... 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. ...

... |, it FRANCE. st PAnrIs, Sanday. a ig Saturday, being All Saints' Day, the Paris printing officesP rewere almost closed , and few journals were publishled on 0 I-r that day or yesterday. As the Assembly meets for the firat tims on Tuesday after P the recess, all kinds of reports were in circulation respect- I' iding the course of conduct to ?? byt viosI political Parties connected with the ...

... Arti-qu d.- e The French Government has ordered two war If steamers to be prepared at Brest for an expedition n- againsi the Moorish pirates. Co General d'Alphonee, commander-in-chief of the m state of siege oi the department of the Cher, has at issued an order closing fourteen cafes and public to houses at Bourges. y. Marrast has been struck with paralysis. it Amongst other lions who have ...

... r BRADFORD IRISH DEMOCRATIC ALLI. . ANCE. '3 _ I On Sunday the usual weekly meeting of this body I was held at the Neptune Inn, Bridge-street, Mr. .M. Moloney in the chair. The case of Mrs t iigley, better known as the widow of the rebel I captain of 'S8, was brought before the meeting. B She is at present in very low circumstances in the county Tipperary in Ireland, and Irish benevolence J ...

... IlE WORKING CLASS DEMOSTRAXON. 0, gonday the working classes of the metropo. bad the opportunity of expressing their sym. 13ty with the principles for which the chosen Fb5af the Magyar nation has contended. As we ° tstated Russell-square was Belected as the most bOO5 jeni &tc ?? whcich the members of the va- a¢rafLS should meet, and shortly before the oour appointed (eleven o'clock) each of ...

... IFOAtELGN INTELL7 IGNCE I Tln A - ,..E FRANCE. At the national assembly Onl Thursday, M. Bae ad (Ito other qitestorts deposited a bill to the efec they should be empowei red to Claimo the ea th)at thle military forces, and the cobolwnW of authorities, for the protection 01 'the noi f I the They moreover dcmand for tile 1) as~ridb sembly the right of appointin thPlem~ us: of those forces. They ...

... The election of cousocillors t'r represent the various wards In this borough took place on Saturday last, being the first of November. Out of the revers wards constituting tihe borough, there was opposition only in ?? Sclcoates an d Holderress. In these the cootest seas very close and anrnimated. The following are the stames of the retiring counnillors in cacti ward, and if the gentlemen ...

... Wartedeo. Coxs.-NWhich is the heat flavoured tea P-Gene J rn-i -ty. C Xvhat metal indicates flight ?-Iron (I run). Why is the letter A like a houey.rockle -e cause a B foleoP-Be- LovE AT FIRST~ SIGHTr.-A- mother's for her new- T born infant. Tilts HOLLOW WORLD.-Nfr. Wyld'i Great Globe. ,n, -Punch. A EMPFY GAZATNass.-The Crystal Palace with i everything taken out of it.-Punch. b di A QuEnv. ...

... ubblie *CeUtUg0. r BOROUGH OF LAMBETH. i On Monday a ?? of the electors of the n borough of Lsmbeth was convened by Mr. W. Wil- liams, M.P., at the 11orns Tavern, Kennington, to hear an account fro, thile hon. membder of his e stewardship. Mr. W. Willi ams, upon emerging from his co mmitlee-room with his friends, %aS greeted with a manifestation of public enthuliaikstn. ,;r. Dalton was voted ...

... L excitement in France contini le POLITICAL excitement in France continues very tl g- great. Two measures, instead of one, only now ti id agitate the public mind. The Government proposition i' of for a repeal of the Electoral Law of May 31, 1850, has lo Y been met by one from the qu~ntors of the National T Assembly, not a little irritating to Louis NAPOLEON cl and his partisans. The purport of ...

... TUESDAIY, NOV. 18. a I nANKRUPTS. e ISHERWOOD, Sarah, and ISHERtWOOD, Nicholas Thowias, oe of 35, Ludgate.hill, house decotators, Nov. 24, at 2, and or January 1, at 12, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Londotat is Mr. Bell, ofitcial assignee, 3, Coleman-strret-buildin. s and Messrs. Roed, Langford, and Marsden, solicitors, Fri. id day-,treet, Cheapside. I LOUGHI, Thontas, and LEWIS, Charles ...

... MIUSIC IN LEEDS. PROPOSED MUSICAL UNION. TO THE EDI)TORS Or' THE LEEDS MeERCURIY. hi GENTLmEMEN,-Tlhe letter of Mr. Spark in your last numl- ?? br of the A1ti'rcttry, containing a proposal for the formation o f a cl Mu1atoal Union for tire towns of Leaose, hae been read by the lovers of hi thisl delightful no wrell no ueefosl art with much pleasure, and I tam euro mn that the oscreesful ...