... POSTAGE STAMPS PURCHASED FROM THE PUBLIC.- On and from this date all postmasters in England c and Wales at whose offices money-order business is U traxiacted will be permitted to purchase postage t damps from the public, if not soiled or otherwise damaged, at a charge of 2J per cent., the charge, how- ever, never to be less than one halfpenny. Under e this arrangement postmasters will be ...

... { &AWEST 7OM A1~REOSA AN~ CANADA. I 1,[ v f _a .. ^f-.A :A,1VAL'OF TB EII Ai ANGAROO. li~~~1 ~ ~ e n . o xn . p e F d s tr at ?? > . ?? : 'erpohl, February 2. nR The MontrealOcean Steamship Compay's screw steamer L & Bcesniias, CapaEn Burgee, and the liverpool, New York, ho and Philadelpum Stea ?? screw steamer g Kangaroo, Captap M'ign, arrived in Liverpool this he forenoon, the former having ...

... 3 I qGL.A ND. TB A ?? I D.-On eaay, te L arl of IMcbi gent a donatlon. of' £10 towards the fund 5ow-belg raised at the Mansion 3Hou e for a memorial of hs late Royal Highnem the Prine Con- sort The Royal Academy has Contributed a25Q ; and E adl (roavenor, I P., £20, I The total amount of the fand on Tuesaday avening w m £30,20M. Glo . MYSTERIOUB DxAnHE LS THz SarrnmiE -Mr. Bedford, the coroner ...

... ROYALPOLYTECHNIC FESTIVAL. .. _ - - - _ I -_ _w . - _ __ _ - The ainual festivals! the emyeoylsof the Royal Polytech- nic Warehouse took place last night, in St. Mary's Hall which was crowded-tha young men, with their wives and sweethearts numbering upwards of 200. On the platform 'we observed a number of our influential citizens, fourGlae- gow ministers, &c. Mr. AVDEBBON, the proprietor, ...

... CONCERT OF THE GERMAp~GE=ThEEN Fr_ Ar BGIN4_ LUB. ?? `_I -Iteffords u eveat pleaurnldededtoanoce thulblcon- cort, which was go the benefit of the GhW&gw Iigbt, Aeyltn ?? Houseles, went off- wth perfect success on Fdllay veninag. The audience. wsr, very nuusnaotd,;:it; may be. tosiargoo nimso well bndled, but, as we have: nO do a ?? also by the-llovelty that a party of foreign gentlemen bad ...

... I T THE GREAT PYTHONESS AT Til oj GARDENS. CL (From the AtheT urn.) Amsong advertisenents to seekers of ?? the Zoological Society has probably been cberved by0q readers. It announces that at the Society's Garde It t large Python may be now seen incubating her eggs tce confess that this advertisement somewhat zurpriidJ e having recently read in the Treatise on Reptu-, pbl in the lst edition ...

... LATEST- NEWS HA.D O o, ,-aj ossnw BY ELE02'AO TERLBGMAPH. .OiTSE O1F COMMONS-WznlrmSDh. TbheSpumrR took the chair at twelve doclock In2rep to M,. Em na 8ir GGREY said -the second reading oE thwitegistration of Births and Deaths (freland) Bill would not be -proceeded with to-morrow. T39 WEIPPINGL MM MWr. EiLDFIEgi91novs the second readinpottbe Whip. ping BAlL Sir G. 4 BES said-the Isepectors ...

... SMMCARN POLiTIOS AND COMMERCE. - ~ ~ ~~ ' is vsa ?? ,jtj not. ..ni OOMTON PROSPBECT. tPXM the C1ISa Of Mess Neill Brothers, dated aneiheeter, February 2L) Om la circular wan dated from New Yerk on the 19th d Deember. The pacific settlement of tbe Trent dispute *M th United States Government, of which We then an- Rounced the immediate probability, was aceomplisaed by the 1el Mmm m Majnd Slidell ...

... PAPAL HOSPMTALIMY. sacs It isnow a matter of notoriety that IL de Iavalette so of has been instructed to reques the removal of Fr rec On-~ 11from Rome, and baa iet with 'a 't'reftisa 4CTe 'th Holy See, sqy. 0artifail An hal'lasprfse hh 2fa. to observe utchanged. the doetrlne~of hospitalityr: the la common father of the faithful cannot eny-a refoge to raest any one, especially to ...

... THE COMING ESSION. MOM the EOODOMist,) ke A combination of circumstances, principally histori- hat cal, have greatly changed the ideas of the present md generation from thooe entertained by our forefathers the as to the functions and prposes of Parliament-as to by the work to be Imposed upon it and the benefits to f be epected from It.. And the change ls scarcely, we s pprehend, In a sound or ...

... fLmATT B - Wi 5 ?? Oil LORD3-FRAYh..L The LonD CU lAnwUL took his. aset on the woolsack at Bi J~ord STANHOPE CaB& Sttelttofl 'to ?? port that 1i secondlnendthird squaldron, kjj;~d with Atoneswas'beagm of th roreign Vosr-whiah ww Vi wb.zby a equel to his de. Bpitces had Settle th question. -He fizong y condemned the pirmazuest - detructiom of a, ccmiera_! harboar, and Iwished to lanow if these ...

... |AFTERNOON EDITIONA -- -- S--- ?? 0 -, BE&&iD OFFIO; Mf ton , 3 Pmr. BY RLECT21IG TELEBGRAPH;. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.: (REUTEIWS TELEGBLM.l IT.ALY. FloreehE Eob; 2; Public demonstrations W1e made tOdaY hbefe hs offiicr of the reactionsay journals Commenio and n1 Cbod npow but the interference of the authbritles prevented iy disturb ances takirg pbce. AMERICA. Soutbampton;kkve; 2; The North ...