A meeting of the supporters of the Progressive oanditiatee in the two " Saints " wards was held on Tueeday evening in the Wesleyan Schoolroom. Morton Street. Celdewg ,te. Mr Councillor Buck presided. and was supported on the platform by Messrs Teesdale, Williamson and Etchells.

(From PUNCH.) ,GEADATION.—CIerk (to Curate) : I'm t-rribl.sorry, zur, that you be a•gtvaitte to lave us. We've change& ever zo many times sinoo Green died, and al ways for the wiles! (from Devonshire, on a visit to her Scotch cousin Margy in St. Anarews, N. 8.) : What a strange

A Jo. A building in Gray's Inn, erected about 1605, was to made that any tampering vitt) a distant and apparently unconnected wall caused the whole house to topple down. The wall has just been knocked down, with the result that the has only just worked—nearly 300 years after it

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Mr COLLIN drew attention to the proposal to renew the licence to Mr W. D. Mark for a hide and skin mart in Tyne Street. He considered there were strong and reasonable objections to having such places within the city boundary. When the mart was in Court Street, at the request of

The remaining iteM — s - i,7b usiness were of little import-3.11C0. The MeJi , ial Officer of health (Dr Brown), was eananimously re-appointed, and notice was given that at next meetin2; the re-appointment of Mr Hills as Sanitary Inspector would be moved.—Mr referred to the arra

Scarr —At Fairhill View, Alston, on the 29th uit.s the wife of Wm. Scott, of a . son. D EAT [IS McKay.—ln Potter's Place, in this city, on the 2nd' inst • Mary McKay, aged 15 months. BAL:WIRE. —At Ne by (West), on the 2nd inst., Marga-et Barwise, aged 5 years.. BHRMAN. In Milbou

to int.-+rm his Friends a and Public generally that he has TAKEN the BUSINESS carried on for 18 years by Mr T. STEPHENSON at the above address, and hopes by strict personal. attention to all Orders entrusted to his care to merit a *bare of Public Patronage. Excellent NEW STOCK o

TILES FOR HEARTHS, FLOORS, WALLS. Existing Hearths Altered to Tile or Marble. EMULATES GIVEN ON APPLICATION. JOHNSTONE BROS., BE- AND COLLING WOOD STREETS, CARLISLE.