1 JANUARY 1842, page 9

_miscellaneous.

We have heard that her Majesty has already announced to the proper authorities that it is her intention to open the ensuing session of Par- liament in person with a Speech from......

Ireland.

The Queen's County has refused to address. Lord De Grey ! On Wednesday last, "the Tory nobility, clergy, gentry, and freeholders," met at Maryborough, agreeably to requisition......

Scotland.

We understand that Mr. Thomas Carlyle has declined becoming a candidat^ for the chair of History, now vacant in the University of Edinburgh. Mr. Carlyle has communicated this......