... CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 7.—-The Rev. John James Blunt, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College, author of the Veracity of the Gospel and Acts, the Veracity of the Five Books of Moses, &c., was on Saturday last elected Hulsean Lecturer for the present year. The value of the lectureship now amounts to nearly X300 per annum. Winthrop MackworthPraed, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, APHIL 21 (CONTINUED).—Earl Carnarvon, in presenting a petition from Newbury, condemned the reform bill as a piece of political jobbing, and added some very strong language regarding the man who would, under existing circum- stances in England and Ireland, advise the Sovereign to dissolve the parliament. If his lordship were correctly understood (but doubt was ...

... MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EVENING.—A feat, surpassing all former performances on the railway, has this day taken place on the Liverpool and Manchester railway. The Sampson and Goliah, two of Mr. Stephenson's engines, undertook to convey a thousand bags of New Orleans cotton from Liverpool to Man- Chester. They started together from Liverpool at eight o'clock this morning, and proceeded at a brisk ...

... SWING!—Threatening letters are again appearing. One was picked up at Eastbourne on Sunday morning. The farmers threatened are the two Gorringesand a Mr. Waters the three principal agriculturists in the place.— Brighton Guardian. INCENDIARISM.—On Sunday morning, the 21st ult., a fire broke out in a barn on the premises of Mr. Thomas Breeds, in the parish of Guestling, Hastings. The Hastings ...

... The election for the County of Monmouth took place yestef' day in our Shire-hall. The morning at its earliest dawn W#5 illumined by a bright vernal sun, that seemed to smile upon 0^ ini nascent spirit of liberty and independence. Lord Granvil I4jj Somerset first made his entry, about half-past nine o'clock; *Q accompanied by the usual paraphernalia of electioneering Pro lltii cessions, and ...

... I twin'd me a wreath of the rosiest flowers The morning could boast in the cool shady bowers, When the dew-drop was clear in the brocket's blue eye, And the bright leaves were wooing the summer winds' sigh. I sought them again at the close of the day, In the morn where I left them, all shining and gay, But I found that the violet had droop'd its fair head, That the bloom of the rose and the ...

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, Dec. 26.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight, of English, Scotch, and foreign wheat, English and Scotch barley, English malt, beans, and peas, have been moderately good; of Irish wheat and oats, English, Irish, Scotch, and foreign flour, and foreign linseed, great of English and Scotch oats, as well as seeds (with above exception), from all quarters limited ...

... pi; It will be seen by our Parliamentary report, that a very IJ jf| Material alteration is to be made in the Reform Bill. The original plan was to totally disfranchise a number of bo- roughs, whose population, according to the last census, did not amount to 2000, and to limit others, with a population under 4000, to one Member only. It was also proposed, as a consequence of this measure, to ...

... THURSDAY, MARCH 3.£A few petitions were presented, and the house adjourned. FIlIDAY, MARCH 4.—PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—The Lord Chancellor presented several petitions in favour of parliamentary reform, and among them one from Ross.—Adjourned. MONDAY, MARCH 7.—The- Duke of Sussex, in presenting a petition from Hammersmith for reform and vote by ballot, congra- tulated his Majesty's government most ...

... It is with deep regret we have to announce the death of Lord Charles Somerset, which took place at Brighton, on Sun- day last. The following Commissions were signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Monmouth:—T. Fothergtll, D. Mackworth, S. Homfray, C. Bailey, and E. Williams, Esquires, and D. Rees, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenants. T. Ellis, Esq. to be Captain of the Militia. We ...

... The weather, during the past month, has been thoroughly English, the wind chopping about from east to west, and from north to south, in the veritable style of a. merry-go-round. How- ever, its chief and favourite residence, during a considerable time past, has been in the east, and from north-east to south-east, with the accompaniment of fogs and drizzling rains, giving us hopes of a course of ...

... THURSDAY, MARCH 24.-IR,nm REFORM BILL .—Mr. Stanley introduced the Irish bill. 1 he details, as described by him, differ slightly from the general view given by Lord John Russell. The right of voting in counties will remain as it is,- adding leaseholders of £ 50 per annum on ^ases of twenty-one years the qualification not to be forfeite lowever, because of a renewal of the lease within one or ...