The Australian Agricultural Company recommend a further dividend of 40s. per share. The Lords Justices yesterday discharged the order of Vice- Chancellor Bacon for the compulsory winding-op of the City and County Bank. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company announces a dividend of

THE INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH CONFERENCE. A Berlin correspondent telegraphs j i— The Interna tional Telegraph Conference at St. Petersburg has passed a resolution forbidding the artificial formation of compound words. The Conference has accepted ihe principle of letters as a substi

at half -past Ten and half-part Six. QHURCH PABTORAL-AID SOCIETY. The ANNUAL BERMONB will ?? be preached in the Town and Neighbourhood in behalf of this Society, on Sunday, February 18th, 1866. _5 > ?? MEETING will be held in St. George'B Hall, on Tuesday Evening, February 20th.

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(Before T. Paley Esq.) On Monday, George Williams was charged by the constable of North Bierley, with sleeping in Ihe cabin, at Low- Moor, and was committed for one montb as a rogue and vagabond. Am Old Offender — Nancy Holgate of Halifax, who stood oniy about 4 feet, was placed

U X I t, i s A I. aN IJ SELECT. TO MY SON. [Wlimi IS aSSKMCB). Mr Son, h..»- ardently I long To look on thy fair face. An.l in my arm. t>> cla.p thee VN ith * father's fond embrace ; To gently calm each childish fear i t.ai rises i>> thy breast. And when the close of day draws n

We giro Handy Andy a hearty welcome ; and (being naturally of a cautious disposition) this is not our wont witb the first numlier of a new publication. But there is so much of real genuine fun in this first number in fact. il is as full of it as the devil is of mischief; we have

Perhaps the most remaikable incident in modern history (says Teufelsdrockh) is not the diet of worms, still less the bat tie of Austerlitz, Waterloo, Peterloo, or any ether battle ; but an incident passed carelessly over by most historians and treated with some degree of ridicul

WANT OF EMPLOY ME Mf Tothe Editor of the Bradford Oburrer j Sia -Il i» not now my intern ion to enter at length upon ! a subject which affords one ofthe widest fields for the ex , ercise of Christian benevolence, but to attempt to .»raw the I attention of employers and of any who

" He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." — Last week we con- fessed oar ignorance as to who was tbe author of this beautiful sentiment, and appealed to our correspondents for information — scarcely expecting, however, that any of them would be able to give us the information so