Besides his salary of 20001. a year as ex .Town-Clerk
of Liverpool; the late Mr. Foster is said to have had life-interests in Corporation leases to the value of 10,0001. a year. The same writer who mentions this fact (a Liverpool correspondent of the Times), abuses the Re- formers of the Town-Council for not attending Mr. Foster's funeral,— as if the memory of a man who had taken advantage of his official situation to plunder the public so enormously, deserved respect from any but fellow-jobbers and peculators !
The Master in Chancery, to whom the approval of Trustees for the Charities of Worcester was referred, has determined in favour of the whole list of individuals nominated by the Town-council.— Worcester Herald.
The Reformed Town-Councillors of Doncaster voted, at a late meeting, that they and their wives arc entitled to free admissions to the great stand during the races.
At a meeting of the Town-Council of Reading, on Tuesday, a vote of censure was passed on the Mayor for joining in a petition to the Lord Chancellor to retain the old Trustees of the late Corporation Charity estates ; and on the Town-Clerk for neglect of duty, and for being an active agent in promoting the petition in favour of the old Corporation, " which had incurred the just censure of theCouncil."— Reading Mercurg. [Why do not the Liberal Town- Council of Read- ing get rid of their Town. Clerk ; and how came they to elect a Tory Mayor TI
The Mayor of Hull has sent in Lis resignation as a member of the Hull Reform Association, on the ground that as he shall be called upon to revise the Municipal Burgess-lists next month, it is necessary that lie should not only be impartial, but should preclude the suspicion of partiality.
Preparations are making at Poole for a Reform dinner on Friday next. Lord Strafford, Mr. Tulk, Mr. George Byng, Mr. W. F. Ponsonby, Mr. Poulter, and Mr. Aglionby, are among the invited guests.
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