... DURHAM BLECTION COMMITTEE. The select committee appointed to inquire into the allega- tions of the petition against the late return of Lord Adolphus Vane for the city of Durham, met ?? for the first time. The members of the committeewere Mr Bramston (cbairman), the Marl of March, Mr Crossley, Mr George, and Mr Rich. Counsel for the petitioners were Sergeant Kinglake, Q.C., Mr. E. James, Q.C., ...

... On Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, a fire broke out at the piano-forte manufaotory of Messrs Kirkmau, Goldon-square, London, and burnt with such fury, notwithstanding all the efforts of tho firemen, that damage estimated at 10,000 vwas done, ton other build- engs being more or lees injured. Store than seventy workmen have loot their tools, and are thrown out of emuploy, A private ...

... C OCRRES PO ND EN CE. TO TUE ElDITORS OF 'tilE NYWlVCA5TLE CO'IA.NT. Gentlemcnl,---IJ a report of a muetilg of the 2ledial! r'ro- fession pliblished in the Ncarustle Jeoesenl, of the 1st iISt., my 1namelc is included in the list of gentlemen prsment. The Editor of that Journal, refusing to insert a denial of this, I will be obliged to you t) givc a place to this letter in your ncat. I was ...

... QUA~RUTERLY MEETING WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2. The AMAYOiz presented the report of the Finance Com- muittee.-Adopted. Mir Aid. TOSHACIr presented the report of the Town Improvement Committee. They recommended that the maximum rate for the passage of certain coals and mer. chandise across Messrs Swinburne and Co's. viaduct be a farthing per ten. The committee had also engaged Mr Lackland to survey ...

... REPEAL OF THE .ADVERTISEMENTI DY Y - . - I II C Government haoing abolisshed the duty 02n advertisements, the public twill have greater f-J cilities than heretofore for nia7,il9 Sher an- nouncemnents in 'newspapers. I'le shortest advertisements, consisting of two or three lines-those, for exanveh, wehc1, relate to situa- tiows and sermanfe ?,S.aterd, 1s1Ually placed in the first eolmnn of the ...

... LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERlT'Y FROM STORMIS. The ortuioctial gales set in on Sunday morning with much violenrce, and continuel en Monday. On our own coast not much draimage was dcre ; but further to the south, and ill the Irish channel there was grcrt mischief sustained by shipping. In Lancashire and Cheshire, too, there was some destruetion of property on laud. The Newcastle steamer, for this ...

... LOCAL RlAILWAY COMPANIES. NOiTvEsRs CoUNTe1is TUNION.-Jt the ?? meeting, last week, the chairman, Mr Middleton, stated that the directors remained quiescent ; believing that some of the other companies would, in course of time, find it to their interest to arrange with them. There was a balance of 15,621, of which 12,941 had been invested in consols at 951 and 96k. A resolution, ex- pressing ...

... t ',:arlof Malmosbury's motion for a 60mmrttee of enquiry with respect to the proposed taX oil thw p T sion ot Property,whibh would have defeated thi4p.- he bedg(et for this session, has been ?? ggravated ity of thirteen, 266 peers vot(2it tee heir Aosauilt' bill has passed thro2gl' 0 000 in an ad- ordships have concurred with the COifle corrupt prac- reso to the crown for an ui ury jobot. of ...

... OHR1STMAS SOIREES, BENEFACTIONS, &c. An tA,.A- r. ?? . .. .. In ;LO11aoay, the annual soiree connected with the i Nelaon-street Primitive Chapel was held in the Temperance.hall. The attendance was numerous, and, after tea, the company were addressed by Messrs Dent, Mackenzie, Phillips, and other ?? Tuesday evening, the WestgateTemperance Society,of this town, held their annual soiree in St. ...

... On the 22nd of November, Lord Stratford de Red- cliffe, having been admitted to the honour of an audi- ence, to present to his Majesty the Sultan Vice-Admiral Dundas, and the officers commanding his ships, deliver- ed the following address to the Sultan:- In presenting to your Imperial Majesty the admiral and captains of the fleet that my gracious Sovereign has, on the demand of your Majesty ...

... I In consequence of the remarks made by Lord John Russell. in the debate on Mr G. IH. Moore's Irish Church motion, on the danger of giving Roman Catholic priests increased influence on account of the hostility of their system to civil freedom. Mr Keogh, M.P., (the Irish Solicitor-General Mr Monsell, and Mr Sadlier, resign- ed their office. It was rumoured that Sir F. Redington had alo resigned ...

... UNVERSITY AND ECCLESIASTICAL. The following clergymen have been ordained by the Archbishop of York :-Deacon-Rev. John Hearn Pop- plewell, of University College, Durham, who was li- censed to the curacy of Brantingham. Priest-Rev. Ubas. Jolnstone, B.S., University College, Durham. DURHAM, Thursday, May 26.-At a convocation holden this day, the degree of Doctor of Medicine by di- ploma, together ...