... -.7* +h.w ?? lo;hh+_ On Monday night, a crowded meeting ot toe naan- ants of Stafford, convened by public requisition to the mayor, was held in the Lyceum, for the purpnse if me- morialising the Queen on the Russian invasion of the Turkish provinces. The hour fixed for the meeting was six o'clock, but long before that time the place vras filled in every part by a numerous and enthusiastic ...

... 2AittoI. SATURD1)AY, OcroziEn 1, 1853. i -0 The SUrPLEMENT to this day's Mercury contains:- Foreign Inteltigence-The Tarks of the present Day. &G.; Irish News; EIebots of Equinuctial Gales; Plain Advice regard- ing Cholera; Swindling in two Hemispheres; Agricultural, Market, Railway, and other Intelligence. I WE cannot be fairly charged with impatience if we express some slight surprise at no ...

... BAN WELL._At the petty seseion held at the Ship inn, in this town, on Monday last before T. T. Knyfton and N. F. lmery, Esqrs., justices, Thomas Hicks, Edward Card, Abel Dove, John Tay lor Edward Biggen, Thomas e vans, and George Evans, from Chead- dar and Draycott. were summoned for trespass ng and gatliering nute ol tile property of his lordsilptls ?? of Bath. All the partls eckilowledged ...

... I I Tiny ODs'UNAND THE YoUNG 'uN-(at Table)_OftiNiciholas: Now then, Austria, Just help me to finish the Porte.-Puncli. A NOVEL BAKER'S BATCH.-A few days since a baker at Angouleme, in demolishing an old oven, found nearly 200 live snakes. Bealso found nearly 400 eggs, about the size of pigeonst eggs, enclosing serpents almost ready to break the shell. FAST LITERATURE.-A sporting gent, ...

... 4 LAUNC:R OF THE IRON CLIPPER TAYLEUR. The launch of the new iron first-class sailing vepssl built by the Bank Quay Fouadry Company, on the right bank of the Mersey, at Warrington, took place yesterday. e We have before given a brief description of her build. Hera proportions are 2,500 tons:(new measurement)'; length~of'B keel and forerake, 225 feet; rake of stern-post, 5 feet; beam, 39 ...

... OND ON, WEDNL'SDAY, OCT.54 n IT is desirable that there should be no mistake with o respect to the exact nature of the news of a projected declaration of war at Constantinople, which we pub- lished yesterday. The different statements which have been put in circulation on this head are derived from sources which have nothing else in common but their conveyance by electric telegraph from Vienna. ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT ON I - E 0. I - 'RAILWAY. - . - ?? day afternoon an accident. which was attended with fatal and disastrous consequences occurred on ithe Manchester, Buiton, ;and Matlook Pailway, one man, named Michael Barkes, a stoker, receiving such injuries as to cause his death the following morning, and others being dreadfully braised and injured. From information received it appears that ...

... hi F r rance. is ,,me Ministerial modifications ar o spaken of as c 1(ow iM ,T Fould, it is said, will take the Finance to 50', onitis cxpeeted, ivill soon bcr reqllired, eased in t'-ectcdttlre of money in carrying on the public a cc Spain. o ie 1nse Spaili Government, General Rio de la Peczela vi r1 ',c oittd to the g fovernment of Cuba. General Paria oc i z:ceCd Captlain General of tice ...

... - V (From the. Ecoeomsrit.) ol '~ Tan new lECarIPT STAMSs'. x ~Tober, nwhc SapAct comes into Opir~ation on, the loth ofO- ke stampfr, ahic provides for, the use6 of a uniform penny receipt of ksand als for alPaiments amounting to two pounds aond. upwatds; mn Il lofrthe '45of5 uniform penny stamp for all drafts orsi billnjpon banikeris payable to order1 and 1on demand. As St' r1there some ...

... (Frolil the Tiffies.) e The loss of the Earl of Charlienont, Australian emigrant if ship, ?? with, ucarly 500 passengers, off Baoirivo llcads, e within a fow hours sail of Gcclong, was announced on Friday at Llyod's. This is the third or fourth. emigrant ship that has t been lost near the saeie spot within a few months. Jn the ., present unfortueate inst.nce the whole of the passengers and o ...

... RAILWAYr TRAFFIC RETURNS. The following are, the ?? of ral ways 9wr the past weak:- Miles ?? Returns. Ntim OF RAILWAY. 1853, 1852.18. 152 721, 721, Abeirdeco .. .. £~2040 I1718 373 373 11 Hlftstn Ba4llatymnae ?? 787 I 669 32 32 lBirltelhead, Lanlcashlire &Cheshire Jlisetiots .. .. 2285 1992 30 0-caledoc iall sod Edisborgh and 16I9I 5,7 94.3 o Chester aod Hlolyhead ?? 5002 4560 63 03 Do fhlill ...

... (From the Board of Health.) NwECAsTLE.vPON-Tt'E, SEPT. 29. Sept. 28-Cholera, denths ?? ?? 20 ti Diarrhoea ?? ?? ?? 1 C Sept. 29.-Cholera, deaths ?? 29 Diarrhoea ?? ?? ?? 5 a Tbc total number of deaths from cholera and P diarrhoea in Newcastle during the present outbreak bus a been 1,342. In the same period (viz., the first 29 days) c1 during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in b 1831-2 ...