... The proprietors were assembled yesterday in special ; general court, for the purpose of electing a director to serve as governor during the remainder of the year, in the room ' of W. R. Robinson, Esq., who vacates, or disqualifies as it is termed, by reason of the late stoppage of his firm. | At 11 o'clock several of the directors entered the court, ! when the Secretary (J. Knight, Esq.), ...

... the failure of the mercantile establishment of the governor, probably a plain statement of the business of the Bank of England and its present usages mav be useful. The Bank of England joint stock bank, invested with peculiar privileges, and possessing peculiar powers. It is governed by directors, elected out of the proprietary; but, from long usage, the election is really conducted by the di ...

... Ardverekie, Sunday Morning.—Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, Prince Albert and the Prince Leiningen, accompanied by some members of the suite, left the Lodge, and were soon afterwards joined by the Marquis of Abercorn and the Hon. Capt. J. Gordon, and by a train of gamekeepers. The party wended their way to the Galloway moors or glen adjoining the Forest-road*, leading to the ...

... people have heard occasionally, but which a gardener might listen to every hour of his existence, had he the skill to interpret the language of plants. Give mc air, or I shall die, is incessantly repeated by every leaf in ninetynine hothouses, greenhouses, conservatories, hibernatories, and pits in hundred, all over Europe. But the voice unheard ; the pale looks, the feeble frames of the ...

... ] The Overland Mail from India, rid Marseilles, his arrived, with dates from Calcutta, to the 9th; Ma- to the 11th; and Bombay, to the 20th July. We have no later news from China than that which we reteired on the 20th July ; the mail from Hong Kong not luting reached Ceylon when the last accounts left that island. Having missed the second opportunity, some apprehension will doubtless be felt ...

... YORKSHIRE. Dinner to Mr. Sandars, M.P.—On Monday a Sublic dinner was given to Mr. Sandars, the newly-elected [.P. for Wakefield, in the large room of the Corn Exchange buildings in that town. Upwards of 600 gentlemen sat down. W. B. Nay lor, Esq., presided. CHESHIRE. BiRKE.vnEAD Free Port.—Following the successful precedent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway at Middlesborough, the ...

... If anything is to be done next session towards introducing efficient system of sanitary police in the metropolis—and no part of the kingdom needs it more—it is high time that a beginning -were made. The amount of thought and inquiry that went to the framing of the Reform Bill, and the enthusiastic continuous efforts required to bear down the host of sinister individual and combined interests ...

... NEW ZEALAND.—VVe have accounts fro»1 colony to the 13th of April, not later indeed than «• formerly published, but containing some additional it»» intelligence. On the Ist Grey **. i tertained by the community ef Nelson, the Hon. C. lon presiding, at a public dinner which was largely After the usual loyal toasts the chairman, in most mentary speech, proposed the health of the govern* ...

... We now lay before our readers the conclusion of ; the settlers* case as stated by themselves ; and, we may add, that part of it which we consider the most important: The other condition to which we would now call your attention is that wherein you agreed with the purchasers of land, that, of every 100/. paid by them, you would retain for your own trouble and expenses only and would expend the ...

... The events at Rome, the policy of the Pope, and the menaces of Austria to crush the liberalism of his Holiness, are subjects that excite far more interest in Germany than they do either in France or with us. We have grown rather cold to constitution-mongering, seeing what it has produced to us in Greece and the peninsula; and the public, we fear, looks rather to the efforts of Pius IX. with a ...

... The Roman Embassy. A Letter to Viscount Palmerston, M.P. By CHAULtS PiIYMK, M.A. The flight of pamphlets shows how the popular wind set.*, and this one is as welcome as the first swallow that comes to tell of summer. Mr. de la Pryme states that it is written by one who has never shrunk from avowing himself a protestant, and to the exile of whose family as protestant martyrs it is owing that ...

... \rdverikie, Monday, Aug. 30.—The Earl of Aberdeen left Ardverikie to-day for Gordon Castle. Her Maieity and the Prince walked out the grounds. Prince Albert went out deerstalking in the forest. The Prince of Leiningen went out grouse shooting. The Prince Wales and the Prince's Royal, attended by Miss Hillyard, took aa tiring their ponies on the hillg. General Castelcicala, the Neapolitan ...