Prince Albert is to refer the question of his liability
to pay poor-rates for the Flemish farm to the Law-officers of the Crown, and is to abide by their opinion.
Whenever Lord Morpetlis name is brought before the public as a possible can- didate for a seat in the House of Commons, there arises a report that his father, the Earl of Carlisle, is dead; which would of course involve the son's succession to the Peerage. Such a report was spread abroad yesterday; but it was contra- dicted before night, and appears to be baseless.
The nomination for Hertfordshire is to take place on the 8th January.
Punch has hit off, in a sentence, the tree reason why Lord John Russell failed in making a Cabinet. In one of the "pencillings," the Queen is represented sitting in her parlour, with Prince Albert leaning over her chair—and perhaps whispering: Peel as the retiring servant looks over his shoulder in going out: Little John, very decently dressed as a page, is offering himself, with as much show of bold- ness and smartness as he can muster. But the considerate lady of the house- observes--" I 'm afraid you 're not strong enough for the place, John."
The Coroner's inquest on the bodies of the persons who were killed by the bursting of a steam-engine boiler at Bolton, last week, has terminated in a ver- dict of" Manslaughter" against Mr. Kitts, one of the proprietors of the mill.
An iron water-tank, calculated to hold 250,000 gallons, which had just been erected on the premises of the Liverpool and Harrington Water Company, at Liverpool, burst on Thursday, with a loud noise, when only two-thirds full; the water rushing with destructive violence on the adjoining houses, and flowing like s deep and rapid river through the streets. Seven lives have been lost, some by drowning and others by the falling of houses. Eight persons were carried to the Hospital, more or less injured.
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