On Friday evening last, a very unanimously attended vestry meeting of this parish was held, for the purpose of taking into consideration the correspondence, &c., that had taken place between the parochial authorities and the Poor Law Commissioners, with regard to the appointment

The Gravesend and Milton Waterworks billl was reported in the House of Commons, on Tuesday and ordered to be engroassed.

The Lewes Election took place on Wednesday. when R. Perfect, Esq., was returned, without oppo.ition. to fill the vacancy cansed by the retirement of Sir Howard Elphinstone. THE LATII ROBINS.—The valuation of personal property of the great valuer of estates, the lamented George H

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ACCIDENT BY FALLING AGAINST A NAIL. On Monday morning a young man named Ord, Whilst in a state of intoxication, fell against the railings surrounding the old police station house, High -street, Woolwich, y.hich are stuck With nails, one of which penetrated the left eye. A medica

On Monday this autumn cattle fair was held, and was well attended with buyers. Stock made prices 15 per cent. above last year's. The primest fat beasts fetched 4s. Bd. per atone ; fat heifers realised from £9 to £l2 a head ; good Sussex bred oxen made from £l5 to £lB a head; goo

It will not be necessary to enter into all the particular claims, pretentiona and distinctions which characterize the various offices. That would be a task beyond our present object, requiring a cemplex, bulky, and dry mass of details, which we expressly desire to avoid. Moreove

Much has been said and written on the advantages and the disadvantages of the PROPRIETARY and the MUTUAL systems of assurance. By some the Proprietary security has been thought lightly of, because actual cash advances to the full amount of the guarantees are neither made, nor re