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There have been a number of Reform Festivals—happy meetings; chiefly of the labouring classes—in various parts of the country. On Wednesday last week, the men of Messrs. Maclean and Stephens, Gloucester, to the number of 800, were dined in the mill-yard of their employers. Many of the neighbouring gentry were present to witness the feast, and assisted in carving for their poorer neighbours.

The most complete, however, and, as a whole, the best-managed din- ner of winch we have seen an account, was that which took place at Bungay, in Suffolk, on the 27th ult., in the streets of that little town. It may serve as a model for open-air dinners to the labouring poor. The-number of persons entertained was 2,100; the eatables were calcu- lated at two pounds, the beer at two pints, for each individual, women and children included ; and there was enough and to spare for all. The number of toasts was ten ; among which that grand abstraction "the Press " formed one,—es the real, visible, and tangible press itself, in the act of printing, and diffusing its instruction among the multitude, from its lofty pedestal "the Pump," formed one of the striking points of the spectacle. The whole expense of the feast was 118/. Os. 6d.! about Is. 2d. a head. The tables, forty-two in number, cost 12/. 12.s., and. the band, ringers, and guns, for the signals, 10/. 2s. After the toasts were over, the whole of the happy party marched, preceded by the bands, to Bungay Common ; where " God save the King" was sung in full chorus, and with a hearty three times three the assembly sepa- rated. There was not one individual tipsy during the day, nor was

there one solitary case of complaint. The history of this festival of love has been published by Messrs. Childs of Bungay; to whom it is exceedingly creditable. It is really one of the most interesting and best-written of the many pamphlets to which the great measure of Re- form has given birth.

The Liverpool Tories are about to form a Conservative Club.

The professional men of Stroud intend to give their services gratui- tously in support of the Liberal candidates in the ensuing election ; and we are happy to discover the same spirit among the professional gen- tlemen in Cheltenham.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

The following declaration is in course of signature among those who

joined with the Political Union on the resignation of Earl Grey and his colleagues in May last—" We, the undersigned inhabitants of -the town and neighbourhood of Birmingham, who joined the Birminghant Political Union on the 10th and subsequent days of May, for the pur- pose of promoting the further union, order, and determination of all classes in support of the common cause of Parliamentary Reform, believing that the object for which we joined it has been fully accosts- phshed, by the great measure to which we pledged our support having become the law of the land, do now deem it our duty to withdraw from the Birmingham Political Union from this date." The date is to be the day of the Royal assent being given to the Irish and Scotch Reform Bills.—Birminghanz Gazette. Orders have been suddenly received at Portsmouth for all the re- maining officers and men of the Royal Marine Artillery, not embarked in any of his Majesty's ships, about 100 in number, to proceed to Plymouth, where they will be joined by about 900 of the Royal Ma- rines of that division, to form part of a secret expedition, the commted. of which will be given to Ma.;or Park, C. B. The following officers of the Marine Artillery will Join :—Major Parry, at this division ; Captain Burton, Captain Gray, and Lieutenant Mitford, who arrived here on Friday from Woolwich and Chatham, in the Dee ; Lieutenant R. Henry, who also arrived here on Friday from Woolwich, in the Messenger ; Second Lieutenants H. W. Parke, at Plymouth, and G. • Logan, at Chatham. They will take a brigade of guns and Congreve rockets. Different opinions exist as to their probable destination— Lisbon' Antwerp, and Minorca, being each named. We have no good reason for attaching any particular credit to either of these rumours in preference to the others.—Porismouth Herald of Monday.

• The Waterloo, of 120 guns, and Monarch, of 84 guns, building in 'Chatham yard, are ordered to be prepared for launching.

Last week, an Auxiliary Society was formed at Brighton. The Earl of Chichester presided at the first meeting, held on the 11th instant, which was very numerously and respectably attended. A do- nation of 100/. was announced from the Earl of Egremont, the Lord Lieutenant of the county. In the evening, Sir Thomas Blomefield took the chair ; when the room was crowded to excess, and numbers went away

who could not obtain admittance.—/Iforniny Hera!d. [What has a Tem- perance Society to do with money ? Their purpose is saving, not spend-

ing; they propose the abridgment of a superfluity, not the purchase of

• a necessary; they do not profess to give the public any thing ; their . object is to persuade the public to dispense with what they already en- joy. It is a curious notion to collect funds for the purpose of enabling peopleriot to use them.]

