... METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIA4 TIONr. A meeting of the membeito and friends of the Metropo. ltan.Drapers' Association was heldt at Exeter-ball yesterday evening. The whole of that spacious building was crowded f to C0 iss, it being computed that there were not less than B5,000 prenOs present. On tbe platform were many clergymen and gentlemen advocates of an early-hour system. and several ...

... CALA^IITOUS FIiRE AT NOT Oi'fFLhET- I1IIMENRY D.ESTRUCTION of P.ROPERTY. court- ii any Throughout tho whole of Wednesday night and yes- refors terday morning, the village of Northdleet, near Gravesend, hupard -.a presented a seene of the utmost alarm and consterna- nnE tionin consequence, of the outbreak of a meet extensive Laupi- lire UpOn the well-known premises belonging to Mr. Mace, xad ii ...

... VIXO HEKN F H'.JENO. | VINV30R-TrsunsnAY. ,At tbe royal beitquet yesterday etvening, the, Queen hnd ou hle rlrht bis Roy9al Highnless thce Dukos de Montpenstier, T atd h lady in waiting. the Countess of Gainshorougb; enDd OD her left were his Majeelty Louis PhiliEppe, her Royal ib th~ te Du~che39 ol Kent, the LordL Chancellor, and t ss Catel)eiawatrr. F1 lrlnrO ALbert eat opposite to tbe Queen ...

... She LONDON GA7ZR1772,' of TUBSDA Y, Oct. . At tls Court at Windsor, the 7th (lay of October, 1844, prie- Beent the Queen's Mlost Excellent Majesty in Council. flIt is this day ordered by her MaJesty In Council, that the Farliament, vwhich etands prorogued to Thursday, the I10th day of October instant, be further prorogued to ThursdaY, the 12th day of December next. WHITEHiALL, OCT. 7. The ...

... RAILWAY,1 EXTENSI ON in NOR2q H KEZVXNT FAYISRBHAM, THURSDAY Nroovr.-To-day a large and respeciable meeting of the landowners and residents ci Faversham, Sittlughourne, and the adjacent districts, wits held at the Town-hail, Faversham, to take into considera- tion the 'various protected lines for supplying Eacersham, Canterbury, Deal, Margate, Ramegate, and the coast witb railway communication ...

... LONDON: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1844. The King of the, FnRNcH lands this day upon the English shore, and becomes a guest at Windsor. It is a pleasing proof that the late differences be- tween the countries have not ruffled the tempers or disturbed the amicable feelings of their sovereigns. Wursbo uld were often stricken, like sparks, out of the individual and inflammable tempers of des. potic ...

... To TUB EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. d SIR-Your Interesting notice on Greek affairs in the g Morjing Chronicle of the 4th instant tempts me to offer tsome remarks at the important moment of M. Guizot's visit Dto England. In addition to the news ofGrivan's approach. y itg return, it might have been added that the Minister of d Justice has iskon measures to have, the primary sentence Y ...

... u WINDSOR-MozqDAY. The Queen held a Privy Council this afternoon at the Cistle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince BS Al bert, Lord Wharnelifff, the Lord President,thb Lord Chan- 11 cellor, the Dukeof Welliagton,Commander-in -Clsief; Sir R. te Pet I, First Lord of the Treasury; the Earl of Aberdeen, Se- cretary ofStatofor Foreign Afilnirs; tbe Right Hon. H. Goul- burn. Chuncellor of ...

... YI'HE 1 BRITISH AAIBASSADOjt AT LIS- BON AND THE TIMES. Irill SIR--YOtt Will doubtless haFve observeid that the CcorTcg- , poncleit of the, Timoes, who dates his letterfs hror this place, Hi hds for some timq filled his commrtuuicatione Withe virulent tic So attacks upon lier Mnjesty's Milnister at this court. They th who recollect how fuhcomely this writer praiised ilidivIduslo dh whom lie ...

... FVATAL, RAI7LWAY.4ACCIDTENT. rY. FU:RTH]ER PARTICULARS. NEBVCASTI, UPON.TYNB, TUESDAY.-A serious acoi- lyes- dent ooenirred this morning on the line of the Brandling send, Junotion Railway, by which one of the passen are wan era Ikilled, and fifteen others more or less injured. Th~e acci- miedent arose fromn the collisiou ot two engines, ono of themn nve attached to a carriage fuil of ...

... SIR J. GRAHAIMS PROPOSED MEDICAL I flEFORM BILL. [PROM THE CHELTENHAM FREE PRESS.1 On Thursday last, the annual meeting of the Medical and Surgical Association took place at the Bell Hotel, Glon- cester, Dr. Shute in the ohair. After the transaction of the ordinary business of the association, the meeting proceeded, at about two o'clock, to take into consideration the bill now before ...

... 8PAIN. MADX1D, OoT. 4. [PROM OUB~ OWN CoRBtS8PONDENTIl The Heraldo to-night asserts that the question of the eonversion of the floating debt is at last settled, nnd that the holders will consent to seceise Three per Cent. Stock at 40 in exchange, provided the dividends are guarantecd for some half years, and that the only hitch now is, that the creditors want to have the decrees of conversion3 ...