... MA.RK-LA.SE, OCT. 26.—Prices steady for English Wheat at this day's market, supply not being heavy, and a good demand prevaiJing:. New white sold at 42s to 47s, and red, at 39s to 43 ...

... ACCIDENT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. A great trial of land steam fire-engines-American and English-was announced to take place on Tuesday after- noon in the Crystal Palace, for the purpose of giving premiums to the exhibitors of such steam fire-engines as should upon trial prove the most efficient. A committee was appointed for that purpose, consisting of a president (the Duke of Sutherland), and ...

... THE OLD AND THE NEW HUDSONS BAY COMPANIES. This is certainly an extraordinary age in which we live. Works of enormous magnitude are undertaken with apparently as little concern as if only a few hundreds of pounds were to be risked instead of millions. Such is the astounding wealth of this country, and so eager are our capitalists to invest, that hundreds of thousands of pounds are subscribed ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS. The Queen of England, says the Nord, will again this year passsonlJ weeks in the Duchy of Coburg. Preparations are already being made for her Majesty's reception at thewaitle,of Rosenaa» The prices t)f wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7|d. to 8 i.; ol' household ditto, 6Jd. to 7d. •. Some bakers are selling from 5d. to 6d. per 4 lb. loaf weighed on delivery. 5 The ...

... VISIT OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN OF DEN- MARK TO WOOL WICH. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Christian of Den- mark, with Prince Frederick and Prince William, Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel, the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel Seymour, and other distin- guished personages, visited Woolwich on Thursday. In accordance with previous orders the whole of the troops in garrison, consisting of three batteries of ...

... Captain T. R. Sullivan has been appointed one of the Captains of Greenwich Hospital, vice Liardet, deceased. ThG ladies of Lyons are collecting old linen and lint,, with the intention of sending tbem to the Polish ini-urgents, who are greatly in want of both. The inmates of the Earlswood asylum par- ticipated in the general rejoicings iu honour of the Royal marriage. The children were ie4aled ...

... SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT? Thomas Quail, better known as Joe Douglass, a tail wiry-framed man, about thirty-six years of age, was charged before Mr. Cooke with being concerned in stealing from the person thirty sovereigns and a watch value £8. The prosecutor is a master mariner, named Bray, and by his evidence it appeared that at mid-day on Saturday List he came up from Norfolk per ...

... On Friday evening an inquiry was concluded at Revesby, a few miles from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, into the circumstances attending the death of all elderly woman named Jemima Garner. The inquest, which has been several times adjourned, took place at the Red Lion Inn, and. was conducted by Mr. Walter Clegg, coroner for the district. The deceased died many months since, and sinister rumours ...

... THE Ministry do not appear to have been very active 'during the. past week. Viscount Palmerston remains with Lady Palmerston, at his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Earl Russell is at Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park. Mr. Cardwell went on Friday to attend the Queen, at her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Secretary Sir George Grey went, in tlies early part of the week, to pay a visit ...

... Punctuality.—When Washington's secretary ex- cused himself for the lateness of his attendance, and laid the blame upon his watch, his master quickly said, Then you must get another watch, or I another secretary. A Polish Lady Flogged to Death.—A letter from Riga in the Magdebourg Gazette states that Mdlle. Slanianoff, a young Polish lady twenty years of age, has just died near Dubbein, in ...

... SAM COWELL.-On the evening of Monday last, this inimitable comedian, assisted by other artistes, gave an entertainment in the Volunteers' Hall, which was numerously attended, the audience comprising members of the principal families of the town and neighbourhood, who testified the delight and satis- faction Sam's unrivalled impersonations and comic singing afforded them, by repeated bursts of ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS. The Rev. Christopher Neville, M.A., vicar of Thorney,. near Newark, has lately resigned his benefice, assigning as a reason for such a step his re- pugnance to the use of some portions of the Book of Common Prayer. A Turin letter states that the journey of Count Arfese to Paris is looked upon in Italy as not unconnected with the Polish revolution. Its object is also thought to ...