... ?Odrrtce, oto lubattions, kc. SLIDING PAVstMENT.-Opportunely or inopportunely,- the reader may decide,-a Mr. Kirk, who has taken out a patent for his invention, has just opened, in the Regeat's Park, a specimen sheet of artificial ice for the amusement of skaters. It consists of a composition laid down in the manner of the asphalt pavement; and the patentee pro. poses to form a society for the ...

... NEWV YEAR'S EVE AND NEW YEAR'S DAY. I THIrs is the time of good wishes; you cannot meet a friend but lie grasps your hrand, and most heartily wishes * The compliments of the season ;` and we wish it were possible, with one magnetic touch, to grasp the hands of all our readers, and tell them with what cordial sincerity wve wish them iany happy returns of this period, and each one bringing new ...

... misotuical Mpitolne. I DOMESTIC AND METROPOL[TAN. t Tsit COu'RT.-Thl court remains at Windsor. Her Majesty and the young Prince of Wales continue in perfect d health. There have been many rursours regarding the royal christcning, l and the period wvhen it is supposed to take place. Some accounts state, that it is likely to occur carly in Fcbruary. Thu foilowigetetemetit lies, hovever beon ...

... vrobfncial. 1 ' 1 _ ' . .ra . . Considerable defalcations have lately occurred in the Post-oflice at Cheltelhanm, for which the postmaster of the town has been committed for trial. Colonel Thompson is lecturing on the corn law at Liver- pool, but whether as an itinerant stipendiary of the league, or at his own cost, the prints of that touvn do not tell us. TUR Sussex LaVELS.-All the lowlands ...

... Alga1l Intellience. HA~.eNaY CHUROCH-RSATI.-Dr. Lnshington has decided in favour. of the Hackney church rate, to the great mortifi- cation of the dissenters and radicals in that parish. He has decided these three points-Firstly, That a chuich-rate is due by common law, and maybe assessed andlevied bythe churchwardens, notwithstanding the refusal of the vestry. Secondly, That it is no objection ...

... The usual meetin, gr v, -n - - . asd wheat,-Lteting 01 this Society was held on Tuesday evenoing last, Tits. Thompson, Esq., in the chair. On the President's table wvas exhibited the fine specimen of a or cidile, presented by Sir William Pearson;n part of the hair , a mummy, ad a piece of cloth, il which it had been : encaseds specimen of the fin-tailed dock, presented by . rn. Stickney, reg. ...

... WESLEyAN METHODIST ASSOCIATION MISSIONS. Id On Tuosdoy last, a Itighly Interesting and respectable meeliog Is was held In the secoelJ-reelts. under Pieaasint-otrwet Chapel, the PI' be ?? of which was to take leave of the R1ev. Thomas Penn ok 0 beand the Rev. Matthewflttxter. who. with their famlies are about as I e to eatbark in the Mary Jones for Kingston, Jamaica, Mr. Pen- It on riook ...

... A correspondent, who signs himself Amicus, has addres- twhe sed to us the following request:- sort I shall be much obliged to you or any of your readers to state fact the precise Uries in sehiab, the original endowment for the Cor- lowi poration Schools was bequeathed, the name of tbo testator, and ., the dite it bearO. debt We have to inform our correspondent, that there was so it no ...

... AlvrI.coc t LAW LECTURE. on jhlordav evening last, John Brown, Esq..-delivered it S second anid concluding lecture, on the subject of the I ornilawsa, at the. Assembly-sRocm, Prince's street, to a 5sO~5and, indeed, crowded audience. ,fh, appearance of the lecturer on the platform was, as on former oca'1,bie with the most rapturous shouts thelaue ad is ddrsswas warmly cheered throughout. Of ...

... AGRXCUY&TJlURA1 ZNTZLLcENCEj. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. At a montlely cooeecil, held on Wednesday, the let December, preseut, Henry H-andcley, Esq., presideset, in the chair, Duke of RilroeEarl Spenicer,. Col. Austen, David Barclay, Esq., AliP,'Ilso= o Raymond Barker, REq,, Hleasr Blsatshard, Esq., French Burke, Esq., Col. Cheallnr, time ean,, Esq., Humt- phrey Gibbs, Esq., ...

... DUBLIN PR!SONqS. ¶. (Abridged fre he Irsprtos-.-General's Roporl.) Byree to -;v~ _.*WGATZ. tregret to barset out by confessing that the actual state of Newgate, as I became intimately acquainted with its antiquated recesses, far exceeded my worst antici- pations.foexeddm wosanii The original construction of Newgate is so indifferent as to preclude the possibility of an effort to improve it. ...

... TBHEFREI1MAN'`SJbMRN AL DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMSBER I, 1841. I The Castle organ of yesterday publishes the names of certain gentlemen in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, who have been appointed to the corn- mission of the peace, in the room of the late Alder- men, and other ex-ojfficio magistrates of the defunct Corporations, whose judicial powers were cut off, unwept and unannealed, by the chime ...