The Walsall church. rate has been postponed for nine months,
after a scrutiny, by a majority of three. For three consecutive Sessions for the county of Durham, and the intervening Assizes, not one criminal case has been sent from Sunder- land, a town containing a population of nearly 50,1)00.
Mr. Hayeraft has been dismissed by the County Magistrates from the office of Warder of the Castle at Exeter, for taking money at the doors during the Assizes. The practice had been long winked at by the bench, but henceforth there can be no mistake about the matter.— Western Times.
A West India House in Bristol has advertised for " thirty young men, used to agricultural labour, and twenty young women, accustomel to the same pursuits, for colonizing one of the healthiest and pleasantest spots in the island of Jamaica."
Mr. Montetiore has completed the building of the new synagogue bud the ahnshouses in the neighbourhpod of his Marine Villa, near Ramsgate. This wealthy Israelite has expended an enormous sum of money in decorating the interior of that temple • where public. worship is regularly performed, and the high-priest of die Jews' Synagogue in Duke's Place occasionally officiates there.
At length preparations are making for the commencement of the railway aCSouthampton. Materials have this week been placed in the Marsh, and when sufficient are supplied, the great work will be begun forthwith.—Hampshire Chronicle.
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