... The Virnes' correspondent at Adelaide; writing on 4th of October says:- It is still impossible to speak positively in reference to the extent or richness of the suriferoue deposits of the Onkaparinga. The weather has now been fine for more than a fortnight, and up- wards of 400 persons have taken out licenses and are at work. Many of them have experienced considerable success, and parcels of ...

... WARD bEETINGS ON A STIPENDMY MA- GISTRATE, OPENING THE COUNCIL TO THE ,RATE-PAYERS,.&e fun~ -- ?? AA, A vn Monday evening, a meetisig of the rate-payers of the ward of St. Nicholas was held at the White Hart Inn, Cloth-market, for the purpose of considering, first, the propriety of appointing a stipendiary magis- trate; secondly, the necessity of protesting against the council paying the ...

... aSTLE JjAv4UA-jt 7. The House of Commons, after issuing the remainig writs, has ladjourned untilFebiuary. The additional appointments are those of Lord 8tanle y uof A :do elt Mice-president of the Board of 1Vrade; the Hon. : Oharteris, a Lord of thb Treasury AMMir5.l ' Frke i Captain Dudas and Captain MilnedLo lrduabtbedldii *reaty the a ofreadalb-oO n ar- ~the vear adquaso etise ?? te' a)u1 ...

... SEVEN LILLED-MANY HURT. A terrible catastrophe, occasioned by two trains meet- ing at full speed, occurred on Monday evening, at half-, past five o'clock, on the Buckinghamshire line, belong- mg to the London and North-Western Company, within a mile from Oxford. A short distance out of Oxford, on lthe Buckinghamn shire railway, is the Wolvereote-tunnelt which acted upon by the heavy rains a ...

... WRECK:-BLOWING UP OF THE WRECK; LOSS E OF THIRTY-SEVEN LiVES. I * The Nona's -CYrald gives the particulars of the stranding and subsequent explosion, by gunpowder, of the bigLily, of 180 tons. The vessel in question wasowned by Mesoers Hatton and Cookson, of Mersey-street, Li- verpool; and left the Mersey on December 23d, under the command of Captain Owens, for the sauth-west coast of Africa, ...

... GRAWD AMATEUR CONCERTS IN AMD OF THE INFIRSIART BUILDING FUND. Ia o ATn- .- ?? I At ?? ?? sz .n spany antl great have been the efforts hitherto t' raise the necessary funds to defray the cost of the new wing at present in the course of creation at the above institutiou ; and in these efforts all classes have been invited to contribute, from the noble pear, who so libe- rally headed the ...

... UNIVERSITY ANDECCLESIASTICAL. LuaERAL ENDOWNENT.-Sir M. S. Stewart, Bart., has endowed the church at Greenock with 300 per an- I nui, and 100 for a curate, on condition that daily rervice shaU never cease to be performed. NEw BisEiicpao oF NkTAL.-The consent of her Majesty's government has been obtained to the imme- diate creation of an English bishopric at Natal, at pre- sent under the ...

... S~s MDR3WSPOOg&8 SE inealilng Upon the above Su 5cct was el no- dae ~vonin in St. AndreN'SVestry,the Rev. R. Buck- eredr, t~ icumbntin the chair - 'V~e ?? was already known that tho exi'tlin g'sehe~ rooms were altogether inadequat6, and. that thegovernlment grant, amounting to 140 per year, woud b wihdrsrn ifincreased and improved ,acstm- nodation here not given. If they loot that gracktl ...

... AUSTRALIAN GUAM One of the most important items of intelligence re- ceived from- Australia, by the recent arrivals, is that of the existence of a large deposit of guano recently dig- covered in South Australia. The attention of the local government had been immediately directed to a matter of so great importance, not only to the colony itself, but also to the mother country. Instructions were ...

... MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS OF THE INFIRMAR~Y. Yesterday weekq a quterlymeeting of the Governors of the Ne.wastle Infirmary wee held in the hall of the insti ,tution, the Right Worshipful the Mayor in the ehair. The ball was crowded to excess, ,In contained several of the most influential governors of the institution. After the usual routine business had been transacted IMr.P. G. 'ciLsoN observed ...

... STANDARD,-The moen of the time are always the popular men and the men without fixed principle. There was an age in England when to be a man of the time, i.e., as it was rudely called, a' time-server, was a reproach ; at present the reverse is the ceas-not to be aman of the time is to provoke contempt and something approaching to hatred. Accordingly we have a cabinet at present ...

... NEWCASTLE, JAN.ARY 21. The appointment of thoe Earl of WallOUSdie tof the lucrative and almost sinecure offie of Wardstofe has Cinque Ports has heen annotunced. ?? Gladstne hsl maintained his majority at Oxford without An strong variation; the final ninjorihy WaM 2Mr S4leir in opposition has been raised against., grandsor Carlow. The decease of the only r has beon exo- Sir Walter Scott is ...