... HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, from a place in Glamorganshire, in favour of the extension of the county courts; also two petitions from the Portsea and Gos- port Athtlsesaum, and from the Norwood Institution, praying that they might have access to parlianmentary papers, espe- ially those relating to arts, manufactures, and ...

... I XORNIVG CHRONICLE OFFIC'E, Mlonday, 12, Voon. THE UNITED STATES. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. L1OM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] [ LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. By the arrival of the Canada we have dates from New York to the 23d November. The steam-ship Crescent City had arrived from Havana. She was allowed to land her passengers 1and mails; but purser Smith, whowas on board, was ...

... LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1853. The question of the Income-tax, although in itself neither abstruse nor doubtful, has become so much complicated by the various theories which have been devised to justify popular error, that the only chance of bringing the controversy to a conclusion seems to consist in the exhaustion of all the falla- cies which can possibly be made to bear on the subject. ...

... UNIVERSITY IITELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 27. In a Convocation holden this morning, the proposed grant of £500, from the University chest, towards the Wellitlltoe subscription for educational purposes, met with a strong opposition on two grounds ?? The shortness of the notice (the paper announcing it was only sent round to the Comm0on rooms on Tuesday) ; 2. Tche desirability of applyoin the money ...

... AIORNING CHROXICLE OFFICE, Wednesday, 12, Noon. 13-pRESS FROM PARIS. [!1BOliM oUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. To the supsrficial observer, there never was a time in which the political world of Paris appeared More calm than at present, and yet events are taking place elsewhere, which must rouse strong feeligs of irritation on the part of the new Erm- peror of the French, and ...

... jg?Lo~DON &(AZETT ~- I D0Nd fZETTE OF FRIDA Y, 0 ?? XVARY 7.. couriatWjaor, the 4th day of January 186S; ?? ?? Excellent Majesty ini Council : ih Qen CoSi eathis day pleased to appoint ~e ut jwo the Lord President of the Council for the Sib ?? Nble the Duke of Argyll, Lord 'rYSel; the Most Bon. the Marquis of 0~Feo e lion, thle Earl of Aberdeen, First , ~iwoncr herfajesty's Treasury; the Right ...

... MORNING CHRONICLE OFFICE, Monday, Five a.m. IEUXPRESS FROM PARIS. [FROM OUR OWN OORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING. The Moniteur contains a series of telegraphic despatches announcing the arrival of the Emperor at the chateau of Compiegne. The town of Compiegne was illuminated in ho- nour of the visit. M. Troplong is appointed First President of the Imperial Court, in place of Count ...

... The Madrid Gazette of the 14th of December last publishes the followiig Royal Decree (Translation.) ROYALDECREE. In conformity with the proposition of the Ministro de Hacienda, and the advice of the other Ministers, I decree the following:- Art 1. Merchandize coming from Gibraltar, Portugal, Algeria, and ports situated between the rivers Gironde inclu- sive and the Bidasoa, and from the ...

... LINNEAN SOCU1TY. A meeting of this society was held on the 1st instant, Mr. Robert Brown, president, in the chair. Mr. Daniel Oliver, jun., and Mr. William Thomson were elected fellows. A paper was read, On Venation, as a generic character in the Ferns; with observations on the genus Hewardia, J. Smith, and Cionidium, Moore; by Mr. Thomas Moore, ?? curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea. ...

... SECON.D t EDITION. i ORNING' CHRONiCLE OFFICE, >: . iiday 1 1 a.m. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATC(I. [BY SUBMAWINZE AND EUROPEAN TELEURAPH.]! . [ROM OUR PART CORRESPONDEIT. : PARIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 24 The loniteur publishes a decree calling into activity the young disposable soldiers of the classes of 1849 and 1850; also a' letter dated Feb. 16, recalling General de Castelbajao from St. Peters- burg. The ...

... 0 , - COAWF~RR~AN OF SEAMEN.~ -4.- SiEisDs, TnUiSDAY AFTgitDoolf.-A conference of sea men, which has been sitting in South Shields this week, has just concluded. The following ports were represented:- Newcastle, NorthSbields, SouthShields, IpswisCh, Yarmouth, Lynn, Hull, Scarborougb, :Whitby, Middlesborough, Stock- ton, Hartlepool, Seaham, Sunderland, Leith, and Aberdeen. The following are the ...

... TRADE BETWEEN FRANCE AND PORTUGAL. The Constitutionnel analyses as follows the treaty of commerce and navigation between France and Portugal:- The 3fonitear has published an Imperial decree promul- gating a treaty of commerce concluded between France and Portugal. It is known that, according to the terms of the Senatus Consultum, which modified the Constitution at the time of the proclamation ...