... PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, AUG. 9.—Several petitions were presented, when The Duke of Richmond moved the first reading of a bill to alter the act of the 29th of George III. which gave to the overseers of the poor in every parish the power of renting land not exceeding 20 acres, in order to provide employmeut. The object of the bill he now introduced was, in. the first ...

... RIOTOUS CONVICTS.—On the arrival of the Eclipse coach in this town from Manchester on Tuesday evening se'nnight, a shameful and alarming scene was enacted in the public streets. The coach had for its outside passengers nine convicts, all in a state of boisterous intoxication, on their way from the Salford New Bailey prison to London. When leaving the Swan Hotel they made a simultaneous and ...

... Borough, Monday, August 8.—Our hop trade is in a very stag- nant state. What little has been done, since this day se'nnight, in hops of last year's growth, has been at a further depression, of from 5s to 10s per cwt.; whilst in older ones, nothing, or next to it, has been doing. The quotations of East Kent hops may be considered rather as having been demanded than obtained. Currency East Kent, ...

... Y, OCT. 13.—Mr. Hunt gave notice for next es- sion, of a i:on for the repeal of the assessed taxes, and for substituting- ins jad of t hem a modified property tax. Sir gave lotice for the next session, of a motion for the introduction of a nutasure for the amelioration of the con- dition of the poor of Irela nd. A long discussion took place upon the motion of Mr. Trevor, (with reference tp an ...

... PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. ^SECOND READING OF THE BILL.—The doubt and uncer- 'inty of the public mind, with respect to the success of the Ministerial Reform measure, is now set at rest. After ano- er debate of two evenings, the House divided upon an ^hendrrient of Sir H. Vyvyan, that the bill be read this ay six months. This is a sort of a genteel parliamentary ^de of ejecting a disagreeable ...

... INDUSTRY EXTRAORDINARY. — Three children of one family, of the ages of seven, ten, and twelve years, gleaned four sacks, or sixteen bushels of wheat, on a farm at Enford, this season.-Devizes Gazette. On the morning of Sunday se'nnight a devotee of Bac- chus was found fast locked in the arms of Morpheus on the top of the Arbroath steeple, which is now 110 feet high. It is supposed he was ...

... TUESDAY, SEPT. 13.—On the motion of Lord Ingestrie, a new writ was ordered to elect a member for the county of Dorset, in the room of John Calcraft, Esq., deceased. 1Œr. Rice moved a new writ for the borough of Flint, in the room of Sir E. M. Lloyd, Bart., now Lord Mostyn. REFORM BILL. Lord John Russell said, that in rising to move the order of the day for the consideration of the report on ...

... TUESDAY, SEPT. 20.—Mr. J. Campbell brought in a bill for establishing a general registration of deeds affecting all real property in England and Wales. The bill was then ordered to be read a second time on the 4th of October, and to be printed. REFORM BILL. The order of the day for the third reading of the reform bill was then read, and the Speaker put the question that this bill do pass. Mr. ...

... On Thursday last, the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans paid Monmouth a visit. On the arrival of the Duke and Duchess in Monmouth, they were saluted by a merry peal from St. Mary's bells. The Hon. H. S. Abbott, son of Lord Tenterden, and Bephew by marriage to the Duke of Beaufort, has been appointed Recorder of the borough of Monmouth, in the room of the Right Hon. Chas. Bragge Bathurst, deceased ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. A conspiracy was lately discovered at Constantinople in favour of the expatriated Janissaries. It was cut short in the usual way, by guillotining of seven or eight of the un- happy wretches engaged in it. The Sultan is a vigorous monarch. TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED AT PARIS.—In an attempt, on Saturday, to disperse the crowds which had accumulated near nightfall in the vicinity of the ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. A dreadful crime has been committed in Greece. Count Capo d'lstrias has fallen the victim of assassination. The following are the particulars;—Napoli Oct. 8. This morn- ing as the President was going according to custom to at- tend the service at the church, two men who were waiting at the door assassinated him, one firing a pistol at his head, and the other stabbing him in the ...

... A FALSE ALAitm.-A person, walking in Regent-street, had an epileptic attack, on Wednesday; he was taken into a shop close by, at the instance of the Solicitor-General, who was passing at the moment, and Mr. Arnott, of New Bur- lington-street, was sent for, by whom the nature of the attack was at once pointed out. Nevertheless the circumstance got wind, and was magnified into a case of cholera ...