... FOREICN AFFAIRS FRANCE. The Paris Papers of' Friday and Satturd~ ?? set in remarkably fine, contai no new, a continuance. with every prttp5, (, The Mayor of Rouen, in a proclamation addressed to tei habitants of that Citty sOlicittiO their charity ins favor th sufferers by the whirlwind of Tuesday last, mention5 L' the number of killed already removed from under th than th three manufactories ...

... I FROM FRIDAY'S LONDON CAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 19. ]st or Grenadier Foot Guards: Lieut.-Col. C. J. Hill, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice G. W. Eyres, who exchanges; Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. P. A. E. Freke to be Cap- tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires; Ea- sign and Lieut. R. Bradford to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur- ...

... INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO SIR J. GRAHAM uPO4 THE ANOMALOUS STATE OF AUTHORITIES IN THE BOROUGH OF BIRMiNGHAM. MENc OF BIaRMINGHlAM,-Before I commence my letter, I feel an explanation is due to you why I,a non-resident, should interfere with your local affairs. My answer is, tied to no party or junta whatsoever, but having for many years been connected with a large portion of the tradesmen of ...

... -- - - - _ _ I One of those extraordinary sights which can only be parallelled in Old England,- and are only evoked under peculiar circus- stances, was exhibited, on Wednesday last, in the spacious and elegant Town Hall of this populous, intelligent, and manufac. turing town. The meeting was got up to celebrate no triumph of party, but the release of the town, in its collective trade and ...

... PROGRAMMWE OF THE MEETINC. iTUESDAY, Si'TExBRE. 16. The FITZWILLIA3A STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 ede th olds to carry 7st 5ib; four, 8st Sib; five, 8st SI.; six, at' a-o 9st; mile andi a half. . nx rdaed, The CH}AMPAINrE STAKES of 50 sovseach, h ft, for twvo years olds; colt, 8st 71b- fillies, 8st Sb; the second horse to save his stae; fro&m th' [led blouse to the Ending-poet. Col; Ansan's ...

... _ ?? HOUSE OF LORDS. M1oiiq&y.-Their Lordships met at five o'clock. On the motion of Lord Wharnoiffe, the Consolidated Fund Bill was read a third time and passed. The Property-tax Bill was read a second time, on the understanding that the discussion be taken on the third ?? Companies' Clauses Consoli- dation Bill then passed through Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Tuesday.-The ...

... A boy, named William Austen, was seriouslyhurt on Sunday morning by the fall of a dower-pot from an upper window on hiis uncovered head, as he was walking along Wilstead-street, Somers-town. He received a severe concussion of the brain, and is not expected to ?? crop of hay round the metropolis, with the exception of a few fields, will this year ex- ceed the usual ?? distribution of medals and ...

... -~ ~ ?? (From the 'Times.') Captain Boldero has incurred the animadversion of the Committee for having trafficked largely in railway shares, through Mr Hignett, solicitor to the Board of Ordnance, who, it is stated, had no authority whatever to act on behalf of. the Board as represented by him in his letters to the railway authorities. The Committee also report that it had come to their ...

... LONDON, Saturday Morning, April 12, 1815. The contents of the Paris journals of Thursday, including their reports of the sittings in the Cbam- bers of Peers and Deputies on the day before, pre- sent very little inserest. Most of them notice the creation of four peers, which was announced in the M[oniteur of Wednesday, and La Presse states that several morei will be shortly created, among whom ...

... Accounts from Spain describe the fate of the unhappy General Zurbano. He was taken on the l9th, and shot, without trial, on the 21st. The Phare des Pyrenees gives the following account of his arrest and execution ,'fiTh arrest was effected on the 19th by an old par- name of El Rayo, at a house in the e, v~i~r 2loogrono, where Zurbano had kept himself his brother-in-law, Cayetano Muro, an The ...

... BUsINEs OF T~lE POST OFFICE.-O1 Saturday upwards of SO,000 letters were received at the General Post office by the West India mail, which arrived after the dispatch of the morning and mid-day mails. These, and an extraordinary influx of newspapers, kept the ivhole estab- lishment in full work till near nine o'clock, when the last of the bags were dispatched by the night mails. ReOrEtNING OF ...

... THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. RESIGNATION OF MB GREY POETE&.-.At the meeting on Monday Mr Smith O'Brien read the following letter from Mr Grey Porter, announcing his secession from the society:- ' Shelbourne hotel, May 3, 1845. Dear Sir,-Yesterday evening I read the speeches at the Dundalk dinner, and as it seems to me that the association is now thoroughly pledged by its leaders to the ...