... IVEST INDlES. By the West Indian packet we have received papers and letters from Barbadoes to the 11 Ith, and from Ja. maica to the 24th December. The greatest order seems to reign in all the WVest India Islands, and the agricul. tural labourers are gradually settling down to habits of industry, since the disputes about the rate of wages have become less frequent, and their employers have ...

... BinUSSELS, FEn. 4.-His hoyal Highness Prince Albert and suite will leave this place to-morrow mornir.g, and will proceed vid Ghent, Ostenm, and Calais to Rngland. It is arranged that the prince shall cross over to Dover on Thursday or Friday, so as to reach Buckingham Palace upon Saturday. Daring the princes stay at this place he has only appeared once in public, and that upon an occasion ...

... ~ ONFOR THE MARRIAGE PREARTI JOFR B3UC'KINGHAM PALACE.-(a the morning of the aulsi- cios dy, laer 1li~ejsty, the Duchess of' Kent, the brides- maids, or train.bearers (twelve in number), thnd the officers of state, will asoemnble in Backitl9hmn Palace, and go from thence, in ?? to the garden QltrTcOe of St. James's talncein ohcehers Er Majesty will Proceed, up the grand tairce, to thi Ie ...

... TIME MANUFACTURING DIS16RICrTS-SATURDAY. _ IF 1 .A.A.1 .1.1 .. ll. . ?? . - A. A 13B AAIv, Itr ,-We have hlad iB declded Imrproaementt ii the demand for piece goods to-day, and this does not appear to have arlseu f rom any ipecll criuse. We are tlipoard to ceoaider it ain indicatlon of ltrirrc'vretrale. Pricos the same. YArtNO.-Spiniere are firmer to day, and an imiprove i state o0 tings ...

... PETiTION OF IVILLIAM PARE. [PROOf TOE SUIIPPLEMENT ITTOIB VOTES 01'7TlEL ORDS, F'EBRAiRY 4, 184,10.] The Thle petition ot' tie urderslii8ied William Pare, Auiptiratenident registrar of birtb5, dhatls, slid mom- riages, for the district of Blrerininigbano Shoewetir, That your petitioner ha 9 read a notice in the printed votes of j eur hoeiourabl house of a motion Oa Thursday next, to t he ...

... SHIPWRECX OF THE BA IQUE DUKB OF SUSSI/X. I STnoMr RESS, JAN. 2ri.-Darlng l. Ia't tbree days It has blown a complete hijrricuno from ttce N.W. to S.W. Last aglt, at eight o'clock i x , the hprque Duke of Sussex, from Nerwastle to the Cape of (G od Hlope, in en- deavourirg to make the harbour, was driven on haorv on the rocks to the westward of the old chlinrcl, and has becotea a complete ...

... REPRBSENTATION OF T1IE 2VVBR- I N'ESS BURGHS. On Friday a meeting of electors took place in Inver- neFs, supporters of Mr. Macleod, M.l, at the last election. The rumoured retirement of that gentleman, owing to ill health, had been again confldently stated, and the Conser- vative caudidate, Mr. Fraser, Crormarty Fouse, was said to bave renewed his canvass, with increased assiduity, in con. ...

... IIRBLAND. * DUBLIN, Fats. 5. [FROM oun ?? CORrESl'ONDENT,1 MEATHI ELECTION. Tire election for a representative of tire county of eti, to till the vacancy caused by tie resigttatiot of Mr. Morgan O'Conn1ll, tooki place yesterday in the oofrt-liotsO O Triti. Mr. Corhally, brother inlaw Of tthe Eatrl of Fiongal, was Putt in nomilation by Anthotty Strong l y, ]US m.sI., seconduld by Nichiohas ?? F ...

... LON DON: MONDAY, F.EBRUjyY :3, 1840. Sir.). Y. BUTLLR'S motion has been defeated by a majority of 21. By this decisive vote the House of' Commons has declared its confidence in Lord MVLBOUnrNF's Administration, and shown the utter impossibility of any Tory Ministry obtaining a Par- lianmentaryamajority, or conrdncting the affairs of the country. The importance of the vote, however, is as ...

... ARRI VAL OF PRINCE ALBERT. Y EtilOu ?? oII C'oBsEco 'ONlcNT.) ' Dovia, TisiUtSDAY Nwt IM-Ilhavc to annoulce to you the safc arrival of his Sercnc llighoess the Prince Albert, o of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, accompanied by the Duke c his father, his elder brother, arid suite, and attended by Lord Torrington and the Honourable Colonel Grey. Y I aa informied they arrived from Brussels at Oitend yes- ...

... St. James'e Palace, February , 1840. The Lord Chamberlain has received so many more appli- cations for admission to St. JaMOsBs Palac1, on M donday next, than he has tickets to dispose of, that he is obliged to take tbis mode of expressing his regret to thosc persons whose wishes he is unable to comply with, and to whom the Lord Chamberlain ia prevented addressing anzwers indi- vidilally. Her ...

... IANTI-GCORNLAW MBETINB AT GUILD- I BALL. Yesterday, at two o'clock, in consequence of a requisition, numerously signed by the bankers, merchants, and traders of tile metropolis, a mneetitig was conveiied at the Council Cvamlsar, Guildhall, by the Lord Mayor, to take into con- sidteratioln the existing corn-laws, and the propriety of peti- tioning ?? for an alteration or re-sal of those laws. ...