... TU93DAY'S POST CONTINUED. LONDON, Dlic. 23. The Procuradores at M3adrid were engaged in debat- ing some important questions when the last advices left that city. Seventeen members of the Chamber had presented a petition praying fur the recognition of the independence of the American colonies, citing the example of England in recognising the United States as one that should be followed, on ...

... ABINGDON. Dec. 11. FIRST UNION OF PARISHES UNDER THE POOR LAW AIMENDAIENT BILL. The Warrant and Declaration for the Union of Abingdon and its vicinity was issued on Monday last, by Edw. Gulson, Esq. the Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. This is the first Union formed, and, from the general satisfaction ex- pressed by all parties concerned, there can be no doubt of the beneficial effect which it ...

... To the EDITOR of the OXFORD JOUR VAL. WORCUSTER COLLEGE. Sma-Your Journal has always taken so conspicuous a part in forwarding whatever may tend towards the improve- ment or beautifying of your City, that I am sure I may reckon upon your services in bringing into notice the sub- ject on which I am about to address you; namely the pre- sent architectural appearance of the exterior or Worcester ...

... S XA ,F Dc 20. SATURDAY, DEC. 20. is if Ti-HE practice of exacting pledges from Candidates has, as far as we can see, nothing to recommenel it, C and much to discountenance it. It must be obvious y that unless a pledge, when once given, is held by the party so engaging himself to be literally binding, it becomes nugatorv, and presents only a fair field for t shuffling and evasion; and ol the ...

... ALARDSING FIRE. About six o'clock on Sunday morning last the in- habitants of the High-street, in this city, were thrown into the utmost consternation by an alarming fire which broke out in or adjoining the back workshop of Mr. Giles, junior, cabinet maker, opposite the Market. From the pature of the materials in the shop it was soon in oieeentire blaze; some of the neiglhbours were ...

... VAtRISTIES. WE never find that animals, whose mluzzle or face is greatly prolonged, are grouped by naturalists with such as Dlave these parts short and very obtuse. Among quadru- peds there are .any striking instances of this law of nature. 'Che ?? of alyl the ant-eaters is soexcessively lengthened that it seems pulled out, as it were, into the shape of a rgstrnm or beak, such as we see among ...

... AI- l=g. WVONDERS OF NATURAL HISTroay.-pi ooftiof V15iLCr ofa CnEAToit.-Tle conitentsof these live -eggs (thepahcoclk, thiestorkl,,the goose, t~e eagle, and the_ crodie) dire ex- actly shnila, r i thile exception otf It slight difference in that of the crocodile, but slight indeed compared with the difference of the animals produced therefrom. In lookinz at the first egg, could imagination, ...

... University and Clerical intelligence. 11 11 .0 h x n r, Li e IS 9 3. holland, of the former place. Yesterday ivas married, at St. Aldate's, by the Rev. J. Jones, Rector of St. Thomas's parish, Mr. 'T'homnas I Allden, o0 this city, to Eliza, daughter of James Bland, I Esq. of NevitigtoDI Causeway, London. Same day was married, Mr. Henry Alden, painter, to Sarah, thirt daughter of Mr. ...

... LON'DON-Friday. The Standard of Thursday ?? day Sir obert Peel was sworn into office as First Lord of the reasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer-The uke of Wellington was at the same time sworn into lee as his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State r Foreign Affairs.-Lord Lyndhurst having resigned J'c office of Chief Baron, was then sworri into oflice Lord High Chancellor.-Sir Jas. Scarlett ...

... , . - . . ' . . . ?? - - - - t. This Act, which is universal in its application througlhout Ii the United Kingdonm, is so greatly important in most of its A clauses to every class of the community, that the following 1- brief analysis of its contents, stripped of the technicalities and verbositics of an Act of Parliament, with the enactments ar- d ranged under general heads. and accompanied by ...

... THE HOUSES OF PARIgAM{EENT. The completion of the buildings intended for the future accommodation of the Lords and Commons rapidly proceeds. The internal arrangements of what is to constitute the House of Lords, heretofore known as the Painted Chamber, are now manifest. The woolsack and throne end of the chamber will be towards the Thames, and at the most distant part from the temporary ...

... P(STSC1VIPT. LONDON-Friday. Letters are in town, from which we learn that Sir Robert Peel was about to leave Rome for Naples, on the 211th ultimo. As the messenger dispatched after the Right Honourable Baronet had not passed Milan, before the 22d, and as MNlilan is nearly 300 miles from otome, the messenger would scarcely reach the! eternal city before the 25th; so that he probably would ...