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discussed, and the sense of the inhabitants of Scheldt open to every country, save Britain, the burghs deliberately ascertained. However France, and Belgium. Our Conservatives applaud well qualified the Crown lawyers may be to draw his spirit. It is indeed worthy of a Tory peer. out a bill, there is no disparagement to them Before many more months, the returning good in believing, that there are hundreds of in- sense of the Dutch people, or their growing distelligent private members of civic communities content at the interruption of trade, may help much more able to suggest municipal regulations, their Sovereign to make up his mind to a reason. and to originate a scheme of reformed burgh go-able line of conduct. vernment than they can be.

IRELAND.

We were unable, last month, to state precisely the result of the late elections in Ireland. The Repeal party is powerful in numbers, and still more so in the weight of the constituency which it represents. There are forty-two Repealers, and the Conservative and Ministerial Members are

pretty nearly balanced, so that the Government
cannot reckon much upon support from Ireland,
save on general questions. O'Connell was never
before nearly so powerful. He has successfully
organized an unarmed Volunteer force, which just
means a force ready, at a moment's notice, to take
up arms for any object he shall propose. We can-
not see how the Government is to get out of the
coil which the impetuosity of Mr. Stanley has
woven for them. Unshipped from Ireland, he must
be, but it is almost too late to repair his errors
of judgment and of temper.
The Government

FRANCE.-The Duchess de Berri is to be allow. ed to repose herself in prison, till the time arrives when she can be dismissed from the territory of France without risk of returning to play more mad pranks. France is apparently tranquil, and Louis Philippe consolidating power, of which we can only hope he may make the right use.

THE UNITED STATES.

The difference between the Northern and South-" has assumed a serious and even threatening apern States, to which we alluded in last Register, doubt the possibility of actual hostilities, where pearance, though, till the blow is struck, we shall so many reasons exist for union and peace. The grievances of the people of South Carolina in the the President is to the full as harsh in decision as Tariff are not without foundation, and the tone of might be expected from the head of a Republic; but the weakness of the Southern, and the strength of the Northern States, and the temper and intelligence of both, are security against hostile colare, we trust, prepared to act such a part with the ed, and the Carolinians must cease to vapour. lision. The regulation of the Tariff must be changsinecure Church of Ireland as shall gain them When one looks into the internal situation of these many friends, even in the O'Connell ranks, and slave states, the apprehension of war, and a violent leave no one room for farther complaint. dissolution of the federal Union, is balanced by the unhappily, nothing new to say, that Ireland is in a state approaching complete anarchy. certainty of the emancipation of the slave populaWhen one looks over the record of crime and wretchedness than that of our West India Colonies.-The Pretion from brutalizing bondage, worse, if possible, in that country, even for one short month, any sident's message is always the most satisfactory change for the better were welcome; and our strongest objection to the Repeal of the Union is, public document it falls to our lot to peruse. This not that Britain would suffer, but that Ireland year it is unusually gratifying. There is an imwould become yet more divided and miserable. mense increase of trade, a flourishing revenue, and If it could be demonstrated to the British Legis-bably be wholly extinguished before another mesa debt of seven millions of dollars, which will prolature, that the Repeal of the Union, or even the separation of the kingdoms would benefit Ireland, we are convinced that the strongest objection would be removed to the project which thinly veils the ambition of O'Connell.*

THE CONTINENT.

It is,

The King of Holland maintains his character for obstinacy; but every shade and apprehension of a war has passed away. Various propositions have been made to his Dutch Majesty, but as yet he has done nothing except throwing the navigation of the

One of the Editors of the Schoolmaster lately received an Irish provincial paper, in which the genealogy of O'Connell is painfully traced up through four or five co lumns and fifty generations, to the "Ould Ancient Kings of Ireland." "Is this a straw thrown up to shew how the wind sits ?" We shall be among the last to believe that

the "Counshellaire" is other than honest.

sage is sent to Congress. These things need not make us envious, but they may well make us thoughtful.

TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

The Schoolmaster is at a loss on this subject, and discharges his load of perplexity upon the broad shoulders of Lord Althorpe. The newspaper duty is to be removed, and it is not to be removed; and it is to be reduced to a mere fraction, and also to stand at nearly the present amount! In sober truth, we believe Lord Althorpe has no more certainty, than the Schoolmaster has knowledge, about this matter. Our serious opinion, however, is, that the Government will be hurried into giving us, in its tion of these duties. A rate which shall cover own way, an agreeable surprise, by the total abolipostage we do not call a tax; it is a necessary arrangement for the public convenience. Retaining

the duty on advertisements at its present exorbitant rate, we conceive about as enlightened as a decree to 'prohibit good roads from being made through a country, to facilitate the commercial intercourse of its inhabitants. To a moderate toll on the roads we have no objection; though it would be hard to make the huxter's jack-ass payinvestigation. The Hon. the Lord Provost in the chair. as much as the lord's chariot.

CHAIR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.-This chair, vacant in the University, by the death of Professor Leslie, has occasioned much discussion in Edinburgh. Among the numerous candidates were Sir David Brewster, and Mr. Galloway, Mathematical Professor at Sandhurst, both eminently qualified for the appointment. It has, however, pleased our thirty-three self-elected and learned Magistrates, and Patrons of the University, or rather twenty of their number, to prefer Mr. J. D. Forbes, son and brother of a banker in this city; a youth of twenty-three, who may be a second Daniel, though no one ever heard of him before. We presume they mean to signalize their dismissal from office, by an appointment obnoxious to every one in this community, save

and except themselves, and such of their friends as need cash credits and bills discounted. Our worthy magistrates are, in short, determined to die game.--Perish Church, and University!—they will do what "they please with their own." The Students, the Merchant Company,

the Press, have been loud in remonstrance; but this only confirmed our most enlightened rulers in their resistance to a branch of "the movement," which proposes that science, and not jobbery, shall fill the Chairs of the University. Yesterday Mr. Forbes was elected.

THE CHURCH.

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.-A meeting of the inhabitants of Glasgow, favourable to the religious obser vance of the Sabbath, was lately held in the Tron Church conduct of the last House of Commons, in instituting an there, for the purpose of expressing their approbation of the inquiry into the law an I practice on that subject, and considering the expediency of petitioning the Parliament now about to assemble, for a renewal and continuance of that Principal McFarlane moved a resolution, to the effect, that the observance of the Sabbath was imperative on all, and that the meeting rejoiced in what had been done by the late Parliament in regard to making full inquiry into the state of Church observance throughout the land. Mr. H. Paul seconded the resolution. The Rev. Dr. Dick moved the next resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Geddes. ment, and was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Willis. The Rev. Mr. Almond moved the petition to Pailia

ENGLAND.

The

The quarterly account of the state of the Revenue, up to the 5th of January 1833, exhibits a decrease, as compared with the corresponding on the whole year amounts to L.546,169. quarter of last year, of L.29,473. But the increase finances of the country, therefore, are on the whole in a prosperous condition. There is an actual suring 10th October 1832, of L.467,391, 9s. 7d. plus of income over expenditure, for the year end

THE FUNDS.--As soon as the elections were con

cluded, the funds rose to 88 and 89. The fall o.
tained, contributed to their rise.
Antwerp, and the certainty of peace being main-

MR. MANNERS SUTTON'S PENSION.-A correspon

dent of the Morning Chronicle, who signs himself with great forethought in obtaining his retiring pen"An Ex-M.P.," says that Mr. Manners Sutton acted sion from the unreformed House of Commons. It is, indeed, not improbable that the new Parliament may think the allowance somewhat extravagant. Query-as the persion was granted under the impression that Mr. Sutton was about to retire, worn out with service, should it not be revoked, upon his re-accession to the chair in full health and vigour― if that event should take place after all?

ABOLITION OF CHURCH PATRONAGE.-A meeting of this society, and of those interested in its effects, was held in the Assembly Rooms, on the 14th. Among the gentle- MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS AS INFLUENCED men present we observed George Sinclair, Esq. M. P., Rev. Drs. Dickson, Muirhead, Manuel, and M'Crie; Rever- mortality of the year just ended, we find that the BY CHOLERA.-By a reference to the account of end Messrs Johnston, Paxton, Anderson, Sommervill and burials within the "Bills" exceeded those of the Goold; Sir W. Seton, Bart., Mr. Forest of Commiston, former year by 3,269, and that the deaths from choMr. Campbell of Carbrook, Mr. Walter Brown, Mr. Adam lera are stated to have been 3,200. It thus appears White, Colonel Wilgress, Major McGregor, Mr. J. G. that the annual mortality has been increased almost Ward, Mr. Bridges, Mr. Stothart of Cargen, Mr. Join the direct ratio of the ravages of that disease; a seph Liddle, Mr. A Campbell, Mr. Alexander Dunlop, advocate, &c. Letters of excuse were also read from Mr. Andrew Johnston, M. P., and Rev. Mr. Martin, Kirkaldy.

