... 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 ...

... GLOBE. -We have no less than three distinctim. posts of 4cl., 8d. and Id., laid upon every ton of ?? brought into the port of London, the said duties being paid by all inhabitanlts of London residing within a cit. ole of twenty miles round the poet offlice. The mevens drawn from the several sources has been applied, at ia! events since tle 7th of George the third. cap. 37, t city improvements. ...

... LONDON, SEPTEMB1ER 29. Chinese intelligence is from Hong Kong to August 5. The insurgents had quitted Nankin, and entered the rich procivce ol luiangsi, to get supplies. The impe- rial lorcers had not been able to re-take Amoy, and had retreatcd. The Arratoon Apear left Hong Kong on the 4th for Calcutta; and the same night the Chinese part of the crew and some Chinese passengers killed the ...

... I MEETING OF SEAMEN AND MINERS AT SOUTH | | SHIELDS. On Monday morning, a large body of seamen and a number of pitmen, convened by posting-bills circulated some days previnosie, assembled in the Market-piace, South Sricids, about eight o'clock, and, baving f,rmed a procession, wvalked through the town, and then went to North Shiclds. On returiling they went down to the Bcnts, where a united ...

... BLYTIT MECHANICS INSTITUTE. ?? I e ?? - ?? ?? -1 :, The anniversary of this institution was celebrated with more than ordinary se/at on the 15th inst. 'Ihe proceed- ings commuenced with a lunchelon at the Rtidley Arms, at three o'clock, which was partaken of by nearly fifty gentlemen ; AMr Joseph Hodgson in the chair, and Mr Itichard Lough, croupier; supported by Sir rlattt. W. Rtidlcy, Bert., ...

... PLANS FOR DIRINISHING RAILWAY ACDEN.TS. At the meeting of the British Association, on Friday, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby developed a plan for a system of exclusive station signals, to be worked by the electric telegraph. ie proposes that there shall be telegraphs at distances not averaging more than three or four miles apart ; that the wires shall be totally distinct from any other telegraphic ...

... After two unavoidable disappointments, Mr. Hamp. ton, the aeronaut, made a successful and imposing ascent, on the afternoon of Monday last, in his celebrated balloon Erin-go-Bragh, from the wrest- ling ground, near the Infirmary, in this town, The day was every thing that tould be desired-the wind being calm and the atmosphere clear-but the attend- ance of spectators within the wrestling ...

... MEETINU OF THE YORK, NEWCASTLE AID BEREWICK RAILWAY COMPANY. On Tuesday, the half-yearly meeting of this com- pany was held at the De-Grey Rooms, York, James Puloine, R1eq., chairman of the directors, presiding. The CHAexaeAeN, in referring to the report, said that he would take it for granted that it had been read as it had been previously printed, and a copy sent to each shareholder. With ...

... The following is the substance of a paper read by Mr Lockeat the recent meeting of the British Association:- Within the six years ending Dee, 31, 1852, according to the Colonial Land Emigration Commissioners, 1,313,226 persons left the shores of Ireland. The emigration of 1861 amounted to 264,537, in 1852 to 224,997. Now assuming the natural increase of popu- lation to be the same as between ...

... The profitableness or none profitabllness of keeping and in permanent pasture is necessarily dependent upon the amount and quality of the herbage produced. In England, it is a difficult problem how to renovate decay- ed pastures. Some have advocated the breaking up of these, and putting them through a course of cropping- others advocate drainage with an application of ims,. either as a compost ...

... rY FVECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-THURSDAY. Tutanea AND RUlsSIA.-Lloyd's steamer has just arrived with news from Constantinople to the 19th. A good understanding apparently prevailed between the peace and var parties in the divan. The refusal of Russia to accept the modifications demanded in the Vienna note was known, and it was expected that no ether concessions would be made by the Porte. The armaments ...

... DINNER AT NORTH SlI.rfDS TO MR. AlACARTNEY, Mly. On tle evening of the 13th inst., a public dinner wans given at the George Hotel Assembly Rooms, North thieida, to George Mlacartnr, Esq. MI.P Choirman of the l5ynerrmouith Dook anrd lorpath and' Shiilils Di- rect Railway Company, in honour of his exeitions to prometc tthat project. Tibe entertainment was well served up by Mr CJxon. The MAai ...