... LATEST N EWS. nrRALD OFFICE, Monday Morningl; BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Y ~ AMERICA. e - THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAG E. Liverpool, Sunday Morning. The steamship Africa, from New York on the 8th inst., e arrived in the MIersey at half-past seven this morning, bring- ing 60 passengers, and 187,000 dollars in specie. She was off I Point Lynas at 10.30 last night, but was detained ...

... Will. BBRIGHTS GON8STITUTION. (From the Times.) The supporters of Mr. Bright's forthcoming bill ought in consistency to abstain from the unprofitable metaphysics of Reform. Every scheme for regulating the franchise assumes that the object of a representa- tive system consists in the good government of the country, and not in the privilege of exercising the suffrage. When Mr. Milner Gibson ...

... ROITHESAY. ?? X2I!iJtk 1. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO MR. PRENTICE. On Friday evening last, upwards of fifty gentlemen enter- l tained Mr. Prentice to a sumptuous dinner in Attwood's Queen's Hotel, West. Bay, Rotbesay-Duncan Salmon, I L Esq., in the chair;. Provost M'Ewen, croupier. Amongst . the gentlemen presentw ?? Muir, Esq., Foley House; Thomas Gibson, Esq., Spittal; John Urie, Esq., ...

... PARLTIAMENTATOY REFORM. *I'UJIL OF MRL lHIffHTY AT 1hI)INBUIOE. (Frena tile ncotsrlrani.) . Onl Wednes~day nlighlbt a iildic meceting of the inhabitants of £dirliixrngh wvas eled inl tie Sliiusie. Hall. for thle purpiose of considering the question of larliainentary Reform. Thlet hll was crowded lonig IleiICO tC appeasasice of Mr. JIohnt lrigiit andr other gelitlelene o)1 thle pdatforiri, ...

... CHAPTER I. (From Blackwood's Magazine for December.) It was on Saturday the 18th Juno, 1842, that the boats of the British fleet opened the port of Shanghai to the ken of the world; and to-day, sixteen short years afterwards, the value of the European and American exports and imports. amounts to no less than tventy-six millions of dollars per annum, or, at the present rate of exchange, six ...

... (From the Greenock Advertiser of Yesterday.) HEnRING FISHING.-A very heavy fishing took place at Tarbert yesterday morning with the trawl net. Only four or five skiffs had arrived before the steamer left, yet upwards of 30 boxes were put on hoard. One crew possessing three boats took from 300 to 450 maize, an enormous quantity, as each maize contains 500 fish. The herring are generally very ...

... OUR NvW CONSTITUTION. ?? elan Np.., (From the Tihes.) We are almost ashamcd to confess ourselves still in the dark as to our new Constitution. All the Reformcrs, whether Tory or Radical, keep their coun- sel with a fidelity at once admirable and aggravating. With the rest of the world, we did hope for some- thing from Manchester. So we sent our reporters, and had the precious words, pregnant w ...

... MONAY M w, DCMral2b0 MONDAY MIORNIN'G, DECEMBER 20. WF refer to the American President's Message to Congress, of which we have received a copious suni- 1-rr a 4-l- -a.nl maxy by telegraph. i WEs notice, with much gratification, that the Liqui- dators of the Western Bank have issued al advertise- . ment amouncinig that they are now prepared to pay l off in full the claims of all the private ...

... A War Office circular has just been issued stathlg l that inarried officers, accompanied by their fiamilies, ssf proceeding under circumstances which entitle them *6 passages at the public expense, will be perinitted to -pmbark femle, instead of mlale, servants, to thle nunil- *72ac of the latter allocwed by regulation ; but they will t -be held liable to defray the difference, if ally, ...

... UV 1rut UiNfl'SiJJ r1i1raIu. At the centennial celebration of the occupancy of Forts l)uquesne and Pitt, held at Pittsburg on the 25th of No- veiober last, am1on(g the letters of excuse for non-attendance was tile followin1 flom the President of the United States. Having regard to the pres.cnt unsettled state of the country, the opinions expressed by Mr. Buchanani possess a peculiar importance ...

... - .. --l - r L . -1 ?? .. 1 ., By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we (Times) have re- ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to the 9th of Nov., and fromu Hong Kong to the 29th of October. The following is the letter of our Calcutta corresponden t:- November 10. I The proclamation was published all over India on the samne day, the 1st of November. It has, ...

... - . . r { 5_. - 1 t ?? ?? _.nc. At the meetitig of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce held for the purpoes of considering what support the Chlatmber should give to the establishment of a packet stationi betweell Ireland and America, Mr. J. 0. Lever made a lengthened statement which appeared to be satisfactory to the merchants preseint At its close Mr. Lever wus closely cateehised by three ...