... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents who set any spectal value upon their com. munications must keep copifs of them, as we cannot under- take to return unused contributions. AU letters intended for publication must be accompanied by ther ames and addresses of the writers, not necessarily for publication, but for the information of the Editor. We cannot give HA H. the information he ...

... EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRIIAL FINE ART IN ElDIxNunoos -The Board of Manufactures have advanced the arrange: mnents for this Exhibition, which is to be opened in No- vember next. The Governnent have promised considerable I collections from the museum at South Kensington, and will send works of rare artistic excellence. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort have been graciously pleased to bestow their ...

... TREA8URY EXTRAVAGANCH, We, the people of England, was the solemn enunciation from the shopboard of Tooley-street; and, though we never heard that they succeeded on the strength of that declaration in returning a member to represent them in Parliament-though we never found that they contributed greatly to the revenues of the country, or in- fluenced its policy abroad or adminigtratiou at, ...

... CHARITY AND DESTITUTIONf. Though a decided change for the better has takon plame in tbe state of the weather daring the last week, and the rignor of the frost-which for the previous three weeks had bound tics earth as in a grasp of irou-has at last given way, and a cold thaw loosened the icy fetters that chained thasoil and paralysed all out-door labour ; aud though since Monday the'rise in ...

... GLASGOW ARCHITECTIRAL SOCIETY. .. ?? .. .- - . The fourth me t' of, the vess t- *Du of the Glasgow Architectural Sod as3 xiibitiion atmu Rooms last night ?? el at of the iug Saty, in the ola hr Ma e Xg. cr ?? ~ ~ ( a~a, If ~~ ~Me B er~~~ue~~a ~~arc et,~43 Bath. the i Stfeef.~. On 'St I~'roporti d G 1 Outline in ai Bunm 9i j;nTiJ wigi an satmin ?? en oh ?? Mr. Cousadp eded sflos-1h eea om n the ...

... CALEDONIAN SOCIETY'S ANNUAL DINNER. The members of this society, with a select numWr of their friends, celebrated their anniversary on Friday last, by dining together at the King's Head Hotel, Newport. In the absence of J. Brown, Esq., Mayor of Newport ( who was unexpectedly called to London), Robert Wilson, Esq., of Bristol, occupied the chair, the vice-chair being ably filled by Mr. Holmes, ...

... A MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE A Russian man-of-war sncboreel one day at the entrance of the fiorde. Denmark was at psace with all countries, so its appearance excited no remarks. The fishermen of the village examined it through their glasses, and then thought no more about the matter. The parson went to his bed as usual, when suddenly he was awakened by armed men in masks standing round his couch. ...

... This quaint account of the ancient Billingsgate ladies answers exactly to the costermongers and their wives of the present day, who are just a3 careless and improvi- dent; they are merry over their last rope of onions, and laugh over a basketful of stale herrings. There is a colony of these singular people in the Lower-road, Islington, where (in Ward's-place) a student of human nature may ...

... THE SPANISH BouBBONS.—The news of the fearfully sudden deaths of the head of the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon, the Count de Monte- molin, anel of his consort, at Trieste, on the 12th and 13th inst., has given a shc-ck to the imagination of men as encouraging the notion that so many disasters follow- ing one another so rapidly and visiting in such various ways the members of one ...

... 66, Queen-str&London, 23rd August, 1860. lesssrs. R. Wotherspoon and Co., 46, Dunlop- street, Glasgow. Dear Sirs,—I have, as requested, to-day visited lie Royal Laundry, with reference to the adver- isement of the JfettinghMp^rm, who state that heir Starch has been jMPTtor many years in the loyal Laundry, aniMuve Been assured by Mr. 'hompson, the^npprmAemMnt, that none but ourselvesirf^|ny ...

... FIsGHTUL DBA TH OF A FJMALE BER VANT AT NORTHAMPTON. .I (From the Northampton Herald.) On Friday ?? 25), about 5 o'clock, acy of Fire, fire, was heard in the house of Mrs. Berpill, hair- dresser, of Mrcers?-row. Some of the passers-by 1mine. diately ran to give notice to the superintendent of the engines, and in a few minutes Charles Slimith, Jun., was on the jot. The servios of the eines, ...

... METBROPOZITAN BOARD OP WORZS. Theuusual weekly meetig of the 'Metro litan Boar4f Works was hed y s in tL e Coun= ain- t ber, ?? *mr. J. TTxmar inthe chair. e ?? fancial statement was presented,'whih gave the c following caeh balances in the hands of the treesurer:- f Clurrent accounts, 110,7351. 9a. 0d.- -deposit 'accountis 70,0001.; total, .180,T351.. 9.. 6d.- gover~nment secuties, in I the ...