... FIRST IMEETING OF THE COUNCILLORS. ELECTION OF ALDERMIEN. ?? Thursday, agreeably to the act, the first meeting of the to town-i.cOlCillOrS was theld for the purpose of nominatig sixteen aldermen. Siortl after twelve o'clock, lr. Joseph Cookson moved that Thomtas Daniel, Esq. take the chair. Alr. I51. H. Castle having seconded the motion, Ar. Daniel said that he would rather decline the honour; ...

... To the EDIrTo oll, fO the A113EUnDN JOU1NAL. I COLONIAL AND BALTIC EQUALIZATION DLTTy SChEIE. I ii, ?? it. C nmt it' ay SI II l lul st, In Sedl theI free do III to Cal ?? at telntiulo a)I or u Ir ?? it e- SC touts lendoer to time ?? View law ?? equail cing tile duties On tilimbe aud II .other goiwls, lenin nit clvii Colornius fit)ilthe Ba Itic-iiiti ettite von crii to shoe', that nel ither fro ...

... catbontian A£rmurv EDINBURGH. MONDAY, JANUARY 4. THE PAST YEAR. A POLITICAL RETROSPECT. While the good wishes of health and happi- ness to every one, and the bright anticipations of increasing and enduring prosperity to our coun- try, greet appropriately the advent of a New Year, we feel invited to perform another, less flattering, but probably more useful, duty to the public. We would remind ...

... LEITH DOCX COuMISSION. At a meeting of the Leith Dock and Harbour Corn- I mission, beld at Leitha on New Year's Day, the Lord nei Provost in the chair, nor The minutes baving been read, hut Mr Philip called the attention of theI meeting to a mi bei note of the Special Committee, from which it appeared, wo that Mr Howden attended and entered his dissent against tlic the general measusre of ...

... The following account of the severe earthquake in Chili last February is abridged from Professor Silliman's American Journal of Science — One of the most terrific and destructive convulsions with which this devoted country has ever been visited by, com- menced on the 20th February, 1835, occasioned by the irrup- tion of the volcano of Aupico, in about the latitude of Con. ception, and about ...

... To the Editor of the Ip.wich Journal $fitt,-Miracles have not ceased! I give you a proof. V.i& would scarcely think it possible to quaff inspiration oim the Sifolk Citrte, but certes its last we~ekb article upon the Northamptonshire Election and the Ballot, (in- ?? as a rider thereupon), did awaken the poetic fire In one who is generally somewhat 'RiOSY. A LEADER. I The Tories arc sealing ...

... ENGLISH MUNICIPAL ELECTION6. The English Municipal Elections comm nenced on Satur- day last under the Corporation Reform Act, and the fol- lowing is a summary of the- general results, so far as they have yet been published:- LivEm'ootL.Reformers 44, Tories 4. BRISTOL.-Reforiners 25, Tories 23. LANCASTER._ Reformers all, Tories none. WVr-.N.- Reformers 27, Tories 3. NoawIcH.-Reformers 28, ...

... A very long document, under the title of a Project of Law for the establishment of the Liberty of the Press in Spain, has been published, bearing the signatures of the Spanish Miniitry. It begins by abolishing altogether the system of a Censorship, leaving publishers and editors to the general responsibilities created by the law, but their responsibilities are both numerous and explicitly ...

... I E Tiisies ?? suppose its readers to be * v deficient in Memory, or utterly itso tie cheracter and principles of the r t' wIpatiroilize, i lien it ventures, -ravelv at.. * . t, ir jgE a.. in ditie3 and untruths like those * cl in the following extract from its ite d ?? ,oxblication j. V' 0\ ?? \Vl Iip i .io lll( t i n oil r o -a vi ews s f t I i lid k'j ?? i~t \ Iti.t1it'(l ?? knows tihe \ ...

... THE HOUSELESS JRISH. 7'0 TIll EIDlTOR or TItE MORNING CHRONICLE. Are tlwr. no nicans bv which the dreadful condition of tbe * rea( hrl d wasts in the! county of Carlow cans be relieved 1 The bene% olence of our countrymen has been loudly called frt ci in bealf of the I'rotestant clergy of Ireland, and it is highly proper thkat bishops aild churchmen should iteep oiri anid ihelp to a-suage the ...

... I =MOX~aTIOW OW COUNCILLOMO.S. SUNDERLAND. The following gentlemen were elected couricillors for this borough, on Siaurday last:- MIenwearwouth Ward. James Allison Cooper Abba Thomas Speddirg Miattiiehw Robson,jun. George Wilkin Hall Gemrge Hudsona West Ward. Empruon Musuhamp Andrew WlVite Darvabas Sharp Philip Lalng Hellry Scott. South wick Johli Gordoil BMak Bridge IVard. John Coull Carr ...

... . -WEEKLY -pITOME.- FOREIGN. iGeneral EvaUs ailly troop.re b to beregularly d~l~edtht esral~dper'atIcn so a g'ye Cbeen par- fOrmed, the active-Vervice they.were immediately engaged fil on t heir arrival previiiting it.7 Officers, nocornmissioned officers, and privtes'bre all tabe put to s-iusd-ddll, and the. hDO ul-of the British ,name is,4ot to be Perilled by the want, of discipline of these ...