... GOVEI'NMENT CIRCULAR. The following circular, addressed, by direction of the Lord Lieutenant, to the chairman of relief committees, appears in the Dublin Evening lost of Saturday;- Dublin Castle, March 5, 1847. Sir,-I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to request your attention, and that of the relief committee over which you preside, to the great importance of securing, hay all possible means ...

... Cite BALUB POPVLI LEX 6UPREUA FRIDAY, MARCH .5, 1847. In the multitude of counsel there may be wisdom, but there certainly is confusion. Ireland, her miseries, and their remedies, const itute tht; all-engrossing theme of Parliament and the press. The platform and the pulpit take share in the discussion. Pamphlets and periodicals teem with healing suggestions. The subject is debated in the ...

... (From 'he Ma I: lane Express.) A woe*. of very fin 2 weather, and rather large arrivals of Hour and Indian Corn several the western ports, from have sufficed to heck the upward movement in prices gram, and at some of the leading provincial markets the tra lias become very dull. The article of Indian Corn, which has for a ion;, period been relatively lusher than wheat, has been affected -j ...

... IND IA. THE semi-monthly mail has been received, with advices to the dates following:-Calcutta, Feb. 9; Madras, 14; Bombay, 16; and Hong Kong, Jan. 31. The intelligence presents no incidents of unusual in- terest. Now that peace seems to have been firmly esta- blished both in the Punjaub and in Scinde, it is not to be. expected that the accounts from India should possess that important ...

... .rt.tot. SATURDAY, M.1teson 13, 1847. To ADV'ERTISRnS.-WVe most eornoestIN reqilet aderotisels to forivard their adrertisement-s at an ?? hou0r, and DIlRECT to tliis Offive, otherise it is impossible for ns to ansioer for tloir insertion,, WEST GLOUCESTERSHI-IRE, AN address (which will be found in our advertising columns) has just reached us from Mr. Grenville Ber- keley, in which that ...

... gaiitanreuttfl Ilntdpt~tne. HOUSE OF LORDS.-AMONDALY, March 22. BA NKRUPTCY AND INSDLVENCY BILL, Lold BflouculsAm, on moving the second reading of the bank- ruptcy did insolvency bill, which bad been for some time before the house, entered into anl explanation of its different provisions. His design wee to enlarge the powers of thle insol- vent courts already existing-, so as in certain cases ...

... Varliamentarp Intelligenct. ?? HOUSE OF LOR9S.-510NDAY, Miarchl 15. Lord BscUrio presented a petition from certain Pro., testant dissenters residing at Iiirdrushi, in the county of Wilta, complaining of the proposed government plan of educattion as sect being equally advantageous for the dissenting body as for other classes in thle community. Ile begged to have it under- etood tisat lie did ...

... Rklikvxd during the Wexk — Men, 60; Women, 18; Children, 29; Total, 107.— Amount of Expense, 10s. lid. DERBY UNION. (Week ending 13th day of M abch, 1847.) Admitted, 1 ; discharged, 2 ; dead, 1 ; remaining, 154 ; Number relieved out-door last week, 317 ; number relieved out-door this week, 321 . Out-door relief the week ending aa above — ln money. 141. 9s. Od. ; in kind, 181. 12s. Hid. ; Total ...

... REPORTED CONFESSION OF PLATTS THE MURDERER. During Monday it was curr.ntly reported that Platts, who was on Saturday last convicted of the murder of Collis, at Chesterfield, and whose extraor- dinary trial is reported at length in the preceding page of this paper, had freely and unreservedly confessed to having been a direct party in that horrible tragedy. It will be recollected that there ...

... T H E ERA. TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1$47. A journalist is called upon to sum up the records of the dead, and compare them with the recollectiona of the living, in order that he may prognosticate the events of the future. And never was there a time when keenness of research, when clearness of cale- lation and deep thought were more necessary than in the yearl847. ...

... TUESDAY, MARcH. 9. BANr auprs.-William' Henry Hodding, of Gloucester -place, Portman-sr are, surgeon. Samuel Iubitt, of Colchester, clothier. James Law, of Faversham,- coal merchant. John Furby and Robert Stockton, of 35, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, tailors. William Bull, of S, Little Love-lane, Wood-street, setoc manufacturer. Joseph Frust, of Stratton, Cornwall, tlamer. James Miorgan, of ...

... The monthly meeting of this board was held on Friday, at which Adam Longmore, Esq. presided. APPOINTMENT OF AN ADDITIONAL OPPICEt. Mr G. Thomson said, he believed the books of the board, which had been handed to MTr Maitland, accountant, would by :-e end of next week be brought up to the period of last ba- lance. He was satisfied they could never get the books pro- perly kept with the present ...