... THE PROPOSED NE W CONVICT SET- TLEMENT FOR ENGLAND. [FROX THE YEatRAND REGISTER.] For some time past the attention of her Majesty's Go. vernment has been occupied in looking out for a new penal settlement, and New Caledonia, in the Southern Archipelago, as a fit and proper place, has attracted at- tention. A finer country than that she has fixed her thoughts upon for a new convict ...

... NEW JERSEY EPISCOPAL cON' VUNTION. 1FIROnI TIns NEW YORK COURSEIS OF M4ARC1U 10,1 The Special (,onvention of the diocese of ¶ecJer called by Bishop Doasme to take action ill regard to the ?? of the Bishops of Virginia, Maine, and Ohio, met Olh i nesday morning, the 17th instant, in St. Liary'o chusrch : lington.i ...

... | H:UILL EAS~TER SEZSSIONS. use THIS DAY, FIDA'Y, APRIL 2. Bri - ?? RAILWAYURB-BERIES.I bab WILLIAM IHALL was charged with receiving into his possessioii,'..knowing them to hbavef been stolen, two tors chests of tea and twso caskss of tobacco, ~the property of tn s the York and North Midlaind Railway Company. . II Mr. OvenENts nod Mir. Taliozasore conducte d the Bra prosecution ; 'and Mr. ...

... Q1?orrE?pD)Tbe11ie, THE DOCK BRIDGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIRt,-Is it to show their authority and how much all classes of persons having any business in the town are at their mercy that the Dock Comnamissioners select for the opening of the bridge and stoppage of traffic from the hours of nine to ten o'clock is the forenoon, when the majority of busliess men having their ...

... COURT, &ec. I Thursday last being Maunday Thursday, the royal ( lbounty, known as Maunday money, was distributed in t i the usual manner, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, to 32 i Ipoor men and women, her Majesty's age being that num- G ber of years. t Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended an early service t I on Good Friday in the private chapel of Windsor Castle, i and took the sacrament of ...

... TIHE WEATHER. To the great delight of townspeople, as well as , to the great relief of farmers, graziers, and gar- ddeners, a change in the weather has at length taken place. A peck of March dust may at If times be worth a king's ransom; but, unfor- 1i tunately, that is true only when the dust is I. not procurable, or when the king is not worth a r great deal to his people. Like all other corm ...

... -- S- S-- - * - e' D | use i M. FOUR HUNDRED & FIFTY-FOUR PEBSONS DROWNED and le (Prom the Times of Wednesdayj.)san *. Another terrible disaster has happened at sea. At two traco no'clock in the morning of the 26th of February her Ma- to of jestys steamer the Birkenhead was wrecked between two to'd Id and three miles from the shore of Southern Africa. The goes ut exact spot at which the ...

... I LANCASTElR COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM, I I - -..RAINH.ILL. I - I Thomas Eceleston, surgeon superintendent, has just O0 Ipresented his first annual report to the visiting justices. this the following are extracts:- such f In presenting the first annual report of this asylum, it deal has been thought desirable to pursue the plan usually too adopted by the medical offlcers of similar institutions, ...

... AXBRIDGE.-Ois Tuesday last, being the first meeting of 'v the new board ofguardians. H. J.Addington,s Es.was elected 11 chuirmani and. the Rev. FM Hesse, and Henry Sy-mons, Esq., C vice-ohairmenifor the current year. the unanimous thanks of the a board having~ b~ee previously tendered to those gentlemen Vp their p nat truly valuable services. The guardians were as pleased to express their ...

... Wicicow.-Lord Mlilton has addressed tile clctors of this town. COuUNTY as' KIricrsaX.-Mr. Otway Caffe is the Con- servative candidate. Dnominu A.-lt is stated that Mr. James Mathews, J.P., Miounttinover, has resolved to offer himself for thc reprcsentatioia of this city. SiTGO COUNrV.-Sir Robert Gore Booth, M.P., hias issued an address intimatinlg that it is his intention to off'r himself ...

... Ete Armp. ADDRESS TO GENERAL B.1NsU1GGE.-On Friday af- ternoon an address, signed by a large number of the leading gentry and merchants of Belfast, was presented to Lieutenant-General Bainbrigge, at the Donegall Arms, expressive of the high sense of the excellent manner in which he had discharged his duties to the Crown, and their warm appreciation of the interest he had evinced in the ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE BOROUGHS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sin,-So much of your valuable space has been tM,en up with letters respecting the late election for these boronghs, that I should feel great delicacy in occupying your time, if I were not aware that truth and justice are dear to you, and that I also feel it an incumbent duty, as one of the ngents (retained by Mr. Bailey ) who took a very ...