... THE REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY. — Earl GBANVILLXS moved the second reading of the Bill-for the Repeal of the Duty on Paper, a tax which he stated to have been imposed, in the time of Queen Anne, and was stigmatised in both prose and verse by Swift. In 1832 an agitation commenced against the tax, and in 1835 the report of a, royal commission recommended its reduction by one half, which was done, ...

... FAREWELL PERFORMANCE. On Saturday about 12,000 persons viated the Crystal Palace to give a parting welcome to the French singers. The performance consisted of those selections which they found to be most successful in their previous concerts. Among the pieces they performed the audience were most delighted with the Chant du Bivouac, Les Enfans de Paris, La BeL.raite,and, of course, God Save ...

... ghmn of$unc!j, THE INCAPABLE KNIGHTS.—The Oueen has kindly selecting ribbons sent from Coventry. How the SfS \°uld gfm if Her MaJ^ty would add to her kindness, by sending to Coventry certain Parties who-n her predecessors have selected/vr ribbons. x U M, SENTIMENT AT THE OPERA. There is a Tier for all who dye, For all who dye moustache and hair And that's the Third Tier, where the eye Of ...

... Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner. The Judge Ordinary said this was a petition by Char- lotte Bond against Hancock Stanley Bond for a dissolu- tion of marriage, on the ground, of adultery coupled with cruelty. The petitioner was an Englishwoman, and, in July, 1840, she married the respondent in England. For a short time after the marriage they lived at Clifton, and then went to Ireland, ...

... Provincial EARNINGS OF A BEGGAR.—On the person of a cripple named Jos. Walker, just sentenced at the Dewsbury sessions to two months' imprisonment, for dog stealing, a pocket-book was found containing entries during forty days of the amount he had received in charity while pursuing his vocation. These sums amounted altogether to X9 14s. OJd., yielding him an average of 4s. lOd. a day. The ...

... ISMTAMEOF ISEIBS. Mr. Creasy; the judge of the Middlesex Sessions, Las been appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon. The Australian advices do not describe any material improvement in the prospects of trade. There had not been many additional fitilures, but, the markets were still glutted with English goods, every JlOpe entertained from time to time that the supply may be reduced within moderate ...

... LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 5. At present only a limited business doing in Colonial Produce on Home Trade or Continental account, and many public Sales are announced for the week; still in the value scarcely any variation took place to-day, and there is a fair consumption. Russian Produce is not much in reqaest, but sales are not pressed, and stocks are on the decrease. A firm market for Articles ...

... VIENNA, SEPT. 23. In yesterday's sitting of the Reichsratb, Count Clam Martinetz declared that the laws concerning the public press are not satisfactory, and proposed the insertion of a demand for their revisal in the reports of the coin* mittee. The majority of the committee agreed to this pro- position. The reports of the majority and the minority of the committee were then read by the ...

... TALK. BY OUB LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Our readers will understand that we do not hold ourselves re sponsible for our able Corvespondent s (yptnions,) ALTHOUGH a little late, some remarks on the state of the revenue may not be without interest. There exists now (there has always existed since I can remember) a sect —exceedingly small now, very numerous and influential thirty years ago- who ...

... RETURN OF LORD CLYDE.—Some of our contemporaries announce that Lord Clyde may be expected in England about the middle of this month We are more inclined to think, however, that the gallant general will arrive about the end of February, when, doubtless, the country will give him such a reception as his great services deserve.-Anny and Navy Gazette. ...

... THE CZAR AND THE JEWS.—A house be- longing to the crown was sold at Sebastopol by public auction. The Israelitish congregation bought it, destining it for religious purposes. The Emperor having heard this sent them back the deposit, amounting- to 20,000 roubles, with the intimation that they-should accept this sum as a mark of the imperial good will, and that they should employ it in the ...

... There is another and a very different spectacle to be witnessed at the Capua railway station, and there I drive from the palace of the Foresteria. A vast crowd is assembled outside, and the National Guardsmen keep order. The windows are crowded with people—nay, even the tops of some of the low buildings near at hand; and ten times more enthusiasm is shown to see the prisoners brought in from ...