... The British Archaeological Society have determined to hold their next congress at Worcester, instead of Shrewsbury, as pre- viously arranged. At the Oxford county court, last week, a baker was ordered to pay 2s. 10d., the vslue of a dinner which he had spoiled in the baking.-Served hun right. One of the tenants ot an Irish landlord lately partook so greedily of the audit dinner, that he died ...

... TO THE MEMBERS OF the 17SK FARMERS' CLUB. GtMTHMKN.—The day after our annual meeting I received from our friend and neighbour, Mr. Purchas. a memorandum he had made whilst on a recent visit to Mr. Warne, ef that gentle- man's system of box feeding and also a letter expressing regret that be was unable to attend our meeting—a loss, I must g.iy, much greater ours than his. Had I received the mem ...

... POWER OF INSTINCT EXEMPLIFIED IN THE BLENNIU8 PHOLIS, 8HANNY OR SHAN. A specimen of this fish wis brought me on the 3rd of June. On placing it in a glass vessel of see water, it appeared perfectly quiet for some hoars, bat at length became restless, and made frequent attempts to throw itself oat of the water. It then oc- curred to me that on a former oceasion, when by the eea side, I had a ...

... MERTHYlt LIBRARY. The annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution took place at the library room, on Tuesday evening, November 2nd. At the appointed hour Atr. Needham, the president, took the chair, and in an appropriate address, opened the business of the meeting. The com- mittee were about to resign their office; and it would devolve upon the subscribers to select and appoint their ...

... I, . . . . .. . - (Fromn ?? Gjzit. wr Of all the great question, %Vhich at present occupy re the public miaad, there is perh.aps none of more impor- bh lance than this. I-loW is ?? vast load of' pauperism which now sits like an ttnc'abus on thle national resources asto be removed or ligh'te.ited, and the condition of the jy poor to be pernlaneiatly improved?~ The poor form the r- base of the ...

... \nri which »m pied, Into ut eteninc'p ' Ut.k». aekno'wledimen'. Jot .irgii-kdoes not aeem vase..'ha* ti . reputable mode till .uk its. column* -..daily prat'.ica.ol Glob«, alway;.»tt.e sl'a.an extent p >in.i o>iU tie Times i» more scrupulous in the inkier acknowledgment, t - .. all the '* llai'-|T ws-mxtcraphs whLh it re-transfers li.i** c oluma* *•* >••••' Bane*.'-- -i»a 1 „ e ...

... Windsor, Tuesday.—The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Allied, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, left the Castle a quarter-past nine o'clock this morning for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. The royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Douro, lady waiting ; a maid of honour in waiting; Col. the Hon. C. ...

... BATCH THE SECOND. We proceed with oar examination of the literature of the lower classes. The batch of publications which we intend to look into and report upon to-day not differ essentially the forms which they assume, or in the moralities which they teach by example and recommend by sentiment and success, from the similar principles which we pointed out in the first. The vicious tendencies ...

... The memorial of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Board in Whitehall, on the subject of railway calls and liabilities, is at once more cautions in alleging causes, and more moderate in suggesting measures to remove the supposed effect of such causes, than were the resolutions of that meeting of Manchester manufacturers and merchants on which we had to comment tome weeks since. There is ...

... Dublin, Nov. 2. The Irish council met to-day, and adjourned. The business done, or rather undone, you will find in the abstract of the proceedings. The prudence of postponement, under the circumstances, was very judicious, for, without any definite plan of policy, it is evident the time would be more devoted to declamation than to business. It was expected that, at the private meeting of the ...

... The royal speech, with which the Lords Commissioners this day open he business of parliament, cannot of course otherwise commence than with the commercial and monetary pressure, and with the means, resorted to by government, to restore confidence. This measure will be of course put forward as the principal cause of the early convocation of parliament, since, although no indemnity be required ...

... Sir, —My last letter contained au inquiry into the nature of the gains accruing to the Bank by coalescing (however unwillingly) with Sir Robert Peel against the general interests of trade. I trust it was there made evident that the Bank, by reinvesting its paid-off capital, at, in Consols, 75, would have profited more than it has done by the charter. anybody thinks the assumption of a fall ...