... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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.— ...

... London, Thursday Evening. On the return of the Cabinet Ministers who are at Woburn, there will be a succession of Cabinet Councils, at which several important questions will be discussed. It is understood that among them will be the English Church Reform Bill, the As- sessed Taxes, a revision of the laws affecting stamped and un- stamped publications, and the proposed reductions in the army. ...

... REMEMBER ME. Yes, dear one So the envied train Of those around thee homage pay But wilt thou never kindly deign To think of him that's far away 1 Thy form, thine eye, thine angel smile, For weary years I may not see But wilt thou not, sometimes, tly while, My sister dear, remember e • But not in fashion's briiiiant hall, Surrounded by tb- gay and fair, And thou, the freest of them all, Oh ...

... SPAIN. DEFEAT OF THE CARLIST CHIEF MERINo.-Saarsfield has at length come in contact with the rebels. The full particulars of the affair are not known but it appears cer- tain that, on the 14th instant, Merino, in attempting to cut off Saarsfield's communications, was attacked by the right wing of the Queen's army at Belgrado, and defeated, leaving 600 or 700 of his men prisoners. It is ...

... VERSES BY A TENANT OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. We may do what we like with our own. Old Soug. We may do what we like with our own- By Jove, that's the maxim for me How else should our liberties thrive 1 How else should a Briton be free ? There's a beggar come into my yard, In search of a crust or a bone. Let Pincher this moment be loos'd— We may do what we like with our own. Little Tommy has ...

... Extract from an MS. in the possession of Thomas Astle, Esq., containing, amongst other things, the private expenses of King Edward II.:— Item, paid to the King himself to play at cross and pile, by the hands of Richard de Mereworth, the receiver of the treasury, 12 pence. Item, paid there to Henry the king's barber, for money which he lent to the king to play at cross and pile 5s. Itemf paid ...

... The frequenters of the Tribunal of Correctional Police were highly amused by the following ludicrous case. At Paris there are two rival exhibitions of industrious fleas. The Signor Ber- tholetto for a long time exercised this singular branch of industry, to the great satisfaction of connoisseurs, when another Signor, named Maestro, contrived to creep into the cabinet of the great naturalist, ...

... MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, Nov. 25.—Our supplies have been, since this day se'nnight, of English and Scotch wheat, English malt, beans, and flour, English mustard seed, Scotch oats, and foreign linseed and rapeseed, moderately good of English barley gre&t; of English and Irish oats and peas, Irish and foreign wheat, Scotch and Irish flour, and, with above exception, seeds, from ...

... The leading subject of speculation on domestic politics, in the early part of the week, was the reported resolve of the Premier to retire from the onerous and responsible duties of his high official station, previously to the next Session of Parliament. As, in natural philosophy, more causes of events are not to be admitted than are sufficient to prove their phenomena, so, in the political ...