... On Wednesday, at one o'clock, a public meeting wIV held at the Town Hall of Southwark, for the purpose of petitioning parliament to grant vote by ballot, an exten' sion of the suffrage, and triennial parliaments; and to place the name of Mr D. W. Harvey, one of the Inean bers for this borough, on the pension list commenittd The High Bailiff (John Holmes, Esq.) took the chatr, and various ...

... POSTSC RIPT. 'I LONDON, Saturday Morning, February 17, 1838. There was little interest in the proceedings of either House last night, if we except some remarks which fell from Lord Brougham in the Upper House. On pre.. senting several petitions in favour of the ballot, his Lordship observed, with respect to the division of Thursday night in the Commons, that Though, knowing their lordships ...

... An express from Portsmouth has brought New York papers to the 20th, received by the Gladiator, which sailed upon that day. They announce the evacuation of Navy Island by the patriots on the 14th, without a show of resistance. This explains sufficiently the clia- racter of the rebellion. The moment the American Executive manifested a determination and proceeded to enforce a strict neutrality ...

... I i HOUSE OF LORDS, Monday, Jan. 29. Lord GLENELG laid papers relative to Canada upon the table. Lord BROUGHAm, in presenting a petition from Leeds against negro slavery, gave notice that on an early day he should make a motion upon the subject, which he hoped would enable their lordships to meet the views of the petitioners. The noble and learned lord then entered into a long statement of ...

... TIHIE CANADAS. I UPPER CANADA. The St James New York packetwiharvd t Portsmouth on Wednesday evening, bruhtc Nried Yor e v e ni7)g s~~~g brought Newv York papers to tile 7th of January, and in them news of con-. siderable interest and im portance. The first is the capture Of Navy Island by the Bri- tish. We begin the account by cautioning the rcader against the statements of the New 1Kr/ ...

... S TIl I P .I EC KS. THlE Wrtli' l WJIAT.Eit. I The Sydney I ruaid of thie '1of Sc ?? 'sti tes that th e PnqeYe ofv nsh oth 0ain Ia14 sent ashore three boatsc ireallI onS isti o and the ?? of thle seamen' of th 1!l0i]isAshi OfnffI a ~idlih bad been ent;relv lost onth 11 th of ?? I .ord Ho10e's Isiandi, titth a vablable eargo-, crnlsistillg of 1,700 lharrels of speimn oil. ('illtn a Evans 01d ...

... POSTS C RIPT. LOIN DON, Saturday MAo0nijig, February 3, 1838. An express from Falmouth in this morning's Chronirle brings news of nnucli interest from America. All pro. ceedingst up to the 5th are noticed elsewhere, but o) that day President Van Buren presented a mcssage respecting the destruction of the Caroline to the House of itepre- sentatives, which was followed by a short but very ...

... ; Upon the chairman's election for the special corn.. mittee on the budger, ministers suffered a defeat (by a majority of two); and this weas followed by another- onmely, the appointment of Nd. Gouli to the secretary. ship of the same special committee, by a majority of tell over the ministerial candidate (Al. Biigion, de ls Loire Inferieure). These results were held to demonstrate that the ...

... The most important of this week's news from France is the report of the secret sitting of the Chamber on Friday, on the motion for obliging deputies to wear a costume. As every one in France wears uniform-the eminent lawyer, as belonging to the Concile d'Etat; the eminent physician or man of letters, as belonging to some c!ass of the Institute; and even the most hum, ble, as national guard ; ...

... I ht give a short hint to an impartial wlter, it would be to tell him 5il fose. If he resolves to venture upon the dangerous precipice u ftelling h^sbossed troth let hisot piroesto~ waer with sosankind tia o rode lc psiyrs Olr JisWlc-Oither to give nor to take qusas-cee.r If he tells the crimies of ot men, they foil apse him seih the iron hands of the law; if he tell. gther ?? they hove any, ...

... I We observed the other week on the excitement at Wasilijoton, arising out of a discussion of the slave ques- tion and Mr Calhoun's resolutions. That excitement still continues, and the debate is not yet finally closed. Mr Clay has, it seems, hrought forward a series of reso- lutions of a milderchairater than those proposed by Mr Calhoun, but still retaining the main features of southern ...

... We observed some time since an attempt on the part of some of the members of the Senate of the University sf London to introduce a sort of religious test into that university. It has been proposed that all candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be examined in one of the four Gospels, or the Acts of the Apostles, in the original Greek, and in Scripture lietiry. The proposal was ...