... |P1EOM¶'OTIOiS and APPOINTMEiTIS. a 7- - -AtmT aidly PROMOTION. ?? the Lievtknaent-F. Beauchamp Seymour, flag Lieutenant to ited, Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, to be acting the Commander of the Collingwsood. Mr. Seymour the has been five years absent from England, serving in The China and the Pacific. der- APPOINTMENTS. airal C'aptain-W. H. Hall, to Dragon. C'Ominander-C. J. Balfour, to ...

... a In the latter period of last week, a young man r named John Bourne, respectably attired, took up his n i- residence at Mr John Cox's, the Ord Arms Inn. r . Scotswood-road, Newcastle, for the ostensible pur. t , pose of being trained by Ifenry Clasper to row a s skiff match at Manchester, and Mr Cox, in order to ] r nake him comfortable, gave up his own sleeping u o apartment, in which was a ...

... MIM8OLLA MOUS NEWS. * Dissuw~ras.-At se. Bees there are, it is stated, about thirty ex-dissenting preachers, all studying for the church ministry. BLACK SAaLORs.-Some curiosity has been excited at Cork, by the arrival, from New Orleans, of a ship wholly Manned by blacks. Tan LAST ROYAL MARRlAGE..-All attempts to effect a reconciliation between the King and Queen of Spain have been unsuccessful ...

... SIR,—My attention havim; been directed to a paragraph in your journal 01 Saturday last, therein an attempt has been made by seme one (evidently not 01 the craft), to lower me in the es- timation of the public, Lut with what views 1 am at a loss to conceive, I will thank you, as an act of justice to myself, to publish the following copy of a letter received from the Grand Lodge, leaving your ...

... I I soutDatotaft. 'I SATURDAY) MAY 8, 1847. l The Tay, steaer, is expected in the course tf the l day with snails, &c. from the West Indies. 0 The fadrid, steamer) Captain Weeks, arrived on l Wednesday evening from the Peninsula, with the bsualI eimails, 40 passengers, and a cargo of fruit. The officets e and crew of the Royat Tar, steamer, belonging to the N l.%tuguese Government, but ...

... ' - EMIGRXATIOM ¶0 TEXAS. a, Mr Rowed, the mnanager' of thu British Mutual I Is Emieration Association, is very fond of appeainsg to Ion 1- Mr X~ennedsr's statements respecting Texas, as tho S piiplauthority for his own descriptions and pre- an- dtin.The value of Mr Kennedy's ovidence. is jai fully efshibitqd in the following extracts from 1oc- vie tont's 91ddlis Rambles, and Sketches in ...

... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. THE MARKET versus WAGES.—It is well for us, in these manufacturing districts, at the present time, that wages are good, otherwise the commodities brought to our market would be utterly beyond the reach of three-fourths of the population. The market tells its tale in the list which will be found in another part of our impression. The following brief statement will ...

... INFERNAL CRUELTIES COMMITTED BY I FRENCH SLAVEHOLDERS. The desire of tho breneh nation to accomplish the er abolition of slavery led to the adoption of a law in ry July, 1845, intended as the forerunner of that object. x Thisproject provided for the establishmentoffree be workshops, the granting one day a week to the staves M. to enable them by their industry to purchase their re, freedom, the ...

... CORN, &c. ?? ?? PRESTON MARKET.-Thisday-Twecve o'clock. To-day's market was more scantily supplied than any previous market since the commencement of the present year; notwithstanding, prices were much the same as last week. Higher prices were asked, but they were not ob- tained. S.d. s. d. WnEAT, white, per windle of 2201bs ?? 37 0 38 6 Do. Red ?? 6 38 0 FrOee, superfine, per pack of 2401bs ? ...

... Oh for a rural walk at eve, When noise and strife are sinking, Where quiet can my cares relieve, Where flo«ers ate dew drops drinking, While thought's still, sudden, solemn inarih Bungs beauieoui things before me, And high as is the welkin's arch. Hang God and Natuie o ...

... LOCAL AND PROVINCIA AP\\. a N wsiv Tlt.1G;;.DY R;Y WESPYANLD ?? N) 0-;rl U S has reacbed Us that Mr. illowl-s is lti goti;:li 1' 1! : r oriqietl production of a 3ew trage.'v, 'UV ?? au!-' , he Patrician's Daughter.' Wc tton;t tlca i ?? m.nay ba snecessfili, and that tit' ?.lei. tri Lu,; ' bare the gratificaltion 0f Witnessillg o the boa *: own theatre, the first performitn.ee .i fa nel .t ...

... NEWPORT CATTLE MARKET.—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 Price per lb. to sink the offal. s. ...