... 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 ...

... ASCENT OF VESIJVIIJS. ASB By GBNTLRMAN OF LxVwsPOOa. T he Januarg ls,'5546. nef t *y Yesterday I went to Veauvius for the first time. I thene isstarted from Naples by the nine o'clcck train, and Rot At w he off at Portici, (under which Flerculaneom is buried,) and - am walked to Rosina, where we procured each a horse and as one guide. I war. accompanied by 3. D. G}. After a A attedious and ...

... THE C()MET OF SHORTEST PERIOD. SO) TO Use EDITORS of the LIVERPOOL MwERCURY. -( ve GaNZI LwMEN-In the communication made- to you otm .rm on the 19th Miarch, relative to the comet discovered in do February, by .Mr. Brorsen, at Kiel in Holstein, it ias be the mentioned tnat Profes3or Eneke had given to it an orbit ma the of 1256 days, as the result of his calculations. Sincethat cm vl.time ...

... ACCOUCHEMENrT OF HER MAJESTY. BIRTH OF A PRINCESS. (FROMn TH.E COURT CIRCULAR.) BUCKINGHAM PALACE, M.%y 25. This afternoon, at five minutes beibre three o'clock the Queen was safely delivered of a Princess. In the room with her ?? were his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilly, the monthly nurse; and in the rooms adjoining were the other medi- cal attendants, Sir James Clark ...

... PICKINGS IUP-UPON FPSOM DOWNS. .j BY OUR OWN TOUT. Our own Commissioner bath as yet gathered but little from the denizens of Leatherbead, Mitchell Grove, andt thebangers-on,'touts, know-alls, and cunning-ones, }who, thereabouts do congregate, linger, lurk, and lie. The system of vanning, and the multiplication of rail- wavs, offer facilities of easy, rapid, and unfatigaing trans. xcission of ...

... (Tronr our Special Correspondeit.) Loqnots, SATURDAY EVEssea. It will require the utmost -vigilance and judicious manage. ment of the board of superintendance- to suppress the oppo- sition now developing itself in the north against the new poor law, and rendering it as unpopular as that in force in England, You wilM perceive that it required all the skill and tact of the learned Lord Advocate ...

... RATILWAY MEETINGS. EBtsT or Fn'a RAILWAY.-A meeting of the share and. scrip holders of this company was heldlin Gibb's Royal Hotel, Edinburgh, on Thursday. Charles Craigie Halkett of Lawhill, Esq. in the chair. After hearing the report read, W. H. Brown of Asbley moved. that the bill be approved of, which was seconded by Eagle Henderson, Esq. Mr Green, one of a deputation from Glasgow, moved ...

... of the Greek loan:— I agree with the hon. member (Count Pelet) on one point. I equally regret the dissensions thathave arisen lately between France and England on the affairs of Greece ; but the htn. member is in error, both regards the cause, the origin, and even the date of these dissensions. According him, they arose in 1813, at the time when revolution introduced the constitutional system ...

... ' « Daily News Office, Whitefriars. The newspaper is the intellectual life of the nineth ccnturj* —the great agent of modern civilisa• Not speak of the moral and political safeon , w hich it affords, it places all, whatever icties of fortune and position, on a Jas to information. Only by its means is small capitalist enabled to contend successfully . his wealthy rival for a knowledge of those ...

... NEWPORT. Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending May 20.1846. ARRivED. Reward, Brazier, Honfleur Rosina Eckloff Schedam Stephen Knight, Wyall, Cherbourg Eluzai Phil- lips, Prudence, Jenkins, Dispatt-h, Darnell,Excellent, Doughton Kingston, Richards, Amelia, Jay, Rouen, batlast._IndustrY Quinton. Chepstow; Olive, Canty, Bristol, potatoes. New Hope, Davies, Porthcawl, iron.—John, Dyer. Fowey, ...

... CHAOS.—A large heap of nothing, with no place to put it in. Liberal sensations find no entrance into a barbarous, con- tracted heart. Why is it probable that King Charles I. consented to be exe- cuted ?—Because they axed him whether he would or not. Why is Tom Thumb not the smallest in the world 1-Because in India there is a General Littler. A coquette is a rose from which every lover plucks a ...

... -0,-TI C1111-1111. . IN !? P S2 'E ?? C')MMON!S--- TuLtUSDAV. 1Wf (ni-llt~iiltlS icere- il:t to Her NMajestlt's C.vern. ?? t 41st.elit eitn ous a ch;ir:cter that Sir R. I'tIL tvislied ?? .^ pL e1ld rrcor(l, ii cicder tat the Publict I * ..ultinliciry of ?? which the P-P itnd e ni.- Ill calfrd rpot tu rn-i i,i attciut0o0 in F11c -i.::-tqnh-on. The 1lu-s ioles elited to: :iitrown tariff. I c ...