... INQUIRY INTO THE MORTAL TY 2ON 3OARD j x TIHE BHIP DUKE OF PURTLmn - Tne frightful' mortality of Chinese on' board the British ship Duke of Portland has been the subject of investigation for several days before the LocalMarine Board, Cornhill; Mr. Duncan, Donbar chairman. Captain Seymour, the master of the Duke of Portland, deposed that the ship left' Hong Kong with 832 Chinese coolies. The ...

... BOL&ND. AN IMPORTANT MOvnei, indioaive in a remarkable manues ot the altered state of. this, country, has just been set on foot, th& object being to reduce, the present Poor- law expenditure of Ireland by the amalgamation of several Door-law unions; and a meeting ofdelegates from the several Irish board of guardians was held, at the Comr, mnertial Buildings, in Dublin, for the purpose of ...

... THE NARCH OF IESPOTISX, AND RECLESS C AEER OF DESPOTS.: TO TAE EDITOR or PistolDs'S 3W . SIR,-The rulersof. ststes, in the year of our Lord 2857, claim no .gre'ener cfhaplets .of intelligence than cl aimed by the Hums and Giothe, .the gore -.lavere d cannibals and marauders of Germany, :in the lifetime of Attila. . raracter-di-psiti mnains, as the English rood of land remains, in lineal ...

... hIMPERIAL PARLIAJET. - ROUSE OF, LORDS.-Monday.' VEXATIOUS LITIGATION.-Lord. BROUGHAM reintroduced his Bill to put down vexatious law procee'd- ings, by making poor men give securities for costs to rich men when they bring actions against them. The bringing an action and not being able to pay the costs de- manded by lawyers, and the fees exacted by the law, is by this Act made punishable by ...

... THEI STARVING OPERATIVES AND POOR. I .n- LT-A-t -Ar HOUSE RELIEF, _ I I Un Monday afternoon an immense multitude of persons, consisting of mechanics, labourers, and' others, assembled in the front of Clerkenwell Police-office to seek the advice and assistance bf' Mr. Corrie, in 'consequence of having been refused relief by the parish authorities at Islington. The complaining parties, it ...

... TIPERIAL PARLTAW1!ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-ITueSday. The seision' of`phrlfameint wivts on 'Inleday' opened by commission; the; event was -in consequence deprived of that pageantry which attends the ceremony when per- formed by the Queen in . person- Notwithstanding,, how- ever, the absence of the glittering cortege of royalty, the beefeaters, and the Horse Guards, and the gaiiy capari- soned ...

... THE FR&UDS ON THE CITY;; BAN& James Anderson'and James ~wnalnd' S-award, who have been repeatedly examined upon 'charges of extensive forgery upon many of the first banking houses in the city, were brought before the Lord Mayor, on Wednesday, for final examination. Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk; proceeded to read the voluminous depositions of nearly sixty witnesses, which consumed nearly the ...

... - THE COUR1. The Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess De La Warr, and the Right Hon. Sir .Cornewall and Lady Theresa Lewis, arrived at Windsor, on Wednesday, on a visit. The third dramatic performance at the Castle took place that evening. The pieces selected upon this occa- sion were a drama in t w6 acts (from the .Fiench of Messrs. Melesville'and C. Daveyrier), by Mr. J. R. Planche, ...

... LATEST NEWS, DOMEITIC, FOREIGN, JETC.~ Mr. T. Chambers, M.P. for Hertford, has been elected Common Sergeant of the City of London.-In the course.. of his speech at the Bury income-tax meeting, Mr. F. Peel observed that as far as his 'predilectioa we! concerned he should be -latd to see the income liable to this tax starting from 15IL a year and upwards, and that he thought the meeting might ...

... PALMERSTON -AND DISRAELI-THE SECRET ntEA&TY; WITi AUSTRIA. On Tuesday, the 3rd of February, the day of the opening of parliament, Mr. Disraeli. brought forward in the House of Commons, against the Government of England, an accusation, of treachery and double-deal- ing of the most infamous and atrocious description. It was to the' effect that, at the very time when Eng- land was. urging upon ...

... MEETING or T=OKET-Or-Lz&,Vz A meeting mken-,f-leave-rr,.. very- similarn i s character to the one held early last year at the National Hall, Holborn, took place on Tuesdayr evening at Farring. don Hall, Snow'-hill. The proceedings 'derived peculiar interest from their bearing 'on the` re'cent discussions rela- tive to our whole systemn of secondary pjunishments, which: -have been provoked by ...

... DEMKOCRATJ'C, AND . OLIGARI~O P OVER- . IN' /E T. . ?? . [From the sorning Adee ti4e The 'position of, the PlutocrAcy and Aristocracy of England-isj beginnink to le prearious, for:t the corrap- .tion, misgovernment,,and nonopolis bh ;both are stinl- lg in the nostrils of the country Every day brings.. its. mismtanagenient and its disclo'sure of fraud, and capital and po*er'must' answer at,,the ...