... IPOSTSO RIFT. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30. Taxi N Nw OPOSITIONt.-It is rumoured in welllnforied circles, that the most prominent place In opposition during the ensuing session will be conceded to Lord Lincoln. Tbereport we imaginemust be considered to have reference rather to those who will occupy the seats opposite to the Ministerial benches than to any portion of the House of Commons disposed ...

... The Earl of Mount Edgeumbe has very generously caused to be distributed amongst the poor of Maker and the neiglhbourhood, 20 cwt of Beef and a quantity of Bread, Au arrangement has at last been made with the government, relative to the proposed new Post office in Whimplo-street, Plymouth, the authorities consenting to pay the additional rent required by the appropriation of the whole site to ...

... FRANCE. ?? The principal feature in the Parli paesi.a ril ppe .ti the Journal des Debats on the anticipated obliteration (If the i~eland som themap of Europe. Thle article is writte istrong language, and bitterly reproaches and refutes the cp s;y journal of the French capital advocating the Russian cn .Allance. The Journael des Debats conc st ot rcw .All prove a fatal gift to Austria ; that of ...

... THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING. r METNOT TO Br E ELE NDER THE SUN. To thc EDITOR of the EXETER FLYWYG POST. Sin,-In your valuable Agricultural Journal I beg to state, f that after seeing in Smithfield and tho Showv Yard what were supposed to be the best live Cattle and Sheep in England, IP have been round to some of the first-rate Butchera' shops to see the best quality of dead ...

... NORTHi DEWON. BiDtroanm-On Saturday, all the shops were closed, to r afford an opportunity to the young men aerving In the P different shops, to spend the day with their several friends. EXTRAORDSINARY ESCAPE vitot DRowNsse.-On Monday o evening, Mr. Boyles, draper, Ilfracombe, walked from that place to Braunton for the purpose of orossing to Appledore, but the tide running out and the wind ...

... THE FLYING-POST. EXEt TE , WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1846. I( TO OUR READERS. h By a long-honoured and hearty custom it is the duty of ti a Journalist to say a few words at the jocund period of 5 Christmas-briefly to look back upon the past and to ti indulge in a few hopes of prosperity as regards that I Year which is soon about to commence. There is no a novelty in this duty which continued ...

... ASEBURTON, NEWTON, AND SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY COMPANY. The first annual meeting of the Shareholders in this line took ?? on the 21 st instant, at the Golden Lion Inn, t Ashburton, which was numerously and highly respectably attended, most of the Shareholders in the neighbourhood r being present. , Mr. Gill, M.P., Mr. Rundle, and Mr. Cole, three of the h directors of the South Devon Company, were ...

... MlSCELLANEA. The Queon hls appointed Major-Gencral Charles WVilliam Plasley, UCompanion of the Most lIon. Military Ordor ol the 13ath,, to bo a Knight Commander of the said Order. T'll LATE RIGHTiii 1oN. TiIOMAS GitriaVILL.B-It is stated that the Ilon, and Rov. George Novillo Gienville, the Dean of \ihiidsor, will colme into posuessioil (0 pro. pelty, in cunsequonee (if the death of his lato ...

... VARIETIE.S. GOOD WIvas.-It has been observed that the young ladies of the present day are likely to prove economical wives, fo'r they make a great bustle about a small waist. {i Pay' me that six-and-eightpenco you owe me, Mr. Mulrooney, said a village attorney. For What? 14 For the opinion you had of me. Faith, I never had any opinion of you in all my life. it Is not that a thin fellow ...

... Tue Count oF montemolini bas bee- on a lijit to iten ErNl of bn Carnarvon, at Highelore Castle. His Royal Highness returned fi tot the motroipolis ?? William Somerville, Under t Secretary of State for the Home Department, arrived in ?? on r Wednesdlay night, from 1reland.-Tho seat of Earl Dueio, at b' Tortworth. has this week been the scene of a grand battuo; 250 head of game wore killed in a ...