ED a etauttrn.

The passing of the Reform Bill was celebrated at Weymouth on 'Wednesday by processions, a dinner given by subscription to the work- ing classes, and other modes of rejoicing, such as Weymouth has not 'svitnessed since the visits of George the Third.

The Assessor of the Berks election has decided that dissenting Iriergymen are entitled to vote for county members. A similar decision "vas given last election, in Northamptonshire.

The Reverend Rowland Hill, who seems to have obtained a new

lease of existence, preached a sermon at Cheltenham on Sunday last. He is now in his eighty-eighth year.

The ladies of Durham are about entering into a subscription to pre- sent Earl Grey with a handsome silver tea equipage.

There was shipped on board the steamer King of the Netherlands, at Newcastle-quay, on Saturday sennight, for Earl Grey, a fine baron of beef, weighing 14 stones, sentby the Reformers of South Shields as a testimony of their regard for that nobleman's public services.

G. P. Watkins, Esq., has subscribed 1,0001. for the Brecon Infir- mary ; Marquis Camden gives the ground.

The letters from nearly all the bop counties agree in promising an abundant crop. The duty has risen from 135,000/. to 150,000/. No danger is now apprehended from the fly.

The woollen trade is now in a more prosperous state than has been known for some years. Many of our neighbouring large manufacturers have not an end of cloth in stock 4nished.—G1oucester Journal.

A penny subscription, to purchase the discharge of poor Somerville,. of the Scots Greys, has been set on foot in Kent.

A large and valuable seizure was made at the port of Shoreham, by • the officers of the Coast Guard, on the morning of thc 13th instant. This prize was a ketch-rigged vessel of about GO tons burden, called the New Speedwell, of Portsmouth ; the boat belonging to her, a large barge or lighter, and into which a portion of the goods had been trims- shipped ; 238 bales of tobacco stalks, weighing about 1,3001b. ; 27 bales of leaf tobacco, weighing about 1,100 lb. ; 35 bales of tobacco stalk flour, weighing about 1,00011,.; and 1 box containing 231b of cigars. The value of the whole is estimated at upwards of 2,0001.—Brighton Herald.

A young man named Parkinson, servant to Mr. White, farmer at Swinton, near Manchester, was found murdered on Friday morning. He had been stabbed in the throat with a knife. Three men named Wyche, the litther and two sons, and a person named Brownhill, have been arrested for the murder; and at the inquest, held on Wednesday, a verdict of" wilful murder" was returned against all four. Tile clime was committed in revenge for Parkinson's having beaten Samuel Wyche, for an insult offered by the latter to two females at Manchester races, on the day of the murder.

A man named M'Craken was committed to Derby gaol, on Wed- nesday last week, on a charge of murdering his wife by administering poison to her.

A serious accident happened at Carlisle during the rejoicings on Tuesday last week. A hustings, where the band of music and the committee were placed previous to the procession, fell on a number of boys that had taken shelter beneath it front the rain. One boy was killed on the spot, and a great many were severely and some danger- ously hurt.

On Saturday the gth instant, Martha Warman, being on a visit to some friends at Hendred, was returning from Wantage, Berks, where she had been for a walk, in company with two young men; and when nearly opposite the road leading down to Ardington, they all three were struck to the ground by the lightning: the two young men got up immediately, but on looking to their companion they found she was quite (lead ; parts of her dress were torn, her Pace of a dark purple colour, and blood flowing- from her nose and mouth. The lightning, it appears, first struck her on the left side of the head; and running round the wire of her bonnet, passed over the right breast, tearing the shawl and stays, passing downwards, slitting the glove on the right hand ; and, on reaching the ankles, tore the stockings to pieces, and completely destroyed her boots. The unfortunate young woman MIS in her twenty- fifth year. The two young men only complained of a slight tingling all over, but vere otherwise uninjured.—Reatliny Mercury.

On Tuesday last week, a young man was killed by lightning- at Wal- ton, near Liverpool, in consequence of incautiously seeking shelter under a tree. Another young man, who was with him, was seriously hurt.

On Wednesday evening, the inhabitants of Thorpe, a small village about four miles from Pontefract, were thrown into consternation, by the intelligence of three children, about six or seven years of age, being thrown by an Irishman into the Went, a stream running by Thorpe to Wentbridge, which was swollen by the late rains, one of whom was drowned. They were returning from school on the banks, and were met by a stranger, who threw them all into the water. They can iden- tify the monster ; and active officers are now on the alert to investigate the affair. Six Irishmen were apprehended at Pontefract on Thursday morning, on suspicion, and another individual was taken on Wednesday evenhig.—Doneaster Gazelle. [If the boys can identify the monster, why, of the seven monsters captured, are not the whole or at the least half a dozen of them set free ? The story may be true, but it is very like a schoolboy's false- hood.]