It has been rumoured at the West end of the town, that the draft of the Bill for a Reform in the Church has been for some time past in possession of Ministers, and that its provisions have been made known to the heads of the Establishment. According to its provisions, it is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Primate of Ireland, and the Bishop of London, are the only Prelates who are to have seats in the House of Lords; and this for the purpose alone of watching over the affairs of the Church; and they are neither to speak nor to vote on lay matters.

The Lord Provost and Magistrates, and Town Council of Glasgow, have devolved upon the vaacnt congregation of the Tron Church in that city, the privilege of choosing their own pastor.

fact which some have altogether denied. The total number of burials last year is reported to have been 28,606, being about 550 per week.-Medical Gazette.

TRANSMISSION OF THE MAILS.-The transmission of the mails to all parts of the kingdom is speedily to be placed under a new and economical arrangement, by which a saving in the expense of nearly one-third will accrue. of a very light construction, for this express purWe hear that mail-coaches, pose, are to be drawn by two horses only, but they are to travel quite as fast, if not at a more rapid pace, than heretofore. The colour of the coaches themselves, instead of red brown, as now painted, will be dark blue, out of respect to the navy.

A requisition, signed by nearly one thousand citizens of London, and amongst them many of the

most respectable men in the metropolis, is presented to the Lord Mayor, calling upon him to convene an assembly of the whole constituency of the city of London, at the Guildhall, for the purpose of petitioning the House of Commons "to repeal the Septennial Act, to establish the right of Voting by Ballot at elections, and to repeal the Assessed Taxes." Among the contemplated retrenchments by the Government, will be a reduction of the sum paid for some of our embassies abroad. The total amount of saving in this way will, it is said, exceed L.60,000

per annum.

THE BALLOT. It is the intention of Mr. Grote to bring the subject of ballot before the House of Commons immediately on the assembling of Parliament. -News.

About July or August next, the electors of England will have a grand pawnbroker's sale of-Unredeemed Pledges!

THE TEN HOURS' BILL.-A meeting of delegates, from various districts, respecting the Ten Hours' Bill, has been called by M. T. Sadler, Esq., at Bradford, to make arrangements for again bringing the subject before the House of Commons early in the ensuing Session of Parliament.

The Glasgow Students held a meeting on Monday the 14th, to petition Parliament for the abolition of Negro slavery in the Colonies. A party of the sons and relations of West Indian planters, armed with cudgels, attended the meeting, and succeeded in getting up a row.

HANNAH MORE. We regret to hear that this excellent and distinguished lady is on her death-bed, as far as human calculations can estimate the result of her present illness, at Clifton. She is, we believe, in her eighty-fourth year.

M. Pozzo di Borgo is expected to take his departure from this country in the course of a month.— Herald.

A dividend, amounting to L.20,000, was last week paid amongst the creditors of Prince Esterhazy. The remaining balance is to be paid within six

months.

The Marquis of Douro, accompanied by Sir Robert Wilson, left Antwerp a few days since, for Dunkirk, to pay their respects to old Chassé.

At Cashel quarter sessions 10,000 civil bills are entered for recovery of tithes, at the suit of the Attorney-General.

The distressed state of many of the Irish Clergy, owing to the anti-tithe association, has, it is understood, been brought under the notice of the Government by the Bishop of London, who has advanced L.1000 towards relieving them temporarily from their embarrassment; L.500 of which has been placed at the disposal of the Archbishop of Armagh.

We learn, with regret, the re-appearance in Tralee of that dire pestilence, cholera, three cases of which have occurred since Monday, and all terminated fatally. The Board of Health are on the alert, and no new case has been reported since. Cholera is raging in the town of Donegal. Cholera partially exists in the city of Waterford, where four deaths

have occurred.

SCOTLAND.

THE ELECTION OF SCOTTISH PEERS. For the preservation of the general peace and order of the country, and for the prevention of one of those violent physical struggles which form the worst of all precedents in a nation-for the continuance, or rather the restoration, of a proper understanding and feeling betwixt one class of men in the country and another-for a termination to heartshould have wished this election to have been difburnings, and enmity against man and man,-we ferent from what it is. In plain terms, we should have wished the peerage to have performed one of those acts which might show a prospect of the orfellow-citizens, nay even as persons who consider der dying a natural death. As fellow-men and many of the order great men, and men deserving honours not less than those they have received, we should be sorry to see the obnoxious privileges of the class fall by a sudden and bloody contest.

