... HOUSE OF LORDS.—March 2. Their lordships met at five o'clock. RAILWAY BUSINESS. Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition, numerously signed, from I reland, setting forth that a strict adherence the standing orders would tend to impede *jie employment of the people on railways, inasmuch the most trifling inaccuracy in form was sufficient to throw ' jje most important measures back. The petitioners ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—March 10. Their lordships met at five o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from Kilboy, in the county of Antrim, from place in the county of > Londonderry, and from hop-growers in the county of Sussex, all in favour of protection to agriculture. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from'thc Marquis of Westmeath, not in his capacity of peer of the realm, hut a ...

... lengthened inquiry, at the Duke of Sussex beer-shop, Cliiton-strcet, Latymcr-road, Shepherd's-bush, on view of the body of John Thomas Francis, aged twenty-three years. The deceased was a carter, l'ving at No. 8, Clifton-street, and had all his life been a healthy man. On Thursday, the 26th of February last, came home between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, and complained to his wife of ...

... J HOUSE OF COMMONS—Mosdat. THK DAY. - 1. Customs, ami Corn Importation;—Committee thereupon* 2. Supply ;—Committee. ' 3. Print BillSecond reading. NOT lets or MOTION'. 1. Sir It. I'eel—To move the following resolution • Th;rt the thanks of this House to the Right Hon. iieuteiVwt-Genwal Sir Henry Ilardinge, Govcruor-Geiural j India, Knight Grind Cross the Order of the Hath, for 1 energy ! ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—Mabch 26. The Earl of Shaftesbury took the woolsack a few minutes before 5 o'clock, but was shortly afterwards succeeded by the Lord Chancellor. THE EASTER RECESS. The Duke of RICHMOND inquired from his noble friend, the noble duke on the ministerial bench (the Duke of Wellington), when it was intended to move the adjournment of the house for the usual recess. The Duke of ...

... PUBLIC MEETING AT BRADFORD. (From our Reporter.) BRADFORD, 10. Yesterday evening a public meeting the clergy, gentry, manufacturers, operatives, and other inhabitants of the borough of Bradford, was held in the large room of the Odd Fellow's Hall, in this town, to consider the propriety of petitioning parliament to pass the bill now before the of Commons, for restricting the hours of factory ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—March 30. Shortly before five o'clock the Lord Chancellor, Earl Delawarr, and the Earl of Dalhoi'Sle took their seats in front of the throne, robed Lords Commissioners, for giving the Royal Assent to divers bills. The Speaker and scTeral members of the House of Commons appearing at the bar, the Royal Assent was given in the usual form and words to the following bills: —The ...

... news already received. The principal fact worthy of notice is a royal decree, replacing General Balbao, as political chief of Madrid, by Sabater, a change which has given mnch satisfaction. Yet, to giatify his brutal friend, the Duke Valencia has nominated him (Balboa) Captain-general of Burgos. Francisco Marin, whom Sartorius has replaced (as we stated on Saturday), goes as Ambassador ...

... [Advertisement.] petition on this subject, of which the following is a copy, was presented to the House of Lords on Friday evening last by the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, and a similar petition about to be presented to the House of Commons by Mr. John Mastcrman, M.P.: TO THE EIGHT HON'. THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. ...

... Last night meeting of surgeons took place at the Freemasons' Tavern, consider the question of medical reform, particularly in reference to the pr. posed supplemental charters of the College of Surgeons of England. J. Bottomley, Esq., of Croydon, took the chair. The secretary, Mr. Ottlev, gave an account of the proccedinas of a deputation who had waited upon the council, and the chairman ...

... (From our own Correspondent.) SANTANDER, Feb. 21. Whilst the English organs of monopoly are retailing the grievances of their employers and predicting every kind of calamity the necessary result of the abandonment of the principle of protection, on the Continent Sir Robert Peel's new measures of political economy arc regarded in a very different light; least I can answer for the intelligent ...

... NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THF. DAT, TOHI NOW STAND IN TIIE ORDKR-BOOK OF THE HOUSE COMMONS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. MONDAY, MARCH 30. Orders of the Day.—Poor Removal Bill, —second reading; Coal-whippcrs (Port of London) Bill, —Committee; ' Art Unions Bill, —second reading; Corn Importation Bill, ! Committee; Supply,—Committee; Ways and Means, Committee; Indemnity Bill, —third reading. Sir ...