The*greater part of the Halifax, Huddersfield, and Leeds manufac- turers have advanced their men's wages.

The turn-out Rochdale cotton. spinners and rovers have resumed work.

In consequence of the appearance of the cholera in Wakefield House of Correction, about ninety prisoners, sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, have been discharged. The Magistrates, however, kept all the gifenders against the game-laws in prison, whilst they set the thieves at liberty, poaching being the unpardonable sin of the country gentle- men.—Lircrpool Times.

Our accounts of the wheat and barley crops are very gratifying. . Should the weather be favourable, the harvest will commence in early districts within a fortnight. —Binning/lam Gazette.

'The wheat wears so promising an aspect, that, should the weather continue favourable, an abundant harvest may be expected as the result. —Brighton Guardian.

The wheat harvest, which is most almndent, has commenced in Jer- sey. The crop of apples promises also to be full two thirds of a crop. Cyder is expected to sell at from 15s. to :?.0s. the hogshead. The finest butler, 18 ounces to the pound, sells at 8.1,/. English currency. Fruit of all kinds, especially the Chaumontelle pear' is unusually plentiful. Potatoes are selling at 9d. the eabot of 4-2 pounds ; the quantity shipped this year will be immense. Considerable quantities of wheat have been.

lately exported to St. Melo. Bread is now to 2d. per pound in Jersey.

The late fine weather has enabled almost all our farmers to finish their haymaking ; and i greater quantity of vell-made hay has not been known for many years. The wheat is changing fitst, and we believe in this neighbourhood a few will begin next week. The oats in the Weald are short, but the barley looks remarkably- well. Beans are generally good, but peas have got lately very foul, and are in many places almost a failure. There is scarcely a good piece of Swedish turnips to be seen ; the fly has been unusually busy, and many farmers have had a second crop destroyed by them. The fellows are generally good ; grass is getting short, but at the late fairs in this county lean stock has sold higher. —Brighton Gazette.

On Monday last, while the Reverend Noah Jones Unitarian minis- ter of Northampton, was returning by the stage to Walsall, on descend- ing the hill at Wednesbury the horses took fright, and it was expected . that the coach would overturn. Under this apprehension Mr. Jones and another gentleman threw themselves from the vehicle. The latter was killed on the spot, and the former had one of his legs broken and his back injured, and received in addition a dangerous wound on the back of the head.—Arorthampton Mercury. [It may be laid down as a • general rule, that, however dangerous it may be for a passenger to re- main in or on a vehicle with which the horses have run away, it is far more dangerous to attempt to quit it. It is a well-known law, that a body dropping from a vehicle while in motion partakes, until it reaches the ground, of the motion of the vehicle ; and in an attempt to jump - from a running coach, the impulse of the jumper, combined with this law, renders it impossible to calculate bow or where he will alight. The only plan by which a passenger can escape, with the chance of safety, is to drop from the back part of the carriage. Even in that case, if the motion be very rapid, he can hardly escape falling on his 7 face.] On Friday forenoon, it blowing fresh, Mr. Coggin, of Torquay, was standing for the pier-head, in his yacht. The sail, in jibing, knocked a man overboard ; who, in addition to his not being able to swim, had 7 on a large heavy velveteen jacket. Two gentlemen were standing on the pier-head, Mr. Marsdon and Mr. Griffiths. The former in a mo- ment threw off his coat and sprang off the pier-head; the latter threw - a spy-glass he had in his hand on the ground, and cashed in without taking off an article of apparel. Mr. Marsdon succeeded in reaching . the poor man, and held him up until a boat came to their mutual as- sistance. Each of the gentlemen had a valuable gold watch in his pocket, which was much injured.— Western Times.

Last week, as the otter hounds belonging to Sir Rowland Hill were drawing a small island in the Dee, a gamekeeper of Lord Dungannon's attempted, on a small pony, to swim one of the large and deep pools . which abound in that part of the river which lies between Newbridge and .Pont-y-eysilte Aqueduct. Mr. Perkins, assistant to Mr. Cart- wright, surgeon, saw from the opposite bank the hazard of the attempt, and called to the man to forbear; but in vain; and scarcely had the . horse and his rider reached the centre of the pool, when both went down. Mr. • Perkins seeing that the Man would infallibly be drowned, though himself totally unable to swim, resolutely rushed forward to the place where he had last seen a few bubbles of air arise to the surface, and diving under, discovered the body a yard or two from the bottom.

