... Yesterday the Friends of the above Institution held their Annual Meeting, at the Society's Rooms in Bishopsgate-street. At one o'clack the Chair was taken by William Williams, Esq. M.P., the Treasurer. Mr. HARLEY, the Secretary, read the Report for the past year. It commenced by stating the distressed state to which seamenv were reduced by the wanL of medical aid and attention previously to ...

... COLOMBIA The subjoined letter from Colombia contains- some interest- ing particulars, which have not yet been published in this ,.country C ARTHAGENA, D~c. 9.-I am happy to inform you that this country is becoming snore and more settled every day, and that we have now a fair prospect of enjoying a lasting peace, and an opportunity of cultivating a good trade with Europe. It must hnot be ...

... THE MORNING CHRONIICLE. LONDON: frol TUESDAY, FEBRUARY24, 1824. tel anr The secret of the CHANCELLOR oF the ExCioEQUER ba( the is now out. The. Four per Cents.. which amount to 75 eve Millions, are to be converted into Three and a Half per ths Cents., and to be secured against being paid off till rei 1727, at which period the present holders of Three and re a Half per Cent. Stock may be paid ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANVD. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FEB. 25. 1 ARMY PRIZE MONEY. Iri A Person from Chelsea Hospital presented au Account of the thi Unclaimed Army Prize Money. 501 MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL * On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, thi Bill tlus was read a second time.ab GAME LAWS. abeaetoP The Earl of GROSVENOR said he again begged leGave to I offer a few ...

... fFROM THE MONITEUR OF TlUESDAY.1 W The Official Part contains only the Monthly fable for the a] regulation of the importation and exportation of Grain. RI NON-OFFICIAL PART. Pi MADRID, JAN. 22.-The Restaurador of to-day contains a tI letter from Villacaigo (Old Castille), which states the Corn- ft mander-in-Chief of the Royalist Volunteers in that little town id Ihas already succeeded in ...

... The following are the State Papers presented by command of his Majesty, to the House of Commons, by Mr. Canning:- CONVENTION BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, FOR THE DEFINITIVE SETTLEMENT OF THE AUS- TRIAN LOAN, SIGNED AT VIENNA, NOV. 17, 1823: His Majesty the KiDZ of the United K~ingdom of Great Bri- tain and Ireland, and7 his Majesty the Emperor ot Austria, being equally ...

... To THE EDITOR OF THMORNING CHRONICLE. e~~~ I A L 1 _ L I - SIR-At a time whben much of the public money is about to be expended in public buildings, when a new Museum, a Post- office on a grand scale, and the Offices for the Board of Trade, suitable to the magnitude of the Metropolis, are about to be erected, the attention of the Nation may be justly called to the nature of the materials of ...

... [rRoM THE MONITEUR OF TUESDAtI. The official part contains only some unimportant notices from the Department of the Minister of Justice. Mr. Koechlin, Member of the late Chamber of Deputies, came out of St. Pelagic, yesterday aftersix months confinement. [FROM TIlE ETOILE, DATED WEDNESDAY]. PARIS, FEB. 17.-M. Joseph de Heredia, brother to the Mi- nister of Foreign Affairs in Spain; who is ...

... The Subscription Room was not lnell attended, and but few engagements Were made. We account for the slackness of betting from horses, as is customary at this period of the year, beilg put under, physic, and only taking gentle exercise; and until they restue their gallops and sironig vork, adventurers on the Turf wvill not be correctly enabled to form arrange- ments for further speculations. ...

... HIIE MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY18, 1824. 1Wre rejoice to see that the subject of the Game Laws has at length been taken up by an influential Ministerial ,1emaber, who introduced it to the House last night in ,very sensible and, we think, unanswerable speech.- ,)r. S. WVORTLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill, the pinciple of which went to bring Game as near to pro. erty as ...

... DFEFTING OF WEST INDIA MER- CHANTS AND PLANTERS. yeIsterday a Public Meeting was held at the City of London arii, pursuant to the following Advcrtisement. which lp- rnred in The Morning CGhronicle of yesterday:- A s General Meeting of West India Planters, Merchants, Anhlsitants, and Others interested in the British Wco-t India Colonies, will be held at thc City of London Tavern, Bishops- ate ...

... 11s MAJESTY'S SPEECHI The following, our readers may regard as an accurate out- line of the Speech which will be delivered this day by the Royal Commissioners, and which was nally settled in the Council that was held on Saturday at Brighton. It will be §eep, at p;~ce, how utterly unfounded were the statements wviich s pe hf our pontrnporsries (who pretead to know what was to be in the Spegcli ...