... LONDON, DECEMBER 6, 1835. The news from Madrid continues favourable. The definitive election of Senor Isturiz, the Cadiz deputy, as President of the Representative Chamber of the Cortes, was carried by a majority of 88, in a sitting at which 134 members were present. The four new Secretaries, Polo y Monge, Cortes, Onis, and Montes de Oca, belong to the liberal and moderately liberal sections ...

... MIS CELLANEOUS. TnE DISTRESSED ImISR CLERGY.-A meeting was held on Thursday at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of raising a subscription for the relief of the Irish Protestant Clergy. At one o'clock the Archbishop of Canterbury took the chair. There were on the platform the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Jamaica, Lord Radstock, the Rev. Henry Mel. ville, Mr M'Lean, Colonel Clithero, ...

... NO TAB ILIA. | TENURE OF LAND-It were long to tell of that original dishonesty by which the property of this country changed its character, shook off its liabilities, retaiuing its advantages, and imposing those liabilities or the nation. For properties which have descended from the Conquest on I from the days of chivalry, or from the tirues of the white and red roses, all which gives lustre ...

... NOTAB ILIA. GoonErscorAL REASONSING.-Thou knowest that when his Holiness entrusted thee with thy present office, he bade thee lo aoe hes beneficent intefltionl of granting a general Jubilee at Rome for the year 1350-a most admirable design for two reasons, sufficiently apparent to thyself: first, that every christian soul that may undertake the pilgrim- age to Rome on that occasion, may thus ...

... r TEE VICTIMS OF THE OANGE SocITrrEs. -Resolutions have been agreed to at Clonegalk, from which it appears that 178 families, amount- ing to 992 individuals, and including 316 widows and orphans, have been ejected from that part of the properties of Lord Beresford, Col. Bruen, and Mr L touche, which is situated in the parish of Dunleckney; and that 71 additional families, amounting to 391 ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolves to venture unon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiased truth, let him proclaim war with mankind d ia mode le pai~s de Pole-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men, they fall upon him riths the iron hadsid of the lawv; if he tells these virtues, when they ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THIE EXAMINER. Ssp,-After reading much in the papers on the subject of Mr Balfe's opera, The Siege of Rochelle, I resolved to judge for myself as to its merits, and accordingly have visited Drury lane Theatre several times, in order to form a just opinion on the subject. You vill permit me, sir, to glance at the state of the English lyrical drama at the present time. The ...

... THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.-An express has reached town with intel- ligence that the treaty for the contract of marriage between the Queen of Portugal and Prince Ferdinand Augustus of Saxe Coburg, was signed at Coburg by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the high contracting parties on the 7th inst. A vessel will, it is understood, be dispatched imme- diately to Portugal with this intelligence, ...

... LONDON, DECEMBER 27, 1835. In our account of a meetina at Newport will be found a just tribute to Lord Durham. The admirers of that ever faithful and intrepid friend of the people, will see with grief the heavy domestic affliction w-hich has befallen him in the death of his beloved daughter, Lady Fanny Ponsonby, married but a few months ago to the son of Lord Dancannon. We may say with ...

... 'l I TiE WESTITINSTEa ELECTOtS.-On Tuesday evening an adjourned meeting of about 50 of those Westminster electors who take a prominent part in elections on the Liberal interest, was held at the British Coffee house, Charing cross, for the purpose of deciding upon the question whether any and what measures should be taken upon Sir Francis Bur- dett's letter to the members of Brookes's Club. ...

... NNORTHAMrETONSHIRE ELECTION.-The correspondent of the Clhronicle, writing from Kettering, on Friday night, says:- The Liberal interest has, I regret to say, suffered a defeat to-day, which no efforts that can be made to-morrow will be able to repair. No artifice has been left un- tried, no influencehas been withheld, no chicanery neglected by the Tory party and the result is, that Mr Maunsell ...

... THE POLITICAL EXAMINEIR. If I mighet gie a short hiun to an ?? write, it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolves to venture unon the dangerous Precipice of ?? unblhased truth, let him proclaim woe ithmanhnd ~o mde c~qi del'o~r-ntl~e togive nor to take quarter. Iflihetells the uimnes of great men , they fall popn himn with the iron hands of the lawy; if he tells their 'virtue,% Chen they ...