After :several ineffectual efforts to draw it to shore, be was on the point of letting go his hold, when the otter-pole was extended towards him ;

and by this means, Mr. Perkins and Brown, the gamekeeper, were

drawn out, thu. latter in a complete state of suspended animation. Owing to the judicious application of the means for restoring anima- tion, life was restored in about twenty minutes, and the poor man pre- served, to the great gratification of his deliverer and all who witnessed the affair, but more particularly to a wife and eight children, who would have been left utterly destitute.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

011 Sunday evening, at one of the pits belonging to Burden Main, a body of what are called the regular pitmen [the turn-outs] assembled

round the pit, and endeavoured to prevent some of the irregular pit- men from descending. Their interference being resisted by the police, a skirmish immediately commenced ; and during the fight, Weddell, a

policeman, fired his pistol, by which Skipsey, a turn-out, lost his life. Eventually the pitmen were beaten off. A. coroner's inquest has re- tured a verdict of manslaughter against George Weddell, in order that the affair may be investigated before a higher tribunal.—Newcastle Journal.

The Dorchester paper states, that some clue has been found of the parties, at least a portion of them, who were engaged in the late out- rageous murder of Lieutenant Knight, between Lulworth and Osming- ton. Two men, said to have been concerned, have been lodged in the county gaol.

On Wednesday last, three masons, named Thomas Merrifield, Thomas Yeo, and William Parsons, were killed by the falling of a scaffolding in Caroline Place, Stonehouse. They, with two others, named Hutchins and Waterfield, were at work on the scaffold, which was fixed in the gable- end of the house. About five o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, a large portion of the wall gave way, and in its fall brought with it a stack of chimnies containing nine flues. The scaffolding, deprived of support, also fell, and four out of the five men were precipitated a height of fifty feet. The fifth man, Hutchins, saved himself by getting hold of one of the beams. The labourers at work in the quarry, who observed the accident, immediately went to the spot, and with much exertion got from amid the ruins the bodies of the unfortunate men ; two of whom were quite dead, and the third expired within an hour. Waterfield lies in a very precarious state.—Devonport Telegraph.

On Sunday evening week, a man named Bounds happened to be in the New Inn, Thurston, when Sinithers, the landlord, haying taken offence at Bounds, swore he would blow his brains out, and went up stairs to fetch a pistol for that purpose. On his return, Bounds was at the door at the foot of the stairs ; on which Sinithers, still in a passion, swore that if the door was not immediately opened, he would fire. He instantly carried the threat into execution. The ball passed through the door and entered the head of the other just above the right ear. He fell, and never after spoke, and in the middle of the night expired. The Coroner's Jury returned A verdict of " Manslaughter," and Smithers was immediately committed to Winchester Gaol.—Brigleton Guardian.

Last Week, a woman named Foster, the wife of a police-officer, liv- ing in Cumberland Street, Liverpool, while in pursuit of a cat, which'. she intended to shoot with one of her husband's pistols, shot a Mrs. Frampton, a visitor. The ball passed through Mrs. Frampton's body, and she expired almost immediately.

A very extraordinary arrangement of nature was discovered, a few days ago, in the body of a young man who was killed near Winchester, by a cart passing over him. In the course of the post mortem investiga- tion, there was found a complete transposition of all the viscera of the thorax and abdomen—the heart was on the right side ; the liver, gall- bladder, &e. on the left ; the spleen and great end of the stomach on the right, and its pyloric extremity on the left ; the cmcum in the iliac.re- gion, and the sigmoid flexure of the colon in the right. A similar . transposition also prevailed in the course of the large arteries and veins • within these cavities. It does not appear that this peculiarity of con- formation had ever been noticed during life, or that it ever.interfered . with the regular functions of the several viscera ; as, excepting having once bad an ague, he bad always been remarkably healthy.

On Monday evening, Thomas Forwood, Esq., of Warnicombe • House, Chairman of the Committee for securing the return of H. Burgess, Esq., for the borough of Tiverton, was addressing the electors at a window of the Angel Inn in a very eloquent speech, when, after raising his voice to an elevated pitch, be suddenly exclaimed, "I am ill ! " A torrent of blood rushed from his mouth by the rupture of a blood-vessel: he retired from the window, and was almost instantly a corpse. On a post marten: examination, it appeared that an aneurism at the curvature of the aorta had existed, which communicated with the windpipe, and the effort of speaking bad brought it to a crisis.— Wool- liter's Exeter Gazette.