... REFORM OF TIHE BOARD OF CUSTOMS. An influential meeting of the merchants and ship- owners of Hull was held in the Exclhange-rooms on Monday last, to receive a deputation from the London Committee for obtaining a reform of the Board of Customs. Amongst the gentleni present we observed Alderman Thompson, and Mlessrs. H. Blundoll, J. Blundell, John Foster, J. Atkinson, V. B. Brownlow, Win. ...

... subject all the space at our command, we arc compelled to oin»t the greater portion of the communications which have been address! uk ; this the more icgiet the letters of Young Elector, of An Old Inhabitant of Derby,and uf Scrutator, contain really excellent matter. The letter of 44 It. T., having come so late to hand, is unavoidably omitted. The lines by ,4 C. D. N. have been received. ...

... 9IE; axi~ll, g&. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR OF]FICE, OCT. 31. 1st Life Guards-Lieut. lon. D. C. F. Dellos to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major Biddulph, promoted in 7th Light Dragoons; Cornet and Sub- Lieut. R. Bateson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice DeRos. 4th Dragoons-Lieut. T. B. Williams to be Captain, by purchase, vice Coster, who retires; Cornet G. C. H. P. Brigstocke to ...

... THERE is much cause for serious apprehension in. the existing social and political condition of England, as regards the domestic questions which are now await- ing their solution by the legislative process. The state of trade, in nearly all its branches, and in almost every locality, is critical in the extreme, as we learn by the commercial circulars, and by the weekly mar- ket reports. The ...

... Yoritgn fintelltyurz. THE OVERLAND MA.i The Indian despatches by extraordinary Express, in ad- vance of the Overland Mai], bring dates from Calcutta of Sept. 23, and Bombay Oct. 3. The intelligence now received is not of much importance. A great amount of sickness still pre- vailed at Deesa, Peshawur, and Cabool. Europeans and natives, tu officers, and privates, were all suffering alike from ...

... M9~ADRID, O0r. 27. T' 'incrMeB'ig enmity between the Presideat Of the Council of Ministers and his hitherto docile War Minister is becoming a serious obstacle in the carrying on of public business. General Lersundi val not the last to learn that the premier had been negotiating with -a view to supersede him. Yieldin to the patumrl impetuosity of his temper, the genera has inveighed against ...

... LONDON FRIDAY, NOV. 7. THE Exhibition committee are just now suffering most acutely the miseries occasioned by the most un- common of all disorders, the embialras des ckhesses. If the Exhibition had done no more than exactly pay its expenses, the commissioners, after emptying the Crystal Palace, mightshavelocked the door quietly, and taken a long sleep at the end of their labours, certain of ...

... TInE CiTmP-IV AA f- l ?? * -. iO fitumi OF ZiODON -Thle f'ollowing have generously contributed to tile assistance of the above church :-'The Roy. Air. Maher, P.P., Rathinines; the Rev. Arl olir C.C., ditto; Thomas Kelly, Riq., J.P,, LowerGrdnr street; Miss Stewart, ditto, ditto; Mrs. Nugent, ditto, ditto; nn Surgeon M'Veagb, Hlrrdwjcke-street ; A Lady who di~sires f to ise anonymous, 81. ; the ...

... .filo~ ,'EUVONV0 1Ltohxlt saltte. A .-.AO ?? OCT. 23. vItiDSOU CASTLE, OCT. 23. ?? T e as this day pleased to confer th honour t f Kei~hthOd ?? Richar~d latinp Kiudersley, Esq., a atelt; ?? Bxton, REsq., Follow si Lial anSociety, Horticultural Society, and the the 01 1e ?? ; Chiarles Fox, Esq., of Now-street, Secictar°ens, i'n the county of Middlesex ; and upon SprODo Cobit, eq., Fellow of the ...

... IBANQUEtT TO KOSSUTH IN SOUTIAMPTON I re ?? Kosoutb, accompanied by Md Puleoki, Lord Dudley fr E- Stuart, Ciptaits Townsend, the Hon. Mr. Walker, Lord ,i ad Cand iizro, r.Wileex, 50.i., the MayorofLeicester, 511 a- dseveral otlier gentlemen, arrived at Southampton ott con in Tuesday by atoe two O'clock train, and were received by il is thle M~ayer ,and Town Clerk, Mr, Bderroct, smp, and ?? ...

... OP6nmg of ti1? ?e* ?cho6i at ?arston. ?'or Years past it has been a matter of repto&cb, as well as of regret, that the village of Marston, so closely stuated to Oxford, could not, with its population of nearly 500, boast of any better school for the education of the poor children of that pl'ace than an inefficient dame school, held in a small room, which was used for domestic purposes also, ...

... ENGAGEMENT WITH PIRATES A'EAR I I GIBRIALTAR. - The following is, a more detailed account of the engage- ment between her Majesty's steam-frigate Janus and the Riff pirates, on the coast of Morocco, in which Lieutenant Powell, commanding the Janus, was seriously wounded, ann seven of the crew more or less injured, by the destructive fire of the Moors:- 'e It appears that the news of the ...