... M. T. Baines, Esq., and James Clay, Esq., M.P.'a for Hull, we are glad to learn, have taken up this poor man's case, and, along with Mr. Sidebottom, the solicitor, had an interview with Sir George Grey, Bart., at the Home Office, yesterday afternoon, relative thereto; and we are glad to hear that the Home Secre- tary considered it a case deserving investigation, and immedl. ately gave ...

... -4FOref9ft IlItclif9clIct. A Vendor of images, in bronze and plaster, 1i 9 liaelles, end stich.liko nicknacko, In Paris, wos last week pi I co ?? to a molithS tImprisaotment. and a tine of OO . Y, francs, for exposing for sale a plaster portrait of the Due de iourdeaux, it fhe uoritorm of a general, With the inscription, 1- 'Hery V., Kiga of France. a ,d 'it. EX-PItESIDENT OF HAYTI. - The G ...

... Agrf(ultivill Informatfoll. - 4! SPONTANEOUS COMIBUSTION OF GUANO.- l It is well known that the dung of many birds will ignite is spontaneously. Galen himself takes notice of this, for w ho states that pigeon's dung takes fire when it becomes or rotten, and that one was sufficient to set fire to awhole st house. Father Casati, a Jesuit, says it was from the on large quantity of the dung of ...

... I On Wednesday, a meeting of the commlissioners under the Hull and Myton Improvement Act was held in the Town Hlall, Mir. Alderman Coolkmat5, the chairman of the commissioners, presiding. There were present the Mayor, Aldermen Thompson, Atkiinson, and Browni, Councillor Bettison, p. M. Craven, Esq., and M essrs. R. Boyle, and L. SWest. DRAINAGE IN BLACKFRIARG^fg,;C h The following r t, ined by ...

... I ~ I Thfbilt-ap Intelligence. SOTUTH EASTERN RAILWAY -The Share Market has been a good deal agitated with transactions for the adjustment of the account; but prices, upon the whole, have varied less than was expected. The most marked fluctuation is in the shares of the South Eastern Railway, wllicll were last done at 45.-Slandard of Monday. DIRECT NOpTHERN RAILWAY.-The direct- ors of this ...

... PUBLIC ADMISSION OF ltUlMISH CONVERT * INTO THCE CkUH OF ENGLAND i . INJ~uIrii VA~s3-- hard An Interestilig service took pincesin, tho ?? chapllbl join at Ellerker, in this riding, on Thursday, last weaki, :i pure the adlmission of it person, professing allegiance to the' ftre Bishop of Rtone, ?? communion with the Church Of try~ b tEngland. Tho convert wats a young man--Mr. Boh~a~n A tress ...

... EXTRAORDINARY REFUSAL OF TEN PERSONS TO RECEIVE . TEN THOUSAND POUNDS A.YEAR. A - n - - -A l A very singular disclosure was made the other even. Ing in the house of Lords, in .conse, uence of Lord, Broughanm having inquired of the Kresident of the Board of Control, whether the office of Advocate Gene._ ral of Bengal had been filled up. The Brl of Ripon re plied in the affirmative, and stated ...

... LINCODUNSHII NEWS. 1111I~ The ]3ishop of Peterborou~gb confirmed 300 lotp young people, of both seitel on Mondaty, i St. Martin's ?? 'luc~Stamford. its 'The Rom~an CatholieW are. cain gste ou of, efforts to stabltslia ma'ss h'ouse at aislabro.' A priest Vith 'belonging to that laturcht has located hireself there, and snol service, for the present, 55 performed in hlis own PrivAtsO lery: ...

... HO USE OF LORDS, TVEDNESDA Y, fldy 9. I qpr.vob -rw~r/D SELECT COXIMITTEE, THE BROAD AND NARtlUW GUAOES-OXFORD, WORCESTES., AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY BILL. The committee met at a few minutes past eleven o'clock The Earl of Auckland in the chair. Evidence insupport ofthe preamble of the bill, and show- log the superiority of the broad over the narrow gauge, was resumed, The examiniation of ...

... 'GRENT FAC(TS FORl 'LT . Oil POTjATOES. h&t thc Weekly C'oteil of the Itva! : Society oif Engrland .eld .Ji TliursIiiy, Mr Den son. M.P.. uf O-singthn, NotLiig-hateiltil naunicated in a letter to Mr. Pniiey, M.P t~ie f reilte of htd. experivients in) dint planting ?? (iegiwr, kb. 'At tniq mownt 'f rewlee' Alarin aiauti tt:h. andi tne a:mticip.:teo diui'huzlty ?? v~i!¢ Sleeti C:1 I elaitut. i ...

... -EpITOMsEOF oGENERAL NWEWS. 1 The Queen has been pleased to appoint Eliza- bet ,Lucy, Countess of Desart, to be one of the Ladies of the uedchamber in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Cathe. rine, Countess of Dumnove, resigned. The Rev. John Peel, brother of Sir Robert e Dart., canon of Canterbury, it is understood, has at- Opted the Deanery of Canterbury, vacant by the relinquish- c ...

... On Wednesday noon, a general meeting of the shareholders in the company for the formation of a new cemetery in Hull, was held at the Wilberforce Rooms, St. John-street, for the purpose of receiving a report from the committee which had been de- puted to ascertain where an eligible site for the purposes of the company could be obtained. Mr. S. S. Thompson was in the chair, and the report was ...