... Within few days after the decease of that amiable man, General Sir William Clinton, the Lieutenant-Governor of CVelsea Hospital, it was rumoured (and that rumour is becoming stronger every day), that the present Quartermaster- Generol, Sir Willoughby Gordon, would succeed the vacancy at that establishment. That lucrative military staff' appointment has been held by General Gordon for ...

... (From our Correspondent.) LISBON, Feb. 19. The discussion the address in answer to the Queen's speech, terminated on the 14th instant, in the Chamber of Deputies, and on being put to the vote was carried by majority of 86, and on the 17th was presented to Her Most Faithful Majesty by deputation from the house. Inconsequence of the Duke of Falmella's late demonstrations of opposition to the ...

... Oh, yet, said he, I have caught no fish, to be sure, but I have made a sermon.—Amot't Combinationroom Table-talk, Lectai on the chemistry of vegetation are becoming popu'ar amongst our Scott brethren. They might will octvpy the attention of popular assemblies in the agricultural districts in England, since, when adapted to general era, they teach the broad principles of philosophical I ...

... TATTERSALL'S.—(YKKTKRDAV.) unusually thin attendance, and business flat in the extreme; the only fluctuations were in Scott's lot and Brocardo, who were at discount on the last quotations, and Tibthorpe, against whom the highest offer was 25 to 1. have but a sorry list of prices submit:— LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 6to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's St. Leger. to 1 Mr. Brooke's Eaple. to 1 Mr. Hey's Lancet. ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace, in carnage and four, half-past eight o'clock on yesterday morning, far Osborne Hou«e, Isle of Wight. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, followed in another carriage and four. The Equerries in waiting, Major-General ...

... -with Lord Ashley in the chair, but a pressure of other matter compels us to postpone it. Erratum.—ln our Parliamentaiy Report of yesterday, Mr. Cardwell, towards the close of his speech, is, by typographical error, made to say, that that was a proper occasion for consenting to an adjournment. The last word in the sentence should have been adjustment. The Disastrous Delay.—lf the ...

... CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. TO THE EDITORS OF THE DAILY NEWS. Gentlemen, —In the very remarkable Report made to the State Assembly of New York, in 1841, by a select committee of that body, who armed at the conclusion, that the punishment of death, by law, ought to be forthwith and for ever abolished in that part of America, there is the following suggestion: .Whether there sleep within the breast ...

... Three pieces new to English audiences were produced the French company last evening— Moiroud et Compagnie, Marguerite, and Quand l'Amour s'en ra, &c. The first and last are pleasant little vaudevilles of small pre- tensions, the interest the evening centring on the middle piece. The plot of Marguerite, ou un Secret de Famille, turns on one of those scarcely tolerable circumstances ...

... of Thursday, by considerable majority, 169 to 13, the change the town duty (octroi) on cattle, which is henceforth to be levied by weight instead of bv the head. The proposal for th ...

... to abolish the Customs lii* between Hungary and tne other States of Austria- It is to be hoped that this will assuredly take pUW- It will be seen bv the letter of our correspondent from Augsburg that the plan adverted to here has been decided on. . According to letters from the Danube, dated 20tH Feb., we are informed, that for the last three dap » report was abroad that a revolution, similar ...

... the French government proposed a measure for service transatlantic steamers. Since ■' (j, U i~tion ha* not the 1 advance J, and one icles which government lias paused has the Htm_'srfe between the four great sea-ports as to the f departure. re has d.manded the nunopoly of the departures, illcs Bordeaux, and Nantes have advanced claims Vh'oannot be contested, and which have been well sup-1 hv ...

... Majesty the Queen of Spain with Tfrapani has been finally decided, and that all j o « n .>ltit- have been obviated. In the early part of month his Majesty the King will proceed to c- lv fctrh and accompany here the Empress of C 1 -; now entirely restored to health, •vlfr'Majesties arc expected here on the sth of \t' Ul h the gay and brilliant tournament which ♦ at Caserte, his Majesty hroke ...