... CENTRALIZATION, t['ROM AN UNrUDLISItED Wora OF CORMENIN.1 France is In an excellent position for attacking foreign foes, or for defending herself against her internal ones. Here there are no immense, frozen, overflowing rivers; no mountains too high, no ravines where civil war can be nourished and harboured. Our north and south nro connected, not by degrees of longitude, but by the grcat- ness ...

... CHARTBRHOUSE-SQUARE'INFIRIARY. I On Tuesday the anniversary, of thid monft exevilent insti tution was celebrated at the Alibon Tavern, the Right Hononrable the Lord Mayor in the claatr. After the preliminary toasts were drunk with the usual honoturs, The LORD MAYoR rose to propose ' Prosperity to the nstittutlon. -le hadh he staid,preidted overm any ainnivor- sarelebrations ofe aritiesi tbe ...

... LON DON; MONDAY, JUNB 1, 1840. I Our Paris express brings the intelligence of the 1 death of the King of PRUSSIA. The question raised by Lord STANLEY'S monstrous Registration Bill for Ireland (which, it would seem, I his party are by no means over-anxious to press i forward) narrows itself, il. truth, to the singleissue-1 whether Ireland is or is not enititled to have the Re- form Act carried ...

... [rRiOU TIP rill UAMPeI8I1 TELEIGRAPHI.] Tbr Benele, sarveying ship, was in Cambridge Gulf, mIt. 14. long. 128., on the 0:11 January, surveying a portion of the co0st of New Holland, which runs east and west, imme- diatoly to the west of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Taey had bcen lortunate enough to discover two navigable rivers, one tamed Adelaide, in lat. 12 long. 131. B., wbich extended 120 ...

... UNITED STAT4OS,*46. 4. We have recived from our Liverpod co.r Wndtliet. New York papers to the 12th ult.,. beln three days Jate than those reocived by the Greit Weiterm. These psrp. were brought by the ships HlrAia, pnd 1e0phq, 1bot of which arrived at Livorpool oR SAWUdAy.~, T4!ti-U, gence contained ia these paperan posses bitt lltt. lntet., We subjoin a few extracts:- The steam-packet ...

... BREVIATES OF PENDING BILLS, OR NYOTES ON TilE ORDERS OB 1' DAY. MONDAY, JUNE 1. 1. Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill-coen. mittee. 2. Customs, &c., Duties Bill-committee, t. Admiralty Court (Judges' Salary) Bill-further consideration of report. 4. Pilots Bill-second reading. 5. Registration of Voters Bill-second reading. 6. Right of Voting Bill-second reading. 7. Beet-root Sugar ...

... COURT'' CIRCULAR. The Qiecn and Prince Albirt, and the Queen 1) wager, altedehd divine servici yesterday morinir in tbe Chapel Rival, St. Jarnet's. The sertion was preaeheid by the Hon enD Rvev. Is' E len, whs to:k his tbsxt Ironm Rinmin, ciap. x v. 2. The prayers were read by the Rw. lie lessons by tile ?? R. C Packman, snd thie altar strvice by tbe R1ev. Dr. Wesley and th Rev, R C- Packulain ...

... THE DUKE OF BUfKdNGIIAMI AND THB LABOUJ.jR. In a report of the propeedingi of the Aylesbury Petty 9essians of Siturday last, it is state~l that the governor of th3 Aylesbury Unlin poor-house observed, in reply to an observation of some of the magistrates that 83. a wick Wvas a shiamleful rate of wages, that a young loan came into the workhouse tie previous day, who bad been hoeing beaus tor ...

... CHILDRBNS' FRIEND SOCIETY. O 2 Saturday the annual meetino of the supportero of this society took place at Exeter Haill Earl Grosvenor hR the chair. The meetini was advertised for ttvelve o'clock, but a'i hour an4 a half after that time had ?? before Ibe noble chairman appeared. Oa the patforra we obeerved Lady (eorge Merray, Hlon. Mlss Marray,.flnd eevertl other ladies, as well as the ...

... IDESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN MORAY- I SHIRM. The ZIqin Courant of Friday 1ast states, that Moray- shire hag keen Brain visited with a flod nearly as severe as the mimnorable fleor of 1829. About one o'clock on Saturday morning, the ]7th ins ant, the rain (says the paper referred to) came en, and continued to fall swith but little intermission, and with more or less severity, for the spaee of forty ...

... PORTUGAL, [The following appeared in a Second Edition of our palmer of i e8terday]:_ By the Braganza steamer, which arrived at Fal- mouth oil Saturday, 'rom the Peninsula, we Rave rec-eived the following letter from our corresponl- (Ient at Lisbon:_ OPENING OF THE CORTES AT LISBON. LJABON, MAY 25. The Cortes were opened, this day, at One p.m., by the Queen il person. The following is a ...

... LON DON: TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 14f. In the Housm of LOnDS, lest night, numerous pe- itions were presented against Church extension. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition signed by ,early all the respectable attorneys of Nottingham, q favour of the LORD CIIANCELLOR'S Bill for re- rrnming the Court of Chancery. The Marquess of BLIEADALBANX, on presenting R petition from Scotland against intrusion, took ...