... Dr. Bowring is about to lecture in this town on China; also on the decimal coinage. The privilege of collecting the ashes from the parish of Marylebone has been let this year for £5651. In Liver- pool we give somewhereabout £10,000 a year for a person to take sway the ashes. Commissions signed by the lord-lieutenant of the county palatine of Lancaster:-1st Regimient of the Duke of Lancaster's ...

... EVANGELICAL CONTINENTAL SOCIE TY. A publio meeting In furtherance of thte claims of this society, forme with the objeot of aseisting and encouraging evangelioat Tt societies on the COntinent in their endeavast poaaethe D gospel, was held at King-strelet Chapel on Monday evening wi last, when'the spacious buildlingwas filled to overfilowing. The chair Was taken by Robert Leonard. Esq., to A ...

... I pOGRAXiME OF NEWTON AUTUMRN I Meeting. - - - Thursday, November 24. ,stewards: Thomas Legh, Esq., and Captain White. Lessee and Clerk of the Course: Mr. E. W. Topliam. Judge: Mr. E, Johnson, of York. A HNICoetAP SELLTING HURLE'a RACE Of 5 Sove each, with 30 added; the winner to be sold for 120 sevs; if entered to be sold for 100 sove, allowed.41b; 80, 71h; 60, 101h; 40, 1M1b; 30, i8lb; 20, ...

... - (YPoic SiXl Yetcs ill Indica, bcy 31rs. Coltin Jlac-. kcaex:ie.) TIE following passage relates to the battles of Aliwal and Sobraon, in the campaign of 1846; and if it be not true, it is proper that Mrs. Mackenzie should be told so-and at once:- On Saturday, 20th of March, 1847. my husband rode out with two other officers to see the field oft Aliwal, which is about fourteen miles distant. ...

... BVTUS-SIA AND TURKEY. Front 5.000 to 7,000 Rassians have taken up a swrong posiiion on an eminence near Fratesehti 1hrct cen Bluchsarest and Giurgewo). The Turkish ?? a t Oltenitza Consist of 17,000 regular infantry, Bea' tiashi B wouks. and 4,000 artillerymen, corn- nianded by General Prim. Ismail Pacha commands ' 01 il0 Turks ut Kalafat. The Russians have con- ?? atod 35.000 men at Budeschti ...

... L OND ON, WEDNESDA, NO V. 16 TirE intimation by electric telegraph,-via Vienna of course,-'that the Turks on the Danube had in some place and at some time (neither the when, nor the where, being specified) experienced a check, was not confirmed;'yesterday. The report appears likely to disperse into thin air before it can assume a definite shape. At least the argument. is plausible that, ...

... FIYSB URY PARK. DE1PUTATION TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCIEIEQUER. The Chancellor of ?? yesterday received a deputation of the committee for promoting the formation of a park for Finsbury, at his official residence in Downing- street. The deputation was accompanied by Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P. for Middlesex, and consisted of Messrs. Bowerbank, ?? J. J. Downes,F.R.A.S.; W. C. Birch, Jas. Barnett, ...

... RATH MINES FLORICULTURAL, SOCIETY. | The annual general meeting of this society was hrld yes- terday evening at the Bathmires Commissioners' house. There were present; -Dr Haffield, Messrs J H Evatns, J W Lane, B North, F St'kes, J J Dockrall, - White, Reilly, Joseph Scott, Campbell, Allrer, Madden, Johnston, Macredy, Hend- ley. Williams, 1,VCtike, Dombraine, &c. At eight o'clock the chair was ...

... ilO hrich theM A ?? s NLaratOOl. LORD) MAYORt'S DAY IN LOX'DOT-T We learit from the journals, and througlh other cltannels, that Lord Mayor's Dlay, which was celebrated last week in London, paqsed offi vith mnore than usual ccebt-a circumstance which is nit doubt to be uinhe attributed to the high estimation in which the present Lord Mayor (thc ]f ight lion. Tholitas Sidney) is held as a anuil ...

... LOVE fell asleep one summer's day, By a cool spring where Bath uprises, A maid of Lansdown going that way, The sight both pleases and surprises;- The little wretch, she inly said, There'll mischief be when he awakes! His torch, with ifve celestial fed, She from from the sleeping urchin takes, And plunges in the wave, and cries- I'll quench thee, torment from the skies Fain was the maiden's ...

... AN EXTRAORDINARY SPORTSMAN. What is in the blood, will never come out of the flesh, is an axiom fully illustrated in the case of a son of Mr Charles Tester, of Balcombe, who, a few years since, while shooting on his father's land, burst his gun, and so sadly injured his left hand that it was obliged to be am- putated below the elbow. Still true to the sport, he con- tinued to use the trigger ...

... LEEDS WATER\WORKS PROJECT, AND U - SEA'El'S.-ENGINEER'S ESTIMATES- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MEPc.py, GENTLEbSEN,-It is not isy intention to of'ies alli- 0e,,e upon tie project for :increasing the supply of water to Cia ss cusseti by the Council at their late meeting, but I trister me a space in your paper of to-msorrow to correct a sttina one of the speakcio, which s l calculated to produe ...