Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-12-29 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

IVES. in Cornwall, appears to be a model Temper. once town. The Mayor, half the Borough Justices, and the majority of the Town Council are abstainers. The Borough Member is pledged to support Local Option. In a population of 7,000 there is only one policeman, and last year there were only two convictions for drunken., 11CFP.  CLosr upon one hundred small Irish farmers living in the neighbourhood of Westport, attended at the West. port Board-room, and applied for employment or outdoor relief.  AT the Thieves' Supper, not the least interesting feature of the proceedings was the presentation by Mn, Vincent of twenty silver watches to twenty mei:4*h° had kept their situations for more than twelve months, and had succeeded in gaining the esteem of their employers. Mit. Cumorte, before leaving the War Offloe, assem. a Departmental Committee to report upon the iiresent condition of the Yeomanry Cavalry; with p. view to the introduction of changes calculated to popularise aml promnte the interests of that servioe. Os the arrival of the 2 p.m. train at Havant on Pricier. it was fonnd that a gentleman, name unknown, had.blarn his brains out in a second-class carriage. He had a ticket from London Bridge Station for Portsmouth. THE collapse in the tin-plate trade is much more deplor• able than has hitherto been announced. BetweemTo and 80 mills are now idle, and great distress is likely-to arise amongst the families of the men thrown out oPwork. A QUEER story is telegraphed by a Dublin correspon. (lent. He states that an Irishman has arrived in.that city from Mexico, with powers from the MlXleaft Govern. ment to oonfer with its envoy in Paris for arranging tot the emigration of 1,000 Irish families to Mexico, at the cost of the Republic, which has voted £360,000 for the purpose. An average grant of £3BO a family is !Atha card to digest. AT Devonport on Friday a marine named Thomas Whitelaw, of H.M.S. Agincourt, was sentenced by a court-martial to two years' hard labour for breaking his leave of Absence and twioe assaulting the sergeant who arrested him.  THE Dublin Metropolitan Polioe on Fridayjreceived' a most welcome Christmas box the three months' pa, awarded to them by the Government in recognition of their services during the ls.st three yenrrrof exceptional difficulty and danger. With creditable generosity the first use they made of the gift was to ernbscribe a band some sum for the widow and orphans Of 'Constable Cox, who was murdered in Abbey-street. Diner telephone communication was effected on Ihureclav between Brighton and London. , Congratulatory messages were exchanged between the Mayor 01 Brighton and Mr. J. P. Knight, the general manager of the Brighton Railway.  AT Kilmecthognas, County Waterford, 34 persons were on Thursday sentenced to terms of fourteen days and one month's imprisonment .for stopping the Curraghmore Hunt by a riotous assembly.  SLR ROBERT PHILLIKORA has ,we understand, Abandoned the intention of resigninF at Christmas, and has postponed his resignation until Easter.  AcconniNo to a private letter which has been received the health of Sir Stafford Northcote has been much recruited.  WFIAT makes the death-rate in certain parts of Ireland so high? Laid week's returns show that in Cork it was 40•5 • Belfast, 426; Wexford, 556 ; and in Larger) 91 43; In dreatiliritain, Glasgow enjoys a had preerninenoe in this respect, but the average over the whole of Ireland it 1t.9 high as Glasgow—vix,, WI per 1,000, as compared with 354. A