-barrelled rifle, within twelve hours, npo ach to Mrs. Elle hi r 
ne of the royal preserves ih the neighbourhood of the aturday the coroner rece nstructio 
Great k, at Windsor, the affair, which created con- | from the ttorney-General, directing that, omm 
siderable interest, tam M ing at | sion was so near, M should continue in eater 
orfolk- arm, + Mr, Mu eed as e police, as hitherto, until the case be investiga 
early as six o’clock, ‘and. such was the character of the | fore the Grand Jury, and the result of their deliberations 
ithi : own. 
bagged, only five discharges failing in their effect. The| Done gal.— During the last week 400 sky of Ameri- 
rabbits, isthe ou the royal farm has been much | can flour have been imported into this y Messrs 
~ ‘since the ¢o has been a Windsor, are still Rankin and Co. , being the sake arrival of out diréct froth 
remely numero will ensure plenty of sport | América into any of the northern ports of Ireland. 
aufihg the seaoh. har Murray was accompatiied by| Kilken ny.—The local Proscige announce the death of 
Viscount Jocelyn and the Hon. Captain Hood. Prince | Mr. John Banim, the well known author of ‘¢ Tales of the 
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Albert and his brother, Prince Ernest, attended by their | O’Hara Fam inily,’”’ and other Page ye id Bicgor who 
suite, shot ovér the Park on the same morning. Prince died, after a Srotbadtad ome t his residence near this 
Albert shot 458 rabbits i the preserves at Virginia ve wns on Friday morn ir Bani gee for some 
Water, the whole number killed in the course of a couple me past almost wholly w wh himself from his lite- 
of hours being from 130 to 140. Prince Albert, having rity pursuits. In early ite ‘he rey the profession of 
the best position, killed the greater number; but his | a miniature painter, but the success of his first dramatic 
brother, who is a first-rate shot, ve one rabbit, which | piece, ‘* Damon and Pythias,”’ was decisive of his future 
ntti Ni Stepping over the ground to be upwards of 80 | fate, and the pencil, at which he ig said to xt — no 
yo mean proficient, was abandoned for the pen joyed 
—The following are 4 age | réceipts of the | a A peas of 1502. per annum from the civil list, which 
snermentione railways :— Lond d Birmingham, Subsequently increased by the addition of 40/. a year 
18,7841. 25.; Great Western, 15,4837 is South Mohd for "the education of this only vA, a datighter 
3581. ich, 9182. 11s, 4d.; Croy- SCOTLAND, 
don, 4557. lis. 34d. ; North Midland, 4,7281 16s. ; York Edinburgh.—The Edinburgh meeting of the Highland 
and North Midland, 1,741/. 14s. 8d,; Edinburgh and | and Ageusleara Society, which has ex cited much atten- 
Giese ot) Pat #. Is. 5d.; Liverpool and Manchester, | tion for some time past, The pre 
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Finhaven, ii the éounty of Forfar, was purchased the 
sum of 75,0007, rey ~ trustees of Mr. Gardyne, of Mids 
dleton, neir Arbro 
Glasgow —The s trike of me colliers in the neighhour- 
hood of Ly place sul continues. The aceounts up to the 
end of last week state that they had attacked the potato 
five Gattan had ren appribendal fry rfl pier 
the Sheriff, under the Act of Parliament, and the charge 
pi that their cecal ies a a and present pros 
ceedings arose from the avarice of ag miss on the one 
hand and theit own improvidence on er. He be- 
. eved that some of the poorest of the colliers spent. as 
uch 0 
The Sh ate advised those of them who had warnings to 
ge e ee their > ian 8 with their employers, and 
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Hovst oF t Loate APPA L3.— — rly fine? 4 s Charity. Short 
and oth ers Wilson and others.—Jadgme was given, on 
wrey last, ‘ia this important — cularly im- 
4, a short time 
( us of devoting the principal 
aaa ope ay ¥ encouraging the preathihg of thé 
set rectors, by her a others at that perj 
es ary sere pa executed two trust deeds « 
e Rev ‘appe 
re, the Rey. Mr. Holla, who “fad beccine 
ie thine Wehnet The first potkege y hs hy pes gery into 
big chapel is attributed to Mr. Cappe; e Rev; 
C; vopee la ait Unit gi ered once » Ate 
of Some years, al astee ¢ Ualtarighe the Be wie: 
Spboint nted trastees aiWass Being selected froth that sett of D 
sent When the Comtnission nted. & Parijameat 
for. inquiring ihto and corre es of funds pe 
estates settled for charitab visited ¥. 
formal : { 
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which ombarings ae einfon 
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of Pie Unitarian belief and doctrine are exe 
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tn eh called U ian be 
e several bodies of P Terps Dissenters. from the Es Established 
Church, which were generally known, ee RT and ae 
at the time the Gees "took effect; aud Ta nable 
rn any authentic c source, that | the Un bs did for 
fact rey time a bedy lass 0 Protestant Dissenters ihown 
Pg pla in the ae the c o far a§ can 
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execution of these rere. pcre 
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5,015/. 13s hester and Leeds, 4,801/. 11s. 1d. | paration for the show had been completed gome time pre- be in the ait ae beg g objects of 8 id the chat fag eng 
At the meeting of the Bri n © mpany; the report pre- us, the sho td being in Warrender Parks,'| time certa’ ai. phareny of Pestestant Dissenters 
sented b iréctors gave some explanation of. nd the pavilion for the publi¢ dinner on the Castle Hill ascertained, who. dese eached do 
discrepancies i ich haye already at Earl of a ees pee the absence of the understood and, exed on 2 
much attention. The accounts show that fie traffic during | of Buccl ibition lasted for two days, and ai 
the last six months has produced 63,236/, 7». 2d., which, | the meeting on th ver essful.—The papers.| Unitariens, 
with the balance of last year’s accoun ake 1 au "i mention that Sir W. 5 ae the, Lord Advocate, is confined Wa 
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of 75,8067. 9s, 10d. ‘This, after aking the usual allow- | at his seat, Eskgrove, near this city, by sever 
'e indisposi- | | 
be naa for reas o ras left a ba slance disposable by the tion, which is said to ees it doubtfal i Bay Ba 
mpany of 2 1. 12s, It was proposed by the di- | ever be able to resume is ial the 
schon that a dividend of 10s, or 15s, should be declared, | Marquess of Hunt ley’s lngshok it 
at the option of the majority of the meeting, it having | week in the Old Signet Hall in this ie wa a 
