... ENGLAND DEFENCELESS. A pamphlet has just been issued from the press entitled England in 1829, with particular reference to her Caval and diplomatic position, the statements in which are as clear and undeniable as they are appalling. Founded on official data, collected with care, and corn- pared with no ordinary acuteness and ability, we have there the defencelessness of our position placed ...

... LAUNCHING OF TIHE ROYAL SOVEREIGN.-This noble vessel. pierced for 110 guns, will be lacuched from the dockyard at Portsmouth, early in the ensaing nmonth. In consequence of its having been intimated by her Mfajesty that she intends being present on that interesting occasion, extensive pre- parations are being made for the reception of the royal guest. MANU2FACTURE Or PIsES.-It is said that in ...

... TIHE PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, April 16. AFFAIRS or TI-XE E.,sT.-The Earl of Rirox wished to know from the noble viscount, whether government had received any information, and, if they had, whether they were prepared to lay it on the table of the house, with respect to an additional contest, in which we ap- peared to be engaged in India. He saw it stated that our forces had battered ...

... The Irish newspapers are crowded with speeches deli- vered at meetings held in Dublin and in various parts of the country, to address the Lord Lieutenant, on his arrival, and also to address the Queen in support of the Irish policy of the present Ministry-On Wednesday there was a meeting in the Town Hall of Waterford, at which the High Sheriff presided. Mr Wyse, M.P., who was the principal ...

... -: : :1 -6F-T --W ?? WANT PIIACES-SOME FINE YOUNG MEN. The Times, with a candour which seldom adorns its colusnns, has been pleased to make public the very rea. sonable circumstances urged by sundry of the young and zealous Conservatives, upon their more astute leader, Sir Robert Peel, who is not yet quite ready for office. The nmes says, How then, say some of the younger and more eager ...

... ~~j~RALCONVENTON. .. ?? NIONDAY. , elrg5S assembled at eleven o'clock. when 'Mr. b, delegate from, Birmingham, was called to the r. eirnigINGHAM TREASIVRERS. l read from ME- Muutz, stating, in reply to Sstiatt regarding the detfctiveleass of the Birmingham U11o. that lie wars appointed a trustee of the national utllthat hle never had received any of the contribu- .i uI that be mitust refer the ...

... 66YPT AND ITS IMPROVEMENTS* The lapse of ages and the revolution of empires have not, amidst the ruins of her :.sancient monuments, and stately works of art, amidst the decay of her once far- famed learning, power, and opuledce;, and even the crumbling of her heaven-kissing pyrazids,'divested Egypt of tihe claims which her geographicabsituation presents to the profound attention of the ...

... TE19 W ORK GOES BRAVELY ON. exhibitedldinburgh the other day, when T e celled in honour of that most honour-want at a tiehlse Queen's present Ministers, a stout and iog cliqae~tl Radical majority thought proper to turn P erfes on the Whig toad-eaters, and to metamorphose the tnd e d dote of confidence into a real resolution of the an rebedisive as well as emphatic and pointed con- ost tha ...

... WEDNESDAY. The delegates assembled at eleven o'clock, when J. P. Sankey, A. M., delegate from Edinburgh, was elected to the chair. A letter was read from Bailie Craig, giving an account of his great success at Paisley, Bankhead, Johns- town, and several other places. The meetings which he described were attended by vast numbers, and among the rest by a great many ladies, who seemed to take a ...

... On Saturday a very splendid diljeuni was given at L've- grove's West India Dock Tavern, Blackwali, on tbe occa- sion of the completion of the equipment of a vessel to pro- ceed to New Zealand, for the purpooar of forming settlements on those Islands under the superintendence and management of a company recently formed In London. The project, as yet, Is confined to a private association, ...

... DUBLIN, APRIL 1. fFroM OUR OWN COURsIPONDUNT.] ORANGE REVIVAL. BY the following paragraph from the Derry Standard it appears that thle Orargemen ef Ulster are coming out from their retirement in as great force as ever, and with all their eriginal characterlstic audacity. The hint to the Queen about her coronation oath, so lately taken, is in the true spirit of such loyalists. This ...

... i I I: ' _ FRANCE. Thie latest Paris papers received contain but little of ft importauce ' The investigation of the returns (la verifi- cafien des pouevoirs) of ministers at the late election was still. proceeding before the Chamber of Deputies, and s acer ed likely to furnish materials for more than one l parliamentary inquiry. A meeting of the members of the a I gazche (Liberal) party took ...