... FRANCE. (From our owrn Correspondent.) The subject of conversation and interest in Paris for the last week has been-shall there be war or not? for they do not admit the possibility of a severance of the alliance with England without war being the conse- quence. Notwithstanding the unusual degree of irrita- tion that exists, an irritation worked up to a high pitch by Mr Driver's nautical ...

... I Memoranda qf the Contest in Spain. By Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., Lieut.-General, Spanish National Army. Ridgway. These brief but forcible Mfemoranda are inscribed to the Electors of Westsninster, by whose permission the author was enabled to take a personal part in the contest to which they refer. They may serve, General Evans thinks, to mark the course of events which have led to the pre ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, January 27. SOCIALIS.U.-Lord BRouGHAur presented a petition from Mr Owen, the socialist, praying for a full and fair inquiry into the principles he advocates. The petitioner was not only alien and averse to those principles with which he was charged, but he was a man whose course of conduct was of the most peaceful nature, and when Mr W ilber. force vouched for his ...

... The most gratifying intelligence is daily received regard ing the operation of the new penny postage plan. All OUr citizens appear to have availed themselves of it, and in return have received the most ample benefits. The charge for letters received in Edinburgh on 10th January 1839 was 1731.; while, in spite of the tremendous reduction the revenue on the 10th January 1840 was no less than ...

... (Fromn our osrn Corre'~pondent.) FRANCE. There has been this week no sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, with the exception of one day devoted to Pet' tions. Members have been busily engaged in the emne committees, into which all the Chamber is divided, exa- mining the hundied and one projects of law which the Ministry has presented. Such a bundle of new browns as Marshal Soult has got in the ...

... The Marriage of the Queen to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, considered in a Letter to the People of Great Britain. Murray. This is a temperate and able statement, of great authority, on a question of the deepest interest to the English people. We rejoice to find it unstained with the slightest breath of party. Its purity and loftiness of tone, its marked earnestness of feeling, render it worthy ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, February 3. PRINCE ALBERT'S NATURALIZATION. - Lord MEL- BOURNE moved the order of the day for going into com- mittee on this bill, leaving the question Of precedence to be settled hereafter. The bill was then passed, the third clause being struck out. THE CHARTIST CONVICTS.-Lord BRoUmsGHA presented a petition numerously signed in favour of pardoning the Chartist ...

... ARIUVAL oF PRINCE ALBERT.-The Prince landed at Dover on Thursday, accompanied by the Duke his father, his elder brother, and suite, and attended by Lord Torrington and the Hon. Colonel Grey. They were re- ceived with all due horiours. On lantding. a salute was fired from the Western Heights. Colonel Munro (the commandant) was in attendance with Lieutenant-Colonel Thomson (Royal Engineers), ...

... Extract of a letter, dated Feb. 3:-_ Whilst the Orange journals here, and the Tory organs in England. are la- nenting the progress, and grossly misrepresenting the objects of the temperance movement in Ireland Protes- tants, Roman Catholics, Quakers, and Presbyterians alike, are cordially co-operatitg with Father Mathew in the pro- motion of this great social reformation TVie effects of their ...

... ToRtY CoNSoLATtON u:eDER DEFEAT.- T hun. dred and eighley-seven gentlemen of the House of Conmmons have solemnly recorded their opinion that Ministers do not possess the confidence of the I-ouse; three heored aced etqht gentlemen hae-r declined to say anything, ooe wacy or the other-this taciturn majority withholding the expression of their opinion upon the abject supplication of the ...

... FRANcE.-After a long trial, which excited very little interest, the examiination of witnesses, showing merely the same facts which appeared on the last trial, the Court of Peers on Friday camne to a decision, and sentenced Blanqui to the punishment of death, since commuted to imprisonment for life; Quignot and Elie to fifteen years' imprisontiment, five more to ten years, two to seven, and ...

... h ,shorthint to an impartial writer, it vould be to tell him Ifl rol g ifheresolves to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling hrbas~ at .th, let him proclaim war wvith mankind din ondod le pays UlbaSe pr.otbe'r to sivo nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of ?? ore, tho they h~upon hime the icon hands of the law; if he tells res hetheyhae any, then tho mobh attaeks him with ...