24 OCTOBER 1840, page 4

Ireland.

The Dublin Gazette contains the official notification of the appoint- ment of Sir Robert A. Ferguson, M.P., as Lieutenant of the city and county of Londonderry, in the room of......

Scotland.

The approaching municipal elections in Edinburgh continue to excite very great interest amono- . all classes of the inhabitants. The first movement of importance has been made,......

The 74

One day last week some person threw the stump of an oak-tree on the Taff Vale Railway, from off a lofty bank near Melin Griffith Weir, just as a train was approaching. The guard......

On Thursday Week, A Fire Broke Out At Park Farm,

near Kingston, the property of the Earl of Liverpool, by which wheat, bay, farm-buildings, and other property valued at 2,000/. were destroyed. Two men are in custody on......

Mr. James Holman, An Under-graduate Of Cambridge,...

Tuesday morning, in his rooms in Catherine Hall, by taking laudanum, owing to excitement occasioned by being " plucked " in the "previous examination" or " little-go." It is......

A Gatherings Of' The Repeaters Of The Province Of Leinster

took place last week at Kilkenny, which, if we may credit the estimates of the numbers made by the Repeaters themselves, exceeds that at any meet- ing on any subject before......