The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-06-09 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON AT BATII. On Saturday morning the Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex attended a meeting at the G, and Pump Room, Bath, .convened for the purpose of presenting addresses of welcome from the Corporation to his rordskip. They were re,ived 10y the Mayor and the Corporation of Bath, and shove 600 residents. His lordship's reply was much apolauti• U. He expressed great admiration of the natural aa architectural beauties of the city, and acknowleri, the efficacy of the mineral springs. The Mayor of B declared the pumps free to the public during the ard Mayo, 's visit. The ,isitors fifter wards proceeded to :Mt Mineral Water Hospital, the celebrated Baths, and the Abbey. In the evening the Mayor, Admiral Paynter, the Lord Mayor and party were entertained at a banquet which took place in the banqueting room in the Guildhall. Toe whole building was handsomely fitted up and Illuminated Among the company were the LordLieutenant, the High Sheriff, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the members for the city, Major It. Allen, Mr.; Sir John Lawrence, H P.; Sir Charles Searle, and the Mayor of Bristol. Alderman Murch, deputy-lieutenant, was the president of the evening. Is connection with the health of the Mayor, in whose honour the banquet was originally proposed, the lovito; cup was passed round. The MAY O& then proposed "The Health of the Lo d Mayor" He characterised his lordship as one of the moat distinguished philanthropists of the are, as one of the world•renowned merchant princes of Loudon, as originator of the cotton famine relief movement, as a friend of education, and a personal promoter of charity. The LORD MAYOR disclaimed the praise bestowed on him as undeserved. lie said the long-standing invitation on which he had come was one which the Lady Mayoress and himself received most readily from the first. From the momeel they set foot in Bath they had met with such a reception as was usually accorded only to royalty. He received it simply as a citia.•n of a kindred corporation. Hebelieved the nation owed its privileges and the peace it enjoyed to its muntipal institutions. by means of which revolutions had been peaceflilly conducted here, which would have resulted in bloodshed on the Continent. If his visit to Bath, Bristol, and Reading resulted in increased strength to the menicipalities of the kingdom, the pleasure he felt would be largely increased His lordship was enthusiastically cheered during his speech. Alderman KNIOSIT, in responding for the sheriffs, said the kindness sh,,wn them was ouch as they wauld never forget. He praised the city as being controlled by an enlightened municip,dity, and said he hoped future sheriffs might exp. ience a renewal of the honour paid to himself and Mr. Breffit The healths of the Mayor of Bristol, the Lady Mayoress, and 00,5, concluded the pr, ceedi gs. The Lord Mayor on Sunday attended the Abbey Church ha state.  Mr. Thomas Daines, an alderman of Tenby, has committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver.  At a recent meeting in Dublin, it was decided to put the Artisans' Dwellings Act into operation in that city, and to form a city company, with a capital of £50,,,00, for that purpose. -  - , Lord Hathertou has remitted to the agricultural tenantrynhiTddeoleyeotote. in Staffordshire, 10 per rent of their half year's rental, in coronderation of the recent unfavourable b...  Five MPII are missing who took a boat from Flint Dock, on Monday evening, for a sail on the Dee. The boat baying been found floating bottom uppermost, the inference is that its oc,upants were drowned.  Supplies of torpedo stores are to be furwardod to the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney. Malta, Halifax, Bermuda, and some other British naval establishments abroad have already been provided with them. At a meeting held at Cambridge, last week, on the subject of primary education, Professor Stokes in the chair, a resolution in favour of Lord Sandou's bill, and expreasicg approval of the compulsory clause, was adopted. Alexander Kennedy, lessee of the feri y-boat at Aberdeen, by the tiapsiying of which on the sth of April thirty-two persons lust their lives, has, by order of the Home Office, been indicted on a charge of culpable homicide.  Mr. C. F. Beyer, head of the firm of Beyer, Peacock, and Co., locomotive engine ne ers and machi mannfacWren, of Manchester, died at Llangollen on the 2mi lo.tant. Ilia name is chiefly known in connection with the inventi, it of improvements in the machinery used For the manufacture of locomotiye engines.  .