In the sitting of the Second Hanoverian Chamber on the 12th inst., the Government motion that 1,000,000 dols. should be voted at once for war preparations was unanimously adopted.

The Wexford People publishe r s - alette . ; to the clergy and a Lenten Pastoral from the Rt. Rev. Dr. Furlong, Bishop of Ferns. In his letter to the clergy his Lordship says :—"Permit me also to stimulate your zeal, to repress another disorder of fearful magnitude, which is cor

SUPPOSRD SUICIDE OF Two SlSTERS.—Considerable excitement has been during the past week created in the neighbourhood of Camberwell, in consequence of the discovery of the bodies of two females in the Grand Surrey Canal, under most extraordinary circumstances. An inquest was held

CH - URC H-RATES. - Sir J. TRELAWNY moved to defer: the second reading for six months. If the voluntary principle was to be relied on at all, he observed, his own bill carried out that object simply. The amendment was seconded by Mr. HARDCASTLE. Mr, S. ESTCOURT remarked that the

ri claims his to belong to the family we obscure even at i L day. Time, however, b r iq s h ht. The result of , conduct was an Act of Pa l rliament limiting the rights of the Earls of Shrewsbury, and depriving them, , so tong as they continued to profess the Christian religion; o

INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION.-GREAT CATHOLIC DEMONSTRATION AT CORK. -MEETING AT THE CATHEDRAL ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. The great meeting summoned by requisition, representing the most influential portion of the Catholic community of. the city and county of Cork, to consider the best mea

THAMES-SATURDAT Joseph Riley was charged with being concerned in hocussing a sailor named Joseph Moss, and robbing,him of 8/. The prosecutor stated that he Was living at the Anchor and Hope publichouse, in Lower Thames-street. Ile came into London last Sunday afternoon, and abou

brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. Lord WODEHOUSE gave notice that he should move the second reading on Tuesday week. THE DIVORCE COURT. F Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that, as soon as some returns he had moved for were laid on the table, he should call attention t

Mr. WALPOLE, on moving the second reading of this bill, said he had discovered that there was another day besides those he had mentioned on Friday evening on which particular forms of prayer were ordered to be used— namely, the 23rd of October, in order to commemorate the day up

Mr. for leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the sale and transfer of land, by simplifying and consolidating the law relating to judgments, and by providing for the protection of purchasers against Crown debts in Ireland. In ancient times a judgment did not affect the land, bu