The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-10 00:00:00

The following mayors were also elected yesterday :

Birmingham, Mr. Ryland ; Chester, Mr. Trevor ; Nor-
thampton, Mr. Phipps ; Stafford, Mr. Buxton ; Wolver-
hampton, Mr. Clarke; Oxford, Mr. Sadler; Lincoln, Mr.
Harvey; Doncaster, Mr. Sole; Hull, Mr. Hodge; Beverley,
Mr. Almack ; Sunderland, Mr. Alcock ; South Shields, Mr.
Wallis ; Durham, Mr. Boyd ; Scarborough, Mr. Cross ;
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mr. Ingledew ; Gateshead, Mr.
Hewitt ; North Shields, Mr. Mease ; Newcastle-under-
Lyme, Mr. Cartwright ; Reading, Mr. Broome ; Sheffield,
Mr. Vickers ; Hartlepool, Mr. Earles ; Salisbury. Mr.
Ottway ; Bostou, Mr. Lewin ; Carlisle, Mr. James ; Ports-
mouth, Mr. llallard ; Grimsby, Mr. Leppington ; Harwich,
Mr. Bowness ; Ipswich, Mr. Grimwade ; Yarmouth, Mr.
Nightingale ;. Lynn, Mr. Jarvis ; Newport, Mr. Brown ;
Hertford, Mr. Gripper ; Thetford, Mr. Salter ; Southamp-
tv, Mr. Coles ; Norwich, Mr. Brown ; Guildford, Mr.
Nicholas ; Winchester, Mr. "Wooldridge ; Plymouth, Mr.
Luscombe ; Devonport, Mr. Rider ; Huntingdon,
Mr. Ward ; Exeter, Mr. Franklin ; Barnstaple,
Mr. Palmer ; Shrewsbury, Mr. Trouncer ; Bridgewater, Mr.
Brown; Derby, Mr. Boughton; Wisbeach, Mr. Young;
Cambridge, Mr. Foster; Dartmouth, Mr. Cleland; Grant-
ham, Mr. Burbidge ; Romsey, Mr. Finder; Penzance, Mr.
Higgs; Newark, Mr. Bett ; Louth, Mr. Norfolk; Bath, Mr.
Jolly ; Truro, Mr. Windcatt ; "Weymouth, Mr. Prowse ;
Retford, Mr. Fisher; Stamford, Mr. Johnson; Bedford,
Mr. Howard ; Chesterfield, Mr. Shipton ; Leicester, Mr.
Ellis ; Kidderminster, Mr. Turton ; Worcester, Mr. Wood ;
Derby, Mr. Cox ; Leith, Mr. Lindsay, Provost ; Aberdeen,
Mr. Anderson, Lord Provost; Glasgow, Mr. Cloaston,
Lord Provost.

DEATH OF SIR CHARLES FELLOWS.—We have to
announce the death of Sir Charles Fellows, who expired at
his residence in Montague-place, Russell-square, on Thurs-
day night. The deceased was son of Mr. John Fellows, of
Nottingham, and was born in 1799. He received the honour
of Knighthood in 1844, as anarknowledgment of his services
in removing to the British Museum the Xanthian marbles
and antiquities previously discovered by him in Lycia. He
was the author of a " Journal in Asia Minor," " Disco-
veries in Lycia," &c. _ . .

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THE LATE MR. BUTTERWORTH.—On Friday last,
the 2d inst., disappeared rather siddenly by death from the
world of Literary Publishers, almost the father of them all
in the person of Mr. Henry Butterworth, the eminent and
wellknown Law Publisher of Fleet-street. Mr. Butter-
worth first joined his uncle Joseph Butterworth, M.P. for
Coventry, and afterwards for Dover, in the year 1801, and
since then has been, almost to the present time, actively
engaged in business concerns and matters of public useful-
ness. His death was immediately occasioned by a severe
attack of congestion of the lungs, in his 75th year. Mr.
Butterworth had long been a Fellow of the Society of An-
tiquaries, as well as a Commissioner of Lieutenancy for
London : and some years ago a requisition, very numerously
signed, was presented to him to stand for the alderman's
gown of Farringdon Without—this application, however,
Mr. Butterworth, upon consideration, declined, contenting
himself with acknowledging the honour that bad been
thereby paid him.
THE STRENGTH OF WINES.--The Mechanics
Magazine of last Saturday contains an account of the vari-
ous modes of testing the alcoholic strength of wines ; and,
contrary to the opinion generally expressed by the trade, it
is contended that the alcoholic test is absolutely necessary.
The argument is as follows :—" Even under the late high
rate of duty, the Revenue Department was obliged to for-
bid the trade to import wines containing more than 40 pe_r
cent. of spirit, and many wines have been consequentlyleft
in the docks to cool themselves by evaporation until admis-
sible. Now, as 21 gallons of such wine would
clearnaunt to
the admission of it at a Is. duty would be
gallon of proof spirit easily separable from it, it is that
admitting spirits at 2s. 6d. per gal. An
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