... CRICKET CLUB.-On Wednesday last the autumnal nesting of the above club was held at the Three Salmons Hotel, when a moderate muster of playing nembers attended. The accounts having been pre- sented, found correct and passed, shewing a balance )f 5s. 7-id. in favor of the club, it was proposed and inanimously carried, that Mr. Bailey be appointed secretary, and Mr. F. Greatwood, treasurer, for ...

... fiabai and JEtlttatg* DEATH OF A. TRAFALGAR HERo.We announce with deep regret the death of that gallant and distin- guished officer, Captain Robertson Walker, R.N., which took place at his seat of Gilgarran, near Whitehaven, on the 25th ultimo. He entered the navy on the 6th of April, 1801, and was appointed midshipman on board the Princess Charlotte. He fought on board the Victory as ...

... Wht OTmitt, ART AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL—It will interest many of our readers to learn that the Princess Frederick Willinm of Prussia sedulously cultivates her talents as an artist in her new home; and, more, that, the Princess still seeks the assistance and remembers the attention of those who were her early instructors. Mr. Edward Corbould, from whom the Princess received her first lessons in ...

... On Sunday night and Mon lay morning, great excite- ment was occasioned in Bradford and the neighbourhood by the Tumour that a great many people bad been ac- cidentally poisoned by eatin? lozenges, which had been sold in the Green-market on Saturday night. It appeared that on Sundav morning, two boys, one aged nine and the other aged eleven, sons of John Scott, residing in Railway- street, and ...

... ISpitomeof Nctos. The Daily News was seized at the Paris post-office on Snnday. inconsequence of its observations on the Mon- tp]pmhp.t prosecntion. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says that, in lcral circles it is reported that the Government, will not follow up this prosecntion. The Melbourne National Bank of Australia had been opfnpd. ami was bailed with enthusiasm by the com- ...

... At the public meeting of the members of the Evan- gelical Alliance, at the Philharmonic-hall, Liverpool, the other evening, the Earl of Roden presided. The audience was large and respectable, the hall being well filled throughout. A hymn having been sung, the Rev. C. M. Birrell offered up a prayer appropriate to the occa- sion. The Chairman, in his address, stated that though 11 others might ...

... Scientific. UNPRECEDENTED FEAT OF ELECTRIC TELE- GRAPHY.- We understand that the British and Irish Magnetic Company transmitted from Birmingham on Wednesday night last, on the occasion of Mr. Bright's address to his constituents, and a similar quantity on Friday night, twenty columns of close news paper print. We believe that such a quantity of news in so short a space of time was never ...

... At the Mansion-house, on Oct. 28th, Mr. E. H. Cole- man, clerk to the Registrar of Seamen, Board of Trade, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, attended at the justice room for the purpose of calling the attention of the Lord Mayor to the practices of a miscreant who he had every reason to believe had married several wives, and after living with them for a few days had deserted them. Mr. Coleman ...

... MR. SIDNEY HBRBERT, in his speech at Warminster the other day, was very eloquent in declaiming—as we think, very unjustly—against the system of anonymous writing practised by the press. We wonder that so acute an observer did not perceive that in writing everything depends on the truth and force of the statements made -on the strength of the logic-on the fairness of the reasoning and that it ...

... WE (Times) have reason to believe that the proclamation which was to announce the assumption of the Government of India by the Queen was drawn up and despatched from this country some weeks since. In- telligence of its arrival in India may be very shortly ex- WE (Times) are requested to state that there is no truth in the report that the government intends to create three new Indian bishoprics ...

... FAREWELL DINNER.-A very numerous body of the friends of Mr. David Eley, innkeeper and butcher, sat down on the evening of Tuesday week, to a first- rate spread, which for variety and profusion could not be surpassed. On the removal of the cloth, the chairman proposed the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, after which the company proceeded to enjoy them- selves with singing and dancing until a ...

... FORESTERS' CouM.—A new Court of thie descrip- tion, under the name of Lord Raglan, was opened at the Cherry Tree Inn, brother Thomas Herbert's on Monday last. The officiating officers were C. R. Truby, P. C. R. Hill, and S. C. R. Parry. Nineteen members were initiated, and numbers were also pro- posed for membership. On the termination of the business ^f the court, the brethren proceeded to ...