... trIO pTulZ WatX t i AND EA!S4T-RBIDXN TIOES. l HULrL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1845. St THE SUBJECT THAT ENGROSSES AT PRESENT NEARLY THE WHOLE OF THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC, IS THE STATE OP THE RAILWAY SHARE -MARKETS. We may say, indeed, of Hull, as e well as of the other principal towns of Yorkshire e and Lincolnshire, it is the ONLY subject calculated to win anything like earnest attention. And ...

... Qolonial ant sorrign Intelligence. Wa SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 20th instant. The Castellani pretends that a conspiracy has been discovered at Baseol, near Alicant, but the account appears to have been manufactured for the purpose of excusing fresh outrages on the liberty of the people. It is wholly disbelieved. ITALY. The German journals contain news from Italy. The Universal ...

... i EXCISE PROMOTIONs.--The Honourable Board of Excise have ordered the following promotions in the Excise dii- plartment in the Hull ?? Thorudich, Esq., to be Surveying General Examiner; Mr. John French to succeed Mr. Thorndicb as Supervisor of the ?? first district ; Mr. Innles- wood, of tho Brigg district, to succeed Mr. French as Supervisor of the Hulil second district; and Mr. David Lawtoa, ...

... N EhW DUTIES ON IMPORTS TO BRITISH I We have been faivoured with a Copy of the new table of ad valorem duties oal imports into the ports of British India, which, so far as we know, has not yet been made public in this country. From this table, which we subjoin, it will be seen that, whilst the duties on cotton twist remain unaltered, those upon cotton niutinfactures imported in British ships w ...

... THE NEW RAILWAY SCHEMES OF THE WEE.K, the WoaaCsrEn, TnNinriy, iND LUDLOW RAILWAY-a line the o thbout 20 miles, in connection with the proposed Hereford the d fguheewsbury Railway. The capital is £300,000, ii £50 bad shares, with a deposit of £2 15e. per share. her DIRSOT LONDON AND MANCHESTER RA.ILWAY.-There In ?? two schemes of this kind just out. One of tbem is a ape, revival of the scheme ...

... SFiPWRECK OF A STEAMER. l I Iz.1 .. Arrived at Penarth Roads, on Thursday, the brig Jane, of Sunderland, Bridges master, from Pugwash, Nova Scotia, but bound for Swansea, (having been driven up Channel by stress of weather) and having on board Mr. D. Mackay, master, and the crew of the steamer Shamrock, of Liverpool-I 5 in num- ber-which foundered at sea whilst on her voyage for St. John's, ...

... I RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, The settlements appear to have been well adjusted, generally. From the extent of speculation indulged in during the last fortnight, grave fears had arisen that it might not pass off so satisfactorily as accounts have hitherto done, A settlement in several of the scrips of the last newr lines took place towards the latter end of last week, and did not, upon the whole, ...

... WRECK OF THE HULLAND HAMBURGH STEAMBIR MARGARET. STATEMENT OF THE SURVIVORS. The subjoined particulars relating to the melancholy loss of the Hull and Hamburgh steam ship M Margaret, during the late hurricane off the Dutch coast, have been furnished by the owners of the ill-fated ship. The 'Margaret was an iron vessel, 250 tons bur- then, 120 feet in length, 24 feet beam, and depth of ...

... REAL PROPERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN, A return was last week issued, by order of the House of Commons (pursuant to a motion of Mr. Villiers on the 6th instant), showing the total amount of the annual value of real property in cach county of England, Wales, and Scotland, assessed to the Property and Income-tax, for the year ending April, 1843. In England and Wales the total annual value of property ...

... 3aailtoap 111telligm e. I ADDITIONAL RAILWAY NOTICES FROM THE BOARD OF TRADE. (From Friday Night's Gazele.) Railway Depoartnient, Board of Trade, W/hteaUll, MIlarch 21. Notice is hereby given, that the board constituted by the minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for the transaction of railway busi- Cess, having had under consideration the under-men- tioned railwvay ...

... letsfasticaI 3ntcdligence. I The Bishop of Durham has made the munificentdonationfof £300, LieutenantGeneral Sir Henry Askew £10, and the Misses Askew £5, towards electing a suitable building for the Durham Diocesan Training School Society. P1CFERnIErNTS AND ArPoIiNTMErlNTS.-Tle Rev. J. B. TVugl was onl Saturday last appointed by the Governors of the Free Grammar School of Queen Mary, Walsall, ...

... I I H O U S E O F L O R D S. SATURDAY, August 9. The House of Lords was thrown open about 12 o'clock, and in a very short period the galleries and body of the house were well filled with ladies. The attendance of the fairer portion of the creation was very numerous, and the pro- portion of young and be'autiful women was considered much larger than usual; their dresses were exceedingly elegant ...