We do not, indeed, in a spirit of gloom, portend such a catastrophe; we think we may trust to the good sense of the people, and their feeling of immovable strength enabling them to smile at the petty attitudes of provocation and insult assumed by the puny body; but certainly if any class of men was ever determined to exceed all the human folly which former ages have exhibited, by trying to rouse indignation, and to procure sudden annihilation, by every possible gesture of contempt and defiance, the British Peers are the men. What is it,

MONEY.-The strongest test of returning con. fidence is afforded by the very prosperous condition of all the Government Securities; and there cannot be a doubt that this will, ere long, be attended with a beneficial influence over commercial transactions. By the Spring of the ensuing year, the speculators for a rise calculate upon a consi-then, that they are doing? Why, they are trying to derable improvement in the Revenue.

IRELAND.

The Marquis of Anglesey leaves Ireland, never to return as Viceroy. This, we hope, is an easy way of getting rid of Mr. Stanley. The Duke of Richmond is spoken of as the new Lord Lieutenant.

Mr. O'Connell held a muster of his members lately in Dublin. Above thirty members of the new Parliament attended, but they declined committing themselves by vote on the repeal question. Mr. O'Connell is employed in organizing a new association in Dublin, under the title of Irish Volunteers. It is a political union under a new appel

lation.

put themselves individually against the House of Commons, and the House of Commons backed by public opinion. It is true they have not yet begun their garrulous opposition, for the plain reason that they have not met; but they have blown the trumpet of defiance; they have given a plain broad hint of the dirty work they are to be about again. Ex pede Herculem. No prudent peerage, conscious of the "scrape" it had got into, and anxious to get out of it by meekness and propriety of conduct, would have countenanced the struttery of defiance exhibited in the election of Scotch Peers. Setting out of consideration altogether the danger that such repeated acts might prompt the country to get rid of a certain annoyance by the easiest and most efficacious means, the knowledge which every man has of the folly of a party exhibiting its weakness,

The

whenever it can get occasion to do so, might have been returned. Viscount Falkland and Lord Belhataught these persons more prudence than they have ven having been created British Peers, and the Marexhibited. The Peers of Britain have been beaten, quis of Queensberry and Lord Napier, who were fairly, and coolly, and acknowledgedly beaten be- also in the last Parliament, not being returned to fore the world-their majorities set at nought, this, there are four new representative Peers by the and they obliged to call that a majority which was virtually a minority. The troops which did election, viz. the Earls of Airly and Orkney, and this have been in training they have increased Lords Sinclair and Elphinstone. their numbers by a third-they have got an inThe principal and most active person in procurcrease of skilful hardy leaders-they will soon calling this unfortunate result of the Scotch Peerage their opponents to yield, or stand another contest. elections-unfortunate for the Tories, we meanThere will be the Taxes on Knowledge, the Corn is stated to have been the Earl of Lauderdale. Trade, the Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments per- Out of sixteen, all but one are rank Tories. haps; above all, there will be Church Reform; not People of Scotland have returned 44 out of 53 a bit-by-bit reform, as we are told by the brother of Members of the House of Commons, Reformers; the Lord Chancellor-one who speaks advisedly and the Peers of Scotland have elected 15 out of on the subject, it may be presumed-but as full and efficient reform as that which has taken place in 16, to represent them in the House of Lords, the state. From the prelude which the Scottish Anti-Reformers. Peers have just given us, is it very likely that the brother of a Right Reverend Father in God, or the uncle, a very reverend younger brother, will allow all this to go smoothly on without a fight or two? And is it to be hoped for a moment, by the most sanguine of Conservatives, that they can rise victorious? We take it to be just as clear a point as can well be laid down, that their influence and majority will be despised with additional scorn at each attempt, and that, to save instant destruction, they will be obliged to succumb. The nation has taken the first step in showing the impossibility that the Peers of Britain can continue in the situation of untrammelled Legislators. It may, in the course of a considerable time after this, become a question whether the country will be disposed to bear a dead lists of the votes given on the two last elections of Scotch SCOTCH PEERS. We copy the following comparative unprofitable weight of objectionists-a glittering Peers, from a useful little manual just published by Ridgencumbrance to the progress of legislation-the ex-way, entitled "The Present and Last Parliament." istence of a body of men, low in intellect, undigni- offers a curious barometer of political feeling. The names fied in moral conduct, not distinguished for wealth, in italies are those of the losing candidates on both occaand contemptible in power, to adorn themselves with those legislative honours which a nation ought to keep sacred for the brows of the noble and the good. The progress of political science has brought before the public many striking truths; and, among the rest, that one, that public honours, and legislatorial power, are not the property of individuals, or classes of individuals, but of the body corporate of the public.-Edinburgh Chronicle.

