... TOWN is still dull—streets are being taken up, gas-pipes put down, telegraphic wires removed. There is blocking up of cabs and omnibuses in all the leading thoroughfares. We might term London at this time the city of barricades. Happy those who can g3t away to the sad sea- wayes, or stubble-fields, or Irish lakes, or Scottish plOOrs 1 Some frightful cases of military flogging have recently ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, SEPT. 5. For old English WUEAT and best sorts of new last Monday's rates are obtained, but common Is to 2s lower: sales of white at 40s to 46s; and of red at 38s to 4:3s per quarter, a clearance not being made. In foreign not much passing, and several parcels on offer: rates rule at 44s to 5Gs; and for Russian at 40s to 44s. Demand for FLOUR moderate: rates for town-made 42s ...

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... Honfton. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—From a return just published, it appears that the total expendU^e in the year ended the 31st of March last, by the Br itish Museum, amounted to £67,772 17s. 9d. The sum in hand was 9d., so that a balance is carried to the ac- S?ofa;, 7»'185^5!, of fis,2?9 6, Th. of the sum required for the year ending the 31st March, 1859. is £ 79,275. The sum granted for the year ...

... TOWN TALK. [BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] No lack of subjects of serious chat or lively gossip, i, The condemnation of the Italian Lani for the Haymarket t murder; Glover, ex-M.P. for Beverley, found guilty of £ perjury; Bernard tried for an offence that recalls Mackintosh's defence of Peltier.; the fall of Lucknow, and the howl of the gagged French journals against the English occupation of the ...

... THE Vienna correspondent of the Times reports that Sir Hamilton Seymour, before relinquishing his post, has expressed the opinion that in such a critical moment as the present there ought to be a truce to the jealousies and bickerings of Austria and Prussia, and that it should be their aim to make of Germany a power which could, in case of need, enforce the respect of the neighbouring ...

... GENTLEMEN, THE approaching Dissolution of Parliament affords me the opportunity of again thanking you for the confidence you have reposed in me for the last seven years. It is my intention to offer myself for Re-Election, and should I have the honor of Representing you in the next Parliament, you may rely on my continuous efforts to promote such measures of Reform as I believe would be best ...

... THE EXHIBITION OF 1861.—The Society of Arts is beginning to move actively in the preliminary preparations for the International Exhibition of 1861. In an explanatory statement of their views, just issued, they state the proposition broadly thus: It is proposed that the works to be exhibited in 1861 shall be selected for their excellence; that they shall be arranged in classes, and not ...

... ;OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. letter carriers iave pVMislieci^ in the form of a letter -to the Secretary of 'the early-olosing move- ment, a plan for distributing the work of sorting and delivering letters in London, so as to reduce the hours of work, which now.vary,a¡p,ong diESJrefttQlâr!ses of the phalanx from nipe.to.twel ve-ho)trs,.pe$ day, to a uni- form rate of eight hours per day. The men ...

... FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. r, ,n BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, JTOTE 24. f ^church-street, City, licensed victualler. J. LILI.U^AH. blough, Buckinghamshire, clothier. r; V £ AP.KE King's Lynn, Norfolk, victualler. G. WOOD, Rayleigh, Essex, builder. E. PETERS, Bilston, Staffordshire, wine merchant. J. HOLDSWORTH, Horsley Fields, Wolverhampton, timb n-ierchatit. G. SMEDLEY, New Sleaford, Lincolnshire, glass ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, AUGUST SI. With new English WHEAT the market was abundantly supplied to-day, and there not being a large demand, prices further declined, and rule 3s to 4s per quarter under those of last Monday white selling at 5£9 to 5is, and red 46s to 56s, at which a clearance was not made. Old sorts met a slow sale from 50s to 60s. Of Foreign many arrivals, and few buyers: the rates ...

... Frenchman: Ah, my good friend, I have met with one difficulty-one very strange word. What do you call h-o-u-g-hf Tutor: Huff. Frenchman: Tres-bien, htiff; and snuff you spell s-n-o-u-g-h, ha! TutorV 0 no, snuff is s-n-u-ff. The fact is, words end- ing in o-u-g-h are a little irregular. Frenchman: Ah, verv good! 'tis beautiful language. H-o-u-g-h is huff, I will remember; and c-o-u-g-h is cuff. ...