... Lord Brougham presented a petition from the Law Offices and members of Ihe legal profession in Jamaica, complaining of Ibe distress which existed in that island, and which the petitioners traced to the introduction into England of slave-grown sugar, on the same footing as that produced by free labour. Similar petitions were presented by other noble lords from Antigua, British Guiana, and ...

... FATAL ACClDENT.-On Wednesday sennight, as Mr. Wood, bailiff to Mrs. Matthews, of Southbrook, was with a companion in a gig near Caldicot, the horse took fright at the barking of a dog, and, after plunging about for some time, upset the carriage on a bank. Mr Wood was thrown nnt with trreat violenco, and having, unfortunately, but one hand he Si heavily, and received some severe contusions on ...

... cARDtrr. m r.„n,nn-We perceive that the excel- T..« ATHBNXUM EISTEDDFOD. V; e P lent committee of this valuabk inst.nu bestowed OD the Eisteddfod at whtcl. eight cap.ul pnx workman_ victors, ID the arena of essay, d penmanship. There ship, glee singing, musical ,hat it will at once is something so attractive atoul, a'nd encouragement; strongly recommend itself to public suppo j fostering ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoICDu, 18. Lord Stanley moved for copies of correspondence between the chief magistrate of Armagh and the Executive Government in June and July, 1846, and also for a variety of papers relating to the collision which took place at Caatlewellan in July last, lie impugned the conduct of the Lord Chanoellor of Ireland in having permitted hisoffice to be degraded into a purely ...

... TIIE CHEAP GAS MOVEMENT. (TO THE EDITUn) SlR,—I perceive by the advertising columns of yonr Jour- nal of the ICth instant, that the gas consumers of this borough, contemplate an application to Parliament, during the msning session, for the necessary powers to enable them to become their own producers of gas. Now Sir, although I unhesitatingly admit the philosophy of the axiom that the order ...

... SUNDAY LESSONS. March 21—4th Sunday in Lent. Morning Lessons: Gen. 43, John 8 — Evening Lessons; Gen. 45, 1 Tim. 5. WEEKLY CALENDAR. Moon's age—New, 20th day, 611 43m afternoon. Month j Rise*. SUNSETS | RUM. j^oonSets.j Year. 19 J 6 7 5 10 I 6 12 4 42 79 20 6 4 6 12 j 6 30 5 4g 80 21 i 6 2 6 13 6 48 6 51 81 22 6 0 ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is with regret that we find ourselves again placed in the con- dition of apologists to numerous correspondents and some agents, for the postponement of their favours. This, we are free to confess, has been too often the case in the last few months, in consequence of the increase of advertisements, arising from extended circulation. In order to avoid incon- ...

... TRANSPLANTING WHEAT. Presuming this work to be now completed, and the plants fully established in growth, hack-hoeing between them should now be persisted in, in order to the encouragement and full development of the roots; every inch of the soil around each plant should be stirred two or three inches deep Kith a hack-hoe, to admit air, &c in preference to the barbarous horse hoe, which ...

... SIR B.HALL AND THE VICAR OF [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR,—There is ono fe.ature so perfectly surprising in the letter of Sir B. Hall, which appears in your number for last Saturday, that 1 am unwilling to allow_ it to pass without calling the attention of your reapers to it. 1 glanced only casuailv at the letter above-mentioned, but I saw that among other places in which it was stated that two ...

... Now that the question of the brick dutie& is in agitation, we think it would be as well to consider the very important duties which bricks-in conjunction with mortar-have to perform in constituting electors. A man with all the qualities of a statesman, but living in a garret, is of course noteniitled to vote-Illis is entirely in keeping with the principles ot our glorious constitution. But why ...

... °a SiblTt'S''the Rose ani^ Crown Inn, Love lane. Londo serv_A0Wn> and four lives were sacrificed to the was severely cut. 8caPe(J by on a skylight, but !*|C ^hriital liamer,f 8^ePmother, are in custody at Bristol, for having savagely halt-starved and beaten the unfortunate child. T*e trt1irS/,Und for benefit of the family of Mr- ^UB| imint ma^*8trate» ...

... The police of New Yoik, for some time past, have been on the alert for a reported Hungarian, named Maximilian Benedict, alias Baron Baumgartner, who stands charged with the seduction of the wife of Mi. G. H. Taylor, a wealthy merchant residing in London, who charges this Hungarian refugee, not only with 'he seduction of his wife, but ioducine her to elope with him to this country, taking with ...