... LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 13. J There continue to be large arrivals of GoJd and Silver; still, the discount market keeps stiff-a large demand existing for money; and the next man for India and China being expected to take out £ 900,000. For Public Securities, the market is in a firmer position; Consols for money are 92A 1; Account, 92t Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds, 4.1; and Turkish Six per' Cent. ...

... of ELECTION ELOQUENCE.—A cynic has expressed the opinion that of the gentlemen who at the late election addressed their constitu- ents, or would-have-to-be constituents, from the hustings, the ma- jority were Poll parrots. THE OLDEST ERROR ON RECORD.—The invention of gunpowder has generally been attributed to the Chinese. This must be an error —our stupid historians meant surety to say ...

... The following letter from an Hungarian officer, who accompanied Mehemed Bey (Colonel Bangya) with the Polish soldiers from Con- stantinople, in the Kangaroo, has been published in the Lloyds' Gazette of Pesth Circassian Headquarters, Tuabs, Feb. 26. By means of the British steamer Kangaroo you will receive this letter, which will perhaps convey to Europe the first information of an event that ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, APRIL 6. An increase in supply of Home grown WHEAT at this day's market and millers continuing to be cautious buyers, the rates taken were Is to 2« UH 1- last Monda> Ttle currency for White ruled from 56s to 64s* and Red at 40s to 56s per quarter, a clearance- not being maTof rarcels in had condition. Of Foreign supply much exceeds demand, and the DricS accepted are rather ...

... April 2nd-Before T. Oakley, Esq. and Capt. Roberts. IMPROPER HOURS.—Prudence Watkins, beer-house keeper, Llaiidogo, was charged with keeping her house open for the sale of beer, on the night of the 9th of March, contrary to the statute —Fined 7s. and expences. STEALING AN AxE.-James Marshall, of Whitebrook, a lad of 15 years of age, was charged with stealing an axe, the property of Jonathan ...

... Before Sir James Shaw Willes, Knight., PANTYGOYTJIE ESTATE.—Jacob Morgan v. Iltyd Nicholl. For the Plaintiff-Mr Alexander, Q. C., Mr. Phipson and Mr. Serjeant Piggott, counsel, and Mr. Tanner of Bristol, attorney. For the Defendant—Mr. Whateley, Q. C., Mr. Keating, Q. C., and Mr. Gray, counsel, and Mr. Waddington of Usk, attorney. This case for some time past has created considerable sensa- ...

... FRENCH AND ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL FAT- CATTLE SHOW. Poissy, situated on the Seine, about seventeen miles north-west of Paris by the Rouen and Havre railway—a distance occupied by vegetable gardens, vineyards, open-field arable land, and the Forest of St. Germain-is the principal cattle-market for the city butchers, who purchase there (it is said) and slaughter chiefly in the Paris abattoirs ...

... AwruLLT SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday, the 16th inst., an Irishman of the name of Morris Fitzgerald, aged 56 years, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Collier, tanner, of this town, was given a half day's holiday to go to the races. The poor fellow thinking to turn the holiday to better account, instead of going to the races, intended to pass the time in planting potatoes. Accor- dingly his daughter ...

... The perplexities of the money-market seem greater than ever. For many months perspns have been looking to the present period as that at which some turn in the unfavourable course cf our bullion balances might be expected and instead, we have the Bank revert- ing to almost its highest rate of discount, while its stock of gold is reduced to a point lower than at any time in the last ten years. ...

... INDIA. Disturbances have taken place in Pegu. They are unimportant, but they led to a skirmish with the troops. Meetings had been held at Calcutta to petition parliament against the regulations of the new Penal Code, subjecting Europeans to the jurisdiction of the Company's Courts. ...

... The following are some of the particulars of an application made to a magistrate no longer ago than November last, by one J. B. a respectable man, farming about forty acres of land in Hockham, one of the rural parishes of England :— J. B.: Your worship, I come to ask your advice concerning of my wife. Mr. What's the matter? J. B. Why, your -worship, slio's harassed about night and. day — ...

... We understand that the Earl of Elgin is to be accompanied in his diplomatic mission to China by his brother,|the Honourable;Frederick Bruce, by Mr. Oliphant as his private secretary, by Mr. Fitzrov, and by a gentleman to be selected from the Foreign Office. Lieutenant Ernest Lloyd, an artillery officer, is in custody, in London, on as many as thirty charges of obtaining sums of monev from ...