... HloUSE OF COMMONS, THURaSDAY, DEo. lo. W~ays and mneans,-considered in comimittee.-Ques. tion again proposed,- That towards raiainz the supply granted to her Majesty, from and after the 5th day of ,april,I1853, the duties granted and made payable by the Act 14 and 15 Vic., o. 36, upon inhabited dwelling-houses in Great Britain, according to the annual value thereof, shall cease and determine, ...

... LOCAL JNTE~LLIGENCE. Tier RAMSiHAY IrcQuity.-W~e understand the lords of Ls the treasury have agreed to pay the whole of the expenses A qu~ ( within about £150) of the recent inquiry at Preston intoSum! the condect of the late judge of thre county court in ?? On Saturday evening last, Mr. John Jones, joiner, 1Boljte flopwood-hall, Middlelon, near Manchester, foil ?? *stairs, and was killed on ...

... (iFrom the Boston Atlas.) 15 A lady having been interested in the perusal of an cc article on somnambulism, published in the Ph~rerolegicrel 0 Joeirsiaf some time since, communicates the following interesting facts, as among the particulars of her own co psychological experience. After speaking of a course of in unwitting psychological infractions and victimisations hy tr which she losther ...

... RAILWAY TRAFFIC WEEKLY RETURN. Name of Railway. This Same Hlf-yr's Same Miles Week. lSl1. Total. 1851. open. Aberdeen ?? 180 1805 18408 38717 72 Belfast and Ballymena.. 598 561 14984, 14036 87i B'head, L., & Cheshire .1446 1830 40724 81281 88 B'burn(lte B.C.& W.Y.) 731 092 17391 100685 28 Bristol and Exeter ?? 3997 8471 108288 108389 88 ?? 9081 7018 200280 187112 189i Chester and Holyhead. . ...

... THE ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOLS.- DELIVERY OF PRIZES. he Yesterday the annual distribution of pries to the pupils *;of the Royal Institution schools tokpaei h eture- l ball of the institution. The hirwsocpebyMr. m W. R. Sandbanh, the president;admogtthre- id tlemen present were the Lord Bso ?? i le Worship the Mayor, Rev. Dr. Rfls e.J .Ton A, Rev. Dr, CrichtnMrThooe .RtboeRe.D 0,Turner ...

... COURT, &c. Thursday next, the 23rd instant, is the day at present ice fixed for the removal of her Majesty and royal family from et Osborne to Windsor Castle * and Prince Leiningen, bro- oe ther to the Queen by half oodis expected to prolong his visit to her Majesty until that day. During the sepour of the royal family in the Isle of Wight the illustrious on juvenile branches have again ...

... rid THE, FIIXANCIAL STATEMtNT. but in- ~~~(From the Times.) age !t Had it been possible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer va ,. to surprise the House of Commons, he woold certainly have con !sh done so by a financial statement which Peel himself would cur lot only have vert.ured ion under the mnost encouragin~g cicum M& it stancee, and in one-of his teoet exuberant moods. Without ?? li ...

... VARETIES. ._ -as_ no me It -The In a dispute between Sir Wvitken Lewis and Wilkes, the Lord former said, 11 iil be your butt no longer. -With nil miy 'tetd heart, said Wilkes,-- for I hste an empty one. his A young- gentleman of Kilkeenny, meeting a handsome nott., milkmaid, said. 1What will you take for yourself and your ha New milk., rn7dear? 'Tle girl !nattaotly replied, Yourself and ...

... Q. When is a fisherman not a fisherman? A. When he's eotchin'eel. Reader faints. Our faults are poor relations that we do not like be- ing visited with. To YOUNG MEN OF PROPERTY. - Marry, and be steady; but don't settle. NOTE AND QuERY.-Is Lord Mounttrarret the author of the popular melody, Siob a Getting up Stairs? A CLEVER FaEaTaow.-Judging from the initials of Mr. Bernal Osborne, we ...

... PiRTY PROSPECTS.-THE BUDGET. Ir any apprehension as to the safety of the Govern- ment, in the issue of the Chancellor of the Elxchequer's financial scheme, had for a moment rested on our minds, that feeling is completely dissipated by a perusal of the metropolitan leaders of Monday. We own we are of opinion that the Government was unnecessarily frank and daring when it announced, through Mr ...

... DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.-THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Om Monday evening, a large and. influential meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature against the contemplated opening of the new Crystal Palace on the Lord's Day. The audience was composed of per- sons from all the denominations of evangelical Chris- tians in town, and the ...

... Time personnel of the new Ministry is still a matter of speculation, notwithstanding all the lists which have been published, and though Parliament has twice met since the adjournment moved by the Earl of Derby on his first allocution in the House of Lords, after the defeat on the Budget. The latest intima- tions we have on the subject are altogether non-offi- cial, for as yet Lord Aberdeen ...