... hearing the report of the Directors relating to the result of their negotiations with the Manchester and Leeds and Manchester and Birmingham Companies, with a view to the attainment of the best practicable scheme for connecting the several railways at Manchester, in conformity with the resolutions passed at the special general meeting of the Company on the 15th ult.; Charles Lawrence, Esq., in ...

... overland mail has arrived from India bringing intelligence from Bombay to March 1, well as correspondence from Constantinople, Alexandria, Smyrna, Atliens, Beyruth, Syria, Corfu, Malta, Toulon, and Marseilles. The following letter from the Times correspondent at Bombay supplies full details of the melancholy reverses which our arms have sustained beyond the Indus. The letter is dated March 1, ...

... poor rates now course of collection, and where there is anv mistake to par the rate and claim to have it corrected. A claim to be rated, without having paid or tendered all the rates due, will no: avail to remedy the mistake. Magistrates have for some time refused to interfere in cases of dispute between masters and apprentices, unless a premium had been paid upon the binding of the apprentice ...

... everything the kind yet afloat. She is to be horse power ; to have engine-room for 600 tons of fuel; complete stowage under hatches for 1,000 troops, with four months' stores and provisions, exclusive of a crew about men ; and is to be armed with twenty guns of the heaviest calibre, besides carronades. The Cyclops, Gorgon, Geyser, and other war-steamers, now talked wonders for magnitude, will ...