... PInVATE CORnESPONDENCC. (romi our SPectal Correspondent.) LONDON, TuESDAY AFTERPNOON. The case of the cotton spinners has excited much interest here. It seems that a Committee of Inquiry will be granted, and measures adopted for more freedom of action by employers throughout the country. It is calculated, from the parties about to interest themselves, that any alteration that might be proposed ...

... T'he Commrittee of the Society for the diffusion of information on Capital Punishmentst convinced that the least effective mode of protecting life and property is, by sanguinary laws, address the public on this important sub~ject. The arguments against taking human life for crime are too numerous to allow more than a concise enumera- tion of the principal ones on the present occasion. The ...

... Caiebonian igercurp. EDINBURGH. MONDAY. JANUARY 15. In consequence of the Parliamentary return mov- ed for on the 23d ultimo, the officialcorrespondtnce between Lord GLENELG and Lord GOSFORD, as to the affairs of Lower Canada, has now been pub- lished. It extends from the 8th March 1837 to the 6th December, and throws a new light upon the whole question. It is evident that the Govern- ment of ...

... PREPATY GORRESPONDEN7CE Our Special Correspondent's letter has not reach- ed us to-day. (From our Ordinaryg Correspondent.) London. January 16. Owing to the continued prevalence of easterly winds we are without anvarrivals whatever to-day. A vessel from Singapore is reported off Cowes, but no letters or papers hv her have reached town. The utmost anxiety is felt foradvices from Canada. Haad it ...

... IMF IvAqL7-&MMNT. HOUSE OF LORDS-Jan. 25. Mr BERNAL and others brought tip a message from the House of Commons, agreeing to the Duchess of Kent's annuity bill, with the amendnments proposed by their Lordships.-Adinurned. FRIDAY, JAN. 2G. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Duchess of Kent's annuity bill. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke ...

... SERIOVS RIOTS. 2tI This city has for the last two days, and partie hi larly yesterday, been kept in a state of alarm ant, W excitement, the cause of which we confess we re rt. cord with deep regret. On Thursday while th of students attending our College were leaving tbe he forenoon classes, some boys threw a few sntowjvhll, tat at them, when the former retaliated annd attankd ty the 1oys, but ...

... 1§?IRT Or THE PUBLIC PRESU. MEASURES FOR THE PACirICATION Or CANA- DA.-However opinions may differ as to the me- rits of the quarrel between the French Canadians and the Government of the mother country, all must agree, that the insurrection has rendered it impossible to resume the civil government of the colony according to the existing Constitution. To convene again in the Legislature the ...

... TIHE ARMY. it Major.Geneeal Sir William Ilacbsean, who was on 1ir. ,way from Dublin to talke the command of the Limneick - district, received a letter on Friday from hea(l-quarters to hold himself in readiness to proceed on Wednesday e next to take the command of four rpgimemrts-the 23J, It 71st, 93d, and 94th, for Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick. Sir Frederick Stoven is spoken of as the Adje- ...

... A general meeting of the Commissioners of Supply and Heritors of the County was held in the County Hall on Thursday last. Tl'e first business was the Ming up of the vacancy occasioned by the death of General Bal- four in the office of Convener of the Commisbioners of Supply; for this purpose a meetino, of the Commission- ers wars first constituted, and Lord William Douglas call- ad to the ...

... POLISH ADDRESS TO THE CHAMBER OF -DEPUTIES. , ,I The Poles residing in Paris have prepared their annual petition to the Chamber of Deputies, it] which they recapitulgte the spoliations, the perse- cutions, and iniquities of all kinds, perpetrated on them in the course of '1837, by ' the cruel and sa. vage oppressor of their country, in violation of a solemn treaty, guaranteed by England ...

... QealibonltaU AVVCIIVI EDINBURGH. MONDAY, JANUAR Y 8. . w The interest excited by the Trial of the Glasgow Cotten Spinners is so great, that in order to present our readers with a full Re- port of the Evidence, tc. we intend to pub- list ar& ADDIT0ONAL SHEET as a SUPPLE- A.IENT tO THURtSDAY S paper. The intelligence received from New York as to Upper Canada is of a very alarming and painful a ...

... rTO. ADIE5D THE ACT roil. THE r'REtERVATION 0Or TOE ISA'LtoN VISHERaSe OF SCOTLAND. - After referring to the ncts of tine Parliament of Scot- land, and that passed in the year 179fi, which ratikid and confirmed the former. andi also to tine 9thofGcg aI IV., tine act now proposed recites, thth eouf pero- visions Made in these acts for the'regulatinn Of cruives, r and in particular for tine ...