... THURSDAY, JAN. 19.-The Earl of Aberdeen gave notice that on Thursday next he would submit a motion on the subject of the Belgian treaty—an arrangement which he considered to be in many respects not only highly impolitic, but attended with gross injustice. Lord, Strang ford called the attention of the house to the state- ment in his Majesty's speech at the opening of the session that a ...

... Mr. Littleton, after disclaiming all personal feeling towards the member for Colchester, introduced a motion which originated in a petition he had previously presented from Mr. Ayre Lee, who had received a letter signed W. R. Sidney, announcing that the writer had entered into a professional connexion with Mr. D. W. Harvey, a member of that House, for the purpose of car- ry ing on the business ...

... The Loyal Trafalgar Lodge of Ancient Druids, No. 91, held at the Swan and Falcon, Monmouth, under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of England, celebrated their Tenth Anni- versary on the 29th ult. The brethren of the town and its vi- cinity were awakened to their anticipated festivity by a summons from the bells of St. Mary s Church, which rang merry peals at intervals, from the rising of ...

... COUNTRY NEWS. Circulars were on Tuesday issued in Manchester, calling a meeting of the leading inhabitants to consider of the best means of supporting the Government in case it were com- pelled to have recourse to a dissolution. This is not all- eleven of the gentlemen calling the meeting, deeming exam- ple more valuable than precept, immediately subscribed to begin with. We have much pleasure ...

... Wt have to correct an error in our report, last week, of the speech made by the Vicar of Abergavenny at the Usk Reform Meeting. We, make the Rev. Gentleman, in alluding to the Russian Auto- crat, to express a wish that he, like the Sennacherib of old, might die by the sivords of those who came forth of his own bowels. This was art entire mistake of ours.Confu,sed by the loud ap- plauses which ...

... MR. EDITOR,-At a time when the legislature is actively en- gaged in relieving the burdens of the people, I am not a little astonished to find that a bill is now befoje Parliament, for the purpose of introducing additi nal clauses into an already existing law, for rating to the poor rate tenements of twelve pounds annual value down to six pounds. The additional clauses en- gross tenements of ...

... ALDERMAN KEY.—A requisition has been forwarded to the Lord Mayor, requesting his lordship's permission to be proposed, on Michaelmas Day next, for re-appointment to the Civic Chair for the ensuing year, in order that the Livery of the City may have an opportunity of testifying how highly they appreciate the very able and distinguished manner in which the worthy alderman has discharged the ...

... We are given to understand that our talented and de- servedly popular Member for the United Boroughs, purposes meeting his Monmouth constituency, at the great room of the Bell Inn, on Monday evening next, at seven o'clock, according to a promise made a short time previously to the last election, and in accordance with a desire to promote free inquiry and pub- lie spirit; when, no doubt, a ...

... During the feuds between the Forbeses and the Gordons, the Castle of Corgarff, belonging to Alexander Forbes, was attacked by a party sent against it by Sir Adam Gordon, of Achindown and in the absence of the owner, his wife resolved on defending it. The besiegers, to make quick work, set fire to the building, and the unfortunate inmates, twenty-seven in number, including the lady herself, ...

... FRIDAY, JUNE I.-Several petitions were presented against tithes, and against the government system of education in Ireland. The Earl of Wicklow presented a petition from the magistrates of the county of Wexford, complaining of the dismissal of Capt. Graham from the commission of the peace, and praying the house to adopt such measures as it might see fit to procure his restora- tion. The noble ...

... What a strange world is your world of London cried an Hon. and Very Rev. Irish Dean, recently disembarked from the bogs, to his lovely sister,-one of the presiding priestesses of Fashion. 'Tis now five-and-twenty years since 1 quitted it; in the height of the Bianca e Nero, or Devonshire and Gordon schism when barouches ruled the day, and Greville and Argyll' the nights;—when there were giants ...

... EMIGRATION.—We have much pleasure in noticing a work lately published by Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, and written by a fellow-townsman, Mr. T. Dyke, entitled Advice to Emigrants. We cordially recommend it to such of our read- ers as are interested in the emigration of our countrymen to distant climes, and especially to the colonies specified on the title-page of the book. The subject is ...