The Standard, in commenting upon the result of this election, observes, that the Nobility of Great Britain "have declared against Ministersdeclared with a degree of decision and power, which demonstrates that either the Nobility or the former do their duty, as the Nobility of Scotland Ministry must fall." have done, there can be no doubt of the result." And again" If all the Very true-there can be no doubt of the result. If the majority of the House of Lords persist in their opposition to the wishes of the great mass of the nation, the weaker party must yield, and the Peers must be stripped of their privileges.

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ELECTION OF SCOTCH PEERS.-On Monday the 13th instant, the election of the sixteen Peers, to represent the Scottish nobility in the ensuing Parliament, took place in the Palace of Holyrood. The votes having been counted, the following were returned as duly elected :--Mar-Lord Napier quis of Tweeddale, 44 votes; Earl of Morton, 53; Earl of Home, 43: Earl of Elgin, 47; Earl of Airly, 39; Earl of Leven, 40; Earl of Selkirk, 43; Earl of Orkney, 37; Viscount Arbuthnott, 42; Viscount Strathallan, 43; Lord Forbes, 41; Lord Gray, 53; Lord Saltoun, 52; Lord Sinclair, 42; Lord Elphinstone, 37; Lord Colville, 43. Votes were also given for the following Peers :-DINNER TO SIR GEORGE CLERK.-On Wednesday the 23d Marquis of Queensberry, 36; Earl of Rothes, 31; friends of Sir George Clerk, entertained him to dinner in the nearly four hundred gentlemen, electors of Mid Lothian, and Earl of Buchan, 22; Earl of Carnwath, 31; Lord Waterloo Rooms; Sir John Hope in the chair, supported on the Cranstoun, 31; Lord Napier, 36; Lord Reay, 36; right by Sir George Clerk, the Hon. Captain Gordon, M.P. Lord Elibank, 33. A protest was taken against the Honourable Charles Hope, advocate, Mr Clerk Maxwell, Aberdeenshire, Sir John Hay, Bart., Sir J. S. Forbes, Bart, the return, on the ground that some of the Noble General Wardlaw, Mr Swinton, Mr Urquhart, Mir Tytler of Lords who had not been returned, had a greater bell of Blythswood, Major-General Sir George Leith, ViceWoodhouselee; on the left by Sir George Murray, Mr Campnumber of legal votes than some of those who had Admiral Sir David Milne, Mr David Milne, advocate, Sir Ro

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bert Dundas, Bart., Mr Trotter of Dreghorn, Captain Trotter, Mr Scott of Northfield.

Sir George Clerk has recommenced an active canvass of the county of Edinburgh, on the ground of Sir John Dalrymple's prospective elevation to the Peerage by the death of the Earl of Stair. DINNER TO MR. BLAIR.-The losing Tory candidate was consoled by a dinner, which took place on the 11th. About five hundred gentlemen-the head and tail of the Tory faction, assembled from all Scotland, met together for that purpose, in the Assembly Rooms, Sir F. W. Drummond, of Hawthornden, wa in the chair; Mr. Robertson acted as croupier. The Chairman, in his opening speech, made great profession of liberality. He said"We do not come here as professed opponents of his Majesty's Government-quite the reverse. We come here to tender them our support in every measure which they can produce tending to the prosperity and welfare of the country. to measures, not to men. We will not follow the example of some others, who opposed every measure, right or wrong.

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The Conservatives are so well known, that no one will be surprised to find the meeting was a mere common high Tory one after all; and that the passage quoted above is the only one savouring in the least degree of liberality which is to be found in the report of its proceedings. The speeches were most lugubrious,-hardly excepting those of Mr. I'. Robertton himself, whose John-Reeve-like genius for the absurd and grotesque was never before so hard-worked to so little purpose.-Spectator.

