... FROM1 THIS WEEKN'S PUNCH. l I :, IBNTS FOR THEa FORMATION OF A MILIXTIA. P 1. We understand that considerable sensation baa been j a caused in Whitecross-street Prison, by the Militia p movement;* for some of the unfortunate debtors are wil-a r liag to serve as substitutes merely on consideration of a being released from custody. As many of them are con- to r' fnedifor very insignificant ...

... RAILsWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDOS AND Bxaanroszae.-At a special meeting, Mr {D held in London, on Monday, a resolution, for the pur- M~r chaseo of the Trent Valley railway, was unanimouisly Mr agreed to. The termns are £28 per shawre.r MANCHE;STBNt AND BIRMINHAM. - The hialf yearly a ?? general meeting was, held on Friday, at the London-road fs ose station, M~anchester, Mr. J. P. Westhead, in the ...

... G=BALUSPOULI LEX SUPREMA. FriDar, M{ARCH 20, 1846. ?? OF RO~lAN CATHOLIC DISA- BIL1TIESs-LAMET THE BIGOTS. gen yet, it seenmS, we are not at the end of tbe Dato~ question. Many of our readers WTprobablY not aware, until very recentlywoI' the enorwouS amount of religious intolerance {bet «till lingters on the statute book of these ealms; and vrhich, though it possesses little toean teaE a ...

... 3?3trIteirIie?af, &r. a Wircasar licsoL.-TisO aifalog. of this school have got Into or |Chancesy. In Vicc-Chancollor W~igram's Court, yosterdayr week, fl3C-p,~ Wh ithe Attorney.General appeared InoupporS of a bill of Infoermn- 3 36-v. Or| tion, loetiltuted by hir. Winch, teocscertain whether certain.,ands 'w ?? in Wailajey, applicable to the maintenance of the sohool and the t:|income arising ...

... IMPORTANT FROMf AMIERICA. Wme have received New York papers of the I2ib ites brought by the London ~saeetasisip Switzerlad, likce as- has arrived in Mfaregate Roads . d ?? House of Representatives hadi Pused the seni thvereolutions for the year'h notice of the tenatoD of 1 ulo3ist-occupancy of Oregon Treaty, by a majorlo, of lbjt I rto 34 votersol three members of the hmntousetbeng ,ljc The ...

... eday UNITED 8TATE8 OF AMERICA. a ot By the pacleet-shipo Montezuma, Captain A. B L 3the which left Newv York on the 4th instbnt, and the 'pea1 er hair. new packet-ship Msnanion, Captain Edwrarda, (fopnrneni mity of the 9ea,) wrhich left New York on the 8th, and arrj vt com- here yesterday morniicgO, we have papees aix days let~ isbip than those received by the Camnibta. By the astrivr that the ...

... ?? BRITISH COLONY OF NOW 3'3RX T SWICL he - terre .ag The following ?? the pen of the Rev. any, e J C Galloway, has been handed to us by an .ini- dens nent merchant in this town, with an intimation that print ied it contains most important matter, especially valu- he o of of able to persons co?templ3ting emigration. A peru- ose sal ha? satisfied isa that his view of It Is perfectly ? els ...

... . MIECHANICS' HNSTITUTiON. nel~s 5 years To Mhe EDITOSof8 sthc P~El7R POOL MfERCU7RY. ?? the annuasl meeting ot the Mechanics' Tha lInstitution, on the 11th instant, it was mentoiosed in the agent r leport that the comamittee, in consequence of al deficiency ot .in the lecture fund, had determined: to raise the terms of oure .admission for ladies from lTS. Sd. to DInu, and the sons of tha and ...

... ?LucaI *,rtehfgt)T(t Tine LATE CAPTAIN DUNCAN, isv THE SOLWAY.-ThO has cxl edi;ur at' ?? Mondsly AdecriW? thus allude' to ms?isti tli? *410117 of the above-named haic seaman, who ?? their at well known in Liverpool -Perhapo some of our POOr L Alloa readers may be unaware that that very fkmlly ?. mow re-idimig in the same town with thmielves; and whole whatever m?sy be the issue of our humble ...

... DOCK EX ?? OF TENANTS- ?? ntevraz-vs±.-vow11sl0U~ . The claim of tenants-at-will to compensation tbr a majia being rem oved from premises required for the new Or' ttic docks, originates on a moral ground-the best four' mr dation on which any legal enactment can rest. Atpre- that tl sent the tenants occupy houses, shops, wvarehouses, Si's workshops, or yards, which suit their business; their- ...

... t. THAWS~ AND ARC:HILOCHtUS. sa ii No event in Grecian history sand astronomy has been h more celebrated than the total solar eclipse predicted bysB 'd Thales, of Miletus, a city near Elphesus. It forms an ., epoch in the records of those times, having caused the the ii termination of a war between Kygaxares, king of M\edia, art is and Alyates, king of Lydia, the father. of Orsesus. The so . ...

... !Itt 1tbtr?,oo1 jMercUr?. BALUS POPULI LEY 8UPREMA? FRIDAY, aiARCH 6, 1848. MR. VILER' MOIO FO ME The Free Traders in the House of.CommtfoflU have done their duty. They have met the Minis- terial proposal for total, but deferred, repeal of the Corn Law, with an amendment for TOTAL ANJD IMMEDIATE repeal. That they have been outvoted is certainly one of the oddest results of an unprecedented ...