... HL'nOX AND H{OLDERLUESS MacisAdNISc' INSTITUTE.- The th annual general meeting of the Iledos and Holdernes Mechanics' Institution was held on Thursday evening, the 21st th ult., in the hall of the Institution, 'when the report. of the first oe year's labour of the Institution was read, and the committee and be ofilcers for the ensuing year were elected. From the report we learn that twelve ...

... I We are well aware of the generous spirit which animates our poor countrymen in America. In no. thing is this noble sympathy more strongly charac- ter.sed than in the liberality with which they remit the hard earned fruits of their industry to their friends in Ireland. An eminent merchant in New York, and an Irishman, Mr. Jacob Harvey, writes to Mr. Jo. nathan Pim, in Dublin, to the effect ...

... MISC ELLANEOUS. ROYAL ACADEMY OF Music. - The appointment of Professor of Elocution to the Royal Academy of Music has been conferred on Mr F. Webster, stage director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. TacE IRIs DISTRESS.-An early night after the open- ing of Her Majesty's Theatre will, we understand, be de- voted, with the whole resources of the establishment, to the relief of the destitute ...

... choose to address us in confidence wiß find their confidence respected. NEITHER CAN UNDERTAKE TO RETURN' ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. Advertisements intended for The Express, London evening paper, must be at tbe Office by Two o'clock the day of publication. ...

... ?? t a on oa~tte. .t ?? Wind.sor, the4th Feb. 1847, present, nena's Mo-t Excel ...

... fabal Ajmb {iliitaijl. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHIIANGIS. WAR OPFIC2, 3AN. 22. Ist Life Goords-Corporal Mojor WT Bielo to be Quarter nmster, vice tohoirt Falconer, retires upolnleilf fpvy. 4th iragoo Ctoarits- Lieit 1 1 Isruter to) hif Captain, vice Bowdoin, retires Cornet M11 Cl:iche to be Licutenatit, vice Forster 11 1 Richairson to be Cornot ite Clarike. 3; Foot-Lieut G Warburton, from 60th, to be ...

... affriculturt, kc. CARRICKFERGUS AND KILROOT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. AswP biefly annotinced in Oltn last, this socicty held its veariy plouighling-inatch on Thiursoday, the 2Sth January. The ilticifser of pluoghs cntered for coilpetitionil was twelity-seven, sail at tice appointed hour they all started in excellent style; illt heavy land p)ioug1is in a field ofrered for the purpose by Jiales ...

... inasmuch it has determined the Aldermen, though they will not be reformed by aid of the Common Council, to set about reforming themselves. Whatever the result may be, there seems to be more puerile jealousy than dignity in the motives which have determined the course they have taken. Some days ago, a special court, by a large majority, adopted a motion of Mr. Alderman Humphery's, that the ...

... Ill E CHP -0NICLE. 7Jaesciay, February 2, 1847. The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire ill two Capacities. One as the local legislature of this island, providing for aill things at home, immediately and by no other in- struriicnt than the execulive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is that which I cali tier imperial charaterr; il which, as ...

... TO TilE WORKING CLASSES. MY DEAR FRIENDS- It was my intention to have written a long letter to Lord Jobn Russell this day, but the fact of YOUR surveyor.b having arrived to mark and map out YOUR estate, has obliged me to postpone it till next week. I am going to show him that what is good in his Irish measures he has not borrowed, but taken wholesale, from my letters to the Irish land- lords, ...

... , W BnETnnxN,-ln pursuance of a resolution adopted be by the National Convention held at Leeds in August n, last, the Executive Committee of the Natianal ry Chatter Assoeiation request the attention of thc t Chartist body, to the importance of availing them- rd selves of the faculties afforded by the present crisis of political events, in furtherance of the principles -embodied in the People's ...

... now. cnw- HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING. i, not The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of to its this company was held at Derby on Saturday last, G. fore, Hudson, Esq., M.P.,in thechair. The Directors' report dows as read by Mr. Bell, the secretary. The following pre- is its ?? recommended the declaration of ncial a dividend of £3 1Os. for the half-year, on each £100 those share of ...