... ~taleonian ouvcrrn.I EDINBURGH. MON-DAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1844. Mr J. Talbot Clifton walked the course in South Lan- cashire on Friday last. It is understood that the honour- able gentleman is a locum tenens for the son of Lord Stan-. ley. The sudden resignation of this seat by that noble lord appears to be still an enigma to al, save his col- leagues. The great dinner given to Mr O'Connell and ...

... 5EQUESTILATIONS. September 19. JoHN HERRIOT, wine and spirit merchant, Jao. mraica Street, Glasgow-Creditors meet in the writing-chambers of William M'Ewan, Miller Street there, 30th September and 21st October, two o'clock. September 20. ALEXANDER MURRAY, farmer and cattle dealer, lately at Muirhouse. near Cramond, and presently residing at Canongate, Edinburgh-Creditors meet in Stevenson's ...

... PUNCH'S GUID TO PARTIES. To those who are ju st emerging from the verdancy of youth, and to those young men in the city' who w.ish to wrsiggle themselves into good society, .Punch affectionately addresses the following advice-commniserating the pitiable mortifica- tions inflicted on young gentlemen whom he has seen defiling drawting-rooms (consecrated to evening parties anod full-dress), ...

... THE FRE NCH AT TAMI. (From the M.achester Guardian) We have been favoured with a letter from Liverpool Writ- ten 1 a person (vwe believe born in this neighbourhood) Who has just arrived, by way of the United States, from the island of Tahiti. Re lett that island on the loth January, which, we believe, is a more recent date than that of any intelligence prevonsly receivcd in this country. He ...

... (INaval and Miitary Gazette.) ha tu The subject which still engrosses the greatest kr attention of naval men, is one which we com- re mented on in our retrospect for 1842. namely, re the advance which France is making in the Se creation of a powerful steam navy; and it is in- th (feed a question which merits the most serious cr regard. By a recent statement which appeared in the en French ...

... POST OFFICE ESPION-AGE. COXXoN^S' RPORT. The committees of secrecy appointed to inquire into the state of the law in respec of the detai letters at the eneal otOfice, and into the mode under which the authority given for such detaining and opening has been exer- cised, and to report their opinion and observations thereupon to the house, and to whom several petitions were referred, have exam ...

... BstvwtcS.-This morning (Friday) a few boats have pretty good shots, the highest 12 cans, but most of them only about half a cran. The highest take at Spittal two crans. The fishermen are looking anxiously forward to the rise of the tides next week, when we trust they will be more successful than they have been. Prices are about 15s. to 1 8s. per cran for the small quantities, and, as there are ...

... I (From our Special Corresp7ondet.) LO2xDI, TCEsDAY MORINIG. Theaetivitynowdisplayed in our dockyards and arsenals inl fitting out ships for Tangiers. is proof Positive, if any vwere wvanting, of the importance attached by our Government to the war between France and Morocco. In my last communi- cation I mentioned the Dnames of the vessels put into imme- diate requisition for that service, ...

... I F4VrtUVjD_# EDINBURGH. SATURDAY, FEBRVARY 3. As we will be in the receipt of her MAJESTY'S Speech before going to press, it would be ridi- culous to speculate in one column on the pro- bable contents of a document which will be itself found in the next. We may only hazard the opinion, that the anticipations of the Times, and' which we doubt not, proceed on sound data, will be realised. In ...

... NCE. (r. owt Our Special .rpount) Lox-Do,. SArranDA Y0oaDndG Nothing can equal the surprise and irig.nationa rhich the sentence of Mr O'Connell in the 1rish Court of Quceen Bears has caused throughaout this great metropoli'. It ha' 05tltisdri the moderate men of all parties, who set it ?? as a debire on the part of the Government to gratify the renvarcfal and unappeasable appetite of the ...

... LATEST NEWS, (Fr7?i our S peciad Corr ect LoNDos, TuESDAy EVEwC,. It is alrmtost impossible to peruse with any degree of atten- ton the accounts daily receiving of the p edings of the French force in the interior and on the coast of Morocco, without arriving at the conclusion that a crisis is impending, which, if not skilfuly avoided, is calculated to provoke a war between that power and great ...

... - I th Dragoon Guards- Cape of Good Hope, May 15.-The ,th are at Beaufort, where, in spite of the climate, which is dreadful, they manage to hunt and have races. The hounds are now in excellent training. Gol. Richardson, who succeeds Col. Kennedy, is a young man for such a command, but highly 2 popular, beloved, and respected. A singular precedent was es- t tablished the other day. When the ...