30 APRIL 1836, Page 8

The mining districts of Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, continue in

a state of great prosperity ; lead being now thirty pounds per ton, with every prospect of a thither increase in price. It is but a short time since the same article stood at eleven pounds per ton. In one day last week upwards of two thousand pieces of lead came down the Stockton and Darlington Railway for shipment in the Tees, and a similar activity prevails on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.—Nor- castle Journal. The election of a Coroner for Sorry, which for some weeks past bas excited considerable interest in the county, took place on Wednes- day at the Town-ball, Guildford, when Mr. Carttur, the son of the late Coroner, was elected without opposition ; Mr. Everest, the other candidate, declined going to the poll.