... I The illumissation in honour of the first lighting this bo. rough with gas took place on Thursday evening last, and many thousand persons were collected on the occasion. The Market.place was most brilliantly illuminated by I. R. in front of the Town Hall, and in the Horse Fair a ?? Star of the first mag-nitude presented its extended rays towards the Monument. IlMr. Sharpe, of Northampton, ...

... , T 2- LO)NDO5N1, M'ARCHI 25. Private accounts from St. Petersburgh of the 3d instant, state the distress from famine in the southern provinces of Russia to he still very great. This had nccessarily prodlleed great embarrassment among the resident nobility, who in many instances had to support the peasantry, instead of beinig supported by them. In the capital the calamity was only felt in some ...

... In the Brussels papers of the 26tlh, we continue to find accounts of military movements. It is positively stated that 3000 men have been sent from Brussels on an expedition to Luxemberg, under the command of l General Olivier. I Accounts from Martinique, to the 2d of January, I say, that tranquillity has been restored. Many of the leaders in the recent insurrection had been arrested, and ...

... LONDON, 11ARCH 27. T- We have very importast news from Spain; 6oo0 Carlists entered Vittoria on the 15th illst.: they were commanded by the partisan chief Zumalacarregny, al who drove the Queen's troops into their fortified bar- n racks, shot sev~eral persons, and carr~iedloff l~ooprisoners. d 'he example of the Queen's party II shooting Santas ith Ladron has been fearfully imitated by ...

... LON ION, 2F. 25. Distarbances of the most serious kind took place on Sunday last at Paris, in many ditfrrent quarters of the city. The conduct of the police seems to have been extremely violent, and the arrests are numerous. No lives were lost, lout several persons,-both the nmob and the police,-were mnuch' wounded. At night the town| Ias tranquil, but there was no certainty how long the ...

... TUESDAY'S POS'T' CONTINUED. Froin the LONDON GAZETTE ofFJUDDAF nHE King hbrs conferred the honour of Knighthood it. on Eaton Travers, Esq. Captain in the Royal Navy, G. C. H. Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Nut. has been returned to Parliament for the borough of Blalton; and the Right Hon. P. J. H. Stuart for Ayr, Irvine, Sc- in the room of T. F. Kennedy, Esq. who has accepted the office of ...

... LONDONT, MARCH 18. Letters, dated the 1st inst. from Lisbon, brought by the Pilce, arrived at Falmouth on Friday, give the result of the battle of Almester, which app;ars to have been as decisive as forner accounts had represented it. Saldanha's loss was 29 killed and 305 wounded, while the Miguelites are said to have lost 4o0o mien, amongst whomn were several officers of rank. The most impor- ...

... Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 9th instant, state that a decree had been issued, by order of the Emperor, authorising the Government to raise a sum of 40 millions of rubles, by four series of Exchequer Bills, bearing an interest of three per cent. per annum, for the purpose of relieving the distress which existed in consequence of scarcity of provisions. The Bills were to be paid off at ...

... V, o gr s c a Ill, W. -- ' w o i ¢S.)lIMONS-Thursday. Atth~e LN'euj ,,,itilg Sir NVILW m I.ziOILitVy brought At the oetion on the subject of the Shilt Tax. Tu e foesard his obsesrved that, instead of moving for the repeal 1150t. Blrr170e sel OoIld ?? for a Committee to inquire into of trlte Tu) fI repeal. He also proposed to substitute the propric .tsY Owl) for that of the Chancellor of the ...

... SUJND)AY'S AND TUESDAY'S POSTS. 1iDCUSE Or LORDS-l~londay. Thec ?? Duties' l'ill was read a second time. 'j'jte ?? Of El1DoN presented a petition from Newcastle- n.- ' for the ?? iot of the Establisi.ed Churel. Thlc %eequki(antstsvt presented a similar petition from -sit body of lay-membeis of the Establisled Church. Tie l)lke of IRICHMaOSD presented a petition from $;rt'tn, Uontatlflilg I, 6 ...

... Her Majesty's Dhrawing ROM. Yesterday being the day appointed for the celebration ot ! x thie Queen's Birth Day, her Majesty held a ?? at for St. James's Palace. Her Majesty's natal day, however, taulls in August, on the 13th of which month her MIajesty will a nt crurpplete tho 42d year of hur age. (lid At an early hour a numerous body of police took their stations at the various approaches to ...

... TUE3DAY'S POST CONTINE. HOUSE Or LORDS-Friday. Earl Dunus.Sm presented a petition, of which he had pre. viously given notice, from the parish of Allhallows, against the appointment of the Rev. Mir. Dawtson. TheAnclln3sHO of CA.MTEUR regrettedthc present state of the law relating to Pluralities, and would be most happy to lend his assistance to a ineasure that had for its object the correction ...