... i THE STATE OF THE FRENCH NAVY. BY I I THB PlINCE OF JOINYVILLE. We mentioned yesterday that his Royal Highness , the Prince of Joinville was about to enter the lists ft of royal and noble authors, as the author of a paul- ul phlet on the state of the French Navy. The pam- ti phlet appeared on Wednesday, and has created notl small sensation among Parisian politicians. At the In late hour at ...

... All the Ministerialist, have been in high glee since Menday night. They had a very great, and, by the public, a very un- expected victory,, on Monday night, over those whom they cal the humanity men.' It was indeed generally expected thast Lord Ashley's ten-hours clause in the Factory Bill, which he had carried by small majorities a few weeks ago, would nO longer be euccessful. The ...

... Sale of, Mr.Jeremiah Hannan's Collec- of M.'tion of Pictures. I Messrs. Christie and Mansor's auction rooms were on Friday literally thronged wilh noblemen and gentlemen, attracted by the sale ot the very celebrated collection of pictures; late the property of Mr. Jeremiah Hlarman, ;de- ceased. The Duke of Cleveland, Sir Robert Peel, Earl Powys; Lards Grosvenor, Hawarden, Radstock, and Nor- ...

... ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION- HO USE. Last evening the Lord Mayor gave a grand banquet to ber Majesty's Ministers, and a numerous and brilliant lelemblage of gueets. Among the company we observed the Lord Mayor, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharuclifts, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Liocoln, the Earl of Devon, tbe Earl of Shaftes- bury, Lortl Goanvilla SonmeRset, Viscount Canning, Lord Eliot ...

... RVAIGRATIOk TO THE UNITED STATES. SPRING LARS, MUKWONAGO, APRIL 14. ' %TRAOC Or A LETTER VloX AN EMIGRANT.] MIlwaukiie, the plsAs of our destination, i6 situated on Lake ibchigan, Bod a noble seaport It will one day be. Even now its populatlon amounts to more than 6,000, al. thouh eight years ago the whole of this territory (Wie- ,consin) was in the poseeselon of the Indian tribes. There are ...

... .THE ANNEXATION OF TREAS TOTME UNITED STA TBS. We continue to publish the dooiments which wvr find in the Anierican papers relative to this event, and subjoin the message of President Tyler (of which wve inerely gave :he substance yesterday), the letter of Mr. Clay, the letter of Nlr. Calhoun to Mr. Pakenhamn, and the treaty of annexation as presented to the senate:- MESSAGE TO THE SENATE OF ...

... IMP REAL PARLIAMENT1 HOUlSE OF Jl.0 nS--FouDAY. I.6 l VITY WILLIAM presented it p atition from certain Q Qu.,1m' in Irfiland, for the abolition of the punishment of nb.t:tol;1 a petition f oin, nd and n lud Dunbar in fit- vour )' tte North Biritish Railway. Tim 1I,;ke of BIJUCCLEUtCH presented several petitions from Svotland in favour of thou atuignltation of tho salaries granteted ' l ...

... MADRID, MAY 9. [FROM OUR OWN CORREBPONDENT.1 There appears little doubt that the Queen's journey to Barcelona is now decided on, and that It will commence about the 2W itb iut. Tho Corresponsal of this evening con- firms the report. It is expected that several members of the government and the diplomatic body will go with the court on this excursion. Senor Mon's disinclination to remain in the ...

... NATIONAL ANTI - CORN-LAW LEAGUE. red cbe The National Anti-Corn-law League held its weekly meeting yesterday evening, at Covent Oarden Theatre. of Every part of the house was full. Among the gentlemen the present were:- ear John Bright, .Esq., M.P., (ia the chair), the 11 a. C. tWe Pelham Villiers, M,P,, Major-G5eneral Briggs, James Wil- 300 ta esa, E~q , Rev. J. Burnett, John Travere, Eeq., ...

... RESTRAINTS ON ADULT LABOUJP TO CHARLES BULLER, EsQ., MP. Slt-It is impobsible not to admire the ingenuity of the 'arguments by which you have lately supported the prin- elple of legislative interference with the right of every adult member of the community to dispose of his own labour in the way which seems to him most to his advantage. That I cannot assent to your reasoning I must attribute ...

... :.- $PAIX, MADRID, M1AY 10. I-- .5O~f OVRt OWN CORRuEPONDPWNT.1 T be people ner el a CU u o * -'- e l . 41, )Iorocco affair, and the large preparations making by the gruperox Abdsebumale, Who, if the accounts received lately are true, seems disposed to adopt the offensive, and to have mean for doing so, whicl the Spanish government eosld scarcely have anticipated whab they allowde their organs ...

... LONDON, Saturday Morning, May 18, 1844. PARLIAMENT LAST NIGHT. In the House of Lords Lord Brougham called attention to. the proposed annexation of Texas with the United States, imd pointed out briefly the probable political effects of such a measure, by giving the United States a great additional extent of sea-coast, and a prepon- derance in the gulf of Mexico, not to mention its unhappy ...