... L A i H:U LL A.ND SEL4BY RA IfWA.YI DIVIDENDS. Ad Ad AIMPORTANT DECISION, soit ?? VIC-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, NOV. 3. FEn TII (Before ?? Sir J. Stuart.) Ha~i h;TEIULL AND SEIIRY RAILWAY COMPANY v. TIIE e NORTII-EASTEIIN RAILWAY COMPANY. Io This was a petition by the plaintiffis, the.Hull ausd sili a Selby Railway Comapany, praying for the payment out of mt~ cor t he fthe sum of £33,498 2s. 5d., ...

... LA-TEST INTELLIGENCE. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL HORRIBLE STATE OF THE BESEIGED, (Frour the Morning Post, Thursday.) At length we have somnethingbetter and more reliable that Russian telegraphs. We publish in another column an official despatch from the French Consil at Bucharest, who transmits thence to his Government the gist of the news brought to Vacua on the 26th, by the English steamer ...

... tell .. . . ?? in Thle ladies' atvaual tea party will take place on tho~tllh the instant, at tile Grand Stanid, Aintree. Admiral Price, who accidentally met his death prec~ious ir ice. to the attack oil Petrapaulloweski, was uncle to Mr, W. P. or Jeffreys, one of the councillors for Cit otet ad ?? attorney-genleral of the county Palatine of Lan- an atr r.inoles, Q.C., has subscribed 10 guineas ...

... HUWY LOIN( WYILD Tijit IWAi IIA01 i [COMMNsIsCATED.] bee 1 Everybody is talking about the Nvar. People arc just cou comhsg, to thle conviction that it is at great war. Little Let inmtoreit was felt iu it for the fir-it few mouths ; but now, att all at otice, the grim visaged monstor shows his dar be wrii.kled front, and we are startled at hi.s terrible gri d, aspect. Inall this noise and ...

... A -GA he u eas The'wsather, which for'eoone days past bad been dry II he and frosty, on Friday evening last underwent a&rether Ca- sudden change, and about; five o'clock rain beganato fall f, to heavily, accompanied by,-one of the most severe-gales; g ,he. which for some time weihave experienced. The-storin p encontiiiued during the eatire night, and only began to a ha abate'at an advansoed ...

... T to ild, LIME-STREET WARD. ni a Last evening, a meeting was held in the Teutonic Hall, Lime- ue* street, for the purpose of considering the most desirable means DC to be adopted for promoting the Patriotic Fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of soldiers who have fallen in battle ra heduring the war in the East. The free use of the room had been its roe- kindly granted for the ...

... Now that the elections are concluded, and the ex( business of another municipal year has begun, acc there can be no desire to continue, and no object in continuing, the discussions as to individual eli- gibility for office. We have not the remotest in- Bu tention of undervaluing the qualifications of any bet member of the Town Council, or of insinuating vei aught against the Mayor who has been ...

... A worthy Counoillor, who looked upon the election of last Thursday as a question of indi- vidual predilection, observed that Mr. Tobin pos- sessed personal qualifications which would throw a grace and dignity around the chair to which he aspired. Although we do not exactly com- prehend whether it was meant that a Mayor should be chosen by the same rule which is employed in the selection of a ...

... it SPAIN. lo General San Miguel has been chosen president of the le cortes. The vice-presidents are MM. Madoz, Infanta, o Dulce, and Calatava. The Gaiette publishes a general amnesty granted by the queen on the occasion of the h opening of the cortes. le ITALY. it The Uscivers has the following:- Our letters from It Rome are of the 4th inst. The regiment of dragoons it which has been in ...

... ARMY AND NbAVY. For several years past (says the Woolwich correspondent of the - ~, Morsingq Chzroricl), have attempts been made to abolish the Yea kilts from the Highland regiments, but the honours earned by Qu those who wear the kilt and bonnet will, there can be no doubt, set the question at rest, and instead of abolishing the prestige of the kilted regiments, a great desire is expressed ...

... WEDNESDAY', NOVsEBnE 22, 1854. The week has been almost without news. Lord ! RAGLAN'S telcgraphic despatch announcing the great victory of the Sth inst., is as brief as, and adds nothing to, the few facts contained in that of General CAN- ROBERT given in last weck's Mercury; and further than these no intelligence of this splendid engagement has come to hand, except that of the deaths of l ...

... SEvax Livis LOST IN A COLsLERY.-On Saturday week as a party of men and boys, seven in number, were being lowered into a coal mine at Rochdale, known as the is Belfield Colliery (Messrs John Knowles and Co., owners), the plat. form on which they stood suddenly fell to the bottom, carry. ljg them wmith it, and all were killed on the spot. Thedepth of the shaft is 75 yards. The accident is said ...