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... CONDITION OF THE CooNTRY.-The accounts from the provinces furnish fresh details of the ravages of famine. Two months since, Skibbereen in the south, and some parts of Mayo in the west, appeared to be the only dis- tricts where numbers were actually perishing for want of food. But now, there is scarcely a county in Ireland in which the people are not dying of starvation Even in the metropolis ...
... 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. ...
... LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. In the House of Lords, yesterday, the Royal assent was given by commission to the Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill. Lord Stanley, in conformity with his notice of the previous day, begged to ask whether it was the intention of the government to introduce any measures for their lordships' consideration before Easter, and whether it was likely that any bills would be sent ...
... 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 ...
... TEE LIVERY COMPANIES AND THE cy.y FRANCHISES. TO THE EDITVO. Or LLOYD'S WEErLY NEWSrAPER. Sin,-1t remains to furnish some description of the City Companies, in order to complete the sketch I amn attemipting to give of the Corporation of London, and of the several rights, powvers, and immunities whiclh its respective parts severally and jointly possess. IL is, i.awever, more ditilcult te defA ...
... Daily News Office, Thursday Morning. Parties in France are now involved in the dispute the personal question which has arisen out of the lately published between the British ynbass&dor and Lord Palmerston. The opposition at M. Guizot over the shoulders of Lords 'ilmerston and Normanby, take up the defence of latter and echo the sentiments of the English M*. The ministerial party, on the other ...
... RAILWAY MEMPS. Wvecrasnn, HIEREFORD, ANeD GLOUCrnTRn.-The Heretierd town COUncil have, by an umninmous vote, rimne io thte oleteoisr lion to Suprr, as representatives of the interests or ilre city, the rarroo gauige proet ta OPPositin to the line promnoted by tC a Great Wosre II coos- plany, fo r j oinse the crties of Wars otriereofrd, alid G~iiucester. The wirks ?? ?? ?? rojilway re to ...
... ODD-FELLOWSHIP, &e. TilE CiiARITIES AMD CLATIMS OF ODD-FELLOWSHIP *'Jr TLaswe, of Wlt:verlhampton, writes as fllowvs:- I am rather proud in being able to inform you that the M. U. hasfully anticipated .e iaujarle suggestion of a subscription for poor' IErin and Edina.' I. Las been in progress now above a month, and taking the oeeieCC of our lodges at 3,884, there is net even the possibility ...
... FRANCE. RISE IN THE PRICE OF GRAIN.-The 'R6forme' states, that wheat has again risen in all the markets in the neighbourhood of Paris from 5oc. to if. 50c. the hecto- litre. At Rouen wheat has risen if. ; at Villers-Cot- terets, If. 50c. ; Mirebeau, from 2. to 3f ; Pairmpol, 2f 35c. ; Dijon, If. 50c. to 2.; Bray-sur-Seine, If. 66c.; Dieppe, If ; Cambrai, 50c.; Saint Quentin, If. 25c. It was ...
... Sparnish finance is beginning to attract considerable attention, and it is high time that it should. The matter now seems to be taken up in real earnest, and the gentlemen who are struggling to induce the Spanish Government to come to some arrangement ?? itS ill. used creditors, are certainly deserving, on natlonal grounds, all the support the Press of this country can afford them. It appears ...
... of £ it r Buchanan, Drymen,) Fintry, htrathblanc, j Stirling, The Duke of Kilmarnock, Kast l Dumbar- 20000 • • Montrose T trick, Aber- ton, ana fovle, port of Mok- Perth teith J Mrs. L. D. C.| Kfc »• Durham ...