... The state of Switzerland is asuming a serious aspect. The whole of the Council of State of the Canton of Vaud has ebdicated. The Canton de Vraud was the only considerable state where the government had manifested an intention of re. sisting the Radical movement. The Council of State had devoted three long sittings to the discussion of the instruc- tions to be issued to their deputation to the ...

... ACADEMLCAL EDUCATION.TRIN[TY COLLEGE. it What may be the nature, shape, or dimensions of the education scheme that Sir Robert Peel is cutting Vt out for Ireland we have no means for conjecturing ; ...

... We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. Those journals continue their remarks on the secret service money bill. The Debats expresses satisfaction at the result, but the public funds are not improving. The committee on A1. Duvergier de Hlauraunn's ?? the suppression of the Vote by ballot, has agreed to its report. The resolution is not that the use of the ballot shall be altogether ...

... I TEE PORTLAND VASE-Sir Henry Ellis states his opinion that a possibility still remains of restoring the vase to its pristine integrity, by two skilful artists ia the employ of the trustees of the Museum, named Double- day and Baldocic, who have had considerable experience in resetting the fragments of Greek vases. Sir Hear Ellis adds, that the Duke of Portland h us expressed tou the trustees ...

... , ?? V-r I I ?? n -d :, -,l AIONDAY, FEB. 17. | SirR. Peel, in reply to ilr. Labouchere, intimated that his propositions with respect to sugar are not intended as a permanent settlement ; d but merely to be annual, until the end of the next finian. cial year, as the sugar duties have hitherto been voted. w And in reply to .Ur. Borthwick, he said there was no t foundation for the statement of ...

... IMPiERIAL PARULIA. ,'ENT1 ?? _ ?? I- - HIOUSE OF LORDS, A short 11i5scu5550i oily 300131r.1 iii their Lo 1sssp' ouse to- Liight, or, the eubjevit of the h~ealth of towns, raised by the Msarqtis a at, Nos'-ss,,ue, to tile course of which LI The ?? of iiUCCLE lClt1 said that the Govornmont bed taken the questias let's consideration, and it vas p~robhale that essenc- suire for tile iurpose of ...

... Thursday Prensiy. The English securities have iteen quiet to-day, and the amount of business transacted was limited. There wvere no large opera- tions, the dealings being principally confined to the ordinary pur- chases and sales of the public. Consols for money and theacnount left off 994 to ; Exchequer Bills, .55s. to 57s. prem. ; Bank Stock, 2i 1 to 2124; India Stock, 282 to 264; 3 per ...

... TRANiSPOR7TATION of DA LMAS for ?? J Ouri reades malvy eluellbet ?? W'egav Setile' otibier ack the oill pm rticslats of the ?? f I tile atiov onvict, who wvas found guailty ofa the dreaduttl murdir of fheale oil somtter t-bridge, with whom he Wites on teris of the g-reatest intitacy. While nder seof enii er of' death a- Ilorseoibguer-hiie gaol, Daluid s exhibited either such real. or ...

... THE CHRONICLE. ?? ?? ?? I4 ?? ,PRESTON, sS'ATUDAY Fss U, r2, 6 le i _ THE BUDGET, ? , rd The financial statement of Sir Robert Peel, (of which bve were enabled, in an early aecoad edition of last week's Chronicle, to present neasy the Whole of our town sub- scribers with as ample an ahstraet as ctiuld be tendered by means of the preceding night'5 malls, and that simultaneously or with the post ...

... 15 U T D O C K, CARD! F F M sfl Arrivals and Sailings for the week endingFebruirv l°th ARRIVED. juiclH Aave, Couch, Padstow; Camilla, Flain, St. Ivc, • Wa-e^ 'i'H Leo, Ocean, Spay, Buy, Peake, Azorean. Dawkin fame Tlnvi I mas, Auspicious, Spray, Swansea Desire, Barns, llirTcomb 4 I Herica.enicn. iiot;e, Neath; Elizabeth Ley Barr,«t v I toua ami Albeit, Gough, Dungarvon U-'i Gloucester Flora, ...

... n„ TYidiv the 14th instant, a petition to the iw-i from J Clark, printer, Chepstow, was pre- House of Commons f. > E M.P., setting forth the* in- dented by T. sustained by the decision of the local justice the petition profits by trade, &e. and praying that commissioners, as 'j, restrained from interpreting the pro- surveyors 01 taxeb maj oWIl purposes, and thereby to in- visions of tne law _t ...

... EDINBURGII AND GLASGOWV RAILWAY. On Tuesday, at one o'clock-, the fourteenth half-y~early General P Meeting of the Shareholders of the Edinburgh and .Glasgow Rail- t way Comparny was 'held, pursuant to their Act of Iacorporationl,NV ill the Comnpany's Office irt Glasgow-John -Leararonlth, Esq., WI Chairman of the Comnpany,' in the chair, an Tire CleanTAMMA having called on the Secretary to ...