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... Yesterday evening a most splendid banquet was given by the Lord Mayor to Sir Robert Peel and a distinguished party. The dinner was served up ia the Egyptian Hall, and the plate exhibited on the occasion cost nearly L.100,000. The company present on the occasion amounted to about 150 persons. After the removal of the cloth, the LORD MAson, who appeared to be labouring under a severe hoarse- ...
... I FREEMAN'S VORRESPONDENO.I I THE DISTRESSED IRISH IN PAISLEY loTBEfOTOR OF TRZ FREE1 AX. : Paisley, 4th April, l ds43. SIRHaving befriended, as you have done, my oppressed people-for which good work I have thanked you, and thank you again-you will feel pleasure, I am Sure, in re- publishing the paragraphs bearing upon the ?? of the Irish from relief in Paisley, which you will find in the ...
... I Wednesday the Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Ministers, and a distinguished circle of guests, at the Mansion house. The company numbered upwards of 15O persons. After the usual toasts had been drunk, the Lord Mayor gave his excellent friend on his right hand (Sir R. Peel), who had condescended that night to come from that place, where they all knew that he so ably dis- charged his ...
... NEWPORT UNION.—The followfng is the official return made by the Clerk, Mr. W.D. Evans,'of the Guardians oi this Union, for the ensuing year :—Bedwas, Thomas Price Bettws, John Hodgkinson Bishton, Benjamin Samuel Caerleon, George Daniel; Cliristchurch, James Milner; Coed- kernew, William Watkins; DuffVyn, J.D. Collins; Gold- cliffe, William Baker; Graig, Vdlliam Edmunds; Henllys' John Samuel; ...
... ODDFELLOWS' TEA PARTY, IN AID OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' FUND. On Monday, April 3, the brothers of the Usk Vale Brecon- ian Lodge of Oddfellows belonging to the Abergavenny dill. trict, held their tea partv, the profits of which were to be do, voted to that noble and benovolent object-the raising of a fond to support the widows and the orphans of their deceased brethren. The entertainment was ...
... BANBURY, APRIL 0. On the 3d inst. was married Mr. George Armitt, butcher, of Banbury, to Miss Whitlock, of Witney. DiED.-On the 24th ult: Miss Elizabeth Brabant, of Blox- hlam, aged 66 ?? the 29th ult. at Farthinghle, Saral Louisa, daughter of Mr. Thomas George, aged 11 years. LUcrunEs.-On Thursday evening last Mrs. C. L. BalfoAr delivered a most interesting and valuable lecture on the Intel ...
... THE C0 MET. TO TIE EDITOR OF THE LONDON SUTN. SMR,-_ have reason to believe that the present great comet has a period of 257. years, but that owing to the comparative smallness of the nucleus it suffers extensive perturbations by the large planets, and that it has on this occasion been retarded some two Years or more. It wvas seen, however,, on the last occasion, in the sign pisces, whefrein ...
... YORIKSHIRE NEWSPAPERS. 0SlI.AL RETURN OF STAMPS issued from the Stamp Oflce to Newspapersj during the six months (27 weeks) from July to December, 1842 Stamps vekW Advertise- received veer- mert within Six a Duties Months, age. pad X.s. d. LEEDS 4 .RCURY 252,000 9,333 465 15 0 Leeds Intelligencer .. 68,500 2,537 262 16 (3 Leeds Times ?? 78,000 2,889 82 16 0 Leeds Conservative jonmnal ?? 12,000 ...
... ArPOINT'igNT.-Mr. Errington, of Wakefield, the highly respected clerk to the treasurer of the Riding, has been appointed by the justices to succeed Mr. T. F. Ledger, in the offices of high constable of the lower division of Agbrigg, and inspector of weights and measures. AN AGED SPECIMEN OF DEPRAVITY.-O1 Mon- day last, a man named John Thompson, resident in Brewery Field, was brought before ...
... ECCLESIAS17CAL COUR7TS BILL. It TILE PETITION OP THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY TO THlE HOUSE OP COMMONS, 1f Humblyshoweth-Ttiat your petitioners feel it incun- LI bent oil tlhnm to call the attention of your honourablei house to a bill now pending in Parliament for re-modelling the erclesiastical courts, and to its probable operation an the general worhing of the law. Taat your petitieners ...
... IAnnual lists are published by the Commissioncrs of the Metropolitan Police, exhjibiting the numrbers rif izrl~frislri I I.. I]1. .¢. of individuals who have leen taken iDto custody, 5 the nature of the offences with which they are charged, and the results ; and, though not disposed ( to place impllicit confidence iu what may be termed c isolated infreences fiom1 statistical documents, we ...
... IAccording to the accounts in the Scotch paper rcceived yesterday, thele is every prospect of a termination of thc coliision betwee~n the Churca of Scotland mid the courts of law. It seems the elec- tions to the approaching General Assembly arc going against the Non-intrusionists, so that they will probably be in a minority, in which case the ob- noxious Veto Act will be repealed. The agent ...