... I MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES, WAIR OFFICE, oCT. 10. _ 5th Dragoon Guards-J Fort, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchasec vice Bridge, promoted. 4th Light Dragoons-W F Burton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ilarron, promoted. 10th Foot-Ensign J W Medhurst to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lysaght, deceased; Ensign J T Chondler to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Taylor, who ...

... The official Gazeite ofm.elogCa, of thesstini, Ivthe the following account of events at the guard th midst of the tranquillity which reions in all the towns of the legations, we have been thrown into consternation here within the lost few days by the most rash and crimi- nal attempt. in the afternoon of the 23d, whilst a crowd were assembled to witness sone game of address, the tur- bulent ...

... THE POTATO DZSEASE, Although the most universal failure ef the Ptt baa net yet been much Lelt by the humble PoaCO)q society, in consequence of the abondnore ofcabbas of 05c1.a,,a rota, and ether vegetables available at thie season of tl,~ year, yet it to to be feared, as the %iateraparoacf~e, the peer will be great ou1lterero by the C5fsmiae 1 Funnell of Ssoutheose, near this town, who bhafo ...

... TAHITI, Letters from Tahiti tate, that the French Governor, Brunt, had sent a steamer to Queen Pamare, to induce her to return to Tahiti; hut she refuses positively to speak to, or even to see, any Frenchman, unless Governor Bruat will re- hoist her personal flag, which he had hauled down; and this he refuses to do. If a French soldier passes near she hides her face in her hands, in order that ...

... elpra-4t I I MR. I)OYLE'S TOUR.i TO THtE CHARTIST BODY, AND MflMMMIS OF TVIE CO-OPRAnTVE LAaND SOclmTY.-The Chartist Co-ope- rative Land Society has behn in existence betveen four and five months, and during that period every opposition has been offered to its onward progress by our opponents, and yet, thanks to your exertions- thanks to the late Convention, who made the plan simple, easy to ...

... MEMOIR OF TIHE EARL SPENCER. The largest gifts of nature and the most esteemed results of education seem occasionally to be combined in the same individual, for the purpose of enabling him efficiently to discharge the duties of a situation to which by mero accident lie muay have been raised ; hence it is by no means uncommon to find great law- yers on the bench, real statesmeu in the Cabinet, ...

... BUsINEs OF T~lE POST OFFICE.-O1 Saturday upwards of SO,000 letters were received at the General Post office by the West India mail, which arrived after the dispatch of the morning and mid-day mails. These, and an extraordinary influx of newspapers, kept the ivhole estab- lishment in full work till near nine o'clock, when the last of the bags were dispatched by the night mails. ReOrEtNING OF ...

... ROBERT RAIKES, OF GLOUCESTER. (Continued from our last.) About the year 1805, Mr. Raikes was attacked with a severe complaint, which affected his brain, but he recovered, and was then advised by his friend to relinquish busioess be did so, and a successor being found in Mr. David Walker, it was agreed that a joint annuity should be settled upon himself and Mrs. R.) from the proceeds of the ...

... aND pAS ?? saIMteS AND MEASX-SDDX!GO wzmo. HULL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 184. The accounts received in the last week from I abroad are much more important than usual. In- 81 deed, such is the stirring condition of foreign aSairs, that alt, but especially the Queen's Govern- ment, mnust be on the quid vive. fi Th'e PLSATE RIVER is still in a state of great tf excitement, and much work, we fear5 ...

... THE DISEASE IN POTATOES, We regret to find that the accounts we receive tend to confirm the apprehension that there is a considerable failure in the potato crop, and that the disease which has t caused it is not on the decrease. A gentleman in the neigh- 1 bourhood of Dublin, on the north side, observing some c time since that his potato fields showed sonme indication of i' the approach of the ...

... WE I'DN ESDA Y 'S A N ) 'I'll U.tDA Y 'S l'l'S. LONDON, OCT. 9. DISASTROUS NEWS FROM ALGERIA. The Algiers journals of the Ist give an account of aP disastrous affair which has just taken place lsear Djenia Gliazaoluat. Col. Montagnac, who commanded that post, being informed by a subjected Arab chief who lied never before given any I. reason to doubt his fidellty, that Abdel-Kader, ait the heed ...

... agricititural Intelliavirt. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER. FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF COUNTY ANTRIM. CTriltenfor Mhe Beffnst News-Letter.) From the unlravourahle stath- of the weather during the last fortnight, the operations of harvesting have been verv much retarded, anid, in eaposed situations, there has bee;n a considerablo loss of grain, the wetness of tile weather preventing ...