The following table of precedence had been drawn up by the Council:— 1.—The Mayor. 2.—The Recorder. 3.—The Town Clerk. 4.—The M.P.’s for the Borough. 5.—The Members of the Council who had served the office of Mayor according to priority of election. 6.—The Aldermen and Councillors according to priority of election, the former in Wards in which they resided, the latter in the Wards for which they were elected, commencing with the North Ward. At the Parish Audit, the Auditor remarked that “in some instances the amount (of the rate) excused exceeded the sum collected.” May 17th.—The following appears as to the Corporate Robes of Office:— “THE ROBES OF OFFICE.” The Committee as to the Wearing of Robes of Office reported that Mr. C. J. Palmer, had liberally presented to the Council a scarlet silk gown, and a black gown formerly worn by the Mayors as their Robes of Office; and the said were accepted by the Committee, and the thanks of the Committee were voted to Mr. Palmer for the _handsome_ donation. The Committee had resolved that the Mayor should wear the black gown as a Robe of Office on all “Ordinary” occasions and the scarlet gown on all “extraordinary” occasions. The “Robes” or “Gown” movement, which was so much spoken of six months ago, has at length—through the exertions of the Committee to whom it was referred—come to maturity, and the Mayor now has a second hand best gown for “extraordinary” occasions, and a second-hand second best gown for “ordinary” occasions. The old people about Gaol Street, who caught a sight of the Mayor in his gown on Tuesday last, look upon the revived _costume_ as a “degenerate resurrection;” for, instead of there being completeness and congruity in the “fit out,” there is a burlesque mixture of the ancient and modern. The gown which erst harmonised with the glorious cocked hat, short tights, and silver buckled shoes, appears decidedly “at sea” in company with the modern hat (or “4s. and 9d.”) and “peg-top” trousers. Art critics would object to so close a mixture of the mediæval and the modern, on the ground of the same not being “in keeping.” Perhaps, however, when we see the style of dress on one of the “extraordinary” occasions so judiciously and so elaborately provided for by the Council, we may have something presented to notice which will not cause every Councillor to grin on beholding it, and to talk, as an old writer says, “most consumedly” about it afterwards. Dressed as he was on Tuesday, the Mayor of Yarmouth might, without difficulty, have been mistaken (had he been away from home) for Shylock, for one of the Japanese Embassy, or for an Arch Druid, so remarkably unusual was his appearance. Experience may, it is true, tone down the angularities of the affair; but at the onset the revival of the use