... NrbNEY MAfiKfeT. CITY, WIXWESKAY, Nov. 2i. The funds opened this morning with a dull appearance, and during the greater part of the morning a decline of I per cent. was quoted, owing partly to the annouucMhent, that the Chilian Loan contract had been signed. Within the last quarter of an hour, however, the lias become fhmer in character, and prices are now quoted only about 1-16 per cent. ...

... 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 ...

... LONDON, Nov. 15. The following telegram, dated Allahabad, Oct. 16, has been received at the East India House:- To the Under Secretary of State, India House, London. ...

... Englishmen will not have forgotten the name of Baron Nicotera, who took possession of the Cigliari and landed wuh a handful of men at Sapri, and was a fellow-prisoner with our countrymen Watt and Park. The following letter gives more details of his fate:- The King spared the life of Nicotera (says the writer) for no other purpose than to make him die by degrees a terrible death. The ...

... LONDON PROPUCg MARKET! MINCING-LANE, MONDAY, Nov. Ii. SUGAR.—A fair business was transacted to-day, aDd rates have become firm; ruling for Mauritius of brown qualify at 30sto 37s; yellow 37s 6d to 45s; Havannah brown 85s to 40s; yellow 40a 6 ...

... Charles Forbes, Comte de Montalembert, was born in London on the 10th of March, 1810. He is the represen- tative of an old family of Poitou, and big father was a peer of France, and ambassador at Stockholm from the court of Charles X. Hk mother was an Englishwoman. At the outset of his career he wa3 an advocate of the union of Catholicism and democracy, of which Lamennai i was the apostle, and ...

... At the opening meeting of the new lecture hall and reading-rooms for the mechanics of Frome, the Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne delivered the inaugural address. He said he should not attempt to trace the history of mechanics' institutions, for with that they were all doubtless familiar. We know, be said, what we are, but we do not stop to inquire how we come to occupy that position. Living in a ...

... LONDON MA KK ETS CORN-MXCHANGE. MONDAY. Of foreign birley and oats the arriva s last we,.k were heavy; of other grain and flour moderate. The exports were 32 qr*. barley, 2,4\)\ qrt. oat'. 53 qr.. beaii-, 110 qr-. Ilea, anti 385 ewt. flour. l'he receil)ti of English wheat were 6,621 qr* of foreign, 10,419 qrs. The morning'* supply from Kent and Es-ex wu moderate. The improved toot in mles ...

... In August last a public meeting was held in the Welsh Chapel, Bakery Hill. The object in view was to draw the attention of the Welsh inhabitants of Ballarat, and neighbourhood to the propriety of having a new place of worship so as to keep pace with the improvements which continually take place in the metropolitan gold field, the present building being too small, and also too rude a structure ...

... (!!teant of CHARLES SILVERWIT was staying at the country house of his sister-in-law, Lady Crawley, who has » charming and beautiful sheet of wi'/r before het house. Silverwit aud a young lady were looking It the still lake, in which the trees were reflected, when the latter said that the sceaa reminded her of Scot- land, At this moment Lady Crawley came out, followed by the beadle of the ...

... The Cambridge papers state that measures are in progress for making a railway direct from Wisbeach to Peterborough. ...