I B D ?? T .. ^ E I - El-cri TekS h.) t MONEY MARKETS, YBESEIDAY. LONDON CLOSING PRICES. FVND3, . Console advanced from final prices of Tuesday, and closed B still stronger upon a favourable view being taken of politi- cal affairs. Fereign stocks began good, aud left off better.

REA ADIN G. A -- l ". 1. I - 1ARRIED=Fcb. 20, ai St. Mlary's Clureb, Reading,, by the Rev. H. C, Calverley, ?? Mr. William Hall, of South Moreton, to Chnrlotte, youngest daughter of Mr. William Whichello, of Walliugford. DiSD.-In Lopdon-street, Reading, Caroline, daughter of the

F1REE TRADE PAPER. We are told, by a few grumblers, that the total abolition of the paper duties is a part of Mr. Gladstone's budget which should be em- phatically condemned. It is just to tax paper, because paper is a luxury, the friends of the tax assert-and these friends are C

NOTES OF THE wB A POPISH QUESTION AND ANSWRp PIsj TEV NINTH, in the angry acolding ltt has written to the Emperor, pats the fOUel1 question:- i, A'Who can count up the revolutions that ha plac1 in Fiance within the last seventy years I es This question, strangely enough, is aswer

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUbX TiE WALtUiS-The chase of the walrus is of ge antiquity. Oether, the Norwegian, about the seaz 890, gave an account of it to Alfred the yea "Having," he says, "made a voyage ?? for the more coemmoditie of fishing ?? which have in their teeth bones of great pr

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY ACCOD\TT INQUEST ON THE BODIES. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Hunsphreys opei, an inquiry at the White Hart inn, Tottenham, into the circumstances attending the deaths of Edward Stokes, fifty-three, Timothy Satchell, forty.eight William towell, forty, and P

I TOV Ago - SoV2E .14!Lsr. The accdent on the Eastern Counties Railway re has, we regret to say, resulted far more disastrously than Wwase at fiast 111gne( Nlot only ha another name buen adedtoth klld but the number of wounded ia greater Bthan was sopposed, and in nearly every In

| IB. TLODV '14PRATT Om FRIE.VDLN SOCI.TIRS. | Yesterday evening Mr. Tidd Pratt, Registrar of Friendly Societies in England, delivered a lecture at the *1 Workmen's Institute and Benefit Club York-road, Lambeth, at the large bell of which wne well illed on the occasion. tc JEtVOt

ACCEPTANCE OF THE MAYOR'S OFFER OF A PROPLEUS PARK. I~ A meeting of the People's Park Committee weas held on Saturday morning, for tbe purpose of receivingtenders of ; sites of land Suitable for Cie purposes of a People's Park for Hull. The .Iavor presided; and there were ;also p

TH!E UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE AND THE BUDGET. I 'We have been requested to publish the following lettereand st ,temorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, against one of al ttbe resolutions embodied in his Budget:- al Elvaston'CAstle. Derby. l7th Feb., 1860. Vi Dear Sir-As Presi