... RAIL WA YS. -0- F OXFORD AND SALISBURY. (BY ExPREss.) freROA OURt REPORTER]. ABINGDON, FllrDAY.-A requisiltiun having been pre- sented to the mayor of Abingdon, Mr. WT. Doe Belcher, severn1 days ag0, calling upon him to convene a public mfaeting to consider the expediency of the proposed Oxford and Salisbury Railwiay, wiicl is intended to pass through that important town, a meeting was ...

... ?t1II I0~-LIOW CRISIS. n - 0 sow all but universal, that the f iavtcton le a very short space of time, iloat the monstrous iniquity tct 'l aon ?? spareltey-supplied platter of * oiog t~o frih forth tie heaped-up tables of to have a speedy end. The conviction, on topossitolO they could endure, or be has been, during many months for sdall! with positive steadiness, forc- ,i.ellluro tire (ris of ...

... IRELANDI). Or DUBLIN, OCToIOBER 23 O. ~ [Pnoa OtTft rCotthSirnNbE?'T.2 ur 'trit POTATO DISnASaU. ed The acctounts to-day arc of the stime character; the blight ~-extending into new districts, and producing great ablyn hewhilst in places for some time suffuring under the vista- hit tioti; the alarm is diminishing, anid, In several instances, tothe) amount of Injury Is repaorted less than had ...

... THE MORNING CHRONICLE, LONDON: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1845. We adverted a lew days ago to the pro- bability that Spain will at least endeavour to extend and carry out her prohibitive system, notwithstanding the promised modifications in her ?? a contrary sense. As liong as we import sherries, however, the good people of Gibraltar will continue to pay for them in some other mode than coin, ...

... LONDON: MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1845. Among the numerous weapons with which Sir ROBERT. PEEL will be able to combat the objections of the refractory portion of the Cabinet, who object to a suspension of the Corn-laws and the free introduction of grain, will be the recent despatches from our Minister at Washington. Those despatches cannot fail to inform our Government of the present singularly ...

... MADRID, Ocr. 15. PFROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.J The prevalent idea respecting the marriage question at the present moment, is that the French government is working to bring about the double marriage of the IQueen with Count Trapani, and the Infanta with the Duke of Montpensler, and that the prevailing Influences here are in favour of, or at least certainly not opposed to those arrange- ments. The ...

... CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 8. [FROM, OUR CORRESPiONDENT.] a I have obtained a memorandum of the substance of notes , and communications that have passed from M. do Bourque- h nay and the French government to the Porte, on the sub. a jects of my letter of yesterday. I give you this memoran- s dum, just as I got it, though it is evidently written bastily I The substantial correctness of its contents ...

... INDIA AND CUINA. -4- BOMBAY, rsEtzanssE Ri. (1 [RnoM OUR BOMBAY CORtRESPONDENT.] The steamer starts to-day with the first of oaur bi-motthyi mails; and the budget of intelligence is not a bad one to t begin with. Information has been received from Scinds to E a late ?? letters of the 31st ultimo, and Hydera- t bad and Kursacbhee ones of the 3d and 4th instant respec- T tively, having come to ...

... *CLIM1ATIE OF MOUNT LEoA1VoN.-i` Mount Lebanon,' taib the Arab bard, 1 has ?? at its breasd, autiston steopieg at its feet, spring seated eil its shoulders whilst grim winter ever torpidly reposes Ore Its oseow-rappedI tr eed noard, truly, thle cal-j Ul clrimate and variety ef pro- ductions appear to bozar out this poetic simil, for whilst tiho Eurolsean traveller, duriog the soasser meeoths ...

... -- TATTERSALLISMONDA The sale of TheBaron toI B. . Clark, and the daroaginr, influence of the change of o-Jr. s a msbosim ble. Some warm discusos ic ha, tookos plceisi? t, sequence at the West-end and *t w bari took pflace in the Corner, that the sale had cratep obvrousy on tldnat pression, insomuch that, ?? to five 'clck, unit 4eobi at to say what The Barn's price was or whether as t in the ...

... T'IIE iJANCLESTER ATHENYV]X-AN- I NUAL SOIREE. l [PAOM OUR 1t31rOtTHR.]I The age of ruins Is past. Go and see Manchester. And what to see there? Manchester-the great capital of n( labour-the cotton city-thel home, par ecxeli,7l1S, of the at steam-engine and the power-loom, the very focus of our J great national industrv-the town whose wondrous ma- G chines, and whose skilled inhabitants, ...

... I THE LA LT FATAL FIRI? at GRAY ESEND. From inquiries instituted yesterday, of parties w~ho were )S sleeping at the Black Horse public-house onS 8:iturday night, the following facts have been gathered with reference to the outbreak of the fire, and its progress from house to house before its course was stayed. It appears that the first intimation of the fiact of a fire raging upon the pre- ...