... Alas! poor Ireland. It is said that those who sow the storm shall reap the whirlwind. Experienee teaches us that this divine anathema is as much a natural law as the revolution of the planets in their courses. How, then, can the Irish landowners wonder at the impending gloom-the harbinger of the coming storm-which now hangs like a funeral pall over their devoted island? Have they not for years ...

... ,Of one of two -things we feel confident:: either the days of PEEL'S bill, or the days of Lord JOHN Rus- SELL'S government, are numbered. Let but Lord JOHN RUSSELL declare, on the assembling of Parlia- mentjthat he is prepared to uphold PEEL'S bill with- out modification, and we would-not give Shim three months' purchase for his post of prime minister. -;We. confess we should regret the loss ...

... THE QUEEN IN THE HICHLANDS. LOCE LAGGAN, TUBSDAY.PiOBWnNO. The Royal party proceeded to the shooting quarter at Loch Laggan Walk shortly after: ten o'clock, and the result was a most succesaful one-sucb, indeed; as to compensate for many previous disappointmeits. The party consiated of hie Royal Hligheas Prince Albert, Lord Palmerston, the Eon. Captain Gordon, and Mr. Ansod , eacb arte witho ...

... T tCE FACTORY BILL. | al lll . -, , v -, , -I contested Factory Bill is about to undergo al in the Upper House; we presume iti will be easy as compared with the fierce has surmounted in the House of Com- Worthy of remark, that the. most .bitter this wise and wholesome measure have 'n Liberals, and of that class commonly olitical Economists. The operative, on A has had an excellent opportunity ...

... ?? ~SYNO PSI-S. ?? -, I !. i ;DEN DEATH OF TEE DEWA or, CllsIcEsTJza.-We SAIo record the unexpected demise of the :Ron. and bave an the of Maheser, which'took plice lre~q ly. ~ the afternoon 'of, last, Friday~ebiee, 'at his ,,;a0 vin Hereford-street, Park-lane, irn his sixtyninth 'lThe hon. and reverend gentleman bad been ailing rear- last two yearn and lattsrly had been attended on ofrthe ...

... FRAN CE. |THE PRASLIN INIRDEtR. i The Gazette des T iWuAaux, of Friday, gives the following C additional intelligence in regard to this dreadful murder, a full account of which appears in another part of our paper On Thursday the investigation was resumed, whilst I f. Gannal was embalming the body of the Duchess, which, da- ring the night, was attended by two cleraymen. The first cir- ...

... EDINTBURGH INFANT SCHOOL SOCIETY. A meeting of the subscribers to this society was held on Saturday in the Council Chamber, to consider the expediency of transferring the model school in the Vennel to the kirk session of the New Greyfriars' Church. Mr Win. Chambers in the chair. The Secretary (Mr John Leishman, ?? read a report by the directors, which stated that the school in the Vennel, ...

... (Fronz our Special Correspondent,) LONDON, SATURDAY MoaNiJNd. The Easter recess has commenced, and nearly all the Mi- nisters have left town to rusticate for a few days, not however before they exhibited to the country tlhe success of their la- bours from what has passed of the session, and which it must be admitted is in the highest degree creditable to them. The pressure of Irish legislation ...

... PHTLOSOPI-IICAL INSTITUTION. ?? Westroacoti delivered his second lecture on sculpture on Friday evening, which compriied a general andL interesting history of the practice of the art from the earliest ages down to the time of Alexander the Great. Thze lecturer said hie would not attempt to prove in whet nation this art bad first arisen, was it was to be presumned that the faculty of imitation ...

... I Frown our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, SATrTEDAy MORNING. The business of the session has commenced in earnest, as you will perceive from the 'amount disposed of for the four nights since the assembling of both Houses. As a prelimi- nary towhat I have to offer, I mast direct your attention to the frank and manly avowal of support of the present Minis- try made by Sir Robert Peel in his ...

... TTIHE, -%OOS-TIlE 12mx OF AFGUST. Thle 12th oFAticust, a 0-tv so- important to sportsmen. Wag. bath foui and lair in, this district. Tim, early part was stornav Wit, windl noid raba ; tolanrds the afternoon) it settle'] into ?? weatheri. FX~,i's Were entt'rttitied that in comparisonI waitl former seas;on!s, grouse wouldl be scarce. This. cerrainle. if tlie case onl some raeors ; bitt not to ...

... ARGYLL CANAL REPORT OF CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER. 19, Arundel Street, 27th April 1847. Sm-In compliance with the instructions which I had the honour to receive from my Lords Commissioners of the Ad- miralty, under date 1st April 1847, and directing me to examine into the propriety of connecting east and west Loch Tarbert by such a canal as may facilitate the navigation of the adjacent ...