... RESIGNATION OF MR. MARKS. Mr. Marks has issued an address to the electors of the South Ward informing them that, from a personal canvass, he has satisfied himself that he has no chance of being returned, and therefore resigns. ...

... THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. The following is another description of the cir- cumstances attending this awful calamity, from the time the ill-fated vessel began to break away from her cables, until her final engulpbment:- On entering the saloon Mr. Allen, the head ste- ward of the second cabin, came and told the pas- sengers they had better not go on deck, as it might cause confusion. The ...

... fEatftets?-, LONDON, MÓRDA'Y,'MAf:CH 28. Purchases are made with more, readiness in Colonial Produce supplies are, moderate, atid this currency rules ftrtfifer. ltatiftnd has tenfoishwi fbr RMsiM Produce, arid lower term# accepted i MltJjPB&h spooks arc not Jarfre. Prices ere fully 9s bighfut articles •nwd to Manufacturing Purposes, and there-are greater-trafisoc- itfcHS. Metals have been ...

... gfetopt Jutal nttlligttttt. Mr. James Vaughan, a barrister of note, on the Oxford circuit, presented himself here on Saturday last offering to stand for the boroughs in the Liberal interest. A brother-in-law of John Bright, and of the same political creed, it was expected that he would be supported, but we learn that one member of the council, and the chief leader of the opposition, refused to ...

... iSpttotnect Neto. Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, confirm the statements of the discovery of good coal in that province. The death of Mr. W. J. Champlain, so many years chairman of the London and South Western Rail- way Company, is announced. The Paris correspondent of the Globe says:— Emile de Girardin is coming out with a Letter to Benjamin Disraeli on Universal Suffrage, recommending ...

... Trade on the hills, both in coal and iron, is in a atisfactory and progressive state, The works at Ihymney are now in full career, and it is confidently eported that three new olast furnaces are about ^to w: erected at Abertillery; while the extension of tne c ...

... BRISTOL UNITED GAS LIGHT COMPANY.-The half- yearly meeting of this company took place at the offices, Canon's-marsh, on Thursday, when a divid- end at the rate of t9 per cent. free of income tax, was declared. The captain and crew of the ship Premier, of Bristol, had a narrow escape from death. On the voyage to Bombay heavy storms arose and,- the ship sprung a leak. The crew were exhausted ...

... A supplement to the Invalide Russe of the l6th states that according to a verbal report of Lieutenant Colonel Grabbe, a victorious atsault has been made on Gunib, and five cannons had been taken by the Russians. Schamyl was taken prisoner, and his sons and family were captured or killed. The Russian loss did not exceed 100 men. ...

... A most amusing entertainment was given at the Literary and Scientific Institution of those works last Wednesday, by Mr. Basil Young, who in his truly panoramic peeps at modern life, managed to hit class foibles some good hard blows, though they were dealt in that good humoured manner which dis- arms resentment. His Opera without the Crush contained some very clever satire upon the haut ton. ...

... PENARTH. Charles Starr, late of Penarth, butcher, &c., passed his first examination on Thursday week, at the Bristol Insolvent Court, and had the 8th- December named for his final order. ...

... THE FAIR.—On Monday last the usual half-yearly fair was held in this town. In the morning there was a moderately good show of live stock and a few sales were effected. The evening (and major part of the clay) was devoted to such pleasure as is usually pro- curable at a country fair EXTRAORDINARY CULTURE.—In the autumn of last year, the Rev. 1. D. Jenkins, incumbent of St. Fagan's Church, ...

... MONDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, Esq.) DRUNKARDS'LIST.—Richard Harley, 5s. and costs; John Smith, 5s. and costs, George Bowen, for being drunk and committing a nuisance in Bute-street at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, 5s. and costs or seven days John Morrison, 5s. and costs Mary Cotterell, a very old Irish women, who described herself as poor and broken hearted, was cautioned and discharged ...