... THE CYCLOPS FRIGATE -AND tTHE STEAM- SHIP POTTINGER ONxSHORE. : I SOUTHArPTONeSunday Night. I regret to communicate the above disasters during the fog this morning off Cowes. As yet-veraimperfect intelligence has reached me respecting the Cyclops., I have, however, seen one of the passengers 'by the'Pot- tinger, who has very kindly furnished me with inferma- tion'as to the grounding of that ...

... VAR I ET I ES. -| The wholesale price of butehers' meat in Sydney, New e South Wales, on the 28th May, was -id. to Id. per lb. d The sister of the Duchess of Bordeaux is betrothed to Is the second son of Don Carlos. Mr. T. B. Macaulay, M.P. is said to be employed in writing - a new history of England. e, Mademoiselle Rachael has contributed 1,0Wffrsncs towards Ct the relief of the sufferers by ...

... I Week 5, ~-I. . 00ending ~ . 00 P ttq 00 00 Arbroath and Forfsr ?? 7 78 158 200O 204. 00 Chester and Blirkenhead ?? 6 640 78 60s4 566 10- Dublin and Drogheda ?? 772 822 t.- Dublin and ?? 10 823 6912 -11, Dundee and Arbroath ?? 100 84 283 241 Eastern Counties ?? 0472 015;3 6106 - Eastern Union ?? .8 . . 4U9 East Lencasbire ?? 784 35 821 Edinburgh anid Glasgow ?? ?? 2001 1802 386.3 2843 ton, ...

... ROCIIDALE AND MIDDLETON. I SUNDAY Scnoor ANsNsvEnsknY.-On Sunday last the annual Sunday-school sermons were preached in Provi- dence Chapel, Rochdale, when collections were made in aid of the Sunday-school, amounting to upwards of £67. ANTI-SLAVERtY LiAGtUE.-On Tuesday evening a very numncrous public meeting was held in the Public Hall, BJuillie-strect, Rlochdale ; Mr. Oliver Ormrod in the ...

... . _, _ _ _ _ _ _ __ ?? Poon RATE.-The overseers of the poor have announced& that they have laid a rate of ls. 6d. in the pound on the assessment for the half-year commencing Sept. 29th last, and that the same has been allowed by the indgistrates. The last rate was Is. in the pound only; but the increaaj amount has been considered necessary owing to the rat on of the nc , removal act. t GAS ...

... LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. CASHINET COUNCIT..-Sunimonses were issued yesterday from the Foreign Office, by order of Lord John Russell, to the cabinet ininhsters, to attend a cabinet council to morrow (Saturday), at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. The ministers (with the exception of Mr. Labonchere) all remain ill town. MONEY MABRKET.-CODSOS for Money and the Account opened at 9-1a to 9thi, ...

... .. BLACKBUTE.N DATRWEN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-On Monday I evening the second annual soiree of the above institution came off with great 'clat in the William-street school- room. Service of the refreshments commenced in the under school-room, at half-past six o'clock, their distri- bution to the several relays of guests occupying nearly two hours. At half-past eight o'clock the chair was taken ...

... LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENTNG. NEW COssPANiEs.-The spirit of joint-stock speculation, which for some time has been alhost, if not entirely, dor- imati, has to some extent revived in this town. In railways one or two projected schemes along the coast to Southport have reappeared; and this week prospectuses have been issued of an omnibus company, for the transit of the , million here and at ...

... W I GA N. ST. GEORGE'S INFANT SCHOOL.-On Sunday last three sermons were preached in St. George's Church, in the morning and evening by the Rev. D. Elliott, of St. Stephen's Church, Salford, and in the afternoon by the Rev 1. Powell, incumbent of St. George's. After each sermon a collection was made in aid of the above school, and the sum received amounted to £25. BoRouer SESSIONS.-On Monday ...

... STATE OF TAHITI- QUEEN FOMARE. Yesterday afternoon a public meeting of the fricnds ofI Evangelical -missions Iwas held at the Town 'Hall, ,King- -i street, for the purpose of memorialising her Majesty's C government on be1half of the oppr essed inhabitants of Taii The meeting was numerously and respectably tc attended. Elkanali Armitage, Esq., mayor of Manchester, took S the chair; and uponl ...

... WARiRINGTON.. BIRnKNHEAD, LANCAsHIRE, AND 'CESienIE, JUNC- TION RAILWAY..-,This line of raiji'ty, according to the act of parliament just obtained, was to pass over the lower end of Bridge-street, wl e a station was to have been erected. It is now, hoi'fer likely that this route !will be abandoned, and the line'ftaken acrhbs the north end of the town, near the Blue Coit,School, if MI feces- ...

... l We are glad to learh from various quarters tiat the failure in the potato crop is fear from being so great or so widely spread as was at first supposed. From Yorkshire, an intelligent farmer writes that not more than fiom five to ten per cent. of the winter potatoes in his neighbourhood, have been tainted with the prevailing disease, and as regards the district of central Yorkshire, ...