... IS IRON-STONE RATEABLE TO THE POOR-RATE ? In an able contemporary, are the following observations • _»The survey of the parish of Aberdare in ga-hir*, by »'■ '■ B; raiae, by direction 0^0^^ of the Poor, in order to enable a re-asscg ^s vil e to be made, involves a question of vast importance J thS iron manufacturers of this kingdom. This question Is whether the ironstone with which the ...

... Thursday afternoon, about two o'clock, as were playing at Bankside they discovered something near the Surrey shore, a little above Soutbwarlt f) which proved to be the body of a young woman, child in her arms. Information was immediately f? A to the police, and the bodies on being lauded, to be quite lifeless, they were by direction of Golding, 7 M. conveyed to the dead house of the St. ...

... On Thursday, Mr. G. S. Brent held an inquest in the Kensington Workhouse, on Abraham Giles, aged 23, who committed suicide by blowing out his brains, under the following melancholy circumstances: — Henry Westbrook said that, on Monday night, he was alarmed by the report of fire-arms in Warwick-square, and upon hurrying to the spot whence the noise came, he found deceased lying dead on the ...

... CONSOLATION. 'Tis better as it is! — for change May compass sin within its range And cloudy skies, and anxious fears, Deepen to storms, and swelling tears; All things alike must know decay, And time will soften grief away. Mourn ye the loved—has death revealed Anew the wound too lately liealed ? Bore ye the lost one to the grave, Her who had lived, if love cDuld save? Not void of hope commit ...

... During the past week, several circumstances have tended to increase commercial confidence generally, and to add firm- ness to the metal market; particularly the prospect of an early settlement of the Eastern question, and the more settled state of the weather. Scotch pig iron has advanced about 5s. 6d. per ton. The quotation last week for mixed X os. was 54s. per ton, f.o.b. in, the Clyde to ...

... PASSING TOLLS.—It will be important to the shipping community to know that, among the Parliamentary papers of Monday, was one showing that the report on passing tolls .s deferred. It, however, appears that the dues levied on lhips, and goods in ships, amount to about half a million ser anuum, and. on these dues large debts are secured, ...

... The plantation accounts being rather more favourable, the duty has been done at £ 140 000. All kinds of hops continue in good request, at very full prices. Mid and East Kent pockets. 130s. to 168s. Weald of Kent ditto 120s. 13os. Sussex ditto H2s.130s ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The Emperor of the French has recalled M. de la Sussc, Admiral of the Mediterranean Fleet, and placed him on the retired list. Admiral JIamelin, a more active officer, assumes the command. The .Minister of the Interior had an interview on Wed- nesday week,at his own request,with the editors and pro- prietors of the Paris journals, aad intimated to them that it was ...

... TTI !\RTHE LAMP PAINTING SPECIFICATION. e Mayor stated that a misapprehension had existed in the Mr. Sanders, painter, the contract or for painting the public lamps, who appeared to have been un- -^r. ,an ™Prcssion, that he was not required to paint the siOe ot the lamps; and had accordingly refused to do so. t^ere was; some urgency in the case—the lamps being aoout to be lit again—his Worship ...

... On Wednesday week last, as some colliers we work, up the road leading to the railway statioU> i Cow-lane, Hinlev near Huddersfield, they perc'Vi I lying, as if sound asleep, in the corner of an e » body awaits an inquest. m- t. ...

... MASTERS AND WORKMEN. THE period is but reecnt, the fact is patent to the world, when the iron and coal-the staple-trades of this great district were in a state of alarming depression, and when large sums—nay fortunes, were sunk in carrying on works at a ruinous loss, m the hope of a brighter future—in the antici- pation of better and more prosperous days. Yet, year after year passed—months ...

... An extraordinary man recently died in Cork, at the ripe age of 86 years, who was called the RoscoE of hi»-native city, and who had seen the world at large more-inti- mately than many that had played the most prominent parts on its wide and extended stage. He was a literary character, too, and an able contributor, under the signature of J. B., to many a journal now living, and to many others, ...