The members of the Croydon Reform Association had a dinner
on Wednesday. The principal speaker was Mr. O'Connell ; but he merely repeated the old, often-told story.
The Illanehester Guardian says, that the market for goods in Man. chester is again dull, and the late prices are with difficulty supported.
It is said that the exportation of machinery for flax and woollen manufactures by way of Hull to the Continent is very great, and con- tinually increasing.
The provincial papers notice the commencement of the hay harvest in their several districts. The crop is represented as being on the whole more than an average one, while the grazed pastures are un- usually productive.
The works on the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway line are advancing very rapidly ; and the contractors are bound under heavy penalties to have the railway completed, and open to the public, by the 30th of June next.
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