... BILL, NOTE, AND RECEIPT STAMPS.—We beg again to caution our readers, especially our commercial readers, that they must immediately procure a supply of Bill, Note, and Receipt Stamps of the new form issued by the Commissioners of Stamps. After the 30th of this month (this day) any Bill, Note, or Recept written upon stamps of the old form will be altogether as void as if written on unstamped ...

... MONDAY.—In our last publication, we mentioned the perpetration of a gross outrage at the residence of Mrs. Lorymer, on the Parade, in this town, and we stated that suspicions were entertained against two persons, with whose names we were not made acquainted. T. G. Phiilpotts, Esq., solicitor, in conse- quence of its being generally reported that our remarks upon the transaction were intended ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. Noemis we believe, intends to serve us his proffer is kindly and politely expressed, but we must decline his present favom. A Treatise on Acids would, we fear, make our readers look sour. Querela, from Newport, shall appear next week. Autumnus has sent us seven closely-written pages of what he calls poetry! on the scenery about.' Whilst we regret that our friend has ...

... PORTUGAL. Extract of a letter from Torres Vedras, dated Oct. 17:— After all my expectations of being in Oporto during the winter, behold us here occupying the celebrated lines of Torres Vedras-immortalised by British valour and British talent, under the Duke of Wellington. We received a sud- den order to embark from Oporto on the 26th September, and on the following morning sailed from the ...

... LORD DURHAM AT SUNDERLAND. The following are extracts from an admirable speech re- cently delivered by this consistent statesman and patriot, at Sunderland. His advice to the electors as to the mode in which they should exercise their important privileges, is de- serving of the utmost publicity:- It is true that the connection between us has been latterly less immediate—it is true that I have ...

... GAZEL. 1. See see the laughing morn advances O'er the jocund mead, His careering steed— Wreathed and pressing the rose bed prances; On the morning wine, Divine, oh! divine,- Friends of my soul, the wine fill up, Till red as life's blood is the stream in your cup. The trickling dew on that tulip's cheek, The tears of the morn, For the joung day born,- Wept at its birth by its mother meek, W ...

... PORTUGAL. The Gloucester Journal of Saturday last says, The Helen, which arrived here yesterday from Faro, which .port she left on the 19th October, brings intelligence of a very severe action fought on that day between the Miguelites and Pedroites, and as the French corps in the service of the latter were generally believed to have been bought over by bribery, very little doubt remained that ...

... Borough, Monday, Nov. 18.—Good new hops, both in pockets. and bags, sell somewhat briskly, yearling hops very tardily, at last week's prices. [n older hops than yearlings, little or no- thing is, or has been for some time doing. Currency East Kent, in pockets, 1831, SO. Os to £0. Os, 1832, X5. Os to £6. 10s 1833, J7. 10s to X9. 10s Mid-Kent, 1831, zCO. Os to £ 0. Os 1832, £4. 15s to £5. 10S; ...

... Mr. Peel's Harriers will meet, un Tuesday, at Wilisbury; on Friday, at Woodside,—each morniug at ten o'clock. ...

... BANKRUPTS-—Charles Lockyer, Strood, Kent. linen draper.— John Sayre, High-street, 'Shadwejl,'and Broadway, Deytfoid, cheesemonger,— Edward Poplar, publican. — Strain Stevenson, Ivamsgate, lineiWraper.—James Be ts, Winchester, ■i-mtnUP cabinetmaker.— William Sant,Adei, hi wliarf, Westminster, and JSHBhT Orme-square, liayswater, coal, meichant. — John Gnesiphoius Atkins, Cecil-street, Strand, be ...

... USE OF ZINC INSTEAD OF THE STOMACH-PUMP.— On Monday, a young giil of Loughborough, named Beadsley, in consequence of some words which she had with her parents, procured an ounce and a half of laudanum, which she swallowed as soon as it was discovered, Mr. Palmer was sent for, and used the necessary medicines with the desired effect, and she is now considered out of danger. This is the second ...

... METROPOLITAN. We have to announce the approaching retirement of Earl Grey from the post of Prime Minister. His Lordship's declining health and approaching infirmities of age, are the sole reasons which have induced him to this determination. Earl Durham and Lord Brougham are both named as likejy to succeed him; but no decision has as yet, we understand, been come to on this important subject.— ...