... | clevonian AteIclurv# EDINBURGH. MONDAY. JUNE 6. Thle House of Lords did not sit on Wednesday. In the sitting of Thursday the eight millions con- solidated fund bill was brought from the Commons and read a first time. The Earl of CLARE presented a petition from the East India Company, praying that the duties, on East and West India sugar might be equalised' Lord MELBOURNE admitted that ...

... 0 X F A R D& SATURDAY, JuNE .1, IT is an annoying circumstance that in the existing state of political affairs, it is impossible, however desirable it may be, to avoid a frequent allusion to O'Connell. On the re. assembling of Parliament on Monday last he twice presented himself in a prominent point of view; and, strange as it may appear, he was on each occasion thwarted by his Government ...

... LETTT. MEETIa` OF IIERITo;ZS OF LEITH ON THE th MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL FOR ml SCOTLAND. pr A meeting of the Heritors of the burgh of Leith, be called for the purpose of taking into consideration tb *the provisions of the Municipal Corporations bill sa .for Scotland, and more particularly their applies- fai -tion to the municipal affairs of that burgh, was held to -on Tuesday, in the ...

... 1M11PROVIE WNT 01' NORTiERaNIIAY. To t1iA ED IT'ORI of t/c EYE TElt FL Y[ING-POST. SIR,-I understand tie Common Council are about improving NAirilo-.rlri, tiow I fiod till I h s t ou-o t o itver:i-eiiiciito th r'eeiyp P.thuatia i lllfi lroio Dliikv.iji, wur ii-ri aii Snirs--fir., to *-flint rrmtl~i all~rortiifiid wihi-lt rudy tie .eiilth.itiit in lilt iplif lviii fi!ihi ;iii tisitnit- it is ti ...

... I _ We cannot but regard the meeting held last week in honour of Mr. Simpson as one of the most important iwhich has ever taken place in this town. We speak not is e in reference to the number of persons who attended the . dinner, nor to their name and station in society, although re in both respects the meeting was highly respectable; lis of but when we saw a hundred gentlemen, not under ...

... MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. Th del'vftse Anniversar Meeting of the Atfe lbersof theabove flnstltutisn, 'sas hled at the rooms in Charlotte-street, on Wed tesd y evenig last. The chair was takes by the Itev. George Lee, iCe if the Vice-presidelts, who, afera few cursor remarks, procecded to read the report of the retiring committec it was of very con-ileralle lencth and commcnced by stating that th ...

... I 'f he anni)versary of the birth of the late Right flon, Wil. 114yn Pitt, %vas ooelsbrated'on. Filidiy' 'by a disines' at the city Of londou Tavern. Covers were laid for nearly 100 gentle- n .men, and the dinner and dessert were both highly creditable , *to the caterers. i -The lion. George Rice Trevor officiated as chairman, lisp- e ported by the Earl of Harowood. President, Lord Skeliners- ...

... ; -4-J 4 IMIW-'JC C.- IORATIONS' III!.! :OR SVOTI. ?? MsUNNCIPA\L CORP'ORATION'S' BILL MOI SCOIAD . - I Weis' haveload o~i nu cpotllity of ?? this lill, i''iiichli has been liro. intel anti brou~ght Iin be Mr Stemiitt andtl th Litid Aideoctits, nitl ie's ?? our tealots with ?? nb~,tiras' of the storen imiportant 1rovi's'oits It Conisits of IL ?? clouses, Ain'tavl troe il tire foun suhedltles, ...

... , A paper, containing some valuable inforination, relative prospects of this undertaking, and compiled from the evidence giveu before the parliarnentary committeef has jnst beani piinted a; bya order of the ?? give the following extracts from the report of thi comsmittee, dated ?? 2thi MArch:_ ; That ?? gradiaens of tbe-proposri line era generally very ' ftytible. The steepest gradient ...

... ?? t- 0iCffionvanp - I~ m~ii t ff s I--nS REFORM DINNER AT Irswvtci.-Yesterday week (the 27th instant) the liberal members for Ipswich, -Messrs. Morrison and Wason.-inet their consti- tuents, in company with Mr. O'Connehl, 'who, with the reformers of that borough, to the number of about 400, afterwerda dined at the theatre. The members and tb'ir'friends headed a procession into the town, and ...

... igrircultoure, GARDENING, AND RURAL AFFAIRS. - ?? NEW 51AN]REr.-WC observe from an advertisement in our first page, that a new manure, under the chemical name of animlalized ccrrbon, has taken the field in comn pitition with the bone ddrst. We leave our agricultural friends in the north to test its qualities, but we urrerstand it is from 1As, to 20s. per acre cheapen than the bone manure, ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Mr. Editor,—Sir,—Pope says, that— Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen, G. F. C. does not believe this sentiment, or, if he does, be evidently wishes to weave a new garment for the monster. He very candidly says, that it is not his purpose to commence a controversy with me. He might, with more wisdom, have ...