X CONVENTION.—Sir Robert Peel is at present entertaining, at Drayton
Park, a large party of his old colleagues. 3:r. Croker, Mr- Horace Twiss,. and 11Ir. Gout burn, are, amongst others, the distinguished guests.—Morning Paper. [Who are the others among whom these three gentlemen are distinguished ?] Loan Mouonsm.—TheCorporation of York have voted the freedom of that city to Lord Chancellor Brougham, to be presented to his Lordship in a box of heart of oak. The Honourable lt. Petre said the oak should be supplied from the Cuwthorpe oak, under which, he be- lieved, a Parliament had been held. A FAIR ExcHANGE.—" It is said that Buckingham Palace is aboutte be given to the Duke of Northumberland in exchange for Northumber- land House, which is to be taken down in order to complete the im- provements in the Strand."—Morning Herald. STEAM POWER AGITATION: Mr. O'Connell is to hold the future agitation meetings at Liverpool ! The members are to come over by steam. - Monday is fixed for the next meeting. It will end in smoke. skDAVY MONUMENT.—The Geological Society of Cornwall, originally established by Dr. Paris, have resolved to erect a monument, composed of native granite, upon the highest hill in the county, to commemorate the splendid scientific attainments of their countryman, Sir H. Davy. Plymouth Journal. A NEw PANACEA.—The Vicar and Clergy of Sheffield have peti- tioned the Kiog to appoint a general fast. The Sheffield manufacturers are to furnish the knives and forks.
CAPITAL PuNisIuMENT.—Capi,tal punishment will, it is said, be abolished in France. Whom could they guillotine after Polignac ? COMMANDER DEmes.—This officer has been admonished by the Court- martial by which he was tried, for improper treatment of Mr. Collymore. The Lieutenant was acquitted. Mass Parow.—A snit of divorce, at the lady's instance, is pending in the proper court at Edinburgh. iVe understand that Lord William. Lennox has lately resided there, to found a jurisdiction, and thus favour the suit. The silly woman is ;aid to be on the eve of confinement. DIFFUSION or Cutusreuerre.—On Sunday, seven converted Jews were baptized at Somers Town Chapel. A letter was read on the occasion —said to, be. from the English Consul, which stated that four hundred Catholic priests had lately abjured Popery, and been publicly admitted into the Protestant Church at Paris. RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.—The Minister of Worship has recently sent a circular to the Ecclesiastical Authorities, calling on them to administer baptism to infants- in warm water instead of cold, during the wiutee season at least.—French Paper. THE CANADIAN BOUNDARY 14.1INE.--SiT Douglas, who arrived in town on Sunday, brought with him the decision of the wing of Holland on this long-disputed question. The royal arbiter was limited to the 20th of the present month, but he gave his judgment on the 10th. We do not know the precise terms, and cannot, therefore, speak of them: we suspect our contemporaries are in the same predicament, yet they do speak very confidently, The Herald says the decision is in favour of the Americans, and that by it a " monstrous cantle" of wood and fell will be cut off from the British possessions. The Chronicle, on the con- trary, says that it is all in favour of John and against Jonathan. The one says the English, the other says the Yankees will be dissatis- fied. We say both will ; but if they submit, and we believe they will, we Londoners need not break our hearts about it. The fee-simple of the ground in dispute is, after all, not worth a farthing an acre. PRINCES OF PERSIA.—A French paper assures us, that the eldest Prince of Persia, who was last week represented as arraying himself against his father, has been dead these nine years ; but it charitably supposes, that if the eldest be not fighting against his sire, the youngest may. Abbas Mirza is heir-apparent.
STEA3I-CARRIAGES.–,-It appears, from the Mechanics' Magazine of this week, that the two steam-carriages of Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson (named, after their Majesties, the William the Fourth and the
• Adelaide), about which there was so much talk a few months ago, are
likely to realize, at last, all the expectations formed of them. The delay in their appearance on the railway has arisen from certain repairs which were rendered necessary by two serious accidents which happened to them ; one fell over a bank, and the other fell from the chains by which it was in the act of being lifted from a canal barge. The William was tried on the 15th and 17th instant, on the Liverpool Railway; and it would seem, from the accounts which are given in our contemporary, with great success. " The result finally established is this, that with the steam at a pressure of two pounds, and the tender only attached, it can go at the rate of fifteen miles an hour ; and that, with fifteen pounds steam and sixty tons gross weight, it can travel at the rate of ten miles an hour." We believe the power contracted for is only forty tons gross weight, at fifteen miles per hour.
DANCING DISSENTERS IN PERTHSHIRE.-.-A village in the parish of Kinclaven has, for some time back, enjoyed the advantages of having a resident teacher of dancing. The Sacrament was dispensed in a Dis- senting congregation there on the last Sabbath of December ; and the teacher, to avoid giving offence, shut his school for a week at that time ;
but the tender consciences of the office-bearers of the congregation, not satisfied with this, summoned all their members who had attended the school for instruction in the gymnastic art, to answer for their offence at the bar of rife Session. The dancers, however, were contumacious ; they refused to attend, and were accordingly suspended from the com- munion of the church for that time. The school was resumed on Tues- day, after the Sacrament, with more spirit than ever, and some mem- bers of the congregation, who had not attended before, have now joined the school. Thus dancing, like sectarianism, thrives by persecution.— From a Correspondent of the Perth Courier.
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