Have for the last three or four years, constituted so important, and withal so anxious a subject of monthly and bi-monthly enquiry, that any improvement in the present system of the Overland conveyance appears to call for special notice. To a large proportion of the readers of t

Our neighbourhood has not escaped without a large share of this attack, which, indeed, was hardly to be expected, since it appears everywhere' to have been more mischievous on stiff heavy soils, and more especially where these were ill-drained. This view is satisfactorily confir

The Cheltenham and Oxford Railway Company have, this week, advertized the official notice of their intention to apply to Parliament, in the approaching Session, for an Act to construct this line— the route and direction of which is therein fully set forth and described. This not

The First Winter Ball, on Monday evening, was an auspicious commencement for the Season—the company present numbering nearly two hundred, and including many of our leading residents. So well attended an opening Ball, thus early in the month, we have not known for years, and we,

Rev. C. and Mrs. Colton, 3, Suffolk Lawn, for Exmouth Beacon, Devon. Rev. Moysey Bartlett, Plough Hotel, for Oxford Burton, Miss, Andover Lodge, for Crowsley Park, Oxfordshire Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs., Lansdowne Hotel, for London Hobart, Mrs. and Miss, 12, Bay's Hill Terrace, for

Urquhart, Mr. and Mrs., Montpellier Terrace, to 40, Lansdowne Crescent

AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. The Lecture on Mental Culture, announced for last Tuesday evening, was obliged to be postponed to next Tuesday, in consequence of Mon. Tiesset's illness; and instead, a Lecture on The Evidence of Design in the Structure of the Vertebrata, was substi

account of the very interesting Memoirs of her Ladyship lately pub lLhed, and which are attracting so much attention. "Lady Hester Stanhope was the granddaughter of Lord Chatham; she had all his spirit and fire, much of his penetrating quickness, some his fancy, not a few of his

Accompany us, re.-.der, a flight of fancy to Washington—the city of magnificent distances, as some one has called it. It is a sprawling, scattered, uncomfortable city, with streets unfinished, and. excepting in the time of tho session, houses uninhabited. It is full enough, howe

Friday, December 12. Svgar —The continued dull accounts from London have caused entire suspension demand, there are tied any report ill B.P. About I'lOO bags Bengal sold at decline of Is per cwt; 1000 barrels Venezuela brought the extreme rates of fits 6J 6d per cwt for shipment