... Hoi Commons, Feb. 13. OF TIME. Report from the Committee om Standing Orders that the time for presenting petitions be enlarged in the case of the following bill :— South-Eastern Railway (Chislet to Margate)—referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. BILLS ORDERED TO BE BROrOHT IN. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (Amendment and Branches—No. I).' Report [12th ...

... Satcbdat Etkniko. The Stock Market was quiet to-day, and the dealers ; disinclined for active business, as usual on the last day of the week, with a curtailment of the regular hours, amounting to a sort of half-holiday. Consols for Money were 96* to J; for Account, 96* buyers; the Threes Iteduced, 97 the New Three-and-a Quarter Cents., to 100; Exchequer-bills, 38s. to 405.; Bonii, to 51s. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.— Monday, FEB. 16. Their lordships met five o'clock. The Earl of CLARENDON presented a petition from the borough of Musselburgh, praying for total repeal of the °Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from the inhabitants of the town of Leeds, praying the.r lordships not to sanction any measure against the re-organisation of the m The Earl of RADNOR presented petitions for a total ...

... Jsnuion, Thursday Morning, Feb. 19. In the Share Market, yesterday, there was no alteration in prices that calls for remark. The uneasy state of the money market keeps down quotations. At Liverpool the market was dull; at Manchester prices, except in first-class stock, the prices were barely supported ; Birmingham, the market was firm, hut business limited, by the scarcity of money. At Leeds, ...

... importance, occurring in distant quarters of the globe. Peace and war hang on the debates in the Washington Senate. The fortunes of great empires are deciding or decided in the battle-fields near the Sutledge. As to wars and strifes of minor importance, we find them of more than ordinary occurrence in New Zealand, in the Plata, in Algeria; yet have scarcely time cast a glance upon them. At a ...

... SELKIRKSHIRE ELECTION. Selkirk, Friday.—The nomination of candidates for the county of Selkirk took place here to-day. Two candidate* were in the field ; Mi. Murray, jun., of Philiphaugh, in the Liberal interest, and Mr. Elliot Lockhart, of Borthwickbrae, who may be reckoned as moderate Protectionist. Mr. Murray was enthusiastically received. Among those present the hustings, in addition to ...

... ROUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. RAILWAY BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time: —Direct London and Portsmouth Railway; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway; South Eastern Railway (No. 1), Watcrloo-road to Greeuwich); South Eastern Railway (No. 2), (Greenwich C'hilham, with branches); South Eastern Railway (No. (Greenwich Railway to Chart, ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday in Claremont-park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Equerry in waiting. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay took his departure yesterday from Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken out on ...

... HOISE OF LORDS—Thcbsdat, Feb. 19. T E» rl of ST. GERMANS presented a petition from the inhabitants of the town of Galway praying for the extension to Ireland of a general system ofrailways. Lord DACKE said that he had much satisfaction in bnnsj under their lordship', notice a petition from a gentleman residing the of Exeter upon the subject of the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League ...

... tolerance, his indulgence, towards spoilt magistrate. Very eccentric the drollery, too, sometimes spiced with a high flavour of injustice—have been the decisions and committals of the Wizard of Bow-street; and Sir James, with a constitutional love of fun and humour, has evidently enjoyed them: inasmuch as the magistrate still permitted to make his court a capital morning lounge for satirists ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—Friday, Fhb. 13. Their Lordship* met at the usual hour. PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. Lord SOMERS presented two petitions from the county Hereford, signed number of landowners and occupiers land, in favour of protection, and took occasion to observe, that he was sorry that he felt it his bounden duty to withdraw his vote, with regard the intended reduction and abolition of ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—Feb. 26. Their Lordships met at fiTe o'clock. Earl SOMERS presented a petition from Hereford, signed by 1,100 persons, praying for a rem ssion of the duties upon tea and sugar; and another one, from the same place, against the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph. CORN-LAWS. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The petitioners stated that ...