... The weather of the present week, though not so ri formly brilliant as that of the week by which it was pre. ceded, has been sufficiently favourable in Yorkshire to admit of the farming operations of the season advancing satisfactorily, and the small residue of the corn hsroeat that remained in the fields at the commencement of the present month is now generally safe in the stack yard, or in ...

... AS rRONOMY. r the THE NEW PLANET. T1 Ot, On the 13th of last month a memoir of the highest 511 very interest was read by the Astronomer Royal at the meet- wi )the ing of the Royal-Astronomical Society, on the history of thec( Elos- the discovery of' the newly-found planet. As yet the addie fling planet hias not got an acknowledged name, and it may Gave nidcome to be called Atlas, as suggested ...

... ?Letter?. THE; WATER QUESTION.t the To the EDITORS oJ 0he LIVERPOOL MERCUlRY.s ng- GINTLaII5N,-Wi!I you be kind enough to inform me as~t whether, providing the Hiighway Board succeed in ob- h*eir taining their bill to gupply the rate-payers with water, I f ice, ehall be rated for property where I do not consume water. E i In fact, I am now rated for premises £120 per nnnum, t ont and having ...

... RANDOM THOOUGHIN LEIS BY FCBzs ELIZABBTH D3 B~~ Fw'rczs ?? Ul By FANCS ELZART~i DAVyU Black Ipirit an m~lt~be. II. rea spirits And groy Mingngle, gle, mi blmingle, YOU that 91,81 Do spirits walk the earth? How oftenitha suggested to the thoughts of the olirii qust; nature, but whene sball we find the Sage wh tdn of reov h roblemP Not Pythagoras lea? can t Itt lre, and backed by his fifteen ...

... AhTRONO)MY. -ii .. M. LI vEltllERI'8 NEW PLANSET. I. n (riPoPo:1n NAME, ATLAS.) !v d In the RacCaJAo Scienlitgca di Rorna of December I t, the folowing nnnouncement, and, along with it, the fio li . l,,viing positione, wre given for the new planet, (Atlas, p I siamely,) as determined with the meridian circle of the' .- Obscrvato~y of thc Cslegio Romano:- za ?? MaIS SvC I DVG MITN. FRC. e0 Oct. ...

... I sCOM PROPLE ?? 5OUS VIrE SRILVXR SPOONS rS .S;- UOUTHS, rXElLSPS Tro STOP TprlCs (From the London Tfsnes.) VIIINNA, JAN, I.-The excitement oeessionea by the-c of the Emperor of Russia having now subsided, and ii;:. various cancanw, political and snecdotical, either founded c.- trath or due to mere invention, upon the subject, evern dewx.a to the jokes or those established witJ of Vienna, ...

... 'TIlE MANCHESTER ATILENAi;Ul. I - . I . . . .. . . Wac extract tho follossiag interesting iacasustt of tilelsi cheteirr A then-iaiii-, frour ait article entit-ict ?? Two dav 1: Matnchchter,a sritren, %ve Ircrestnic, bly Hr. Roebert Chetoir: .b- We faercy iso one eata read it without experiencing aL ttr.jil! i., - sire to liwe scome sitmilar firotttition e-&tiblsohed in this town a I ITilheM ...

... I Q~rtesontence. I ARTESIAN WELLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL P.#CKBT. Slr,-Permit me to call youratterition to the nese method of boring for Artesian Wells, by Mr. Fauvel, described in a paper read to the British Associatton for the Advancement of Science, by Mr. Vigueles. I do not bring the matter before you at present to prove that the method was well known at least forty years ago in ...

... I I (YESTERDAY. ) Tho quarterly meeting of the Town Council was held yesterday, and was very numerously attended. There were present-the Mayor, the Ex-Mayor, Aldermen At- kinson, Runton, Brownlow, Sandell, Thompson, W. Holmes, Blyth, Ayre, Sir William Lowthrop, and Cook- moan; Councillors Glossop, Larard, Wilson, Platford, Newton, Cox, Huntley, Carrick, J. Blundell, Bettison, Squire, Morley. ...

... HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY I I MEETING. ?? morning, at eleven O'clock, the half yearly gene- ral meeting of the Hull and Selby Rallway Company was hold in the offices of the company, in Railway-street, for the pur- lpose of receiving the Directors' Rteport, aost transasting the general business of the Company. Richard Tottie, Esq., presided, and among the shareholders present, wie noticed C. ...

... I OXLEY AND ANOTHER, vr. HULL AND SELBY RAIL- WAY COMPANY.'a In this case a special jury WAS impaieahed at Beverley, 0on~ Friday last, for thie purpose of asseesising the value of certalit property and buildings belonging to John Oxley and Jane, his C wife, required for the purpose of the branch railway from Hull to Bltdlington. E. D. Conyers, Esq., of Driffileld, wae the assessor, stid ...

... v AMND EAST-RIDNG TIMES. I ?? _ _ 4_ I Ws have been favoured, by a merchant of this port, with acopy of the Singapore Free Press, ce.) of the Vth ult., from which we extract the follow. ltian incg highly important announcement isedJAA ir at Th oens-esrlfJAVA. 7fre Thee Governor-Gileralof.i5Jcteriands ed5nia, &c. &c. &c. ace. Makes ?? to promote the trade and industry of the manifold islands ...