The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-06-09 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON AT BATH. On Saturday morning the Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs of larodoti and Middlesex attended st meeting oh the (Loud Pump Room, Bath, convened for the purpose of presenting eaten. of welcome from the Corporation to his lordship. They were re sired by the Mayor end the Corporation of Bath, cod above 600 resident,. His lordship's reply was much applauded. Be expressed great admiration of the natural ' mehiSatirel beauties of the city, sod aoknowled, the efficacy of the mineral epringe. The Mayor of E: •, de, dared the pomp* free to the public during the xrd Mayo.'. visit. The visitors afterwards proceeded to the Idieeral Water Hospital, the celebrated Baths. and the • ; Abbey. In the evening the Mayor, Admiral Poynter, the Lord Mayor nod party were entertained at o banquet I which took place In the banqueting room in the Gurld' ball. The whole building was handsomely fitted upend Illuminated Among the company were the LordLientenaot, the High Sheriff, the Marquis of Lansdowoe, the member. for the city, Major It. Allen, M.P.; Sir John Lawrence. M.P.; Sir Charles Searle, nod the Mayor of Bristol. Alderman Mach, deputy.lieutenant, was the president of the evening. In convection with the health of the Mayor, in whose honour the bouquet was originally proposed, the loving cup was paned round. The MAY,. then proposed "The Health of the Lud Mayor " He chatacterieed his lordebip ea one of the most dietinguished philanthropiats of the our, mono of the *world-renowned merchant prineee of Loudon, as originator of the cotton famine relief movement,., is friend of education, and a pereonal promoter of charity. The LORD IgATOR disclaimed the praise beetowed ow him as undeaerved. Be said the longhotanding invitation on which he hod come wee one whioh the I,ody Mayoress and himself received mat readily from the first. From the morneed they net foot in Bath they had met with ouch. reception a was usually accorded only to royalty. He received it eimply ao a citicen oft kindred corporation. He believed the nation owed its privileges and the peace it enjoyed to it. municipal institution, by mama of which revolutions had been peacefully conducted here, which would have resulted In bloodshed on the Continent. It his visit to Bath, Bristol, and Heading resulted in increased strength to the municipalities of the kingdom, the pleasure he felt would be largely, increased His lordehip wee enthusiastically cheered during his speech. Alderman KNIOHT, In responding for the sheriffs, mid the kindnese shown them was ouch as they would never forget. He praised the city a being controlled by on enlightened munieipslity, and said he hoped future aberrile might to ience a renewal of the honour aid to hlmaelf and Mr. Breffit. The health, of the Mayor of Bristol. the Lady Mayoras, end others, concluded the pr. oeedings. The Lord Mayor onBunday attended the Abbey Church hi state.  M. Thomas Daines, au alderman of Ty, has cone mitted suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. _ . .  At a recent meeting in Dublin, it wee decided to put the Artisaue' Dwellings Act Into operation in that city, and to form a city company, with • capital of 01000, for that purpoae. Lord Ifathertora has remitted to the agricultural tenantry en his Teddealey estate. in Staffordshire, 10 per pent of their half year's rental, in courderatiun of the recent unfavourable season. • - —• •  Five men are misong who took a boat from Flint Dock, on Monday evening, for a sail on the Dee. The boat having been found floating bottom enlmehleet, the inference is that ita o.hapants were drowned.  Supplies of torpedo stores are to be forwarded to the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney. Malta, Halifax, Bermuda, and some other British naval establiebnienta abroad have already been provided with them. At a meeting held at Cambridge, last week, on the enbtect of primal}, education, Professor Stokes in the obey, • resolution in favour of Lord Sandon'e bill, and expressing approval of the oempuleory chime, was adopted. Alexander KennedT, lessee of the ferry-boat at Aberdeen, by the capsizing of wbieb on the sth of April thirty.two persons lost their lives, ha, by order of the Home odice, been indicted on a charge of culpable homicide. _  Beyer, head of the firm of Beyer, Peacock, and 00., locomotive engineers and machine manufacturers, of Alaneheeter. dwd at Llangollen . the 2.1 inetant. name it chiefly known in connection with the Invention of improvements in the machinery weed for the manufactere of locomotive engines,. •  eiv Damen EXIIMITIvN To Icnteun.—The mail steamer itrtoasnx sailed from Leith last week for Iceland. She has on booed seventeen saloon pansengers from Copem huge., among whom are Professor Jonstrop ; Mr. Field. burg surveyor; and Mr Groolond. botanist. On arriving at Iceland three gentlemen are to be Joiced by Llen. tenant Vidal. of the Dollish gunboat on the station, and an expedition is to be formed to proceed to the scene of Ike reoent volcanio eruptions. -•• • • •  •c-The Health Committee of the ho-ough of Salford hesitxte" to recommend the Council to accept the generous proposal of Dir. Benjamin Armits4e to give to the town a ncandon and grounds for the purposec of a conceit...cent hospital, and for the erection on pant of the land of, ho-pital for infectious diseases. The " heeitation" of the committee arises from "the large annual expenditure that would be required," coupled with "other circumstances."  John Mem iug was charged at the Thames Police Court last week with committing an unprovoked ass oilt upon Saith Newman, a foreign leeway It .p-r.e.red that the pro,ecu,or wee plowint, a!olig the Commercial road in company with three °the, seamen, when the priooner vaddenly strook the complainant a violent blow in the hoe with his ii§t. Ou asking him tire mimeo tor delta so. he struck him again and knocked biro down. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to 21days• hard labour. • ^ • - •