COUNCILLORS. _Castle Ward Within_—William James Clement, Joseph Birch, William Henry Perry, Edwin Foulkes, Thomas Hall, Richard Jeffreys Mulckleston. _Castle Ward Without_—James Smith, Thomas Birch, John Bishton Minor, Joseph Chune, Benjamin Birch, James Moore. _Stone Ward Within_—Thomas Campbell Eyton, William Richard Stokes, David Evans, James Burrey, Edward Hughes, Lewis Meredith. _Stone Ward Without_—William Burr, Charles Bowen Teece, John Hazledine, George Harper, Richard Taylor, William Butler Lloyd. _Welsh Ward_—Thomas William Trouncer, Robert Mortimer Healing, Robert Baugh Blakemore, William Onions, Robert Haycock, Henry Keate. _Recorder_, Charles Harwood, Esq. _Coroner_ (_borough_), Henry Keate, Esq. _Town Clerk_, J. J. Peel, Esq. _Clerk of the Peace_, G. Gordon, Esq. _Magistrates’ Clerk_, W. H. Cooper, Esq. _Chief Constable_, Captain Mayne. _Borough Treasurer_, Mr. Henry Pidgeon. _Surveyor_, Mr. Thomas Tisdale. _Governor of the Gaol_, Mr. John Sheppard, _Town Marshall and senior Serjeant_, S. Farlow. _Chief Constable_, William Harper. _Serjeant of Mace_, John Thomas. _Town Crier_, George Rowe. THE BOROUGH POLICE FORCE consists of a chief constable, two superintendents, two inspectors, and thirteen constables. THE COUNTY CONSTABULARY consists of a chief constable, two first class superintendents, four second class superintendents, ten first class constables, and forty second class constables. IN the year 1756, thirty-seven colliers were brought to gaol for rioting and committing outrages in the county, it being a time of scarcity for all kinds of provisions. The trial took place at the spring assizes of the following year. Ten of the rioters were left for execution; but the judge sent his report express to the attorney-general, with an intimation fixed for the day of execution, and the individuals two in number, who, as he deemed it should suffer the sentence of the law. The report having been transmitted to Mr. Pitt, then secretary of state, it lay there untouched, and was never laid before the king. The day of execution arrived, without any reprieve, and Mr. Leek, the deputy sheriff, was advised by several of the principal gentlemen in the town to leave the prisoners to their fate. But he was so much shocked at the thought of executing so large a number, which he was convinced could not be the intention of the judge, that he ventured to postpone the execution, and sent off an express to London, on the return of which he had the satisfaction of finding that his conduct was highly approved of, and still more, the consciousness that he had saved eight lives. The following is part of a letter written to him on the occasion by Lord Chief Justice Willes:—“Till I saw your letter I was under the greatest uneasiness,—for I took it for granted that all the ten rioters had been executed on Saturday last; and, upon my return from the Home Circuit, on