... I SCOTTISHI PARLIAME'NTARY BUSINESS. r I I.LS. Feb. 27. Edrhborgh and Ula'gow Railway-Peiition for bill repsrited; report to lie nn the table. Trinity (North Leith) Hqfhonir and Docks-Pctiflon fromn Edinhurgh, cornplaining if non-cwsomuepliance with the standing orders; referred to tle Select Committee on petitio/ns f r private bills. Glasgo, Paislev, and GreenockRailway Bill-` For ?? a ...

... ImPERIAL PARtXAENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-May 18. (ContisnUedfrlm our last Privsae Correspondence.) IRISI VAtNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Their Lordships divided on the amendment proposed by the Duke of Richmond for giving Corporations to the large towns in Ireland. Non-contents, Present . , 80 Proxies . 61 -141 Contents, Present . . 45 Proxies . . 37 - 82 Majnrjty against the amendment -59 On our retarn ...

... I ,.CJRWUT1TYRAL soCISTV I &N or SCOT LAND. ,f th~is National As- fIIA' ofD this National As- gfl + Inn Aleexange ot lbn -ti trheir Hall on Tuesday last, llr111% it l their ally full ait ?? woe lliS ~ proportion Of the iowrcal lff rank, p'operty, and Oo~a~iintle Esen;s. of Ard~lrn ol qae lO~rrl' e inr Esq- Ainbslic Pcnd the vicinityb lI1 ~ die arql S of L otbian, V ice- 'r ?? 3 t s pportq d ...

... SPIRIT OF THE F.ELIO PRESS. e GOVERNMENT By HER MA3JESTY'S CONSERVA: TIVE OPPOSITION.-The Whig and Tory. jour. s nals honour us with so much of their notice just y now, that we cannot but pay them some atten-. tion in return. The Times, the Standard, and the Post, have lately vied with each other in reu presenting the Spectator as being convinced of the necessity of a Conservative Government. ...

... ti' In consequence of the remicarls made by two of t; the Rev. Gentlermen who addressed the sneeting q: in George Street on Wedinesday the 2-3d instant, fa Bailie Stodart has found lhimself called upon to re- ply to stivh fparts of their speeches as bore clear reference to ltimself. This the B]ailie has done in e - -Irtat t srdslresed to the Loed' Priovost, Xi16gis a itrates, and CVttdnillors ...

... SYNOD OF ANGUS AND iLEARNS. i t . . ihe Synod of Angus and Mleorns met n Tuesda . tost nt Forfar.l After sermon by the Rev. Mir BrewsturtL Air Davidso0 of 73rouglrty Ferry was ?? The rnost important business before the Synod were tao overtures, one on the abolition of paltronae, aynd tere I other on the Irish clergy. The Rev. Mjfr Nlsmn of Iontros, in moving the first of those overtures, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-Dee. 5. - . > . X I The Merquis of BUTE presented a petition from the coun'y of Renfrew, praying for a reduction in the post. age du~ties-. TThe Earl of DEVON presented a petition from a Co- lonel Jones. conplaining of the delays in the trial of causes by the Court of Session in Scotland. IMPRiSONITENT 1'O, DEBT BILL. The order of the day for the second redding of this bill ...

... (The following memolrandum was left in the hande ol the natives of Murray's Island Isy the rommander of the Isabella, and was brought to Batavia by the East India Company's brig of war Tigris, which had been despatched by the Governmlent :tt Bombay on the same mission as the Isabella:-) His Majesty's schooner Isabella, July 2S, 183ii, Halfway Island. This vessel was ?? by Government in search ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-march 12. Several petitions were presented for and ?? the corn lawrs. Lord GALLOWAY presented petitions praying for church extension ant endowments for the Church of Scotland. HIe begged to take this oppor- tunity of asking the Noble Viscount -whether it was his intention to continue to turn a deaf ear to the prayer of these petitions, by refusing to make any grant to tie Church ...

... UNITED sTATES. Liverpool, Sunday Afternoon. The New York packet ship Sheffield arrived at this port last night, after a passage of seventeen days. Thie Louis Philippe, from Havre, had arrived out With French papers to I)ecember 4. London of the Ist, and Liverpool of the 30th Novernher, the latest advices received in the United States from Europe. A New York paper gives the following graphic ...

... FROMI EDINBURGH GAZETTE. SEQ U ESTRATIONS. | ebasr 18 CHA-1RLE5 MANN. merchant in Arbroath -Crelitlrrr nrtet in Seaton's Hloutel there, 26th February a and l8th March, twele o,'cloclO. c February 18. ALEXANDER ftlANN, quarrier and stone merchant at Turin atl Pitricanrlley. residing at Clocks- rig6i itl ?? of Fttrfar-Creditors meet inSeaton'sI Hotel, Arbroath, 28th February and 18th MarcIh, ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, H TALr-PAST S O'CLOCK. HOUSE or Lomrs, Feb. 20.-The Lord Chancel- lor presented her Majesty's answer to the address of congratulation voted by the House. Thre prisons act amendment bill was read a third time, and paesed. The Marquis of Lansdowne presented the answer of Prince Albert to the message of congratulation presented to himn. The Noble Marquis also present- ed the ...