... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-TurSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the ?? at five o'clock. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the congregation of Southgate-road Chapel, 1Kingslaud, against the opening of the Crystal Palaoe on Sundays. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petidoin from a place in Ayrshire, against the grant to the Roman Catholic College of .Maynooth. ...

... IMPE RIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The Bognor Railway Bill, the Irwell Valley Waterworks Bill, and the Shipley Oas Bill, were severally considered, and- erdered to lie upon the table. The Swsffham andi Bottisham Drainage (No.2) Bill and the SoxlthoEasteru Railway (Canterbury and Wbitstable, &a.) Bill were read a second ...

... UNI VERSITY INTELLIGENCE. IOXFORD, JUNE 10. In a Convocation holden this morning the proposal to grant to the Professor of Chemistry the Sun of £100 per annum for four years, for the salary of an assistant to teach prac. tical chemistry, met witll the app o the house. In a Congregation holdea immediately afterwards the fol - lowing degrees were conferred, viz.:- DOCTOR OF MEDICINE. Charles ...

... * -- The Queen gave last evening, at Bneeingham Palace, a concert, to whieb their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, the members of the Royal Family, and a large party of the nobility and gentry were invited. Their Mrjesties the Kilg and Queen of Hanover arrived at the Palace at twenty-five minutes past nine o'clock, attended by Baroness Decken, Baroness Gabelentz, Countess Berne- torff, ...

... SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMBNDMEN7 OF T.HB LA IF. The annual meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday at the rooms of the society, in Regent-street, Lord Brougham, the president, in the chair. The tenth annual report of the council stated that during the past year the society has devoted its attention to various subjects connected -with the improvement of the law. A ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE KING ANS QUEEN OF RANOVER. . .: * -4- Their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, accom- panied by the youthful Crown Prince and the Princesses of the Royal Family, arrived offthe Royal Dockyard at Woolwich at half-past five o'clock last'evening, from Ostend. At 11 o'clock in the forenoon four of the Qteen's car- riages and two luggage vans arrived at the Royal Dockyard from ...