23 FEBRUARY 1839, Page 11

The Reverend Mr. 'Wood has been eleetod Minister of the

New Grey Friars Church, Edinburgh, by a majority of In to 13 in the Town-Coeneil over his opinment Mr. Beith. The elect in excited great interest, and the result is satisfactory to the cengregation.

The persi am calling himself Earl of St irfiug has been arrested on sus- picion of thrging documents to complete his title to the earldom of Stirling tied large possessions in Canada and Nova Scotia.

Letters from Paris mention another unplitaaot ntrair in that capital. One of the first houses there has been etoopell..d titisl: as,istanee front the Bank of Franee, which was granted to the m %ti•I!T of two milhmuuis of francs. There is no doubt of the maul's ivy of ml is firm; but having loeked up their funds in railways and ether heavy securities, they are not available for their immediate winos.

The Afasiita/ 11"eth/ slates that thitee eminent N. ialinists will pay London a visit this ssoson,—naluely, De Berl, it, I [err David, first violin at Leipsie, itnd M. Tarnow, lender of the Italian Opera in Paris.

Madame Grisi has signed an ettgarement smith the King's Theatre (in London) never having conteniphoed accepting an engagement at Drury Lane 'Theatre, as stated in some of the London papers. This is IS sve:anticipated. In filet, such is the popularity of La Grisi with the London world of fashion, that were Laporte to commence the season without her, he would himself be mis /a porle.----Galignani.

Au earthquake in Martinique, has killed between 700 and 800 per- sons, and destroyed much property. It occurred on the 11th of Decem- ber, and lasted about two minutes.

A packet just arrived from the West Indies brings intelligence of the very severe illness of Admiral Sir Charles Paget, who was suffering under an attack of time yellow liver, which has lately prevailed so fatally in the Islands.

New York was visited on the 26th cf January by a storm, surpassing in violence any that had been experienced since the great September gale of 1820. The streets were inundated, the water stauding four feet deep in the lower parts of the town. A large quautity- of property, stored in the cellars, was supposed to have beet' injured or destroyed. In Philadelphia, where the storm was even more violent- than at New York, several lives had been lost.