... Edinburgh, Sept. 29. The Education Committee of the Privy Council has written to several publishers of school-books in Edinburgh, regarding the prices at which large quan. tities of some of the more approved class-books can | be supplied. Hitherto the committee has not inter- I fered with the manuals used in any of the seminaries receiving grants; and the object of the present step may either ...

... The following list of such members of the new parliament are prominently connected with railways is from Herapath's Railway Journal: Abdj, T. N. (Lyme Regis), Director of the Lynn and Dereham Kailway. Acton, Colonel (Wicklow), Director of the Waterfonl and Dublin Railway. Adair, A. S. (Cambridge borough), Director of the Ipswich and Bury Railway. Alexander, Nathaniel (Antrim county), Director ...

... I Comnmruc axa Zrabe. WOOL.-The imports of wool into London during the week ending Thursdav were 1,661 bales, 654 of which were from Port Philip, 633 from Algoa Bay, 213 from Malta, and the rest from Germany, &c. The market on Thursday was vory dull. COTTON.-On Thursday, at Liveopool, the market still continued in the same dull state, but without any quotable change in prices. The sales ...

... The Queen Dowager, the Duke of Saxe Mciningen, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Earl of Denbigh, left Osborne at half past twelve yesterday, for town. The Queen and Prince Albert accompanied their illustrious visitors to the pier, whence the Queen Dowager and party embarked in the Fairy for Portsmouth, to honour the admiral with a visit, and ...

... As we have frequently had to recur to the subject of the robbery of notes from Messrs. Rogers and Co.'s bank, 1844, we are now happy to state that thewholeof the property has been recovered, under circumstances which, we believe, will be satisfactory to the friends of tbe house, although the recovery has been attended with much expense and inconvenience. As the subject is of more than ordinary ...

... Duchess of Victory Ur ? for Brussels, and every preparation hid been *?» breaking of the duke's establishment in the Ilegent's-park, on that day. There was • lod suppose that the orders given by the duke's have been countermanded, but information of th decree, signed and promulgated Madrid on 1 elevating the Duke of Victory to the dignity of ««. '■» the kingdom, rendered the whole of the ...

... M ONEY MARKET, AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. ,. _. I- ?? FRIDAY EvENING. Two movements are evidently in progress, either of wbicb, if successful, would tend to relieve the money market and the mercantile world from the presmure and peril which, if neither of the movements succeed, will most assuredly overwhelm them. These movements are, First,-A relaistion of Peel's Banking and Currency Laws. ...

... TIIE MONETARy AND cOMMERCIAL PR SSURE. The present position of commercial affairs demands the most se- rious consideration of every relecling person. It will be seen from our usual record of the etate of the. Money Market, that the uneasi- ness and pressure which have been experienced during the week were felt in an aggravated degree onl Friday, and that a decline of fully one per cent. took ...

... -AT: HX ERA. TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1847. THE' BANK OF ENGLAND AND : iTHE CURRENCY. Our City Correspondent has invariably maintained ,1st; That the new Banking and.Currency Laws, introduced by Sir RoB0ER PEEL fin 1844, were fair- weather, measures, utterly unsuited to times of com- mercial distress and disaster; and, 2dly, That the Bank of England ought, for the protection -of -the ...

... PR1ICS CURRENUT. B RITIS H VUN flS .(C~ osa g Puicss. -esd. acte. W r. P .i -I_ . _ __ ase. Bank Stock,7 per ?? I per Cent Coesols ?? 85i 85i 8565 8 Ii l Dlitto for Account . ?? 85. 8582 85 SS E I per Cents Reduced N Sew Si per ?? 861 866 Long Anus. Jan. 5,1860.._ India Stock, 10._ Indla lnds, 2 ,000 . 7 p 7 dig 23 l ixcheq,..bilis. 2d per die 7 p S pml 5 pM 4 par 3 PM 10dt FOREIGN PUNDS. ...

... LATEST INTELLICENCE. i i I CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The state of affairs in the City is fast merging towards panic. Exchequer Bills are sellers at 10s. discount. This is one result of the Bank of England refusing to lend money on them. We give it as our decided opinion, that if the Government do not authorise the Bank to issue any amount of bank notes the public may require, regardless of ...

... FROM THE LONDON G1AZETTEL TUESDAY, SEPTEMEM 28. BANKRUPTS. W. H. HITCHoOCK, W. Cocisorn, and J. E. HTrrnco'r, Brosdwall, Stamnford-street, Blackfriars, saw-mill proprietors and bruoh-board manufacturers, to surrender Oct. 8, at twelve, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the court, Basinghall-street. G aham, Coleman-street, City, ofhial assignee; Solomon, Chester-terrace, Borough-road, solicitor. T. ...