... The Cape papers, in noticing the arrival of a vessel from the Island, which left there on the 6th September, give the following extract from the: St. Helena Herald, by which it appears that the Portuguese Government have taken forcible possession of a portion of the African coast, their right to which is not admitted by the British (o- vernaient The Sasan Jane was only eight days from St. ...

... TYNEMOUTIT COUNCIL, A meeting of the Tynemouth Town Council, was held on Wednesday, the Maycr in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed. The TOWN CLxoox read a letter from the Town Clerk of Gateshead, acknowledging the receipt of the memo- rial in reference to the new dock; a letter from the Ad- miralty; a letter from the Trinity Houme, and also another ...

... BXPULSZON OF REFUGBEE FROM JRRSRY. On Tuesday night, a publi.imieeting As held iii the City Hall, Glasgow, Coancillor Korn in the chair, for the purpose of protesting against the recent expulsion of the refugees from the ielsaaa of Jersey. The hall was about balt filled, the assembly being composed almost entirely ot. the working elsases. The CGAiHmAN briefly introduced the busiaess of the ...

... 4HRE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWSd. . Bin,-One of the beat suggestions I have met for affecting a thorough precticel reform in the organisation and working of the unfortunate line whose affairs now 0 engrossle touch of yeor space and attention, is conveyed in g I a paasage of your able leader of this mornirg, which I here F I beg to quote as a reminder to those ot ...

... d =ZTBrTOr IL Lrrau FROF AN OIpJCKE. camp, Crimea, Now. 23. t We have jut had a telegraphic messmag, at iset I 0 heard to on good authority, to sxspend all huttiog and rmea 0 making. What does this mean i-can it be peace T4ey can hardly intend to move Us, now that we have mde our- if selves sug for the. winter. Report says, too, that the r Ruuaisn are about to eviauete the Crimea. Are *e toi ...

... THI A;, I , 'C ccrdig o letters *fro' Wroaw ' ehe movenment, 94 the .parv of s ~Uft BRssiau armyis ox y peeled to tik lc gie~rrsom Whether such a nmovemwent be ppssibl ar ?? ni~aters of thofllack SeA, and mAY aVahX7'tinie; throw a body of, troops, upon an~y Ip'art ?? e oae ah pise uposing .Mouravieff to iossue h ofn. sire with thp vhol[6 army -of the (Janglauus -'which gi numbers abpxit '90,00 ...

... Trnu curious fact in human history whioh would I I sorely perplex many speculators but that Scripture 0 ° proclaims it-that to him that has much, more is , given, and the converse-is as true of wealth as of 'a iay other possession. The man who begins life with t the merest trifle of cash can easily increase it; while s he who begins with nothing finds it the hardest a thing in the world to ...

... - SIlMZflo P..CLVB. 1 The ?? th e-d I day at the Freemasons' Taveri; ite a ttddenieehig the I at numeerous that has been ?? ome'ears. The i c hir-wtas-takeo by ?? the Duke of Ricutsoom, sup. ported by LordsBerners, Mr .Mliles,hi P.,nU Barker, s. , Jonas, R. W. Baker, Fisher Hobbs, J. Uudoon',Zsq., &ce I ?? 200 geitleanen sat down to n amexcellent and well appolnted dinner. A novelty In the ...

... DECIMAL COINAGE, WEIGHTS ANI 1MEASURBS. TO TRN IDXOR OF ThUtl DAMY PW. ISiz,-In an educational, u well M to mtoomercigl point of view, there b porhaps no subject of pgte impo- tese then the decimelisetion of our colasge, weights, end To abridge the study of the schoolboy, ac eil se the work of the counting-house, by being onbl to effoS *II arithrstl6al calculatione by the epplictlie' of the ...

... DEPPATPHEP FCOMk :IR ge L YONS. I - ADMIRALTY, Dio.M t. :Despatehes,,of which! the' follovwilnge are 'copies have beeu reelved fom AclmfrAm ,ir Edmuan Lyons, Bar., 9.Q.B. Comninder in ,COhief of 'eit M$aesty'i sips and' veseels in the 6'editerraneai mid' Black Sea: Royal Albestjissatch Bay1 Dee 1. .Sir,-I request that yon will* lav before the Lor~',s Commissioners of the Admiralty th ...

... I . iJOSEF IN ..z AceIW TE I )3I:; - B'NK,.R Cd,9 A, E$C A-'OT, 1,4. , i I;, .o TUX 23DITOI OW Tie ?? ftraw. - A : ug,_TbeYO i s omething remable inthehet -that, with the exception of the var, -the 'tw sUbjeetS . *orr 'the inametut ot ying .,the 1ttentioraf of -the tblij sre ,th,.'4rik Curter at ?? 184. s gn ;he , Mains of redering honour to i 'r0 Qiocit ~ -the late J. Humi, ?? -I avail ...

... THE FALL OF ZJ90-,,13, (1Frons tile ies. frumhflud IHerdly a gioritus one, for tis Aeias Til brave sues wh [ose nomris woro latterly soenthoned t Iwith pride through these kingdloms are now prisoners of I war. The heroic defence, lyhich might be' numbered with Ml- miot Nrnscl- in Listory, has ended in anl inovit-r abaile and ?? snrv~fidc. Famine did the woik in wrhich Russian bayonuets f~iled. ...