... LECTURESonthc VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE. - The Rev. Dr. Burnet, of Camberiell, delivered a lceture at thle Hanover Rooms, Hanover-square, on Tuesday, in reply to the RQv. Hugh Mi'Ncilc and others, upon the subject of the voluntary principle in connection with church government. Dr. Redford's lecture at thc Freemason's Tavern rclative to the same subject was reported by us last week. The body of the ...

... CAIBRID(B ELECTION COMMITTEE. DONis AY.-Tlhe ceitn!ittee iret to day at eleven o'clock. r Clarl s Lumoau, iort., chairman. stlor~t' atier cur adusntiion, upon an applicatin by Mr. estenl tilc comiulttee-room was cleared, anud upon oar re- i, itbout half an hour, Tbe (hair Wan paid the committee had come to the follow. n- resolation- Tite committee requires ptroot of ngmney in t iritil>lance( ...

... EXTRAORDINARY OCCURIuJECE'. It will b:- rtcollected by our riaders that a few weeks ago Foam par'iculars were given of the death by starvation of ant eccentric character, whove narne wne eupposed to be .Jump Foote, and who was found in an emaciated and dying Canb dIhion, in a celebrattd cave, near Farnhann, formerly the re- pated residence of a noted waitci, 11lother Ludlamr, and which was ...

... 1J1ELA1A'D, JtBLIN, MARCH 28. IROnM OUR OWN COIRRESPONDENT.] LORD S1ANLEXS BILL-RLPEAL OF THE IRISH REFORM ACT. The rusult of the division on Thursday night, in favour of the secoud reading of Lord Staule)'s Bill, bas been ballad with dlight by thie party fricifdly to a repeal ci the losglia- tive uniou between Oroat Britaiu arid ireland. That party had ?? thit dvrin li4g away. Tae ...

... ENIV ZEALAND. The Government have been blamed for acknow- ledging the independence of a portion of the northern extremity of New Zealand ; it is obvious, however, from the correspondence laid before Parliamivnt, that they have not been unmindflul of our interests in that quarter. It will be seen that ill the course of last autumn Captain Hobson was commissioned to proceed to New Zealand to ...

... ANTI- GORN-LAW DELEGATION. On Saturday the delegates re-assembled at Brown's Hotel. There was a most numerous attendance of deIegat~s, anid se- veral members of Parliament were present. JoHiN BROOKES, Esq., took the chair at three o'clock. Mr. COBDEN, in Moving the first resolutios, could not help giving expreas9io to the disgust which he telt at hit conduct of' a large portion of the House of ...

... LISBON, MARC 30. t'rsOM OUS owN COr5RESPONDHNT.1 As far as the result of the elections throughout tho country has hitherto transpired, the Chartist and go. vernment candidates appear to have succeeded almost ?? beyond all expection. The eompact between the ?? and ?? ha3 been very unfavournbly received out of Lisbon, and even here, the majority Is in favour of the KiDernment, though a ...

... THE MCRNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: SATURDAY, APIUL LI, 1840. The Tories seemed to think yesterday, in the Houses of Lords and Commons, that they had made a wonderful discovery in finding out that an Order in Council had been issued to empower the Courts of Admiralty and Vice-Admiralty to ad. judge and condemn any Chinese vessels which way be brought before those courts in the event of the Chinese ...

... I DUBLIN, APRIlL1. 'IOURt O~N. CoHRlFSPO'XDE.fT1f D)EATJH OF MRd. DRUylIVIOND. lo ?? lama,ilablle OlfUt Ila, -P'esJ tuew deepe91t giriof j~tale, 0 the city, a'od will procilce rida R,jrr~w~~ h p' pi'l , f:ow )Ltee extr, iniaty of' tht! cirtat, s- tO) tr ifthr A ?? pire-vious to has ,lefluse r.D:Uala(Gofeii Inax pletilu hit vjiioai5 rl-gaarditltt the plate WY i utrfel said* hav ...

... IMPERlIAL PARILIAMEN 1 HOUSE OF COMIONS.-W EDNESDAY. The Sti&k-r ?? k the choir at icur ,'clsek, MIr IAt 1K ES (URRIE prc'entcd a petition fromn North- 813ptoln 11igsuRt war with China and the opium trade; and fffitionq front Protestinit dlissentere at lleviordt,NVeston, ,,,id ltnlihro)ko, Northaniptons-iire, against grants of public, mn'n'y Itr chl,'rch exteu8ior. Sir K. WILMOI' presented a ...

... MADRID, MARCII 30. [raoM OUR OWN CORHESPONDENT.1 The following doop itch from the Duke de la Victolia, announcing the taking of Castillote, was received here late last night, and published as a Supplement to the Gazelte this morning:-:_ TO THE MINISTER Or WAR, &C. Excellent Sir-I have the satisfaction to inform you that the castle, town, and redoubts of Castillote are In the power of the ...

... LORD WIIIOTHESLEY IRUSSELL. TO '1'llE EDITOR O12F TIlM MORNING CEIIRONICLE. 6iat-flaving read in the 2imes, on Thursday last, a most utnjosilllable atlack on Lord John Rassell and lis brother, in corsequoeice of the recent appointment of the latter to a cnoxo;ry at Windsor, I immediately iorwarded t.) thc editsr what appeared to me a completu refutation of the chuirge. At, however, het has not ...