... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 stage, as a great national amusement, has been always considered a standard of the progressive advance. ment of civilization ; and, impressed with this belief, all n influenced by a refined and correct taste, mutt have s %witnessed with regret the decline of the-legitimate drama. I For years past a vitiated and vulgar feeling has had the c ascendancy; our two great national, theatres have ...

... - On Thurrsdray evening week most tremnndously heavy rain began to faill in the two northern counties of Cumberland and Westmurcland, and from mid- night it poured down in perfect torrents, and con- thiued all that night, all day on Friday, and the greater part of Saturday, and the consequence was that all the rivers arnd streams were swollen and overflowed. More terrific floods have not been ...

... MEETING THE PRESTON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. . o _ The Preston Agricultural Asseelatlon held its annual meeting on Saturday last; bitt tire day-more Particularly thle early part of it- 'was extremely unfovourabie for tho exhibition, arid caused 'a t ersauinrous attoindancoof sjpeetetora thakn usual. Tireshow took lc it, Cliodawiel;s Orchard, and, if We make an exception In favour of dairy cows, ...

... INSKIP AGI:ICULWUIIAL SOCIETY. The eighth Annual Meeting of the lnskip Agricultural Society took placeon Tuesday last, at the house of Mr. Thomas Cook, the Cavendish Arnie Iln, and excited considerable bustle in this beautiful rural district. The morniug was gloomy and wet; atout ten o'clock asi agreeablechan, took place, but the lull was only temporary, for in a couple of hour, Ife rain began ...

... C, O YD)/ IJ U 51f y .6, PI, fl()I I o ?? Octobeir 1. ~ir- I ant t'd uceil to ?? 11c, tile Icliowillig bsur\'t-tilt5 to yOU, its I anit confl','ic ?? 1is to tawitti~ii the lni o. rlles mid tenantI, of Ix land I ( to adopt sou nI measures asE wii itieni to theire iulitel prospe'rity. j ?? ,ill tlrii ?? fitch tflat crijuir. tlebir I'Jivelzi'' I il ii tile vS r iiV 1it`L't.t'tsrit ta' D~on ?? ...