On the 25th, Mr. Aytoun was entertained at dinner in the Waterloo Hotel, by about 150 of his friends. Mr. R. W. Jameson, W. S. was in the chair, and Mr. Prentice, croupier. The hilarity of the company was exuberant, and was greatly heightened by the vocal abilities of Mr. Supio, whom they were fortunate enough to have as a guest upon the occasion.

SIR DAVID BAIRD.-A subscription of sums, from one penny to one shilling, is now making in East Lothian, for the purpose of purchasing a gold cup, to be presented to Sir David Baird, as a mark of the esteem in which he is held by the independent party in the County, for his late exertions to free it from the domination of a few Aristocratical families.

MR. SWAN'S CASE-An elector of Mid-Lothian, in some trifling arrear to his landlord, Mr. Little Gilmour, was given to understand, that if he gave a prudent vote things would be made easy for him. He voted for Sir John Dalrymple, and was the same night thrown into jail for the debt. This shameful case caused great indignation, and the honest elector has been liberated by a subscription.

HIGHLAND SOCIETY JUBILEE DINNER.-On Tuesday the 15th, the Highland Society met to celebrate their fiftieth aniversary-the Duke of Buccleuch was in the Chair, the Marquis of Tweeddale and the Earl of Roseberry, Croupiers.

UNSTAMPED NEWSPAPERS.-Robert Muir and Henry Gowans, printers of the "Loyal Reformers' Gazette," along with Peter M'Kenzie, its editor, were apprehended and lodged in Glasgow jail, by virtue of a writ issued by his Majesty's Barons of Exchequer, for a debt due by them to the Crown, of two thousand one hundred pounds, for printing and circulating unstamped newspapers. LANARK. Sir Charles Ross, Bart. of Balnagown and Bonnington, having attained his majority on the 19th instant, the same was observed with every demonstration of joy, among his tenantry upon the estate of Bonnington,

and the merchants and tradesmen, employed by the family, in Lanark.

ALLOA. The number of vessels registered at the port of Alloa, including those belonging to Kincardine and Stirling, up to 1st January 1833, is 143, whose united tonnage amounts to 18,220 tons, emThe number of coasting vessels ploying 962 men. entered inwards during the last twelve months is about 600, and the number outwards about 1,300. The foundation-stone of a new pier has been laid at Largs.

HERRINGS.-There has been a tolerably good take of herring in the Firth for the last fortnight.

ANSTRUTHER, 23d Jan. 1833.-For these ten day past we have had a good take of herrings, and from the number of boats at present in this and the neighbouring harbours, they will prove a very great blessing to this district.

ORKNEY AND Zetland ELECTION.—The result of the contest for the representation of this stewartry is, that Mr. Trail has been re-elected by a majority of eleven votes.

THE FROST, &c.-The late frost was, we understand, the most severe which we have experienced on the west coast for the last seven or eight years. In Badenoch it was also very keen; Loch Alvie and other lakes were entirely sheeted with ice, and many wildfowl were frozen to the spot where they alighted.

SIGNAL LANTERNS.-Capt. N. de Coninck, of the Royal Danish Navy, has invented a latern to be used for signals, that is said to give a much more brilliant light than those at present employed for that purpose. The light is obtained on the argand principle, without the use of glass, by conveying a current of air through the lantern. The lamp will contain sufficient oil to last several hours, and is perfectly secured by the construction of the lantern, from the effects of bad weather. We bear that they have been tried with complete success in a gale of

wind.

TO MARINERS.-A light-house has been erected upon Douglas Head, in the Isle of Man, and was lighted on the 21st of December last. The light is stationary, and appears like a star of the first magnitude at the distance of 15 miles.

COURT AND FASHIONABLE NEWS

THE COURT.-The return of the Court to St. James's Palace is positively fixed for the 22d of February. The Queen's drawing-rooms for the season are already announced:-the days specified are, 25th February (Queen's birth day,) 21st of March, 18th April, 16th May, 28th May (King's birth day,) and 20th June.

House of Peers to open the first session of the new
His Majesty is expected to go in state to the
Parliament, on the 4th and 5th of February.

The Duke of Sussex was sufficiently recovered on Tuesday to preside at a meeting of the Royal Society.

The health of the Duchess of Gloucester is improved.

King Leopold and his bride, with two brothers of her Majesty, talk of visiting England in the Spring. The Queen is officially announced as being with child.

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