... 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 ...

... A curious correspondence has been just published in the Irish papers, arising out of the dismissal of a Colonel Blacker from the commission of the peace, an event which, under all the circumstances, supports the gratifying hope that the Government intend even-handed justice towards that long-oppressed country. The gallant Colonel ranked as a champion of the Orange faction-a party that has so ...

... I have been young, and wild, and gay, To all but beauty blind And sighed all night, and sung all day, To ladies stern or kind I've told my love in manly prose, I've written it in rhyme; And now I'm crowned with age's snows, The scent of yonder withered rose Recals that pleasant time. 0 then were hopes that chased my sleep And fears that made me thin And many subtile wiles and deep My proud ...

... Hampden will appear in our next publication. II Benevokis is unavoidably postponed. Lambda is quite wrong in his conjecture. 'The request of A Friend is one that we can rarely find time to grant; in this instance, however, we will acquiesce, and he shull hear from Us on Tuesday. ...

... EXPENSES OF THE LONDON MA YORALTY.-At a meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, the Lord Mayor said the whole of his income from the city was £7550, while his expenditure was about £11,500, being about S4000 above the allowance for supporting the dignity of his office. On the 1st instant, Sir John Key appeared at Guildhall as a dispenser of justice The operation of the Reform Bill has made ...

... SrR,—In the course of the inquiries which took place on Mon- day last, before our town magistrates, relative to the charge of breaking Mrs. Lorimer's window, on the night of the 26th of October last, I believe it was very strongly insinuated, on the part of the defence, that Elizabeth Hoskins, the principal witness for the complainant, was influenced in giving her evidence, in expectation of ...

... 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 ...

... AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—THE KING V. NICHOLSON. Mr. Follett (with whom was Mr. Talbot) showed cause against a rule which had been obtained by the Solicitor-General for a criminal information against Mr. George Nicholson, a solicitor at Hertford, and a Mr. F. W. N. Bayley, for insulting and chal- lenging a gentleman, styled Baron Dimsdale. It appeared from a number of very long affidavits, that Mr. ...

... 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 ...