... RAIL WA YS. SEVERN VALLEY. The first ordinary general meeting of the proprietors in this company was held yesterday at the company's office, 31, Parliament-street, Mr. Jonathan Thorp in the chair. After the usual formalities, The CHAIRMAN said that the directors had called the first ordinary meeting of the shareholders at that early period, in order to give the proprietors the option either of ...

... THE LONDON GAZETTB OF FRIDAY, SEPTAMBBR 16. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, EPT. 6. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of' the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, contailning an It- perial Decree, provisionally abolishing the additlonal duty Upon the importation ...

... [FROM OUR OW R IOOUESPONDUNT-1 VIENNA, SxPT. 10. id The report which was current on 'Change yester- 3 day, namely, that letters had. been received from St. Petersburg, in answer to the important Ac- e spatches forwarded from hence on the 28th Alt., is e- now confirmed. These letters came by the steamer e: from Cronstadt, which arrived at Stettin two days 0. ago; but they simply contain an ...

... TAe CO TTZNGHAfM RAIL WA Y ACCIDENT The adjourned inquest upon the body of Mrs. Msry el- lers, one of the sufferers by the railway accident which occurred on the 22d ult., near Cottingbais, was held at the railway station, Cottingham, on Weduesday, before Mr. E. D. Conyers. George Clayburn, guard of the train to whicb the accident happened, deposed that the evidence he gave at the inquest over ...

... CEYLON. : By the Overland - Mail we have received fles of papers from Ceylon to the 11th August. The Legislative Council was opened on the 10th: ADDRESS OF 'HIS EXCELLWNCY SiR GEORGE WILLIAM ANDERSON, ON OPENINQ THE SESSION OF -THE- LEGISLA- TIVY COUNCIL. , Gentlemen of the Legislative Council-In opening the session on which we are about to enter, I am happy to be able to repent the ...

... CANADA. The following aopies of the addresses to her Ma- jesty of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, en the subject of the constitution of the former house, have been printed - by order of the House of commons .- No. 1. TO THRa qVEN'S MOST RUXCLLXNT MAJESTY. Most Gracious Sovereign-We, your Mejesty' smtost ?? and loyal subjects, the Legislative Couacil ofJCanada,' in provincial ...

... By the arrival of the Overland Mail'We ha'e received files of papers and our private colle- spoudeuce from Bomnbay, 30th July ; Calcutas, 6th August; Holig-Kong 234 July; Alexandrine 9th September; and Malta, 14th September. INDIA. FROM OUR OWN COURNSeONDENwrT. BOMBAY, JULY 30. g The last tea days have been unusually destitute of news. There has been no intelligence from Burmah since the ...

... CONTLEMPLATED CLOSING OF MILLS I '1X PRBS TONr.- | A startling crisis has arrived in the aspect of the pro- tracted dispute between the factory operatives of Preston and its neighbourhood and their employers, the latter having determined to close their mills. On Thursday an address, of which the following is a copy, was extensively pla. carded:- A month has now elapsed since. the associated ...

... FFATE OF MR. BA TR URST. Mdr. Bathurst was designed for diplomacy; and advanced so rapidly in his profession, that at the age of twesty-five he was sent on a secret mission to Vienna, in 1809. On his return he vanished suddenly frorn the inn at Perleberg; and no inquiry, either by Governtment or his family, or his rife, who had the continent thrown open to her by a passport from 1japoleou ...

... i PREliFERENTS' AN1D APPQINfMBNTS.' Tbe Bishop of Worcester has licensed the Rev. J:. E. Vaux to the curacy of Bredon, near Tewkesbury, on the nomina- tiOnI of the Rev. Henry Fitzgerald XiM.A. ?? The Bishop 'of Gloucester and Bristol has collated the Rev. Sir George Prevost, Bart., incinlbent of Stinehoomnbe,' near Duralcy,.to.i. hionorary canonry ?? Catlbe- .dral ; and:the following ...

... I m ISECOND E DITION. HORN'ING OIRONICLE OFFICE, - FFriday, 12, Noon. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. jjLFP OU OUR OWN CORES3PONDENT.1 PARIS, TJURSDAY EVuNYNG. The political horizon appears to look darker and darker each day. Great uneasiness is certainly felt here as to the result of the Eastern question. It is said that at London also in high political I quarters, considerable anxiety prevails. A ...

... JNSSOL VENT DEB TORS CO UR T-YESTERDAY rhe'fore Air. Oo0rsmiosoloer .MUnRPY.1 IN THlE MATTEIR OF HENRY CLARK. This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke ol the part of the detaining creditor- a young men named Barker ap- peared in person. Mr. 'Nichols supported. In 1850 the insolvent, who had been a livery-stable keeper and job-master, in Manchester-street, Manchester-square, was a prisoner for ...