... PARCES, MAIL DELIVERY COMPANY. I TWO GEESE MISSING. TO THlE EDITOR OF THE ER.A. Sir,-On the 10th of October Ult., a widow lady, re- siding in the east end of the metropolis, booked a parcel containing two geese at one of the offices of the Parcel Mail Company, in the Commercial-road, St. George's East, paying carriage for the same to ensure its prompt and safe delivery in Camden Town. The ...

... A public meeting was held at the New Inn, Bridge. road, Lambeth, on Monday evening, to consider the pro. posed erection of a bridge at Charing-cross, B. Hawes, jun., Esq., M.P., in the chair. The room was thronged by the most respectable inhabitants of Westminster and the locality. The chairman, in opening the proceedings of the meeting, said that there had been no manifestation of public ...

... I EThe following appeared in our Town Edition of last week.) MADAME ANNA BISEIOP. The last appearance of Madame Anna Bishop took place on Thursday, at Drury-lane, upon which occasion she selected the part of Isoline, in Balfe's opera of The Maid of Artois. It is melancholy to think that, in the present impoverished state of the lyrical drama, the cir- cumstances of the theatre prevent the ...

... | MONDAY. The reports from The Corner during the Christmas holidays have usually shown a very slack market-to-day was an exception, the number of subscribers present, and the amount of business transacted, having considerably exceeded the average, Thc four leading Derby favourites were decidedly in force, Van Tromp having been backed at 15 to 2 and 8 to 1 for three or four hundred pounds ...

... It is lamentable to think that so fie a countrv as Spain. will its glorious climate, and its slill more glorious asso. ciations, has sunk so low in the scale of nations as to play at hide and seek with her creditors, and rako almongst those disgraaeful repudiators, ots which the drab-coated m n of Pennsylvania may be raaid to be the hbed and front. It becomesa matter of some moment to ?? at ...

... THE AMERICAN AGGRESSION ON I MEXICO. From the commencement of this nlost UnJusf and unprovoked aggression, we have expressed ati opinion that it would lend disastrously to the aggres- sors. The latest accounts from Mexico prove that Americans have not made any progress, that the war is actually becoming popular with the Mexicans, and that something like a spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism is ...

... SY NO PSI S. MILIrrTTARiY DrSLIKrE OF TipE OrraETOtY.-On Sunday last there was a collection at St. Aubin's chapel, D6von- port, in aid of the funds of some charitable institution connected with the chapel, and on the occasion the Rev. Samuel Puandle, the officiating minister, commenced the reading of the offertory. No sooner, however, had the ,Re, gentleman commenced the service than many of ...

... It will be in the recollection of our readers, that we pointed out the necessity of uniformity of taxation if Vree Trade principles were to be fully and equitably eiarried out. We pointed out the absurdity of taxing tea, the principle export of China, 300 per cent., and admitting cotton, corn, and other great articles of con- sumiption duty free; nay, more, we imagined ourselves Chinese, and ...

... S Y N0 PS tS SUNDAY TRAINs.-A petition signed by nearly 800 of the most wealthy ahd intelligent inhabitants of Glasgow, comprising people of all trades, professions and pursuits, and of every religious persuasion in the city, has been resented to the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow hailway Company, urging upon them their duty and legal ohligatibn to run trains upon the Sunday, An answer ...

... ON FIRING OF HORSES. A veterinary surgeon, a good practitioner, and a man of many years' experience, killed a horse of his own in this way. It was a three-parts bred horse, and, no doubt, an irritable subject, and possibly Aot duly prepared, he being, rather in haste, required to be blistered or fired on account of staleness in his legs. Unfortuttately, and certainly in- judiciously, the ...

... f TIHE OVERLAND MAIL. Despatcbes in anticipation of the ordinary overland 3sil from India reached town on Tuesday night, vja Marseilles; and Lient. Waghorn's courier, by way of Trieste, arrived at an early bour on Wednesday morning. The dates by both are from Bombay, to Nov. 2; Calcutta, to Oct. 22; Madras, to Oct. 24; and Delhi, to Oct. 21. The snail reached Suez by the steamer Akbbar, from ...

... DEATH o0 LiEUTENANT-GENERAL DICKINSON, OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.-Lieutenant General Richard Colleton Dickinson, the oldest surviving general officer connected with the Royal Artillery, expired on the 5th instant, at his residence, near Notting-hill, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-four, after a militarv service of sixty-five years. re entered the Royal regiment as second lieutenant, June 29, ...