... ON THE PROBABLE SUCCESS OF THE WA WITH CHINA. The following letter, from a lieutenant in the appeared a few days ago in the Cheltenhaun Eranziner; SIR,-So very little is known in this country of China, particularly that part of it Canton, where the dispute now isting is likely to interrupt our tea trade; for the satisfactis your readers, and the public generally, I send you a few es from a ...

... $ -reign k (Solontal Intelligente. FRENCH NEWS. Among the proofs of good sense already afforded by the Thiers adminstration is the total abandonment of the Bona- partean plot, of which M. de Crouy Channel was the chief or the author, and 'vhieh made so much noise a few months since. He and M. Barginet, who had been brought a prisoner from Lyons, have, with all the other persons implicated, ...

... -epetal 'Vrlfatmeit u H O US E.' O F L;O R D S. THURSD.41`, April 9. -- -The Archbishop Or CANTiRBURY presented several petitions on the subject of the clergy reserves in Canada. Lord ELLNENBROUGH laid on the table the report of the select' committee on the affairs of the East India Company. In refer rence to the questions relative to the Canada question to be pro.. posed to the judges, his ...

... i ats .d FRANcE.-Paris papers of Friday and Saturday bring l Bsintelligence of the adoption by the Chamber of Peers of the a' . vote of the secret service money question, by a majority of a 90, the numbers having been 143 and 53. Thiers and his a colleagues have hitherto proceeded in the labours which devolve upon them with dignity and moderation. st r. SrAxs.-Letters from Madrid announce the ...

... On Saturday, the Deputation nc-assembled at Brown's Hotle, P'alace Vard, faonduo. Triere was ams numerous attendance of deputies, and several Mlembeso Parliament were present. WILLIAM DBROOK, Etq., of Huddersfield, took the choir at two O'clock. Mr. COBDOEN, in msoving the first resolution, could not help givirg expression to the dis gust which he felt at the conduct of a targe portion of the ...

... Pau HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY. APRIL 7. sub The Marquis of WESTMINSTER preoented a petition from a nel place in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of the ent Corn Laws; and staled that the opponents of the Corn Laws, which Whi lhe could not feel surprtsed at, were determined to form a joist-stock tun basns of agitation against these laws until they succeeded in their ro ...

... THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 184. - - - - - - . - - - - .- - * HRe passed in review the conduct of the Government during' the last elx years-chrping, criticising, siftilg, 0 and misrepresenting, and extracting. undoubtedly from I the' ample materials at lia diposal,' thoufl often p . einlirng tha ?? porttoes qth tarl decauents tob wkdii he ferred,: a ps ie case or apparent indiV ...

... I _.. _. The following amusing extracts are from the Parlia. mentary papers laid before the House of Commons on the Chinese dispute:- The Chinese Governwr's Opinion of the Chinese Military Resources. The soldiers and horses of the Celestial Empire, its thunder. ing forces, with guns and weapons, gather on the hills. If it were desired to make a great display of conquering chastisement, how ...

... I gAt stabistObb (TbUrlb. PREFERMENTS. On Monday last, the Rev. C. Whately, M.A. of Trinity C,, lege, Cambridge, was admitted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the newly consecrated Church of the Holy Trinity at Brinscomb, in the county of Gloucester. Patron, D. Ricard0 of Gatcomb Park, Eiq The Rev. J. Field. M.A. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, to the Chaplaincy of the County Gaol at ...

... RADICAL REETING IN L.EEDS. On Easter Monday, a numerous - meetinm of the 1t ,;hw'als of this town was held in the Vicar s Croft, fvr zwho purpose of memorialising her Majesty to hant a free 'rdon to Frost, Williams, and Jones, as-n~ll as to oailother persons convicted ofpolitioal *ofti8ces. Thbi;.eqaiaitionists waited on the Mayor iu the first insisnce, and he having refused to call tho ...

... UANAGEI MENT OF THE POOR. IP we consider the relief heldiout to the poor,in a 'el .purelypolitical nand prudential view, putting all moral' assoiations aside, we shall find that the b :y tem of reducing the pittance to the most scanty a portion, is fraught with evils, vast in magnitude, and a boundless in extent. Should .he object of Poor d Laws be to make the applicant a miserable, do-E ...

... SATURDAY, APRIL iS, iS4o. C-iURcH ExTENsiON.-It will be seen from our Parliamentary Report of Wednesday last, that Sir Robert Inglis has given notice that on the seventh of May, he will bring forward his measure on the subject of Church Exten- sion ; in other words, that lie will ask for a grant of public I money to be taken out of the pockets of all the people in lthis country England, ...