... FRANCE. AFFAIRS OF HAYTI.-Vice-Adruiral Laplace, the com- mandant of the naval station at the Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico, arrived early in the manth of January off Hayti, on board the Andromede frigate; and on the same day had a long interview with the Commandant Lartigne, * ho had conducted the negotiations with the President Pierrot respecting M. Dubrac and the French Consul- General M. ...

... MI SCELLANEOUS. A COINCIDEtcE.-At the York Augunt ineeting on Thursday, th Prhince of Wales's stakes was won by Lord George Bentinck's Slandec, beati ng a large fcold. In the same day, in the House of Lords. Lord George Bentfiekc's slander was beaten by Lord Lyndhurst's explanation. It follows that slander is not alkays a o inner, STEAM BOAT COMPETITION ON TmE Tn ?? 'enro are now carried from ...

... NI I SC EL LANE 0 U S. OxeiiiSES AT A PENNY PrElt B.MILT].-In consequence of the success attending the attempt at conveyirg passelo- gero by Oinnibus at the rate of Id. a mile, a scomber of the oftl proprietors that have hitherto chargedl 6d. have started their vehicles at the reduced rate. 'lhere are Inow upwairds of twenty omnibuses, carrying from seventeen to thirty passongers each, whose ...

... DEPARTURE or THEs COURT FOR WINDSOR.-The Queen and Piince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for Windsor Castle, where her Majesty will pass the Easter recess. HER MAJESTY TH5E QUEEN DOWAGER.-It is stated to be the intention of the Queen Dowager to go on a visit to their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen ...

... FRANCE. SCTENTIFIC INsrRUcTtON.-The Minister of Public Instructien has charged the Facility of Sciences of Paris to send to himi a report on the state of scientific instruc- tion in France. The report is to refer particularly to the arnonner in which it is conducted in the colleges and su- perior primary schools; it is to declare how far this in- struction responds to the wants of societv, and ...

... MI SCELLANEOUS. QUEN'S SERGEANT.-Mr Sergeant Talfourd was sworn in on Thursday as Queen's Sergeant, before Lord Lynd- hurst. This honour was unsolicited, we believe; and the last act (not the least creditable) of the retiring Chancel- lor's judicial life. Ma COBDEN.-Mr Cobden will not engage in any public business whatever for the next twelve months or more. He remained in London to vote on ...

... FRANCE. Tas TRIAL AND ExECUTION or Lrcomssn.-The trial of Lecomte before the Court of Peers commenced on Thursday week, and terminated on the following day. No new facts of importance were elicited beyond those which we detailed when we first described the attempt on the life of the King. His motive was solely revenge for the indignity which he thought he had endured by b iing deprived of his ...

... 000tottipt. SATURDAY, JUNE 1.3, 1846. In the House of Lords last night the amendment of Earl Stanhope, on the motion for going into com- mittee on the Corn Importation Bill, was, after a long debate, negatived without a division, and the house agreed to resolve itself into committee on the bill on Monday next. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Irish Coercion Bill, which was ...

... I If I might give ashort hint to an impartial writer, It would be to tell him his fate, If he resolves tovesture upon thedangerous precipiceof tell- ing unbiassed troth, let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. if he tells the crimes of great men, they fail opon him with the ieon hands of the law; * if he tells them of their virtues, wvhen they have any, then the ...

... MEHOME ON 'n iNistE It dnbrg C CAGE.heo following letter has appeared i, the ?? nicle.' It is addressed to Mr Tait dof Ednburghde Bryanston square, Jan., 1840. Sir, that, at a distance, you should be at a loss to understand the causes of the late changes of ministers, and of their move- ments, when we here cannot see any rational grounds for the proceedings, as regards the Whigs, at least. I ...

... FRANCE. DlIs FLiNCII IN ALGIeIA.-Thle 'Monitetir' pub- tidics a despatclh for General Levasseur, dated Setif, the 10th instant., containing the official details of the dis- aster experienced by the columni comnsuanded by that officer in the province of Constantine. After giving an account of his operations from the 23rd tlt. to the 2nd inst., the General thus proceeds:- On the 2nd the weather ...

... K FRANCE. ALGERTA.-A telegraphic despatch arrived from Milia- nah on the evening of the 12th inst. at Algiers, announc- ing that General Jusuf had come up with Abd-el-Kader, who was flying in the direction of Taguine, at eight o'clock in the evening, and killed upwards of 100 horse- men, and had taken a considerable quantity of horses and camels. The General was continuing the pursuit. The ...