... jMatKets. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. December 19.—The past week's arrivals of grain were moderate, and of flour tolerably good. This morning there is a small sup- ply of wheat and oats fresh up, but of beans and peas there is a much larger quantity than of late. The wheat trade retains its recent dullness, and onJyfine dry parcels remain as last quoted; other descriptions may te reported lower, ...

... LONDON NEWS The division on the second reading of the Reform Bill has turned out a sad disappointment to many of its opponents, who, in consequence of the absence of Mr. O'Connell, and so many other Irish Members, expected to see the majority diminished instead of increased. It is reported that His Majesty has consented to create such a number of new Peers as may be wanted to secure the ...

... PORT OF CARDIFF. SHIP NEWS, FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 20, 183L. wlrrtbalfs. WITH SUNDRIEs.-Castle, Phillips; Ebenezer, Evans; Friends,, Rudge; and Merthyr Packet, Head, from Bristol.-Betsy, Webb, from Bridgewater.—Jane, Lucas; Industry, Smart; John, Tho- mas; and John, James, from Newport.—Stribley, from Padstow.. -Joseph, Harris, from Cork.- F avo urite, Jones, from Swansea., —Jessie, Lewis, ...

... THE CHOLERA.—This disease still continues to extend itself in the neighbourhood of Sunderland. Most of the accounts, however, agree in stating that it attacks none but the sickly, half fed, and half starved, part of the population. The following is the report of cases in the infected piaces, from the commence- ment of the disease to the 22d inst. :—Sunderland, cases, 509 deaths, 186. Newcastle ...

... COUNTRY NEWS. EXECUTION OF IIoLLoWA Y THE MURDERER.—This wretch- ed criminal underwent the terrific punishment for his crime, on Friday last, at Horsham. On his return from Lewes, where he was tried, he evinced great indifference but sub- sequently, through the exhortations of the Rev. Mr. We- therby, he was brought to a sense of his awful situation, and became very penitent. When the hangman ...

... The situation of Chief Justice of Jamaica, which has just beo- come vacant by the death of Sir William Anglin Scarlett, is as very lucrative judicial appointment, the salary and emoluments- exceeding £ 4000 per annum. Sir William was a native of Ja- maica, and for many years was the leading member of the Bar in that island. He was raised to the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of ...

... THURSDAY, DEC. 15.-The Earl of Aberdeen postponed his motion relative to the Netherlands. HIISH TITHES. Lord Melbourne rose, pursuant to notice, for the purpose of moving for a select committee to take into consideration the sub- ject of Irish tithes—their collection-the laws relating thereto- and to report their opinion thereon to the house. Tn the course of a very able speech, his lordship ...

... As will be seen from a review of the preceding historical sketches, there are six superlatively important petiods in the par- liamentary history of this country worthy of all observation and never ending recollection—namely, the period before the Norman Conquest; the reigns of the first princes of the Norman line; those of the monarchs about the time of the obtaining and con- firmation of ...

... On Thursday se'nnight, a committee was appointed in each House of Parliament, to enquire into the possibility of improving the Irish Tithe Laws, without danger to the established Church. Mr. Stanley, in the House of Commons, drew a frightful picture of the destitution to which Protestant clergymen in Ireland were reduced by a combined systematic resistance, on the part of the people, to the ...

... Extract from a private letter, dated Bath, Dec. 18:—A melancholy occurrence took place in our chapel this morning. The clergyman, in the course of a sermon on the necessity of re- pentance, exhorted his hearers to make the best use of their time, as none of them could safely rely on the ensuing night as their own. Scarcely had he delivered those words, or something to to the same effect, when ...

... LONDON NEWS. On Saturday night information was received in town that TYm. Prior, the bankrupt brewer, who had been a partner in the house of Sir Henry Meux and Co., was lodged in gaol in Ilavre-de-Grace. The arrest took place in conse- quence of an English holder of a promissory note of the bankrupt's having paid it to a French citizen. A meeting of Prior's creditors took place on Friday. The ...

... The last Police Gazette contains an offer of a reward of £ 100 for the discovery of the murderer or murderers of Hannah Hobbs, near Brighton. It also contains various sums of reward offered for the detection of incendiaries in six instances. The Committee of Miilmen in Macclesfield have, during the week, been engaged in the collection of some informa- tion that may prove invaluable in the ...