... la TRE LOSS OF THE AVENGE h Tanml, -h . s -_1 - ..A _ _N Pa f the wreck ff vnenger ?? taM aU worst feare hved bee e reali *erse ufi that more than four persons d; ue isnzed i respondent, dating the 6thamtBvet escape~ EIM. steam sloop Hecate sxrri e Tunis. Previously to entering the harboari 'Have four of Avenger's crew on board 'e These four proved to be the persen w vious letter, Lieut. ...

... THE NATIONAL-DEFENCE QUESTION Sir William unipaw-.0,i atl -Am . - Sir William Moleeworth l ?seed the follow- ing letter to the Specator I My dear Sir,-1 haveread in the Spctator with sorrowatw surprise the articles which you have inserted on the subject the nationtldefences? andwbichurticle6seemto meincousie.. with the great principles which you have So often and s!| ably advocated. Can you be ...

... LANCASHIRE. ~ r 'opi PROGRESS OP MANCHESTER. AS A BONDiNG ror ful P-The following tables, oltained from the Mitnchesiter Ces. suT tom-house, were quoted from by Mr. W. Gibb, at the maeets ani ing of the~ Commercial Atssociation :-Statemcnt of goods of Wi general consumption received under bond and wareheused the ina Manchester, froin lst Jan., 1847,' to 1st 'Jan, 1848:- by, 'Wipes, 414,133 ...

... VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND-THE CONVICT I B E__ SSTEM THERE. --.J *fLflAvf. W Sir,-Yoa may recollect that two years ago I d! brought the above subjects under the notice of the public Im througb your journal, and that it was then clearly shown by t' officia, and other authentic docnments, that when Sir G a] Arthur left the colony, in 1837, life and property were nearly as safe in it as in EnBland; ...

... T Thuraday Mornting, Rmb o'oeoch. The rumours of a collision between the troops and theo people at Milan, which we mnentioned yesterday, though then unconfirmed) produced much excitement in Paris on Tuesday evening, and a general decline ot all securities took pl1ace at the 13oae. These rumours have since been confirmed.. The Chamber of Peers, on Tuesday, continued the discussion on the ...

... THE LOSS OF THE AVENBR AM HI CREW. The arrival of the Malta mail adds some infer tion to the scanty intelligence already received refpw4 this fearful disaster. It is believed that the Avengernl hsve gone to pieces immediately she struck. How she 0 in that locality, so far out of her course to Malta, is ellt the important queations which a statement from a Elit alone can solve. Reference to ...

... EXPRESS FROM PARIS. we have received the Paris papers of Thursday. '[le address of the Chatmberof Peers in ainswer to tile speech from the thronec was presented to the K 1N4 on Wednesday evening at thle palace of thle Ittijierieg. U i pards of two hundred peers joined tule deoputaition. Having entered tho Hall of lie- teF-,tion, tho( KINs took his seatt on thethrone. His MA .1ESTY;wvas ...

... JIM DRlD-,TA N. 2. [HtR1Cr OUl ( ?? I htornied you it a receut uletter that tin, ?? of tie Q-(qle was f,, from beini in oa ?? stie. tit,, has novw become suhti et to fits, indt hlid in aittirl onl Fridtly, nttetil ed u ith ?? conllmiolnis, and wns inisensible for two hou rs. I ffvii g rveovered, shit could not be preovtiled Upon1 to sitly nt IOnie, bilt wtnlt to thie theatre il tie even- tcb, ...

... THEll /9.IT> JIIXl ,A ('III C() 'NI(C'LE 1 (O N 1) )N : T/II'I.'lct ?? .1:4 NU..j ' l B3, 1848. I Iuln' i;R 0ot a1 ?? I0(l ?? 10eutu1 inl tIL! p, sit nt slate otf I 'eldlad than the u1nm11istakable de- lilil'lI'I ol t l' rI liluli II'IL(tl'5 ill th (JUalitieS tlat, ?? ?? tIlI1(1, atad give I) QIeI(fiCiul dite'c'tioll toL IioiltiLfIl flenc( ?? hlome. 'Ilo reill, ?? rlgdilt' arll interests of ...

... To THlE EDITOR OF THLS MIORNING CIIRONICLE' SoIR-Your appeal to the British jury in tire tmitter of National Defence is showoing symptoms of a result in wliieh we may both ngree -the outpouring of a natiorril spirit thit scottd end mocks it the possibility of foreign domination - Philhlethes,' ill the Times, talkl in good old English of whet wo can spontaneously do in the emergency of a French ...

... CONFIRMATION OF THIE Bl,S'Jlop op I II ER 0F OR D. I - ?? confirmation of t(he Rev'. Rnon Dickson Ilalptfea,, lI.D., late Reigius Professor of D~ivinity at Oxfordl, to thet Ihishopric oft Hlereford, vattsint by the elevationl of Dr. M Iusgrave to th(,esee of York, wais yesterday finailly eon- sararnatedf at thechlureti of St. Mlory-le.Bow, it) Uiccity r of London. 'Fhe proceedings uppearud to ...

... .'lTE EflJIGIIATIONV TO CANADA in 1847. ToD TIHE EDITOR OM TIHE MORNING CIIRONICLlF SIR-It may possibly be ot use to brinmr into imioiv Iijotice than they have hithlerto mietwithl,thclast paperi relatin g to the emigration from Ireland to Canads arid tile United S3tates diuning the paist year. Th( Istun1 of themi is without palirallel in the annals ol nations, for not less than 210,000 persons ...