... The following are the details of a most lamentable event, extracted from the Glasgow Chronicle of Sa. turday las-:- I It gives us great pain to record one of the most melancholy accidents that ever occurred in this part of the country. The Cornet steamboat was on her way from Inverness to Glasgow, with between 00 and 70 passengers; of these it was stated that 20 pas- sengers were in the cabin, ...

... POSTSCRIPT LONDON, DEC. 30. A letter of the 17th instant, from Vienna, says that the Funds at that place are recover- ing from the depression whichl had been caused by the first intelligence of the death of the Em- peror Alexander. An article dated Munich, Dec. 18, abridges, by order of the King of Ba- varia, the period of mourning for the late Mo- narch, in consideration of the injury which ...

... LONDONS MARCH 1. * MERICAN Papers to the 4th of February A reached town thisrmorning. From the ad- vance in South American Securities, it may be inferred, that the latest intelligence from Car- tbagena is considered as being favourable. The respective positions of Bolivar and Canterac appear to be accurately stated in the following extract from an American paper. It fully con- firms the ...

... LON DON, MAY 3. The uneasiness occasioned by the low state of the exchanges with ?? still continues, notwithstanding the hopes excited by the Con- tinental letters of yesterday's mails. Bills on England are said to be now so scarce at Am- stcrdam, Rotterdaeii, Antwerp, and Hamburgh, I and gold so abundant that a very small increase would turn the scale. It is true that the ex- change from ...

... The Paris Faculty of Medicine held an ex- traordinary meeting on Tuesday, under the Presidency of Baron Portal, for the purpose of receiving a letter from the Mlinister of the In- terior, iaking known the difforent opinions which divide physicians upon the question- whether the plague and yellow fever are or are not contagious. His E1xcellelncy at the same time laid before the Faculty letters ...

... c xr on Ds, Satur day, Sept. 24. ECCLESIASTIICAL PPIEFERMTENTS. The Lord Bishop of Winchester has collated 3:s youngest son, the Rev. R. Pretyman, to the Ilectory of Elingdon VYroughton, Wilts. The Rev. Charles Pasley Vivian, B. C. L. to the Vicarage of AVllingborough, Northamp- tonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Chas. Pryce; patron, J. Vivian, Esq. Portland-place. At the Eleventh ...

... Wednesday the election of a Mlember to serve in Parliament for the County of Berks, in the room of Lord Braybroke, took place at the Shire-hall, A bing. don, when Robert Palmer, Esq. of Holine Park, was declared duly elected. The Hon. Gent. had been previouslyputin nomination at Reading on theThurs- day preceding. At eleven o'clock the High Sheriff arrived at the Shire-hall, and was soon after ...

... . L(ON DON, JAN. 21. American Papers arrived yesterday. It ap- pears from the P:iOc~edlings of Congress that America obv:ouslv contemplates the extension of her domninion to the Pacific-to the exclu- sion of every other power. She will eventually secure a facility of communication with China, superior to that of any other nation. Mr. Floyd, a member of Congress, says, if we had the command of ...

... To the Editor of the O;zfiord Journa. Sin,-As it appears that the public are to have a series of letters from Luther of 'Watlington, tending to sow dissention and create disunion in the commnu- nity, I think it proper to reply to his'irst letter, which I should have done last week, had I not hoped and expected some abler hand would have umdertaken it. This learned Luther, in his first letter ...

... SURDAY'S AND TUESDAY'S. POSTS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 7. rgHE LORD CHANCELLOR stated the 3 nature of the Bill which it was his intention to bring in. with a view to check the abuse of jobbing in shares of Companies. It was his intention, he aid, to bring in a Bill, making the sale of all shares of any Joint Stock Company for profit, before such Colpany had been incorporated by 'Royal ...

... LONDIN,, FEB. 10. A Lisbon mail brings 11apers from the 25th to the 29th of last month. In the Gazette of the 2qth the recognition of Colombia, Mexico, and Buenos Ayrcs by Great Britain, is stated from the English journals, but on the motives or the consequences of this measure, the Gazette is silent. After noticing the treaties of coimmerce into which this country has thought fit to enter ...

... An arrival from South America brings adviecs from Buenos Ayres to the middle of December, letters from Lima to the latter end of October, and from Valparaiso to the 16th of November. The following are extracts from the Argos, a paper published at Buenos Ayres. The victory of Bolivar, on the 6th of August, is again de- tailed, but without: Vany material accession of facts. Notwithstanding the ...