... ?? XiierpvlT Mercury. StALUS POP'JLf SEX 6.VPAEfMlA. I -A 9 t TUBrsDA Y. 'E 8 1?U.-IR Y I1:, 1049. -I FRANCE BETWEEN TWO REPJUB LIC S. The fact of the National Assetubly having at ha length settled the question of their dissolution in co the affirmative ielieves the President and the young Republic of the more immediate dangers that so ap 0 re( recently threatened both. France it may be ex-ha ...

... ISLE OFI MAN 3lLMOURAGAz, !-Thia worthy PArtR GILMOUR AGAIN !-This worthy tradesmsa r r, is aa exiensively engaged in the way o' bus i- ness' ci cve. As e before stated, lie isuot over part i- ~eera to ahit line he is more immcdimely conlce!rrcd ?? ]iely he was dealing in such trTfl:' ?? 200 jr. quirters of malt ; tuid some 40 f50 b tr- r Sill later, we undcrtjtand, he wjas or- rel re itjrr ...

... I - THE COMMISSION-MR. DUFFY. At noon to-day another Commission of Oyer and Terminer opens-the fourth since the arrest of lr. Duffy. H e will, perhaps, to-morrow stand again at the bar, where he has' already stood upwards of twenty times in vain. But now we trust not in vain, but at last to be fairly tried by a fair jury of his fel- low-citizens. It is, indeed, full time. Anomalous as the cha- ...

... IMP:IERIAL. PABLIAMENT. ROUSE. OF LORDS-TUE5DAt7 Fan. 6. tc Their lordships sat At five o'clock, but, with the exception mn of some mare formal matters, adjourned until Thursday wills- st out doing any public business. Ai HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUE5DAY, Fiain 6. C The S~rAMuc took the chair at four O'clock. iii a HABE AS CORPUS ACTS SUSPENSON(READ)b Sir G. GREY then spokse to the following effect : ...

... THE' .FREN'ClltREPUBLMC. v A ;1!is 'RC , O(YAOMO2UR WN CORRESPONDENT.) Peris, Tuesoiday, Febrsarp 20. l T6foni tnythink'lilk a corect judgmenf on the probable i restultibth-egreatespbrinrent made on the 24th February 1t848, j1 it ;ipecessary.to fullow tbe tortuouspolicy of the Royalists thrqlt sseverf pl! sqs Their last step was to ensure tbe speedy dissolution of the present assemnbly, with ...

... THE ARMS.,ACT,--MEIMQR1AL.TO THE. LORD, LIEUTENANT AND HIS REPLY. Our readorls may remember an affair brought some timne ago before the petty sessions at Rahisey, in which Sugein Blackley ?? hound over to stand listiial at the next quarter session for sh'oting at a boy who lad been, we believe, ga- itering brambies for firewoid in'his shr'ubbery. We are as little inclined as the best friend of ...

... THE, IRISH POOR-LAW RATE lw AID. I From a passage in the Times of yesterday, and our readers are aware that the Times is an authority as to ministerial intentions, it would seem that it is the purpose of ministers to terminate the system of parliamentary grants in relief of Irish distress, by introducing a system of rates in aid, by which the general property rated to the poor in Ireland, ...

... FRENCH RE.UBC. .. . (FROM OUR PRIVATE UMhItSPONDENT) Pas*, FMiday, Febnmary 2. Ohti of the most pressing arguments directed agai- the National Assembly is its ?? hostility to the present cabinet, and thl conclusion thence drawn that the affairs of the. cointry cannot be carried on while a contest exists be- tween the legislative power anid the cabinet: Undet all con- stitutional governments, ...

... C=ON C LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS, EXETER HALL. -The Thirteenth Concert of this interesting series at- tracted a brilliant audience. vr ato h ag pal assn offwith th eorienience, the entire Concert Pass:g Off with thegreatest clt a. Rossini's celebrated opera of Tancredi furnished the operatic selections of the evening which were most Skilfully executed by Misses Lucoi obe, Dolby, Mrs. A. Newton ...

... I ' 1MPERIAL PARLIAMNT. .I HOUSE OF LO'RDS,- FRiD ; PE, . ; i POOSC-LAy IN IRELAND. of The IMarquis of IAas6OwlrN moved for a select com- mittee to inquire into the administration of the ?? wI in Ireland, His case fr founded on the notonrety of a circumstanceS asar circ nstanaee with which they Wereo all familiar, and a which superseded the necessity of any long argument on dU htis part. ...

... The elaborate and, in many respects, able expla- nation, given by the Rev. J. Shepherd Birley, at t Bolton, and inserted in last Saturday's Chsronicle, of the expenditure of the funds of this county by the magistrates, afforded us much satisfaction. It proved 1s that the sense of irresponsibility of which we have I frequently seen reason to complain as animating the dispensers of the ...

... POLITICAL:. I CARDIOAN ELECTION.-On Saturday, Pryse Pryse, Esq., was elected member for Cardigan.by a majority of eight votes, Mr. Pryse is a liberal, and son of the late member. I I ' ; :. SOUTriDEvoNasiain.-Sir E.Lo~peb,atoryprotectionist, ,was returned, on Tueiday last, witbout opposition, as; representative of the southern' division, of Devonshire,' in the ?? of Viscount Courtenay, who has ...