... GRPAND ErNTEflTAINMPNT AT THE MAN- SION HOUSE. on Monday the Lord Mayor and Lady' MayoresE gave a magnificent entertainment at the Mansion House. The Egypiani HAll was fitted ip in the most splendid man- ner upon Ithe Ocesionfl the throne, which was erected for her Majesty an the 9th of November in the Guild-, hall, having ehen transferred to the grand room in which the Chief d agistrate and ...

... TMPROvBMMENT IN STEAM NAVI6ATION. I (rom the Couranst.) An improvement ha-4 lately been introduced in the method of Tcondensiig the steam in. marine en- gines, which Appears to be of great importance to the advancenient of steam navigationi, particularly in long voyagd, such as those ?? Proposed. across the Atlantic and to India. The.following account of the Wilberfobeo. is from a ...

... (From our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. We are extremely dull here since the recess 1las set in-scarcely a word of news passing; and only for the mountebank antics of Sir FRANCIS BOl{ DETT and Company, and the local trials in Ireland, the leading morning papers would be in a sad vay for information. Of the movements of BUBIDET & Co. only one opinion prevails, and that i ...

... KMpDflXaZ 1PAULIA1ZNT. HOUSE OF LORDS-March 29. The Lord Clancellor took his seat on the woolsack at fire o'clock. - The Bishop of EXETER presented a number of pe- titions, praying for the total and immediate abolition of naroe slavery. Lord BROUGH AM presented about 200 petitions for a total abolition of slavery. The Noble Lord was up- wards of half an hour in presenting the petitions. The ...

... (From our Special Correspondent.), LONDON, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. Intelligence has reached town this morning from New York to 3d inst. of a satisfactory character as respects the tranquillity which prevails in our Ca- nadian possessions, where almost every vestige of the insurrection had disappeared; but there was an angry correspondence carrying on in the American papers on the conduct of Sir ...

... SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC PRESS. THE CORONATION.-Foremnost among the Ulnt compromising and irreconcileable enemies of Lord Melbourne must be placed the whole class of Tory diners-out, young and old. Not only is his Lordship frequently found yielding obedience to the commands of a gracious Queen to dine at the royal table-not only does he ap- pear to sanction the doctrine that her Majesty is not ...

... Madrid, March 25. The Gazette of this morning gives the following notice of a despatch from the Captain-General of Old Castile relative to the progress of the Asturian expedition :_ te The Captain-General of old Castile writes, on the 23d inst. that he hail heen informed the day before by the Comrnandant of Palaecia that the faction corn- mnanded by the rebel Negri had evacuated the town of St ...

... TATTERfSA LLiS-(T Tesda-.) Two THOUSAWD GUltEsAs5sTArES, ?? (TUESDAY NEST.) Several bets were made about Bamboo and Gray Me. 111Us1, s0me. at 5 to 2 agst. each, and others at 9 to 4; thie last quotation was 2 to 1 agat Bambop (taken in fifties), and 5 to 2 agst the Gray (taken); 3 to I offer. ed agst Mr Thorahill's Saintfoin, and others of 4 to 1. THE DE5RBY, A good many horses were backed, ...

... .; ; l Paris, April 2. The Monifeur contains the following telegraphic I despatch, dated Toulont, April l, half-pa~t five ?? clock P.m. : MARSHAL VALl.EIE TOTHE ArIN ?? CP CA. o Algiers, 2 arc 29. Coleab waq occupied on the 2th. The irhahitants cem~e to inset me, ?? I have continuedin their functions tbe Chiefs C Magistrates) oif the city. A ramp af far 1,at- talions of infanz'ry. foe: ...

... Armoneg the cases which ca ne before this Court was that of Charles Mounre, an old man, who pleaded Guilty to a charge of assault. It appeared from the indictment that, on the 251h of August last, prisoner struck his wice a violent blow on the face, which knocked her down. After she was down, be renewed the assault, by pressing her on the breast and 'grasping her violently by the throat, in ...

... IrOW THE EDIND:RqH GAZF.r X. SEQUESTRATION. April 5. JAMES NtCHOLL, formerly coal merchanttand builder in Leith, now messenger at arms in Linlithgow -Creditors meet in the Exobange Hotel, Leith, 13th and 28th April, 12 o'clock. MEE¶'IGS, &c * Creditors of ROBERT BRUNTON EwIAmTL,' sometime saddler in Edinburgh, meet in the Royal Exchange Cof- feehouse (Paxton's) there, 25th April, tao o'clock. ...

... IMPEERIAL HARLIAMEN HOUSE OF LORDS-April 27. Mr Palmer and other Members of the House of Commons brought up the St Helen's and Runoorn Railway, and several other private bills, all of which were read a first time. In answer to a question from the Earl of WIN- Visecount MELBOURNE said, that neither Mr Tur- ton nor any other person hadhbeen appointed lenal ad- viser to the Earl of Durham. -The ...