... FOREICN AFFAIRS. iM. FRANCE. The Moniteur announces the promotion ofthe Prince de Join- ville to the rank of Vice Admiral, and intimates that this proof of the Royal favor should be regarded as only the first testimony of his Majesty's satisfaction at the conduct of the Prince and all under his command in the recent operations on the coast of Morocco. The Moniteur adds, that rewards and ...

... T H1 : BE; R A. [LATEST EDITI0N.] SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1844. The Parliamentary Session for 1844 will be virtually dead ere the sentences that we are inditing as its fune- ral rites, can be perused by the readers of The Era. It is about to undergo a galvanic resuscitation when the Judges deliver their opinion as to the Writ of Error, but the House will not leave their own pecu- liar game to ...

... Some difficulty has been this week experienced, in consequence of a decision pronounced by Mr Corn- missioner Fonblanque on Saturday being in direct oppo- sition to a circular issued by Lord Brougham on impri- sonment for debt. It seems that the Commissioner is of opinion that an attorney-at-law, and not any agent whom an applicant may appoint, must attest the signa- ture of an insolvent to ...

... FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a discussion took place upon the motion brought forward for the prevention of bribery at elections. The motion was agreed to without a division. The Chamber then com- menced the debate upon the secret service money bill. M. F. Barrot (the brother of M. Odillon Barrot, the leader of the opposition) made a long speech against the bill, and declared ...

... r O L I T ICa AL ?? TaxE DcoNs Trx.-A clerk submits to the Morning Chronicle the following case. He says_ I was engaged at a salary of 1501. per annum (fourteen years ago), which I have always received for my own convenience by weekly payments of 21. 17s. 8d. In the first two assessment returns I returned myself as receiving 1501. When the third assessment came in it occurred to me to ...

... THURSDAY, MAY 30.-One of the most extraordi- nary scenes that ever took place in a court of Justice occurred this morning upon Mr O'ConnelI's ape pearance in Court. All parts of the Queen's Bench were crowded, and none more closely filled than the place assigned to the junior members of the bar. These, with the exception of a few-certainly not more than four or five-rose upon Mr O'Connell's ...

... BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS, &c.-The British and Foreign Temperance Society's anniversary meeting was held at the Music Hall, Store street, Lord Teignmouth in the chair. The meeting was at intervals of a most uproarious character, owing to the interruption of a large body of teetotallers, who congresated in great numbers in the hall. The Bishop of Norwich briefly moved the adoption of the report. ...

... _ POSTSCRIPT LONDON, Saturday Morning, June 22, 1844. PARLIAMENT LAST NIGHT. The report of the debates in another column suffi- ciently describes the proceedings in both houses of par- liament; but we may here notice what took place in the Lords.-Lord Brougham called attention to the report ont his bill for the amendment of the insolvent debtors' act, which he contrasted very favourably with ...

... [ HOUSE O LORDS. Monday, April 22. The house sat for about half an hour, and was mainly occupied in routine business. Tuesday, April 23. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that he would move the second reading of the dissenters' chapels bill on Friday, but take the discussion on it on going into com- mittee. CATHOLIC JURORS IN IRELAND.-The Marquis of NORMANBY put the question relative to the ...

... REPEAL ASSOCIATIOX. On Monday the doors of the Conciliation Hall were at an early hour besieged by applicants for admis4on, At a quarter past one Mr O'Connell entered the build- ing, which was crowded to excess, and was received with the most enthusiastic demonstrations of regard. Mr Smith O'Brien, M. P., was called to the chair. Mr O'Connell begged that they would keep some of their shouts ...

... CHARsTirs.-At a quarterly general meeting of the governors of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's inn road the report acknowledged a number of munificent doe ?? Queen Dowager, 100 guineas; the King of Hanover, 300 guineas; and Mr J. H. Puget, o' Messrs Puget and Bainbridge's bank, 300 guineas, i, . three separate donations of 100 guineas each. He was prompted by a wish to stimulate others to the ...

... I N O TABILIA. NrEBInun's HISTORICAL DEPEcT.-We have no righ to require that an author, who has done in his depart- ment great things which no one before him had done, or could do, should have done all other good things likewise. But without meaning disparagement to Niebuhr, it has always struck us as remarkable, that a mind so fitted to throw light upon the dark places in the Roman manner of ...