... X HOUSE OF LORDS-May 19. r The customs duties bill was, after a shon discussion, read a I: first time. UrpEon the question of what day should be fixed for the se- I cond reading, I Lord STANLEY suggested that the second reading should be fixed for Thursday the 28tb inst. pro forma, in order that £ it might be postponed, so as to come on immediately after the I discussion on the corn bill. The ...

... EDINBURGI GAZETTE. SEQUESTRATIONS. May 1. JAKIES PROVEN, flesher, George Street, Glasgow-Cre- ditors meet in the Manchester Tavern, Dunlop Street there, 12th May and 2d June, twelve o'clock. May 2. JOHN REID PRENTICE, picture dealer in Edinburgh -Creditors meet in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse there, 16th May and 13th June, one o'clock. May 4. JouHN GRASHA BAISRE., bookseller and stationer in ...

... mrotweit itntellieoee. The near approach of an interesting event, which the public look forward to with intense interest, may perhaps be inferred from the fact, that the messengers of the Hone Office received directions to be in attendance, night and day, on and after Mon- day last; so that the fact of the Queer's indisposition may be communicated without loss of time to the Cabinet Ministers. ...

... REJOICINGS. -J 13ANCiWRY AND STRACHAN I'll HOW N uiRftTol CA'TAIN 'W. BURNETT 'RAW-SAY. In conse ; ence of the recent promotion of Lieutenant IV', B. Ramsay to oe Captain in the Rifle Brigade, presently stationed at llalifax, N. S., the tenants on his estates, in the parishes of Ban- chorv and Strnohan, resolved to testify their joy on this otcasiuu, by assembling together to celebrate the ...

... CANADA AND TOE CORN BELL. Co of/ D spateihfrnlm Gneeraor 94e BErt COatarf K. C .B., io Mhe Right Hon. r. E. Gfzehteee. Government Hottse, Mkontreal, Tau. 2S, IA4e. I ?? fttention having been verV earnestly called by the . member;s Of the Executive Coatacil of hio provinoe to the appre- hensions thd hare been led to encerstin by ?? which have recent Y appeered its the English nowspapers, ...

... r DISTRr7rTION OF.Pf3IZEE. On Thursday night (as briefly noticed in our last) the twenty- third winter session of the institution was brought to a close by the U38-iW distribution of prizes. The Lord Provost filled the chair, and beside him on the platform wevobserved Mr. Sheriff Bell, Bailie Anderson, Rev. Dr. Forbes, Rev. Mr. Houston, Dr. Angus, Mr. Iugh Cogan, Mr. Hugh Tennant, Mr. W. P. ...

... ENGLAND, Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace, in an open carriage and four, at half-past four o'clock orn Saturday afternoon,- for Claremont. Their Royal Hlighnesses. Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the DowagerLadys Lyttletoni, were in the next carriage and four. The Earl of Aberdeen and the lion. ...

... L GLASGOW. DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. > ] On Monday, a generall meeting of the shareholders in this tin- 1.dertaking. called in pursuance of the late sessional order of the ?? of Commons, was held in the Black Bull Inn, for the ptir- pose of considering the expediency of proceeding with the Coam- pany's bill snow before Parliament.1 Mr. Leadbetter, chairman of the Committee of Management, ...

... LATEST NEWS, (Firom our Special Correspondent,) LonDoNT, SaTUxDY EvatzMn. Another examination of the railway scrip forgers tool- place to-day at the Mausion House, when the prisoners were agaim remanded. An intimation has been given to withdraw four bills now before Parliament, on motions to that effect on Monday even- ing. Two of those bills are the Carnwath and West Linton Bailway, and the ...

... HOUSE OF LORDlS, MAY 7. Their Lord.wps met at flva o'clock. Lord CAmPBELL presented petitions from the members cf the, Free Church in Ediaburgh, and in Paisley, complaining that Persons would not allow them to purchase land in order to erect free churches upon; and praying that their Lordships would pass a bill to enable the parcisase of land for that purpose, on payment * of ^reacohhe ...

... I - Minibus Accident.-About six o'clock on Friday night, Th as a minibus driver was proceeding along Great Hamilton thi Street in a careless manner, his minibus came in contact on with, and seriously injured, a boy about four years of age, la( son of Patrick M'Lnnes. The boy was taken sup, and medi- A Cal aid called in, whilethe driver was taken into castody. Accident.- Extraordinary Escape. ...

... Talrbonlan Illerrarp. EDINBURGH. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1846. In the House of Lords on Monday eveninig, the Ali- nistry were in a minority on tile Charitable Trusts Bill, the object of which is to institute a new Court or Commis- sion for the supervision of those trests. Lord Cottenham moved as an amendment to the Lord Chancellor's mo- tion for the second reading, that the bill be read a second ...