... The following »re the receipts of railways for the past week_ Correeponding Railways. LsstWeek. Week, 1858. Birkenhead, Lan., Chea June - 2.193 0 S, 107 0 Bristol and Exeter - - - J.*» J ' «13 Caledonian 0 0 12,654 0 0 Eastern Counties (including Norfolk) 24,189 SW.®M 0 0 Edinburgh and Glasgow - 6,185 0 0 6,798 0 0 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • 2.36.0 0 0 V'JJ 0 Great Northern - 26,814 0 i 24 ...

... (From the Mining Journal.) London, Dec. 2, 1059. COPPER—Copper wire to Ditto tubes „ 1 Sheathing and boltc .. 0 I Bottoms Oil Old (Exchange) .. 0 Best selected .. .. per ton 11* 0 0 Tough Cake 102 0 Tile lt'2 0 0 Burra Burra .. .. .. ~ 113 0 0 IRON—Bart, Welsh, in London prtn. 0 7 0 Ditto, to arrive 610 0 Nail rods 0 710 0 ~ Stafford, in London .. .. 715 0 9 0 Bars ditto *j Hoops ditto .. . ...

... The remarks we made last week with reference to incidents connected with the recent South Derbyshire election, have stirred up the ire of the Derby Reporter ; and the readers of that paper have been regaled with a series of articles worthy of the choicest specimens of Yankee journalism. The Reporter has found it impossible to refute the statements have made, and which we were fully justified ...

... (From the Mining JournaL) During the past week metals have not undergone any material alteration; our market has been steady, but quiet, quotations have slightly improved. Copper.—We have experienced a very inanimate market for some time past, and the general tendency of prices is downward*; orders for shipment are very scarce* and M-ems doubtful whether fixed rates can possibly be maintained ...

... Jatanksk Civilisation. —At the theatre the ladies change their dresses three or four times, and afford much amusement and interest as the actors themselves; they have a praying machine, which as often you turn the handle, carries up a prayer heaven ; but they have something better than all these peculiarities, which are to be taken simply as peculiarities, not worse than tight-lacing and ...

... for the extraordinary wear and tear of their clothing. Mr. Cobden writing to contemporary says he cannot refrain, as old member of the House Commons, from bearing his testimony to- the marvellous accuracy with which the speeches in Parliament are reported. England and Fbance.—A clergyman of the Chnrch England, the donor of the Great Exhibition Prize Essay, has offered two prizes of fifty ...

... is reported that an interview between the Emperor of Russia and the Prince Regent of Prussia will take place on Thursdny next at Breslau. ...

... The ship Fleetwood, commanded by Captain Dale, was on a voyage to the Friendly Islands. On the 2nd of May, when in lat. 60® S. long. 71* W. (off Cape Horn), late in the evening, she came in contact with an iceberg, which carried away her item, jib-boom, bowsprit, and did other damage. sounding the pumps, it whs discovered that she was fast sinking. For 20 hours the crew worked steadily the ...

... FOUR DAYS IN THE LIFE JOHN BRIGHT. Oo the same (Monday) evening Mr. Bright dealt in angry censures, ami expressly Hated, I hoped that should not be forced, as I shall now be, to ask the house | for leave to introduce another hill the subject, on early day. Parliament wai threatened with a democratic inundation that was to overwhelm our time-honoured institutions. Agitation that had failed in ...

... of mind, cut his throat with a ramr the Huckaback-walk, Heeley. The c«»st of printing reports and papers presented to Parliament by command of Her Majesty during the session of 1858 amounted to 29.731/. Bs. sd. Accounts have been received the Admiralty of the rescue, the barque Eleanor, of Cardiff, of Mr. Blair, , mate, and 39 men, who were supposed have been lost the founderiug of H.M. sloop ...

... will remember that this grand picture represents a passage in the Iqve of a noble whose devotion to his king has secured bim the undying hatred of the mob rulers, and who is seen half hidden the hollow trunk of a friendly tree, in which he seeks shelter from the curs who hope for fortune in return for his head. The unfortunate but faithful cavalier gazes with doting fondness *pon the beautiful ...

... Since Arthur Helps, the gossipping philosopher, lamented the poverty of English amusements, and wrote his celebrated chapter to prove the necessity of them, chamber concerts of classical music, have certainly contributed to reduce the justice of the complaint. Whether this want has been filled up English or Foreign art, and whether home enterpiise has not had as much to do with it as ...