... (FRoM TUB cORnEfiPONDENT OF THR CHAMPiON.) NA w YORK, JANUaRy 1, 1837.-Mr. VAN 13UREN is, as I said he would be, elected successor to General JACKsON; and this gentleman stands pledged to op- pose the re-establishing of a Federal Bark, His op- position to such an establishment is founded, not only upon its tendency to mischief, but also. upon the rounds of its being vsnconstitutional. What ...

... I PRIVILEGES OF THE Q0US0 OF COIMDN$a Roaring, till their ?? are spent, ' Privilege of Parliament !'-SViiYT. A vers long debate took place in the House of COnM. ?? oD Moda y n ight, the question being, -Rat the houas is to oo ID t c of STrOAP$4I B X- ANSAUD. The two adopted reiolutions, and the rejected amend- ment, wil} be found in another co'lWurf'. Sir JOtIN 'CAatp^A1LL,'the- Attorney ...

... MI S CEI.LANEOU S. The Duke of Wellington is expected to be the suc- cessor, of Sir Robert Peel in the office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. The Duke of Orleans gave each of the three physicians at- tending the Duchess in her accouohement a gold snuff-box, with the Prince's cipher set with diamonds. Prince Felix Schwarzenburg, whose name is associated with a criminal amour, which ...

... * D DaRRADPULLOSS OF LII'S. We have this week to record another of those dreadful acci- dents which so frequently occur in the coal-mines of this dis- trict, and though in fatality-less extensive than many which have happened, its destructive consequences are scarcely less appalling. The scene of this catastrophe is the Wallsend G, or Church Pit, the property of William Russell and Co., in the ...

... LATh$T LzTIONOVEM:CNTSe ~11TT LPII!- CsE or TiE Irswicii ELECTION.-TlhC polling coM- 11wnced on Saturday nlorning vith great spirit, and the hopes l al pe~pcttwiens of both candidates were kept up to the last hoti.LII it became evident that Mr. Gibson's chance of sCS5 as execedisigly slight. TIhe hour of four having at IIi avied, the mayor declared the poll to be closed. The xels polled at ...

... ROVISON FOR HE~ROMA~CA H - .i -I PROVISION FOR THE-,ROMIANSCAHOLIC CLERGY. TO M5R..T. WENTWORTH BEAUMUNA. \ Darrynane Abbey; Dec. 30. Siit,-I hasten 'to reply to th'b.ldtter which' you have done me the honour to'address to me through the, ?? papers. As a gentleman you are entitled to the most perfect cour- tesy;'as a Member of the British Legislature you are en- titled to the most candid ...

... WQ1DlCING O)F TaE NEW ROOR-LAW. MEETING AT RYE. (COMiMUJNICATrD BY MR. OASTLER.) We have been furnished with the following letter from Mr. Perceval to Alr. Oastler. Mr. Perceval had ?? re- quested to attend a meeting against the new poor-law at *BtEDe HILL, on the confines of Kent. We are rejoiced to find, that, even in that secluded spot. 500 men cafi, notwith-' standing thle litimid'etion of ...

... LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND J. S. BUCKING- 1IAM, ESQ. CORRESP0NDENCE BETWEEN LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND .. S. BUCKINOGAM, ESQ., IN REFEREBWC TO A;N ADDRESS DELIVERED AT SHEFFIELD BY BR. BUCIUNGRAM. (No. 1.) Tunbridge Wells, Sept .3, 1836. SIn: I find in the Standard of yesterday a report of some parts of a speech said to have been delivered by.you. at Sheffield. In these extracts; after commenting upoa ...

... TO THE EDITORt OF THlE TImES. SIR-It is to me personally distasteful to allude to the unfortunate business in which I was publicly engaged with reference to a late duel; but I cannot permit any one to use reproachful, terms, not only as regards the gentleman who did me the honour of placing his personal consider- atbns under mv protection, but also as regards the ladies, both living and dead, ...

... 3FASHION& AND VAlISETIES The King of France has received from the Queen of Portugal a letter congratulating him upon his recent escape rnom assassination. We are sorry to announce that Madame Adelaide, the King's sister, is confined to her apartments by indispo- sition.-Galignani. It is said by letters from Vienna that the Duke of Bordeaux is not quite recovered from his late indisposittion. ...

... As far as we have been able to observe, this law works well. A remarkable instance of its effect occurred last week, at the Quarter Sessions at Pres- ton, in Lancashire. Richard Challinor, aged sixteen, was indicted for stealing a mare, the property of Mr. James Read, of Burnley. It appeared that the mare was taken from a field near Burnley. The prisoner was a tra- velling potter; and on the ...

... There is but one bulwark behind which mechanics and labourers mst safely rally to oppose a common enemy, who, if they ventured singlyv inA the field against hiin, would cut them to pieeii that buiwark is the Principle of Combinamiss . We would advise them to take refuge behind it only in extreme caes, because in their collisions with their employers, as in those between nations, the manifold ...