... In JAMES'S PAlAtE, MAien S. The Queen ans this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Captain John Hamilton, late of her Majes- ty's packet srrvice. WHITEHtALL, mIA cH 7. The Qoeen has been plyased to constitute and oppoint Choales Neaves, Esq. advocate, to be Sheriff-Deputa and Steward-Deput of the sheriffldoms or steowatris of Orkney and Zetland, in the room of James Allan ...

... -o. our Sp4. l CoGw ?? LONDON, SATUDAY EVEunIN. The campaign of the Anti-Corn Low League againot the corn lawmonopolisto, is to open in earnest on Thursday next, when Mr Cobden intends to move for a select committee to inquire into the operation of protective duties on imports upon the interest of tenant farmers and farm labohrers. Upon which Mr Wodehonso intends to move as an amendment, that ...

... FRANCE. CuHAMBE. OF DEPUTIES AND MwSrTsra OF FINANcE. -The French Ministry is in what our friends across the Atlantic call afix. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget have unanimously decided, with the exception of one vote, that the motives assigned by the Minister of Finance for delaying the conversion of the Five per Cents until next year, are not of sufficient weight to ...

... oitinte aldn avt. NORTHERN EXPEDITION,-lt is now definitively ar- ranged that a Northern expedient shall be fitted out, to sail about the 1st of May. Sir J. Franklin will have the command; and we are informed that the Rrebes and Terror will be provided with the most ap- proved Archimedian screw propeller FOSSIL REMAINs.-CRoziEa.-Tlie late high tides have partly uncovered the lignite beds ...

... I - - T - ?? - - . I .1 I ?? (Fromt Fraser's Mnqeaztiae for March.) . The evident tendency of thliates. systemn of tawationrfor a-new-istemr has arisen, and will he carried out vigor- ously) is to relieve as much as possible, the poorer classes, and to hay the burden upon the richer. All directtaxation seeks this end, provided it do not degenerate into a poll tax: for to tax property is to tax ...

... The Board of Trade have reported favourably on the follow- ing undertakings: The Aberdeen, The Dundee and Perth, The Edinburgh and Aoi.h, The Scottish Midland, The Glasgow Barrhead, and Ncilston, The Glago,,v and yr-Barrh,ead all N eilston Branch; have determined on reporting to parliament in favour of the DundSand Perth (line on the north bank of the Tay), Edinburgh and Northern, Scottish ...

... - It is very difficult to ascertain what is precisely the feeling of the French towards us. A politician who is the friend of England they affect to abhor, yet a poli- tician who isnour enemy they will not have for Mlinister. This is very perplexing to the Frernch as well as to us. The late debate on their address was a pleading of different candidates for place. These candidates catme into ...

... T1LfE RAE bF ST. ASAUIT AND BMNGORl To t/:e Editor. Con,-I find that the Clergy 'of the Diocese of . ih1 are about to present another MIfemorial IL lihe Arclbisflap o' Caintcrbury, soliciting his iricc :mPill);lthy and protection in w'hat they oct but feel ?? ot peril to their findlest htrelied institultions. 'The document is indeed ox ,!1 i crthv c~i thle occasion wvhichI calls for it, andl ...

... Uaibap IntellLyna. HIGHLY IMPORTANT REPORT OF THF, BOARD OF TRADE, ON RAILWAYS. TUESDAY'S Gazette contains a report of the Board of Trade, of the greatest interest to this district. The Board has reported IN FAVOUR Or THE FOLLOWING LNaS:- Bedford, London, and Birmingham, Cambridge and Lincoln, Direct Northern (as to the portion between L5,Acola and York), Eastern Counties.-Brandon and ...

... IMPERIAL PARJIAME NT. Ho USE OF LO RD S. pe TR URSDA Y, March 6. rn COURTS OF COMMON LAW PROCESS BILLS. CIA Lord CAMPBELL moved the orders of the day forgoing £1 into committee upon the three bills (>or England. Ireland, frc and Scotland) to provide for the service of process issuing we out of the common law courts upon persons residing abroad. He had made an amendment that the service of ...

... LIVERPOOL, FW DAY, MARCH 14, 13. I- - - A CLO1VrN 14k OAK.-A oomewhat Iiugbabhlnci- -ent oCUr4 a hring the Stourton tbteeP1'e8 on Fia .511 tufling %toe aIouroUI, Fiday. A blahlhber 6peon had cl~lier-d ...

... MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES, taR. CAUDLo HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCE TliE FA31ILY UMBRELLA. MUM. CAUDLE LECTURES b THEREON. t; Bab That's thle third umbtrella gone since Christ- h Mras.- What were you tb-do ! W-why lt lie i go lome in the rain, to be sure. I'm very certain there was no- s thing about 147, to spoil, Take cold, indeed! lie doesn't look like one of tile sort to take cold. Besides ...