... The annnal medin; of the memhers of the C.m¡¡Œ Young- Men's Christian Association was held 011 Tuesday evening, in the Library Room of the Society's Institution. The treasurer, Mr. John Cory was-called to the chair. Prayer having been offered by Mr. Bidmc d, Town Missionary, Mr. Kernick, one of the honorary secretaries, said, that in accordance with a rule of their society which stated that ...

... The letter-bags are conveyed between the railway sta- tion and the town of Keith in a wheel-barrow, on which the letters V. R. are pompously emblazoned! SEED-TIME IN SCOTLAND.—The weather has been so favourable of late for sowing the cereals in the north of Scotland that the seed has been got into the ground in fine condition. Genial rains fell on Monday and Tuesday. ...

... A SOMEWHAT remarkable exposure of how joint-stock companies can be got up has been furnished by the in- vestigation in bankruptcy, before Mr. Commissioner Fane, in the case of the West Ham Distillery Company. The company started business with a capital of £4,000, immediately gave orders for the erection of a distillery to cost £50.°00; and agreed to pay a Mr. Webb, the promoter of the affair, ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, APRIL 5. In consequence of a small supply of English WHEAT to-day; the rates realised were equal to last Monday, but demand limited. Prices for White ruled at 40s to 46s; and Red 37s to 42s. A good supply of Foreign, and only a small business; rates ruled at 42s to 50s; and for Russian at 37s to 43s. Of floating cargoes several offering, and not many buyers. The market for ...

... SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1858. THE telegrams received in London on Thursday are most gratifying. By them we have intelligence from Lucknow. to the 18th of March; and from Allahabad to the 17th. Our troops have carried all before them, and their loss has been slight compared with that of the enemy, which has been very great The rebels with considerable slaughter, have been 'put to night whenever ...

... PUBLIO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—The gross public income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended the 31st ult., amounted to £67881,513, and the expenditure to £70,378,859, leaving an excess of expenditure over income amounting to the sum of £ 2,497,345. Of the expenditure £28,627,103 was appropriated to the payment of the interest on the public debt, &c., X2,919 198 ...

... The House of Lords re-assembled on Monday after the Easter recess. LAW AMENDMENT.-The Transfer of Estate Sim- plification Bill was brought up, as amended in the com- mittee.-Lord CRANWORTH moved the omission of the first thirteen clauses of the measure, which related to the limitation of time during which reversionary claims upon real property might be legally preferred.-Lord ST. LEO- NARDS ...

... Sir Colin Campbell is now at Lucknow, restoring quiet, and organising the garrison, and great efforts are made to reassure the population which had fled in great numbers to the neighbouring villages. These proceedings of Sir Colin Campbell are dictated not only by prudence, but by simple considerations of justice. There is no valid pre- tence for treating Oude as anything more than a con- ...

... A drunken juror has been fined £20 at the Sligo Assizes. It is stated that the statue of Achilles in Hyde Park is to be removed. A reduction of 5s. per cwt. was made on the price of tin on Tuesday. It is confidently reported that Mr. Charles Keam is to be forthwith knighted. A light is about to be placed near The Stones, at the N.E. of St. Ives Bar. Lord Rosse contradicts the report that he ...

... Lord Malmesbury has inaugurated his reign at the Foreign-office by the following important changes :— Lord A. Loftus, at present Secretary of Legation at Berlin, will succeed Sir Hamilton Seymour at Vienna. Sir J. Crampton, at present Minister at Hanover and late Minister in the United States, will succeed Lord Wodebouse at St. Petersburg. Mr. Buchanan, at present Minister at Copenhagen, will ...

... Edwin Hart was committed at Portsmouth, on Thursday, for the wilful murder of his brother. Mr. Hodge, who was a prisoner on parole, has been released. He is still in Turin, but at liberty to depart when he pleases. At a council of the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, held Friday, the Rev. Dr. Thompson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, was appointed preacher to the So- ciety. The prospectus has ...

... The river Wye has this week produced many valuable salmon for the Tintern Abbey fishermen. One of them on Wednesday took nine, weighing together SCIb'f. PROPOSED HARBOUR OF REFUGE.— Deputations from Cardiff, Gloucester, and Newport, met on Tuesday, at Gloncester, with reference to this matter. The Btistol deputation was absent, being engaged upon a pilotage question in this town. It was agreed ...