... V THRTE PUBLIC EXPEzYDITURE. l (BY A PRACTICAL ACCOUNTANT.) The sensible injunction to take care of the pence, and leave the pounds to take care of themselves,' though generally obeyed by Englishmen as to their personal expenditure, is strangely lost sight of in the conduct of public affairs. There can be Lo doubt that our taxation would be lighter if the control over the expenditure of the ...

... TEN DOGBERRIES OF ST. PANCRAS. Few reflecting persona will deny that the system of an unpaid magistracy is a mistake. In an under state of society, when the feudal element asserted itself in its re- lations between the various classes of the people more than it does in these days of equality before the law, it was all very-well to make his worship a judge in the small matters of social ...

... I pWyRECKS IN THE ROYAL NA VT BETWEEN 1793 AND 1857. 45 irrativc of Shipwrecks in the Royal Navy be- . a793 anld 1857; compiled principally from il doctments in the Admiralty, by W. O. S. ihas reached its third edition. Its contents, ecer, have come very little before the public, 'ond the pages Of Home of the Reviews, which do circulatO so freely as the newspapers. Forty ssive stories of ...

... THE IISHE SECGRT SOCIBTIES. (ai BtITISH AhND IRISH MAGNETIC TZLVQLA2H.) BELFAST, FRTDAY EvcNIrG. The Northern Whig of this evening has the fol. lowing:- The inquiry into the cease of the sixteen prisoners arrested in Belfast on the 5th December, charged with being members of an illegal society, commenced thisday, at i1 o'clock, in the county gaol. It was believed that the authori- ties had ...

... MIR RARVEY LEWIS AT BUJLL. to At the reform meeting at Hull,. on Monday last, some of a, the proceedings at which we have already given. Mr. Har. cs vey Lewis followed Mr. Clay, M.P., and spoke as follows :t Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, this is the third time that i I have had the honolur of appearing before a meeting of the town of Hull, and I hope it rosy he the charm (cheers and tl laughter]. ...

... .EDUCATION IN IRELAN.D. r We stated yesterday that a meeting had been held 1 o at Belfast lor the purpose of discussing the question of hav- an ing intermediate schools established in Ireland. The attend- we ,ance on the occasion was large and rmost respectable. Amongst those present ?? Mayor of Belfast (S. G. th, GErvY, Esq.), who occupied the chair; the Lord Bishop of ?? and Connor and ...

... LONDON: SATUIDA Y, JANUARY 1, 1859. A year of steady though not exuberant pros- perity has produced its natural effects upon the public revenue. 'The returns we publish in another column exhibit no extensive fluctuations on either side, or upon any branch of income, but show symptoms of general buoyancy by an increase of productiveness on every item of receipt not affected by legislative ...

... NA VAL AND M1L17A1 Y. . I I~ ~ - (roeooe LAST NIGHT'S GA.kzETTE.) WAR-OFFICE, Dnc. 31, let Regiment of Life Guards-George Lewis Waxtson, gent., to be cornet and aub-lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bid- dulph, promoted. 2nd Life Guards-William Entwisle, gent., to be cornet sad eub-lieutenant, by purchase, vice Woodgare, pro- suoted. Royal Horse Guards-John Alexander Barn Cailander, gent, to be ...

... THE MANA GEMENT OF THE MARYLE- BONE I ORKHOUSE - ALLEGED VALADMI- NHtS TBATION. Yesterday, at a special general meeting of the guardians and directors of the poor of Marylebone, held in the Board- room of the workhouse, Marylebone (late New) road, Mr. Charles Beevor in the chair, Mr. GLIDDoN, the recently-appointed poor law auditor for the district, attended to point out what he deemed over- ...

... POSTZL COMM UWICATIOY BETEBENIIBLL4D ANDAM AER1CA. We yesterday gave a telegraphaannourcement that a deputation had waited on the Lord Lieutenant of Irelaad for the purpoie of laying before his Excellency the resat - tions on the subject of postal communication betvween Ireland ; and America, adopted on a recent orcasion; the followni a more detailed report of the proceedings. The deputation ...

... .IR. B?. X. HIrILI'S, M.R, OWN- POLITICAL PROGRESS. ?? On Thursday evening, R. N. I'hilips, Esq., Mi.P. for Bury, was entertained at dinner by the members of the Non-electors' Association of that borough ; about tOO sitting down in the large room of the Albion Hotel; MIr. PETEX Coorsit presided. Mr. P1te1LIPS said that one object of their meeting he no- derstood to be, that he might have en ...

... METROPOLITAN BOWAJD OF TFOES. . The ordinary meeting of the Metropolitan Board Of XVorks was beld yesterday, in the Council Chamber, Gujidhall. Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The fiancial stateuent showed a balance on the general account of 10,6351. ld. 6d.; the amount of the general de- posit account, 25,0001. ; and balances on special accounts, I194,2251. 8so. 7d. THE DEETS OF THE BOARD. A ...