... A apccial meeting of the Counotl was hold yesterday, the M&YoR (Thlomas Lloyd, Esq.) presiding. THE QUESTION AS TO TiHE MAGISTRATES' CLERKCS' FEEi!. The minutes of the previous meeting having been real aend cOn- firmed, the MAYOR read the following letter to the Council : Whitehall, 2ith Januairy, 1860. 1Sbr,-I am directed by Secretary Sir George Lewis to Inform you, with reference to the ...

... SEDGLEY. A ?? was hold on Monday afternoon, In the National ,School Room. The Vicar, the R1ev. W. Lewis, presided, and the attersldanco was very respectable. The Ilonorarf Secretary, Mr. E. J. Gibbs, road apologetic letters from Lord Hatherton, Colonel -Vernon, D. G. Round, Esq., and others. It was stated by the scretary that £200. would be enough to establieb a corps of sixty ; that amiount ...

... TOWN BOUNSIL. A monthly rjd specl meeting of the town oounoil I mg ryterday in the council chamber of the ?? his Worship the MsyorT. D. Andelon, rsq., P1'daiding FINANCE CoMMrEE. a~pbusiness paper contained a recommendation ,werae the salay of Mr. William Rishton, build. oveyorl from.19 ?? E ber annum ; fog t subjet to ?? approval of the rofa the Treasury, the reversionary interest in a 1 _ ...

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... LATEST A. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. RtEUTER'S TELEGRAMS. - RA-NCE. g. . ?-Theeav Eand Pefria of th WQ eveain Aln tde aInO of a offeive ad W defensive aellianoe ?Om Russia and Austria. TUR ...

... I -CORRESPONDENCE i or ?? MIE BUDGET. ler. d a TO TEED ?? OF THE LIVERPOOL MMCcus. mes Gentlemen,-The Chancellor of the Excb uer, In ,ien his speech on the budget on Friday eveningle loth said that the whole number of articles m i remainingon the tarifl will be43 th s' Posn Aofs budgoncet Ipass. Will the Fyinancil de ormi toa ,er eation aeto kind as to furnish te public, thmenh to the press ...

... flu mn- A hurricane at New Orleans, on the 22nd ultimo, his did great damage; five persons were drowned. Th; Odess= Courier publishes a letter from Sebas- .Cs topol, which states that one of the most honourable ld. inhabitants of that town has rebuilt, at his own ex- mg pense, the church in the cemetery which was de- ad- stroyed during the siege. sty In one of his late despatches, Mr. Ward, ...

... TmEGRAPHIC NEWS. Gast nx Coi E~oi~r~sY.-Tbo adjouined meeting wAS held y..terday,, The mnaijority aaipnt M Hayes's asaeqdment wasa,1048 (4919 againg 3&70 Tbereport'was adopted. 'Thetollowine committee of invetsfgation was appointed:-Eev.'iMr. Nioliolsono [Mte. HElpie Mr. Bacer, and Mir. Getz. It was thea. Mresov b. nrokey new 3i b. ?? rC' ti Boanae, the pzesentation of the cbommittee's report. ...

... I AUSTRIA AND H[NGARY. s At last the obstinacy of the Hapsburgs has Yshown signs of yielding. After persevering 'for upwards of ten years in a policy of centra- Ylisation and a rule of brute force, the Austrian d Government appears about to enter ona path of conciliation. The cord, which has been I stretched to its utmost tension since 1848, has been relaxed just as it seemed on the point of ...

... T.HIE GOVEI;NAENT AND THE VOLUNTEERJS. An unroported question which was asked the other Eighult by a peer who turned his back to the bar aud was inaudible in the gal- slry elicited from Lord da Grey somne im- portant statements as to the present condi. tion of the volunteer force throughout the country, and as to the intentions of the Government w-ith reference to this new national ...

... EAST INDIA SALARIES AND . -.-ALLOWANCES. A return has been pnblished, on the motion of Mr. Bright, of the amount id sterling inonoy of the annual ealaries of the governor-geoneral, governors, lieutenant-governors, chief justices, puisne judges, bishops, chaplains, and all oivil and military cove- nanted servants of the East India Government. A few particulars of this return will show that if ...

... A sordid test is smetimes applied to religious and social movements. He who regards foreign missions in the light of commercial speculation caloulates the eost of Christianising a heathen, and arrives br arithmetical average at the money value of a human soul. With an object the reverse of that which prompts these Calculations, we have applied the same rule to estimate the coat 'of saving a. ...