... The Star gives the following epitome of the plan of Re- form said to be in the contemplation of Ministers:—The elective franchise to be extended, generally, to all house- keepers paying £10 per annum in clear rent; no out-voters or non-residents to have votes. The qualification of mem- bers to be raised and to be real: all places not having 200 voters, or diminishing to below that number of ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 3.—The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at a quarter before five o'clock. NEGRO SLAVERY. Lord Kenyon presented a petition from Denbigh for the aboli- tion of slavery. The Duke of Gordon presented a similar petition from Port- sorrel. The Duke of Richmond presented a petition from the chamber of commerce of Galway, praying for the equalization of ...

... The two Houses of Parliament assembled on Thursday *ast; and in our second page we have given the report of proceedings up to seven o'clock on that evening.— Though short, they will be found extremely interesting. Earl ^rey, in the House of Lords, expressly stated that the Ministers had agreed upon a measure of Reform which, without exceeding the bounds of justice and of well advised ...

... THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S LEVEE.-At the first levee holden by Lord Anglesey since his return to Ireland, there were 519 presentations, independently of those who are en- titled to the the honour of a private entre. Since the period when George the Fourth visited this countrv, there has never been any thing like the congregation of rank and property then assembled. Let not the flatterers of Lord ...

... IThe Hamburgh Papers bring a long Proclamation from General I 'ebitsch to the Poles, advising them to submit to the Emperor, 4 1. promising them forgiveness and those towns and villages l ch do not comply with his request are to pay heavy contribu- J f s and be punished otherwise. oi| A curious fact has just come to light by the resignation of the esjOictator Clopicki. It appears that the ...

... | TO CORRESPONDENTS. J ,lr correspondent at Usk is informed, that the City of Gloucester | ls, in our opinion, literally and legally a sea port. It answers ■al to the definition in the dictionaries as a place of harbour for ves- iJi, gels of burden, fit to traverse the high seas from one port to n- another and it was invested with all the rights and privileges of a sea-port by a royal charter, ...

... It is said that the new railroad betwen Manchester and Liverpool will cause a loss to the revenue of X6000 per annum, by the number of coaches that have discontinued running since its opening. EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE.—On Saturday se'nnight the Majestic, a new engine which has just been put on the railway, travelled six times between Liverpool and Man- chester, a distance of one hundred and ...

... NAPLES, JAN. 3.-Yesterday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, a severe shock of an earthquake alarmed the in- habitants of Lago Negro, in the province of Basilikata. It lasted 20 seconds. Almost all the buildings in the com- mune felt its effects. Ten houses were entirely destroyed. The church of the Capuchins, which adjoins their convent, and which is at the distance of a mile from the town, ...

... A most horrible murder was committed on Friday night, near Nobber, county Meath, on a process-server named Mathews. He received four severe wounds on the head, and his body was dreadfully mangled. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 31.-The King v. O'Connell and Others.-The Attorney-General stated to the Court that in this case Redmond had pleaded Not Guilty to the entire of the counts. Another of ...

... 2— CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAEY. There are moderate arrivals of wheat and barley, and p( quantities of oats and flour, The wheat trade remains aS ,„)! th quoted with little doing to-day Barley continues to rne1e^ha,vers| 0 sale. Beans and peas are unaltered Oats do not find o readily and having an increased quantity at market, they maintain last price. Flour remains as last ...

... 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 ...

... u This affair is nothing to nobody.—Old Play, SIR, Your townsman, Another consistent Churchman, is hardi comme un cog sur son fumier. He seems to have as much consistency as his friend Consistent Churchman, but not a particle more argument. He says Decius asks whether it would be more a profanation for the Bishop to allow a reform meeting to be held there (the church) than one for the ...