... UNIlTED STATES. The last American mail wvas expected to bring Oyer the;.President's speech. But its delivery has been so long retarded by the contest of the rival parties for the election of their respective candidates to the office of Speaker of the Housa of Representatives, that the mail was dispatched without it. The question of slavery now occupies the most prominent place in the public ...

... | SIR ROBERT;EEL AND HIS TENANTRY. TV ?? is-'i'op o f a letter which has been ad. dressed by Sire RbertPeel tolbis tenantry:-. TO THE TENANT.pARAKnRs ON THE ESTATE OP SlR ROagRT PEEL. lI wish to oomsunnicate with you on the present state and the prospects of agriculture, so far as they concern our relations of landlord And tenant, and I know not that I could select any better mode of ...

... OUR COhONIES. THE rancorous threatsfulminated against the landowners by Mr Cobden, at Leeds, yesterday fortnight, and the spirit by which his platform harangues are pervaded, are but. little calculated to conciliate the intelligent portion of the community. I His propositions, however, frequently contain a portion of common sense, %Ybich would be somewhat more ap- parent did not his ambition ...

... rRoSPECTS OF THE FARMER UNDER FREE TRADE. lie. _ her, B- kwowod's Magazine for January, an early copy of Tze bie' ave hase been favoured with, there is a most interest- l eg paper, uder the title of British Agriculture and Fo- eld competitions on the position of the agricultural in- ber rest-the facts contained in which have been collected 3er: ith tuch care and labour, from the most ...

... | RAILWAY INTELLGENCR. I I1I - CALEtDONIAN RAILWAY.-Tihe report of the Committee of Investigation to the Shareholders of the Caledonian Railway Company has just been published. Atabularstatement-fur. nihdy the Committee, shows that the sums expendetfaud liabilities beyond- the guaranteed capital on the several ines with which it is connected. amount to 936.782, and the Ast- mated yearly loss ...

... REJOICINGS AT STRICHENINONOU O TE ~~~MASTER, OF f@OVAT. ^ : THEt Honourable SIMsON FRASER, Master of Lovat, hairl~ng~ atttainbd his majority on the !21st ualt., thre inhabitants of 'Strichen, and the tenantry on the estate of Striclhen, Lord Lovat's property in this county, testified their attachment to the firmily,and their joyful notice of the event of the day, by ringing the village bells ...

... Trance. PAnrs. Toesed.y.-Christmas being kept as a cloce holi- day, the Legistative Assembly did not meet and the Military Administr~aive Courts of Justice ns trell as the Bourse re- mained cloied. The churches were unusually rrowded, and it is remarked that a religious feeling appeared to be on tile increnser. T'he Emperor of Austria bhs sent hia portrait as a present tb the President of the ...

... FORRIGN. FRANCe.-M. Thiers has been appointed President of the Committee of Inquiry into the circumstances connected with the tax on fermented liquors. The Carlist General Cabrera was arrested by the police on Friday, at a meeting of Legitimists. The cause is not known. The Mon=tecr publishes a decree for calling out 80,000 men of the class of 1849, and postponing the dissolution of the Garde ...

... SiR ROBERT, PEEL AND, HIS TE)ANTRY.- IF any landlord be called upon to aaume a portion of the burdens that the present crisis'hasthrown upon theW shoulders of the farmers; that la Ilord is Sir Robert Peel. He is more firmly impressed than any other with the efficiency of his own work; and may deny that the ex- isting depression has any 6ornnection with his free-trade measures. But no one is ...

... IRE ANCP. I,, , I TIrE PROTECTION MOVE3MENT. - The requisition for the great metropolitan meeting, early in January, now-bears the signatures of forty peers, and every post brings in let- ters from the leading gentry of the country, approving of this movement in favour of protection. TirE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMACy.-The Freeman''s Jour- nal states. on the authority of a letter received from Rome ...

... MISCELLANEODUS. ELonLF von RAILIVAI-.-WbV is a pair of lovers, es- trauged from one another, like railway accounts and railway affairs?2 Because they don't correspond. A WAU!JING To TowN COUNCILLtOttS.-One of the town councillors of Bradford was lately fined five shillings, having been found in the streets drunk and incapable. A Pios WMI5EEHOVK11HEA-13~ AT THE SMsITHFIELD CATTLE Saow.-' ...

... | . A LE AND SPIWIT LICENCES. I TO ALEXANDER THOUSON, ESQ OF BACHORY. SIR,-I ?? Your, circular of thre -th inst., addressed to the Clergymen of the County, requesting their opinion whether any, anid how mnany, of the licensed houses in their respective parisbes may be discontinued, with advan- tare to morality, and without inconvenience to the public. It' is my intention soon to answer your ...