... TO-DAY. Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction meeting, Preston, half-iost one o'clock—Chester and Holyhead, call £s—Great and Munster, call £2 10s.—Trent Valley Continuation and Holvhead Junction meeting, 14, Old Jewry Chambers, at one o'clock—Leeds and Thirsk Branches and Extensions sign Parliamentary contract Liverpool, till 22nd, and at Patcley-bridge—Lynn and Ely and Ely and ...

... London, Wednesday Morning, Jan. 21. The Stock Exchange is becoming more animated, as public securities advance; and the business actually transacted yesterday, in the Share Market, was of a healthy character, and exceeded the average amount. Our official lists exhibit a general rise of prices. Purchasers were confident, and holders evinced little disposition to sell at present quotations. —At ...

... Mincing-lane, Tuesday Evening. Sugar.—There has been a very large quantity offered bjr the importers in the public sales to-day, and although, ill some instances a decline of 6d. has taken place, yet, considering the weight brought on the market in one day, and fact that the trade bought nearly four-fifths, we are justified in stating the market to have been verv firm. West Indk, 450 hhds. ...

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... parliamentary roll, to supply the vacancies caused by the decease of their respective relatives. Earl Grey, Lord Wharnclifle, the Earl of Verulam, the Marquis of Ely, Earl Granville, Lord Bateman, Earl Spencer, &c. The following changes have occurred in the House I of Commons, since the close of the last session. Sunderland, Mr. George Hudson in the room of Viscount Howick, now i Earl Grey. ...

... Some commotion has been occasioned in the Whig political circles, through the indiscretion of one of its members, in revealing the contents of a letter, meant to be strictly confidential. Two distinguished members are involved in this charge, and coldness the part of their friends has been the result. Humours are afloat in the fashionable world, that the most illustrious personage in the ...

... for the bar; and have ordered that lecturer be forthwith appointed, an examination instituted, and exhibitions established. The utility of these steps cannot be doubted; but their success must depend upon the co-operation of tho other societies. The overland mail for China, India, Ceylon, Malta, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, Marseilles, -will be despatched from the Post-office to-morrow ...

... It is now some time since rumour was current Paris that the small island of Basilan, situate in the midst of the Archipelago of the Malays, and surrounded the Spicc Islands, the Philippines, and Borneo, at the entrance of the Pacific Ocean, had been taken possession of the name of the French government by Admiral Cecile. This rumour had neither been confirmed by government, nor had it been ...

... Mincing Lane, Thursday Evening. There has but one public sale of Colonial Produce today : Tuesday the number of sales almost precluded fair examination of samples, and to-morrow there will nearly twenty public sales: surely this requires equalization. Sugar. The market operations were in a great measure suspended. The business done in West India has been only 200 hhds., but very full prices ...

... London, Friday Morning, Jan. 23. The transactions in the Share Market yesterday were on moderate scale, prices being ftiirly supported the average for all sound projects. The public sale of shares in the Hall of Commerce was well attended, and the prices obtained, though extremely low, for the inferior class of shares, were not unsatisfactory, as representing the realisable values of the day. ...

... Mr. Charles Greville has written a pamphlet defence of the measures of Sir Robert Peel. The defence not considered successful production the able pamphlet by the same the state of Ireland, written last year. The \ iscount Somerton has met with an accident while out hußting Leicestershire, where his hand was broken by the falling of his horse. We are glad to find that the consequences will not ...

... Windsor, Friday. A very numerously attended vestry was held yesterday afternoon, in the Vestry-room, and adjourned thence to the Town-hall, for the purpose of receiving the gracious reply of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to the memorial presented to his Royal Highness by the churchwardens and overseers of the parish on the 14th instant, and returning to his Royal Highness the grateful ...