... Captain Claxton, R.N., under whose directions and superintendence the operations directed to the liberation of this steamer have been conducted, in a letter to the editor of the Newry Telegraph, says, he has scarcely any doubt as to the vessel being ready to float on Friday (this day,) when there is reason to hope she may leave the buy, in tow of the Birkenhead man-of-war, which reached ...

... Cons about Paper.—Our friend, The Man in the Moon, (we are proud to acknowledge him a friend this month, for he comes unaccompanied Mr. Straggles,) gives a series of Cons, about Beer. have prepared something similar, but as our publication is conducted upon principlvH of th-» strictest sobriety, discard beer, and substitute paper, more suited literary concern. 1. W hen is paper musically ...

... The arrangements for the ensuing exhibition are fast drawing towards completion, and during this week the members of the press have had the privilege of inspecting the rooms, which present, even in their present confusion, most attractive and splendid appearance. We could do no more than obtain a general glance of the various room?, and the opinion we foruieel was, that the exhibition will be ...

... Cite BALVS POPULI LUX -Ul'kf: A MR. M'DERMOTT AND THE DENUNCIATIONS FROM THE ALTAR. We cannot praise the extia-judicial defence adventured by the Parish Priest of Strokestown against the imputations to which he is subject in the matter of Major Mahon's murder. The tone of hit letter to the Evening Freeman certainly not such to carry the conviction that is an unlikely person to have been guilty ...

... BANK ENGLAND RETURNS. (From Friday's Aooount, pursuant to the Aet and Victoria, cap 82, for the week ending Saturday, the 27th day or November: 188 DBFAKTMIHT. Notes issued £23,966,165 Government Debt. .£11,015,100 Other Securities. 2,984,90') Gold Coin & Bullion 8,745.752 Silver Bullion 1,210,433 £23,956,165| £23,956,165 _ .. M. MARSHALL, Chier Cashier. Dated the day of December, 1847. ...

... We present to our readers the following the Times, of the 30th of November; and ** doing so, we offer our hearty congratulation! the Committee of the Society for the Abolition Ecclesiastical Courts, on having the lead* Journal of Europe, so decidedly and energeUcaS* in favour of their object. The subject is one f growing interest. Bishops, and Bishops' courts are becoming the questions of ...

... Loss of the Boston Packet ship Anglo-Saxon.-- By the steam-ship Caledonia advices have been received of the loss of the fine new packet-ship Anglo-Saxon, Captain Gordon, near Cape Sable. The non-arrival of this ship during the past week excited some surprise, the vessels of the line which she belongs beintc noted for the rapidity of their passages. The intelligence now received explains the ...

... Murder.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday. John Hutching*, 43, a cooper, was found guilty the murder of his wife, Mary Hutchings, on the 27th of August, by administering to her a quantity of arsenic. When the verdict waa delivered, the prisoner burst into tears ; and on his being asked whether he had any thing to urge why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he replied ...

... On Sunday last, the following gentlemen were admitted to hoi j orders by the Lord Bishop of Cheater, in the Cathedral Durham, in which hit Lordship holds prebendal stall DEACONS. John Jameson, M.A-, Queen's Collef*, Oxford. Haygarth Taylor Baince, 8.A., Urquhart Cook worthy, 8.A.. James Burrowes, 8.A., William Carr, 8.A., Stephen Bpicer Crutch, 8.A., Henry Marland. 8.A., Tbeophilus Sharp, 8.A. ...

... a X e now ad wo candidates showing' their samples * on 'Change. Sir Digbv, on Tuesday week, made sorry exhibition, and effected few bargains; last Tuesday Mr. Cardwell brought forward better stuff, and in a far better way, and met with many who intend to deal with him. To day we understand, Lord John Manners will expose hi* , wares the same arena; and on Monday our own approved candidate, Sir ...

... President of the* Board of Trade, llei .Majesty was also p'eased appoint Viscount Morpeth Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire. On Friday afternoon, her Majesty held Privy Council, at which proclamation lor the dissolution Parliament was ordered. On Saturday mornine, at a quarter-past nine o'clock, the Queen and Prince Albert took their departure from Buckingham Palace for her Maj -sty's marine res de ...

... From the London (Ja*ette of July 21. SCOTT, Willi,mi, h ird ware dealer, Liverpool, t» surrender Aug. and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Atijt. Fletcher and > 0., Liverpool LOMEK, Diedick Carstcn Hermann, merchant, London street. City, surrender Au ...