... UNITED sTATES. Liverpool, Sunday Afternoon. The New York packet ship Sheffield arrived at this port last night, after a passage of seventeen days. Thie Louis Philippe, from Havre, had arrived out With French papers to I)ecember 4. London of the Ist, and Liverpool of the 30th Novernher, the latest advices received in the United States from Europe. A New York paper gives the following graphic ...

... FROMI EDINBURGH GAZETTE. SEQ U ESTRATIONS. | ebasr 18 CHA-1RLE5 MANN. merchant in Arbroath -Crelitlrrr nrtet in Seaton's Hloutel there, 26th February a and l8th March, twele o,'cloclO. c February 18. ALEXANDER ftlANN, quarrier and stone merchant at Turin atl Pitricanrlley. residing at Clocks- rig6i itl ?? of Fttrfar-Creditors meet inSeaton'sI Hotel, Arbroath, 28th February and 18th MarcIh, ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, H TALr-PAST S O'CLOCK. HOUSE or Lomrs, Feb. 20.-The Lord Chancel- lor presented her Majesty's answer to the address of congratulation voted by the House. Thre prisons act amendment bill was read a third time, and paesed. The Marquis of Lansdowne presented the answer of Prince Albert to the message of congratulation presented to himn. The Noble Marquis also present- ed the ...

... PRIVATE CORRIESPONDE)NCE. (Froee our Special Corresponden t.) LoNDON, SATURDAY MOnNING. I had barely time to send youa hasty sketch of the interesting discussion in the House of Lords on Thursday evening on the motion for going into Committee on the Church of Scotland bill, but was so fortunate before the departure of the post to send you for your Latest News,, the result-namely, the ...

... DUBLTN. N~ATIONAL. ASSOCIATrIoN-aiUY 13. There wvas a numerous usceting of this body beld L at thle COT Exchiange. Mr JToh -Martin presided. 82 At two o'clock l'ilr O'Connell entered the roorm, and T.) was wvarmly applauded . Amsoigst the correspon- c dence read was the letter of the Ilotriounrbtle Mr French, which elicited the warmi applause of thle II meeting. Mr O'Connell moved, that Mr ...

... INGS. On Thursday a special meeting of the TOWD Council was held-the Lord Provost in the chair. A report of the Lord Provost's Committee was read, stating, that the Presbytery of Edinburgh hall disapproved of the settlement proposed by the Town Council with regard to the annuity tax-that the Faculty of Advocates and the Writers to the Signet had also resolved to oppose the bill, and that as ...

... SPIRIT OF THE, PUTB3LIC PRESS. THE MAIARQUIS OF BREADALIANE & THE CHURCH OF SCOTL AND. (Frorn the Scotti-sh Guar-difin.) In his late pamphlet Dr Chalmers speaks of the Marquis of frcatialhane as a noleman ?? who, I by the intrepid stand he has made in Parliament on the si de of our religious liberties, has earned for himself tile enduring gratitude bot1h of the Church and the people of ...

... 'rUE ARM~Y. The Colerilt to, P1, Cii tl ai Si rSoir. nvil R1olvy ts, is ar. ri veil at Cor1k to err, hark thce Mii flterrar. an siirait t TIhe 42rl halve go(t aI ilrrall hriaek ?? or. tho eiast lirerror, to hold thecops fior their iieta asatir, g muxskets, wb ich are three inchea shin tetr thaio th(! Iliot 6i el ir k. A Ilaft of rifle Caatni n ( Pi Ii rid), I isoi leinlrl' anta (liilarferil ...

... At the ordinary monthly meeting of Presbytery yesterdary, A letter from George I2lilne, Esq. was read, calling attention to a former communication relative to part- perism in Scotland, and requesting information rrnrenrt the state of the poor within the bounds of the Pres- bytery. Mr BEGC explained that the reason the Commit- tee ib ad delaverl reporting on the subject wvas, because they ...

... AMERICAN PAPERS, (Freer tire zcew 'Eark Courr'ier o 9'ai,r9) StIGro or OF Tic ?? ?? Icarri trout thle ofli ttial ne ?? that the Jinl epjtdent rreasury Blli received the signatureortlu Prsdn at triout noon oil the 4th of' Jiuly. AoDJOURNMErtN'T OF' CoNGrrr-Ts-Lhe Senate has agreed, Without a division, to the joint ?? p)ass.ed by the Hlouse of Representatives, lesigntiariog the 21st day of' July ...

... PNROM TILE LONDON GAZETE.'R| DOWINGvse STIlISIT, OCT. 19. The Queen blls liena pleaseil to appoint Ogle Carr Esq. to lhe First Peisne JtIllge in} thie Islanui of Ceylon. 'I'be Queen lbne bieen pleased to appoint Jarnes Stark, Esg. to lie Seconsl Pruisne .ludgSe in tile Island nf Ceyo1n. Thll, Queen IIaS been pleasest to appoint Arthur 13ul- Icr, Rsq1. to thle office of Queen's Ailvocato in ...

... STATE OF TilEl CROPS IN IRELAND. Ts ?? leeiogt our prospects last year at this thirot as to the gro i ng crops, and comprn aring them wlih thlis year, hia a coontr at appears. Iii the early plit of Jily i839, there was no serinus appreohension as to anty of the criips, and g'gnerally all promiset well; lot a few weeks of cold, wi't, coild wintly weather, made an awfiul change. The potatoes ...