Lord Campbell asked if it was the intention of the Government to introduce, dnring the present session, a Bill to restrain the sale of poisons. The Earl of Derby would be able to answer the question on Monday. The Custom's Bill was read a second time. Their Lordships then adjour

SL/VEILY.—The slave population in the United States is now estimated at 4,000,000. Elihu Burrlitt has formed a scheme for their universal emawipation. CLEnlc.u..—lt is said that in the city of Norwich there are 36 livings, of which the united valtu to the incumbents amounts to 3

_ The market is steady. Town tallow, 54s net cash. Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 55s 6d; April 55s 3d; May to June, 555; July to August, 53s 6d; Oct. and Dec., 52s 3d to 6d. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. There was a larger supply of beasts, and a smaller demand, consequently, price

In the absence of actual business, commercial morality is the favourite text from which some of our leading papers draw their arguments and inferences, and the Times has been very severe on the kind of " whitewashin,"—which the guardians of public morality seem determined to giv

The " Times " having escaped an action of libel from Mr. Denison, chairman of the Great Northern Railway, inflicts another castigation on that gentleman, and extols its own merit in exposing, "day after day, and year after year, every kind of commercial fraud or unfair dealing,

There was a larger supply of beasts, and a smaller demand, consequently, prices are lower, and a large number remain unsold. The number of sheep is considerably larger, and the trade for them excessively bad. The prices taken are much lower with a very little business doing. Lam

The Jews' Bill, on the motion of Lord Lyndhurst, was read a second time, though Lord Derby stated that his opinion on the subject of the admission of Jews' into Parliament remained unchanged. Lord Grey supported the Bill, chiefly because it had been for 25 years carried by majori

onetund and upwards. or in hoses and halfchests, by e S. • MTH., No. 2, Brabant-court, E.C. N.B.—Ltst of prices free on application. .

MAJOR HODSON, the officer to whom was ascribed the deliberate assassination with his own hand of the sons of the King of Delhi, who surrendered to him at the tomb of Homaloon,• has fallen, and the Times has pronounced his eulogy—de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Here is the paragraph w

The general feeling throughout England on the acquittal of this gentleman has been one of great satisfaction—Manchester, Newcastle, and other large manufacturing cities and towns, hastened to express their approbation of the verdict, which was regarded as a constitutional triump