... GENERAL INTELLIGE-S~ I At a Privy Council held at Windsor Castle day week, her Majesty declared Earl Grasvge4ntr President of the Council. Lord Pamnure eg Sidney Herbert were sworn two of her Haid 31 cipal Secretaries of State; and Mr. He esty F a P sworn one of the Privy Council. A Prod tme7 ordered to be issued against aiding ad aniat55n Va Queen's enemies. After the Council, Len p t e had ...

... IDISTRICT INTELLiGENCE. I HEDON. had On Monday evening H. Munroe, Esq., of Hull, yea delivered a very amusing and interesting lecture On I the genius end writings of Hood, to the members of thri the Mechanics' Institution, in the Town-hall, which was ben filled on the occasion. The lecturer, after following the hlon poet through some of the most pathetic as well as the tow most humorous ...

... OLD MISS -HALL, THE MISER. tar Everybody In Shefiield knew old Miss Hall, the miser. 1n ry A little, thin, fussy creature, with dingy, sharp, withered u , features, and keen, restless eyes, dressed in patched and b h threadbare attire, who used to be pointed at and whispered u be about in the streets, hooted and pelted by the boys as a t sort of outlandish thing, bad employed In the natare of ...

... WRECK ce THE BRITISH BARQUE ARGYLE. a LOSS OF TEN LIVES. re The American papers las, received contain melilanchioly de. Pete Ii, tails or the lass of the Broslde barque Argyle, Catain Jamee ses Burnoan, bosand from Glasgow to Now York. a2N whih was 31 ,ien totally wrorked on the coast of Jell80Y, about I2 DiUeS south Of P o1hr Squan Inlet, at midnight on tha 20th of January. It appears activ ...

... Y, (From our own Correspondent.) LEICESTER, Monday. V. During the past week the officers of the Leicestershire >-Militia have been entertained by their noble Colonel, the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle. That no interruption might be caused to the drilling of the regiment, the officers r met in two parties-the first on Monday, returning on Wed- -n nesday, and the second on Wednesday, ...

... ?? . . . - - ?? a: During Wednesday night and Thursday the inhabitants at the East end of Lorndon were kept in a state of continual excitement, in consequence of the alarming conduct of several hundred dock labourers and other destitute persons, who perambulated the principal thoroughfares in procession, de- manding bread and money from the shopkeepers, whose pre- mises were forcibly entered ...

... FlEt) iU E-S1- .' Id' LEFICESTUERSH IRE. ; (From our own Correspondent.) t ULCIsTUa, Monday. The old prediction has been fulfilled. Winter has had another fight over us since Candlemas-day, and has left us weather more wintry than before. A snow-storm of con- , siderable duration, succeeded by frosts still more severe, have . been the characteristics of the weather during the week. In e the ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS-Monday. Earl GREY moved a resolution, to the effect that the adminis- tration of the army ought to be concentrated, and brought under the control of a single and well-organised department. The chief feature of the plan consisted in the establishment of a board, somewhat analogous to the Board of Admiralty, to administer the whole business connected with the military service in ...

... i'EALTH OF L.ONDOY. I The present Registrar-General's weekly relornx shows that the high 5mortality announced in recent reports has undergone a further increase. InD the first three weeks of the curren', month the deaths registered in Londoc wers 1,404, 1,466, and 1,649; in the last veek they rOesttO 1,630. Ot males whose deaths are now rcturned the number is 791; of females, 839. In the four ...

... (Dr SVBIIAR1Nz AND BRITISKH TILI0RAvt.) PARIS, THnrsD&r. a A despateb from Admiral Bruat, dated Kasiesoh, e San. 23, states that a blockade had been notified by l commanders in the French fleet, at Odessa, Caffa, Kertch, Anapa, and Soujuk-Kal& . The fortifications of all these places were being strengthened. The Russians in Sebastopol were throwing up an embankment to connect the detached ...

... In the Spanish Cortes, on the 25thi, N. Infantt D waes electe d president by 134 votes to 90, given to M. Olozaga. Both the candidates were progressists. M. c Infante, on taking the chair, returned thanks for the honour done him. The debate onL the bases of the a ?? was thenl resumed, but, it presented no- thing of interest. The Madrid journals conttinue toa speak of ministerial mtodifications ...

... OPINIONS OF' THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES. The opinion of the country seems to be at cross- purposes with itself. There is just now no man hut Lord Aberdeen himself who stands in such a questionable position with the public as Lord John Russell-but there was not one man in the late cabinet who beside him expressed dis- satisfaction with the prosecution of the war-there was no man who gave tangible, ...