... 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 ...

... On Wednesday night last leave was given in the House lf Commons to bring in the three Reform Bills, for Eng- Scotland, and Ireland, after a lengthened discussion seven sittings. There was no division upon the question ^'ng proposed by the Speaker. The Ayes,' (says the were shouted in louder voices than we ever before heard the House of Commons while the Noes' were only three %jl number one ...

... Sm,—Permit me to call your attention to a bill now before the house, under the above title, brought in, I believe, by Mr. Slaney, the member for Shrewsbury. It is meant to be an exten- sion of the 59th of Geo. III. c. 12, an act hitherto seldom called into operation, and contains the following important clause :— That all and every the enactments, powers, provisions, and exceptions contained ...

... 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 ...

... In a work recently published by Washington Irving, en- titled A Chronicle of the Conquest of Grenada, purport- ing to be translation from the manuscript of Fray Antonio Agapida, an old Spanish writer, the following account is given of the origin of paper money. Writing of the block- ade of Alhama by the Moors, and of the stratagems used by Count Tendila, the Spanish governor, to defend the ...

... The Railroad commences at Liverpool, in Wapping, near the King's Dock. Here a large piece of ground is occupied by warehouses, built above the railway, wharfs, &c. The Railway commences on a level with the street but as the ground gradu- ally rises, the road soon sinks below the natural surface, and at the extremity of the Station yard, enters the Large Tunnel which passes under the Tower. 1 ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, MARCH 22.—The house was solely occupied with the receiving of Petitions, and a long discussion between the Lord Chancellor and Lord Wynford as to the amount of saving which would be effected by the new bankruptcy bill, and which the Lord Chancellor asserted,wotild be £34,000 per annum. ...

... Monmouthshire.—Pontypool, Saturday 2, and Friday 22 Usk, Wednesday 20. Herefordshire.—Hereford and Kington, Wednesday 6; Wig- more, Satuiday 16; Orleton, Monday 25; Dorstonej Wednes- day 27 Longtown, Friday 29. Gloucestershire.—Mitcheldean and Thornbury, Monday 4; Gloucester, Cirencester, Moreton, and Wickwar, Tuesday 5; Tewkesbury, Wednesday 13 Cheltenham, Thursday 14 Camp- den, Saturday 23 ...

... MEETING AT NEWPORT To st l* poll r THE Ml ISVKRIAL PLAN OF REFORM. On Monday last, a numerous-and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Newport was held, pursuant to a previous requi- sition presented to the Mayor, who was, however, unable to attend, and Mr. Edward Allfrey was called to the chair. The different resolutions proposed at the meeting, together with the address to his Majesty ...

... LONDON NEWS. THE PATRIOTIC WILLIAM COBBETT.—On Saturday last, Mr. Hunt presented a petition to the House of Commons from certain labourers in the employ of Mr. Wm. Cobbett, complaining of having been paid their wages in truck.- They had no money nor any allowance of clothes, fuel, beer, soap, candles, lodgings, or tobacco; but were given per week for their labour, 2lbs. of meat, -illb. of ...