... PIUVATE CORRESPONDENCE. (From our Special Conrespodenatj LoNDoo,, SAT.IRDAT Moaiyxxar. The proceedings in both houses of Parliament have not re- lapsed in interest since the accession of the new Ministry to power, although nothing more was expected from them than a mere selection of the bills in progress to be pressed forward to maturity, and the remainder abandoned for the present, to admit ...

... I OSS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT STEAMIER IPAPIN. The French Government has just received intelligence o the loss of the Papin steamer. The following are the details I of that melancholy event as published by the M oniteur:- The Papin left Cadiz at two o'clock P.am. on December 5, and was bound for Senegal. The weather was fine during the whole afternoon of the 5th and the morning of the ...

... (l'ieCs.) I Perhaps fife most disgusting feature of the opposition of the protectionists to corn lawY r epqtti is their recent af- fectation of a regard for the interests of the labourer. Finding that they can commanild no symapathy by their selfishness, in standing forward to defend their rents, they have rushed into sentiment and the workinlg man has become tire theme of their maudlin ...

... HOUSE OP LORDS-aeb. 23. ?? Co]iMCION- )ILL. V The Ear] of St GERMANS moved the second reading of n the Irish Coercion bill, and,. ufler observing on the lamentable Si frequency of the crime of murder in Ireland, proceeded to ad- tI lirco various doe'iimentnry proofs of the unsettled state of the a country. The Govern meut had ex.hausted every resource in tl their power to give efflciency to ...

... -_GENEIRAL POST Os-ncr, Feb. 1 i3. Destinations. I y ITIA TO t Last Packets |Next Pack-ete ST. fron Lono. 'Sailed. Due. S-TATIOS. Lisbon, Madeiray17h 7h n (via lisbon), .7th, L, - , i| St t Madrid, Queen, I Spai, Gibral- Fb Feb. tar ?? every month. Malta.GrecceIo- ' nrianls IsdI.nS, 3d & 20th of D.of Cornwall,: E1gpt, Ceyln. [ every month. Feb. 3. India, ke China) British Colouies) I in West ...

... Sth Hussars-Captain Lord Killeen is to be one of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's Aides-de-Camp. 9th Lancers-Leave to Lieutenant Ajnderton from April 9, to October 9. 14th Dragoons-Cornet Woodran to Landour from, May 12 to September 12, on medical certificate. Foot Guards-On Wednesday a general court martial, con- sisting of fourteen officers of the brigade of guards, assembled at Portman ...

... CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE I- THE HlfqHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. (Continued from ou? last pper.) (From the Times Commissioner.) Dinagall, Ross-shire, Sept. 25. Coincidences often arise from the existence of co-inci- dent circumstances. Trees of the same kind bear similar fruit. Like causes produce like effects. In the per- petual coincidence of starvation and helplessness in Ire- land and in the ...

... I PRIVATE CORRESPOND EJNCE. r~rona oulr S))ecial Conrpsspo7nderntj LosNDON, SATURDAY MORN NG. Tb-, Spanish marriage question, wlhich has made rapid pro- gress towards maturity since the advent of Lord Palmerston to power, is nowV virtually disposed of as far as Qneen Isabella is concerned, for her IMajesty has promulgated a solemn de- crec, signed with her own hland, announcing lier intention ...

... I TO T E iDITOR OF ±13 CAL±DOIILI* ME&CURY. I DEAR SIR-We Scotchmen are proverbially fond of corm. lencing our day's labour with a frood breakfast-and a sea- son or two past, when the western route was from this our shortest to the metropolis, I remember well the gratifying ideas with which we entered the Birmingham refreshment room after a morning's ran upon the Grand Junction. Now, and for ...

... Tile rise in the different rivers and streams in East Lothian on Tuesday was greater than for many years. and the destruc- tion of bridges has been unprecedented. Besides the railway bridge at Linton, the one at Beltonford, and the one across the railway, the ChalLyford Bridge beyond Dunbar, near Broxbburn, the Garvald Bridge beyond Haddington, the Lint. mill bridge between Phantassie and ...

... THE NORTII BRITISH RAILWAY. The fu-wick Advcrtisec- gives tfle following account of the damages sustained ou this line, between Dunbar and Ber- wick - On Monday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, the rain commenced, and it continued without cessation up to about the same timne next day. The newly formed banks and slopes at the sides of the line soon showed the effects, and in several places ...

... MORTALITY OF EDLNBURGH & LEITH FOR AUGUST 1846. Ie The mortality of Edinburgh doring the past month amount- e e to S344-1.59 being manles, 163 femsales, and 22 still oorn. e The deaths, therefore, fall 29 below those of July of this year, I but exceed those of August of last year bv 52. n Thc mortality of Leith during August amounted to 59-2i r being males, 34 females, and four still born. The ...