... LONDON, Saturday Morning, Oct. 25, 1845. As we have shown by our extracts in another part of to-day's paper, the news from India by the arrival announced yesterday is not, if we except the condition of Lahore, of much political import. ance. We perceive, however, that Mr R. Mont. gomery Martin has arrived at Bombay from China having provisionally relinquished the Treasurer-' ship of Hong-Kong, ...

... LOSS OFi rIB LATE I DPPTy c $to cotlflni has lately been visited by oine Imostat, protracted stormas ever remembered -'-iTroll *it tibi early period of the season. The addb inleavy fall of rain, by which aitr ~ t in c tibutry tt'iliis, were completely ?? ~si a~er he ainbadto all appearance spent tuewin bgantoblow with tremendous dr-eiiand raisediloubya of'rhm ly0 our eldest citizenss ever re- ...

... THE MIORNINVG CH RONICLE. LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 184. Every overland mail that now arrives from the East, may be said to bring along with it additional proofs of the haste and want of judgment with which the peace with China was patched up. The towns on the coast selected to be consular ports have in most cases proved of no value. Canton is rendered a highly disagreeable residence by ...

... FRANCE. PROBABLE RETIREMENT OF MARSHAL SOULT.-The report which has been long current of the intended ve- tirement of Marshal Soult from the Ministry has been renewed in Paris, and it is now very probable that he will not remain at all events in the office of Minister of War. The ' Presse' of Monday says- If we are rightly informed, all the earnest representations made yesterday, in the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... COLONIAL PiLICYY-NhW DISGRACES I UPON THIE BRITISH ARMS. We publish to-day, with deep regret, extracts from pri- vate letters from New Zealand, of the 17th May which announce another blot upon the honour of England, the origin of which is directly traceable to Lord Stanley's colo- nialpolicy. Of the appointment of the late governor of N ew Zealand, we are unwilling to speak withi any harsh- ...

... I I THE QUEEN. --Her Majesty has announced her inten- tion of revisiting Osborne House, at the latter end of this or the beginning of next month, and has issued her com- mands to have the Fairy, tender, in readiness to convey her from the Clarence yard to Cowes. POSTPONEMENT or HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO ARUN- DEL CASTLE.-This interesting circumstance, which has been talked of for the last year, ...

... POLITIC AAL. THE MINISTRY.-Private letters sent us by a close observer, tend strongly to confirm the rumours in the London papers, that the breach between Peel and Stanley is becoming so serious as to render the retirement of the latter from office before Parliament meets more than pro- bable.-' Scotsman.' OPENING OF THE, PORTS.-Finding that there is such a lamentable failure of the potato ...

... BANDON AND BANTRY.-IMPORTANT MEETING. [PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] The Cork Examiner of yesterday says, A highly im- portantmeeting of the landholders, merchants, and manu- facturers of Bandon and the inhabitants generally of the localities through which this line is intended to pass, was held in the Court-houso of Bandon on Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, which was crowded to excess. The meeting ...

... EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT CHRIST'S I ~~~HOSPITAL.II On Wednesday the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor elect, several of the aldermen and the Common Council, governors, and the City officers, proceeded in their car- riages to Christ's Hospital, for the purpose of holding a court of all the royal hospitals, to receive a corrected list of the governors of the hospitals, to be confirmed accord- ing ...