... LORD PALMERSTON ON RAIL- WAY ENTERPRIZE. On Taesdtly Lord Palmerston cut the first sod of the w Andover and Redbridge Railway at Raosey, in the pre. serce of a numerous assemblage of the landolvlwrs of the h( district and others interested in the undertaking. The as' line-whiuh is intended ultimately to effect a commtnsi- xv cation between Southampton and the coalfields of South ir Wales and ...

... AND AST RIDING TIMES. IIRGISTERED AT THE (EsER&L PO.F -OFFICE . . FOB~ 'XA~,sg8I~ON ABROAD.] FRIDAY, JIULY 15, 1809. , _ _ _ _ - I P E A CE B. EVENTS crowd so fast 'ipon us that even the daily press, with its correspondents in every city in the world, lags far behind, and the electric telegraph itself can scarcely keep us abreast with the facts of the day. Last week, just before going tp press ...

... I' - The opening ma'ch of this club was played on Monday last on the new ground, Anlaby.road. The weather was fine. There was a fair muster of strangers, and the cricketiug was admirable. 'The match was Married v. Single-the latter having the advantage of the valuable professional assistance of Mr. Crossland, who is engaged by the club. The following is the day's Score;- SINGLE. . 1ST INsoISs ...

... THE DEPARTURE OF THE | GREAT EASTERN. On Wednesday morning the Great Eastern, which has o been the object of public curiosity and anxious interest , for so long a period, fairly commenced her publio ai career. Since her launch she has been lying at her p moorings off Deptford, where she has beeu visited by c thousands of persons, The scene at Greenwich, Dept- u ford, and the Isle of Dogs was ...

... I H[JULL TOWN COUNCIL. -- I A meeting of the Town Council of Hull was held in . the County Court-hoes3 (the Council-chamber being unfit for use), at a quarter-past two o'clock yesterday , afternoon. In the absece of the mayor, Mr. Ald. Bannister was called upon to preside. The minutes of the last meeting wera read and con- firmed. The money orders and the minutes of the respective committees ...

... I . .- in the navyiestimates for the year 819'-60 the net increasea cmaedwt lost year, is less than a, Theli virets!Z item in thle votes is that 'of wages to seamen end marines. The sum required to he voted for tbis purpose, for the year 1859.60, is £2,437,062, beinga Na increase of £85,463 over the vote for the last finnca year. The next item, viz., victuals for the foregoin, is £995i, 647, ...

... One of the most important of army reforms, the organisation of the department itself, must necessarily stand over for a time, inasmuch as, owing to the politi- cal dislocations of the present year, the committee of the House of Commons appointed to investigate the sub- ject has not yet taken one-balf. the useful evidence likely to be offered. Nevertheless, we believe we may say that quite ...

... S UG G EIS TE D SC H E M E PFit TI1E RESTORATION OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. A niertitig was held yecterday, at neon, at- the MansionrlooisL, fi)r the piurpooe oif devisirng what ?? sloull lie alsoptad in order to the restoration oF the ClIo lh of tbe Holy Trinity, s iiiob is now r lidlV fall- inig into d'eq'y. The meeting was m inly i itiative, a nd the couase thit will practically be purstied ...

... SIR H. SEYMOUR ON DIPLOMACY. One of our most distinguished diplonmatists, Sir Hamilton Seymour, favoured the audience of the Mechanics' Institution at Whitby, on Wednesday, with hints on diplomacy :- There was no great craft or mystery In it, he said, but it required an1 apprenticeship. Any man of good abilities alid close application would succeed, while a person who hoped to lead a life of ...

... THE JEDDAII MASSACRE I , ASAC, (From the Correspondent of the Times.) ALEXANDRIA JANUARY 25 -0.O h a olwn the despatch o t the ple ; wayr fteamen Duchayla arrived atuez fror pedding The dinsertg tiomutiond.te In1 18+ thsse ?? inveadi Cstions, onducitedunder the vigilant watch of the Cprsnt- misaionere, had resulted in establishing the chief gu upon three of the leading men of these ith ll m en ...

... THE PEOPLE'S .FREE PARK AT BIRMINGHAM. Under this title the Builder of Saturday has some re- marks on the unsatisfactory condition of the Aston Park purchase, in which, amidst a great deal of coarseness, there is a good deal of truth. No one who is not insensible to the honour of the town can read the following without a feeling of shame and humiliation:- Aston Hall and Park, which the ...

... RE FOR M CON FERENCE AT MANCHESTER. MR. BRIGHT'S SPEECH. [BY ELECTRIC TELEonAPH.] MAN CHESTER, Tuesday Evening. A Reforne Conference was held this afternoon in the assembly- room of the Free Trade Hall; Mr. GEoneou WILSOX in the chair. A resolution approving of Mr. BrIght ?? Bill, and pledging the meeting on behalf of the Reformers of South Lancashire to support it, was carried unauimously. Mr ...