... DISTRICT INTELLIGI',NC it. ' BEVERLEY. bi M ECssA,4cs' INSTITUTE.-Onl Tuesday evening, the ti I1St instant, in thle ball of the Institute, Register-square, re Mr. Dunning delivered a lecture called Black Dila- at monds, or beauties and gems from Uncle Torn's C, Cabin, the White Slave, and Uncle Tom in England w 'lhe usual vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer si at the close. 01 ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENC. I THE OVERLAND MAIL. The dispatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail, bearing dates from Calcutta. Jan 21; Bombay Jan. 28 ; and China, Jan. 0; have arrived. They con- firm the statements given in the telegraphic communi- cation published in Friday's Standard, with the ex. cxception tbat Pegu (the province we suppose) has been again occupied by alarge force of ...

... H ! ULL TOWN C OUNCIL. The usual meeting of the Town Council took place at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, at a quarter- past-two, the Mayor, Henry Blundell, Esq., in tile Ichair. In the absence of Mr. THOmPSON, the Town Clerk, Mr. BOLTON officiated as his deputy, and opened the proceedings by reading the minutes of last week's proceedings. Several accounts were read and ordered to be paid, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAy, MARCH 11. Their lordships met at five o'clock. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. L.ord ELLRNDOROUGH presented a petition from colcuttnand Bengal, respecting a renewal of the govern. Drenat of the Indian territories, complaining of the pan- city of members in the present government, and the ,vailt of variety in its constitutions. It recommended a ,,1asiderable addition to the council ...

... Q;OlrrsponbeUe. HOURS OF BUSINESS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE ' BULL PAOKBT. . Sin,-As the proposed opening of the new Crystal Palace on Sundays has caused the public attention to be turned to the subject of the Sabbath, I deem it a suit- able occasion to call the attention of religious trades- men to a view of the subject, which I fear they usual 1y quite overlook. I wish to remind them that in ...

... LATEST INTELLIGEN.d K. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRApH.) La N DON, T1umnsoy EVENING. FUNDS-CLOSB G 995 1 money. Pa1i.._..0Consols 99R on account; LONDON PROD U MWARFeFT. March 23. - Sugar- NO Put~iie sales, and privately little done. West India- sales, three hundred hogsheads ; refined. good home de- mand ; grocery lumps 46s 6d to 499. Foreign prices unaltered, and little doing. Coffee-Natie Ceylon ...

... MBULL ELECTION PETITION. I HOUSE OF COMM1ONS-COMMITT~E ROOM No. 8. FRIDAY, MARICH 4. Present: The Right Horn. H. LAJIoucHERE, chair- atian (member for T1aunton); RAnIKES CURRow, Esq., I .,ortbamnpton; RicIsAnsD DAVxsoNa, Esq., Belfast; Hon. F. 1-I. BERKXELEY, Bristol; and Wmx. BAGGE, Esq.,I WVest Norfolk,-the five gentlemen composing the cosm' I znittee. E Mr. Sergeant 'WRANGiAbl,-With whom ...

... IMPE.RIAL PAk.IAMJ?NT. HOUSE OF LOR9S.-FRIDAY, MARCH 4. AUSTRIA AND KOSSUTH. Lord LYNDHU5iST asked whether any communica- tion ham been received fromt Austria, or other Euro- pean states, respected the asylum afforded in England to foreign refugees, and the acts committed by Kossuth and Mazzini? He thought that all persons, whether British subjects or foreiguers, are liable to the crimsinal ...

... I GENi3RAL, INTELLIGENCE. The Royal Family went into mourning on Saturday, for afortnight, in consequence of the death of Prince Reuss Ebersdorff, a first c6ousin once removed of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and first cousin of the Duchess of Ken't.' A Cabinet dooncil was held at the foreign offce, Downing-street, on saturday afternoon. The council sat three hours and a Wlalf. 'The Court ...

... The Indiana has arrived with advices from Cape Town to the 24th January. General Cathcart, with two thousand men, had then entered the Orange River Sovereignty to settle the disputes between the powerful Basuta chief, Moshesh, and the Sovereignty farmers, on the subject of plundered cattle. Assistant-Com- missioners Hogge and Owen had previously investi- gated the whole case, and decided that ...

... 1THE LONDON - - --z - -E.i FROMTHB.E I-ONDON GxAzElrTE-1 FRIDAY, FEB. 25. HODGSON, Thomas, Kingston.upon-Hull, shipowrneT, Match 23, April 13, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, in the TOwn-hal], Kingston ?? : solicitor, Mr. 21 Ayrs, Hull; official assignee, Mr. Carrick, Hull. (s JAMES, William, Lincoln, chemist, March 23, April 13, at 12 2t O'clock, at the Leedg District Court of ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGE.NC E, I BEV ERLEY. MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.-Onfl 'tesday eveningtlast, uI the 15th instant, Mr. Dunning delivered a lecture in the I hall of the Mechanics' Institute, Register-square. His tr subject was California outmatched; or, Australia and tl our own gold diggings. The lecturer treated the g subject in his well known felicitous style, and the usual C vote of thanks was ...