... HOUSE OF LORDS.— Monday, FEB. 9. Their lordships met at five o'clock. ____ PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. Lord STANLEY presented a petition, signed by 12,339 owners and occupiers of land, manufacturers, tradesmen, and other inhabitants of the Northern division of Lancashire, in favour of protection. examined the signatures, and he was perfectly satisfied that among them were tho most respectable ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, FEB. 2. Their lordships met at five o'clock. The Earl of WALDEGRAVE presented petition in fiivour of agricultural protection. Lord CAMOYS presented one from the city of Oxf ird, signed by the mayor on behalf a numerous and influential meeting, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. , Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the West- Riding ...

... (From our Correspondent Liverpool, Feb. 23. -A most . Si.tS.SS • «—>•• wSft W^ioVrby, 'and £ works Early last Mrs. Giltou and one of her were taken suddenly ill, and died in a day r two were atte-nded by medical men, wlii it y told, as their opinion thit they died of gastric fever ' On Friday, however, fcree other children, son rf , daughters, were token ill.ind died Saturday This~ more ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.— Thursday, Feb. 5. Their lordships met at five o'clock. The Earl of STUADBROKE presented petitions from Wisbeach and place* in Cambridgeshire, in favour of protection agriculture, and against the government measures relative corn. . Lord BEAUMONT presented petitions favour of agricultural protection, from Boroughbridgc and other places in Yorkshire. Petitioner* professed ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-—Wednesday, Feb. 4. The Speaker took the ehair 12 o'clock. Mr. B. BALDWIN moved that it be an instruction to the committee on the petition of the Irish Great Western Railway' Bin, to entertain the petitions of the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland and James ; Daniel Desmond and James Mall.y: John Gaynor; and J.m notwithstanding that the same may not have, been ...

... OPPOSITION TO THE TARIFF La* night a crowdcd meeting of the broad silk hand-loom of Spitalfieldi and its Ticinity was held at the U Chapel, Brown Lane, Spitalfields, for the considering the ruinous tariff of Sir R. Peel, and of sjmZ to a petition to Parliament that measure Mr De La Force in the chair. Mr. Puytcr moved the first reio-' lution, and observed that the effect of the proposition of ...

... Saturday Evenino. In the funds there has been little doing to-day. Consols 'were to for money, and 95 £ for account. The Threes Reduced 95? to J; New Threeand-a-Quarter per Cents., 97j to ; Exchequer-bills, 255. to 275. premium; India Stock, 257 to 9; Bank stock, 206 to 8; India bonds, 28s. to 30s. premium. The foreign stock market remains as flat as usual of Lite. Mexican were 30 to 4; the ...

... » —- CHAMBER OF PEERS—Sitting of Fkb. 9. After few preliminaries, the order of the day called for the debate on the livret workmen. M. lc ieonite Di'Boutleof. opposed the project of law. gave the history of the laws upon that question in former rears, anil added that for henceforth the livret which only W ( isht or ten centimes (Id.), might paid 50 centimes ), A tax of five millions would thus ...

... EXETER, DORSET, AND WEYMOUTH JUNCTION RAILWAY. Yesterday, special meeting of the Shareholders waa held at the Company's Offices, 62, Mwrgatestreet, for the purpose receiving a report from the Managing Directors, and to determine upon the course most desirable to be pursued for the benefit of the Company and the Shareholders generally. The business of the meeting- was commenced by the ...

... London, Monday Morning, Feb. 9. As is usually the case, little was done in the share market on Saturday, but the tone of reviving confidence continued unabated. In Liverpool, it was remarked on Saturday that money certainly was easier than a week ago. Some of the more cautious speculators, however, anticipate that a degree of tightness may continue to be felt for some days, or even weeks. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tlesd FEB. 3. The House met at o'clock. Lord FA VERS HAM present d petitions from Malton, and other places in Yorkshire, agiinst any alteration in the on the motion Lord MONTEAGLE, copies were ordered of the letter of the American Secretary of the Treasury relative to the tariff; also certain returns relative to local taxation, which had been laid on the table of the other ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—FE?. 27. Their lordships met o'clock. CORN-LAWS. The Earl of RADNOR presented petition, numerously signed, from some place in Ayrshire, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the oorn-laws. The noble lord also presented a petition to the same effect from Welehpool; two From the county of Somerset—from Taunton, signed by 2,398 inhabitant* —from Croydon—and five from ...