... 'Ihe following letter from our Bombay corre- spodent will gi-ve our readers a more complete ac- count of atfairs inI India than our summary of yester- day. BOMBAY, ArnvL loth, 1847. The season is now approaching in India -vhen inac- tivity reigns supreme throughout the length and breadth of the land-swheri in fact, it would be fatal for our troops to be engeged in the field; so that, for the ...

... The Earl of Kglinton has been elected Dean of Glasgow University, rice Lord Meadowbank, whose term of office has expired. Accounts from Vienna of the Ist instant mention the death of tho Arch luke Charles on the 30tli ult., from cold and inflamation of the pleura. Mr. A. Y. Broadfoot, stage manager of the theatre at Rochester, died very suddenly in appoplectic tit on Thursday last. Ingratitude ...

... Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending May 27. ARRIVED. Racer, Power, St. John's, timber. Sutton, Peake, Rouen, ballast.—Industry, Hart, Kinsale, cattle. Dasher, Squires, Bideford, oats. Hope, Nutt, B .r.staple, porter. Dove, Warlow, Co;k, cattle.—Margaret, James, Liverpool, sundries. -Ellen, Dingley, Bridgwater, hay. Star, Richards, Bridg- water, flour.—Rose, hite, Chepstow, cinders.—Cape ...

... The weather has been uninterruptedly line d .ring the week, with just sufficient moisture to promote vegetation, and a de- cided improvement has been wiought in the aspect of the country. Moie auspicious weather than that lately experienced could scarcely be desued and one cause of uneasiness, VIZ., the backwardness of the crops, has, in some measure, been removed. Stll11t is scarcely possible ...

... The intense eagerness of the London public to behold and heai that wondrous vocalist, whose melodious spells have en- chanted listening audiences, wherever they have been cast, is ou the eve of being allayed. A clever critical biography of this great vocalist has just been published, in which we find the fol- lowing excellent analysis of her artistic character She ap- pears to hold the ...

... CONSIDERING the vast importance of this subject, it waS but httle to the credit of the great bulk of the House of Commons, and particularly of many meiflbers for manufacturing districts, that the house should have been counted out last week, during the discussion upon Mr. Bright's motion. The cotton trade is not, as many uninformed j person3 think, and as some writers, who know jbetter» have, ...

... The Grand Duke of Tuscany has granted his subjects the liberty of the press. Great preparations are making at Cambridge for the approach- ingtnstaHatton. Four Don-commissioned officers of Royal Marinta were Ga- zetted on Friday last as second Lieutenants. The repeal reading room at Limerick has lately been converted into a shop for the sale of provisions. It is not unusual to see poor ...

... 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 ...

... SoutoamPtou. ar SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1847. 1.9, ~ ~ 0- Is,o Ia a tle Lifee, steamer, Capt. Russell, arrived in the dock b as on Tuesday morning, from Constantinople and Smyrna, j1 be with cargo, and bringing from Malta the Indian mail ll- and passengers. P ty The Madrid, steamer, Capt. Burney, arrived yester- ti he day, from the ?eninsula with mails, passengers and a en general cargo. by The ...

... 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 ...

... THE CUlRRENCY-PUBLIC Il:EETING. ?? . .I._ A public meeting oF tbe mnerchants and citizens of Glasgow, i ec'verlecl lbv the L(ordi Provost, in compliance with a very ntmer- ouslc-signed re([t is ion, ?? held wvithin the flerbhantsL' HaIl, on W ednesdairv at ; O o&clock, for tie parpose of cocisidering the proprtirty ofn an 51)ptlitttion tn her Majesty's Government. or to I P;tj ii-lr4 it, till ...

... HOUSE OF COMN1MONS, TiIIRsDAYi, MAy 3. 'Ir - ?? _- - _ - - L _ _L The Spealter took the chair at four o'clock. The fullawino hills were reported. and the reports agreed to: -The Cacledonian aind Diumbaroontslire Junction Itaijin-a (Jie- viatione betwe~en Duntocher Limec Works and. Bow-ine, &C.) Bill ;thle Dtinrferrniine Water WaVrts Bill : and M'Leod'~S (Dat- keith Glebe) Estate Bill. Thle ...