... LOCAL 1NTELLIGENCE. ST STESPHEN'8 CHUROH AND SOHOOLS.-Two very mumerously attended tea-meetings were held on the veninugs of Thursday and Friday, the 18th and l9th instant, in the new and beautiful school- rooms, Spring-street, where, on Thursday evening, two hundred and forty of tble adult scholars were regaled to tea, aid on the followinig evening no less than 450 per- eons, being the Sunday ...

... I SECOND EDITION FRIDAY, 2 P.m. (BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEORPH). The Polish bookseller charged with publishing a libel upon the Emperor Napoleon, underwent another exami- nation yesterday. aslesolicitor said that Pyat was quite willing to exchange places with the prisoner, and to assume the responsibility of what be had written. The prisoner was committed. Bail was accepted. There was ...

... THE POLITICAL CHANGES OF 1 SIX, YEARS. It is now sir years since Lord Derby held tho reins of power, and the differences between the circumstances of '62 and '58 are strikingly remarkable. The eventuali. ties of the present crisis are all in favour of the Oon- servative party, whereas in 1852 it was otherwise. Six yearssince tl,.-re was an unsettled economical subject associated wiuh trecent ...

... P I THE brilliant passage of arms between Mr 3BERNAL OsBonNz and the Lhancellor of the Excheqiler, on Monday night, is noticeable not tonly as a rare. exhibition of debating skill, but ralso because of its result in settling the position of the new ministry. Mr OSBORNE, emancipated from the official restraints which have kept him e a silent member of the house for years past, run riot in his ...

... istrxid Beits. DUDLEY. APPOINTMENT or OVxusscmee.-The overseers of Dudley for the past yearieave been reappointed for thle year ensuing, i; Messrs. William Harrison, John Rutland, Williami Wiikinson, and James Rowley, (Netherton.) THE INcoME TAX DEevALCILIONS.-A public meeting will take place this (Wednesday) evening, in ties Old Town Hall, to afford an opporunaity to tse coasmittee appointed ...

... TO THE MINERS AND COLLIERS OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND EAST WORCESTERSHIR. Having seen an lappeal to your fellow-men, in which you endea- vour to induce them to ask an advance in wvages, and giving as a reason that the price of coal has not been reduced, we cannot allow this statement, which you surely should leswc to be erroneous, to remain uncorrected. We purchase annually coals to the value ...

... On Monday week, March 15, at one o'clock in the after- noon, the sun will almost entirelydisappear over an extended belt of this country. He will be annularly eclipsed, but the asnaulsus or ring-like portion of his disc remaining uncovered by the moon on the central line will be so narrow that the eclipse will nearly assume the form termed by astronomers total without continuance, i.e., one ...

... PROGRAM9E -OF THE]IRMjNGHAM ANNUAL STEEPLE 011AMW9 At Sutton Coldfleld, on Monday, March the 22nd. Stewards: Viscount A. Talon, Captain Baker, major Harrison, and H. P. Gordon, Esq. Isir. R. Johnson, of York, Judge and Handicapper. Mr. John Sheldon, jun., Clerk of the Course. THEBesN~l~sSs!'RAND ANNUAL STEEPLE OsoASE, a handicap of 10 soya, each, 3 forfeit, with 100 soya, added. Age. at. lb. ...

... A sale of the most unique kind-namely, of bijouterie and jewellery of the rarest description-takes place at Phillip's auction rooms, in New Bond Street, London, on Thursday next. It consists of the stock of Mr. Hancock, of the same street, and is well known among consoisseurs as one of the most important collections of bijouterie in the kingdom. Mr. Hancock is now retiring from business; and ...

... Dr. Heodgson's second lecturo to tle members of tbo Midland Institute was On the importance of Social EBconomic Science as part of general education. Havina to clear away a few prelimlinalry mlliscolnceptions or mis- representations, the first of these which the Doctor dealt with was the belief that the business of tle science is to expolund great and unrelenting laws, by the operation of ...

... (From the Erpress.) The steamer Ava left Calcutta for Suez on the morning of the 10th of February. On board of her were Lady Inglis, the wife of the General latecommanding at Luck- now, and her three children; General Michell, bound for Bombay; Colonel Greatlhed, the hero of the Delhi flying column; Captain James, the saviour of the Lucenow gar- risen- and many other ladies end gentlemen ...

... The importance of the bill introduced into the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on F riday night renders necessary a snore detailed report of his speech than the telegraph enabled us to sapply oil Saturday. Divested of the merely illustrative remarks, the following is Mr. DISRAELIS6 statement We propose, in the first instance, that there shall be a high officer of State-a ...