The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-08 00:00:00

LINCOLN MUNICIPALITY.

A correspondent, who furnishes us with a correct list of
the new Corporation, congratulates the Reformers of Lin-
coln on the triumph they have gained. Lincoln has now a
liberal mayor, six liberal aldermen, eighteen liberal council-
lors, a liberal sheriff, a liberal treasurer, and a liberal town-
clerk—all men of tried integrity, and possessing, to the
fullest extent, the confidence of the citizens.

Yesterday the election of four new councillors took place,
in room of those who had been elevated to the aldermanic
office ; and again the Tories resorted to their old practice
of trickerY. But they failed ; and the result has given the
greatest satisfaction, as establishing upon a firm basis the
preliminary ballot system, and will be the means of uniting
still more firmly all true Reformers. In the 'Minster Ward
there was no opposition to the Liberals. The following
gentlemen were elected :
Mr. H. H. Byron, corn-factor ..........187
Mr. East, gentleman ..................... 189
The Tories knew there was no chance for any of their
own party, and their only effort was to cause dissension
among their opponents. The Dean and Chapter are
astounded at the liberal choice of the Minster Ward, and
our highly-talented and highly-whiskered Member, the
Militia Colonel, is already trembling for the safety of his
seat.
As. the freemen of Lincoln are diffused all over the
country, the following complete list of the new Corporation
may be useful in your columns :
Robert Fowler, Esq., Mayor and Alderman, Bridge Ward.
Mr. Thomas Newton, Sheriff.
BRIDGE WARD. MINSTER WARD.
Alderman John Rudgard Alderman E. Fowler
Luke Trotter C. Beaty, M.D.
- Howson Councillor J. East
Councillor William Fisher W. Rudgard
R. Harvey E. J. Wilson
John Stevenson H. H. Byron
J. Nettleship W. Dawbor
W. Wriglesworth 11. "Williams
J. Hill G. Brooks
G. Calder J. Turner
T. 'Wetherell W. Bedford, jun
Henry Blyth
R. Mason, Esq
Mr. C. Arno'

1., Town Clerk.
Ad, Treasurer.

The last year was fertile in dramatic productions in
Paris ; 211 new pieces were brought out, the works of 183
authors. The following is the enumeration of them at each
theatre :—Academy Royal de Musique, 3 (1 opera and '2
ballets) ; Theatre Francais, 10 (4 dramas and 6 comedies,
besides 14 old plays reproduced) ; Opera Comique, 9 (and
6 reprises); Theatre Italien, 3 ; Gymnase, 16 ; Vaude-
ville, 17 ; Varieties, 26 (one of them with couplets) ; Pa-
lais Royal, 28 (including '2 operas) ; Gaite, 8 ; Ambigu
Comique, 19 ; Porte St. Martin, 41 ; Cirque, 16 ; Po-
lies, 9 ; Choiseul, 14 ; Pantheon, 17 ; St. Antonie, 5.
Total 211.

On Tuesday last, between nine and ten o'clock at
night, the inmates and family of Eddi.-,bury Lodge, the re-
sidence of C. W. Phillips, Esq., deputy-surveyor f Dela-
mere Forest, were much alarmed by the following diaboli-
cal occurrence :—The children had just retired from the
nursery to their beds, when the report of a gun was heard
the shots from which shattered all the glass, and entered
the room. In the course of half an
.hOur another gun,
loaded with shot, was fired through the window of an ad-
joining apartment, in which a light had been placed, and
the glass fractured ; but no One was injured in either in-
stance. It then seems that the villains who committed this
most wicked outrage proceeded on to a lodge in the neigh-
bourhood, occupied by one of Mr. Phillips's woodmen, the
windows of which were fired through and the glass de.
stroycd, but fortunately no one was injured by the shots,
as the inmates were in bed.—Chester Courant of Tuesday.

An aged widow lady, named Stand.ley, residing at
Alveston, near Stratford-nn-Avon, attended by a daughter
and a servant, were in the habit of sleeping in one room,
and during the cold weather of the past week, imprudently
introduced a chafing-dish, heated by burning charcoal, al-
though frequently cautioned by a neighbour. Saturday last
the neighbour was alarmed at being unable to arouse any
one, although he made great efforts ; and, after calling
some friends, a ladder was obtained, and on gaining access
the three individuals were found in a state of suffocation.
The servant, a fine young girl, was discovered, partly
dressed, near the window, and the chafing-dish being thrown
over, it is supposed she had made an effort to get to the
window to open it. Surgeons were immediately sent for,
and unwearied exertions made to restore animation, but the
servant was quite dead ; although there were some encou-
raging symptoms in the case of the lady and her daughter,
it was very doubtful as to the result.—Hereford Paper.
' In several quarters of Paris, and particularly in that
of St. Eustache, a novel mode of swindling has been set
on foot. An oyster..woman makes her appearance at the
shop 'of a milliner or bonnet-maker, and makes purchases
to the amount of 15 or 20 francs ; she pretends then to
have forgotten her purse, but states that she is the oyster-
woman at the corner of the street, and will leave her tub of
oysters under the counter until she can go and get the
amount of the bill. She departs, and does not return, while
the shopkeeper examines the tub of oysters, intending to
open and eat them in all their freslines3, but has the be-
nefit of finding it to contain nothing but empty —Gc-
',wile des Tribunaux.