... It appears likely that the only effect of the smaller i majority for Sir John Trelawny's bill, on the 8tb inst., will be to stimulate the Church-rate Abolitionists to new and greater effort. Notwithstanding the un& expected circumstance that the opponents of the measure brought up forty more votes than CD. the previous division, there remains the fact, that its supporters have not lost ground, ...

... We have received from Messrs. P. D. Collins & Ce. of London, their Monthly Freight Circular, from which we make extracts :— Events have taken place since our last pregnant with interest to our shipping community. Our prognosti- cations and fears, we are happy to say, have not been realized; various meetings have been held at the principal out-ports, and resolutions passed resulting in ...

... appointment* for tbe Wittb. Monday, 27th.Chepstow Fair. ...

... fit. A CABINET CopNCiL was held on Saturday. HER MAJESTY visited the Haymarket Theatre on Saturday. No alteration has, taken place in the Court arrange- ments for the ensuing month. It is expected that her Majesty will leave town on the 8th or 9th of March for Osborne, and will return to town a day or two before the day appointed for the first drawing-room in 1860, the 24th of March. THE first ...

... FRANCE The Moniteur of Sunday a. ministerial report addressed to the Emperor by M. Rouher on the reform of the tariff for primary materials. The minister expresses his opinion that the epoch for the exemption of wools and cottons may be fixed for the 15th of April. The minister further believes that the tariffforprirnary materials could be expressed as follows :-AN wools and cottons in wool ...

... FACTS ARE STUBBORN Things.—When unprinci- pled individuals have the audacity to assert that they make the origmal and only genuine Cattle Food, and endeavour to estiap the unwary by plausible advertise- inenti;, cautioning the public to avoid spurious imitations, &c., it is high tnne for Henri's Patent Cattle Feed Company t0 t1,1 ^lley prepare the Original and only Patented Cattse reed, at ...

... rn ufpuncÍj; QtJJTE OUT C F THE QUESTIONS. As befits a. knight companion m Of the Order of the Fleece, Tha-nephew of his uncle Casts sheep's eyes upon his Nice. But if this close attachment To a tie he dares to draw. Let him beware lest Europe Invoke the Canon Law. The huperialldea All must desire to please, But such a union is within Prohibited degrees. SOMETFNXG ROTTEN IX THE STATE OF ...

... KsiTSL MINCING-LANE, MONDAY, FEB 20. SUG:\R.-A fair business, and the market is in a firm position although thirteen public sales are announced for the week Havaunah of brown quality brÏ!lgs ;9s to 40s FID yellow 415 to 4Gs; Fioretts 47s to 48s 6d; Manilla clayed 398 to 40s and unclayed 3Ss to 34s. REFINED SIJGAK in good demand, and 51s to GOs paid for low to fine stoved goods. In the COTFIIE ...

... The following letter from Ramsgate, dated Tuesday, will be read with interest:— Since the wreck of the Northern Belle probably no circumstance has occurred on this coast which has placed in a more conspicuous light the well-known gallantry of our boatmen, and the for- tunate results of their skill and daring. The Spanish brig Samaritano, Captain Modesto Crespo, with a crew of eleven men, of ...

... At the Court of Queen's Bench, Miss Deachey brought an action against Mr. Brown for breach of promise of marriage. The de- fendant pleaded that at the time of making the promise the plaintiff was engaged to marry some one else, and that if he had known of that fact he would not have entered into the engage- ment. The plaintiS demurred to the plea, and the demurrer now came on for argument. The ...

... „ TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1 Canton.—In our next. e shall be glad to hear irom S. W. S. again. Francis Arnold, Debenham, Suffolk.Your letter would have been inserted, but we have closed the controversy With what appears in our columns this week. To con- tinue it further would not answer any useful purpose, I\nd we are not disposed to give parties the mere op- portunity of bandying epithets. At the ...

... FREE TRADE IN RAGs.-On Saturday, at 1 o'clock, a numerous and influential deputation of paper makers, accompanied by several members of Parliament, had an interview, by appointment, first with Mr. Glad- stone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official quarters in Downing-street, and afterwards with Mr. Milner Gibson, the President of the Board of Trade, to urge on the Government not to ...