The Annual Meeting of the Cumberland »■,/«, , Wrestling Association of Newcastle Westmorland indosure in the Spiral,on Easter andM P C c ,n JS was given to contend tor, d.yided 30 three different weights or classes men vi"Xv ' or under: ,£'lo for men lljst unto- id for men 10rt

May, with the LONDON FASHIONS and les Journal dcs Modes le bon Ton et la Gazette dcs 1 Salons de Paris —l and 2, Sandhill, 24th April, 11540. TO BUILDERS, &c. NEW CHURCH AT SOUTH SHIELDS. rpO LET BY PROPOSAL, the SEVERAL WORKS in BUILDING NEW CHURCH at South Shields. The Plans,

Press, and among political men of Metropolis, occupied and absorbed as they are and ye* been by questions of purely domestic concern. he Times and Courier have latterly taken a more decided tle exposure of the destructive and disgraceful line action of Lord Palmerston ; and it i

The Members of the Middleton Coursing Club have presented Mr. James McLellan, of Medley Wood Bank, with an elegant Silver Snuff Box, in testimony of their sense of his impartial decision as judge at the Belford Meeting January last. CRICKET.—The Match between the Northumberland

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NAVAL RESOURCES FRANCE. The following lists, extracted from the National, will exhibit the extent and strength of the French navy at the present moment; and, in order to render the statement more authentic, it has been deemed right to give full details as to the material. SHIPS O

London, Thursday Evening. Algeria —Marshal Vaflee, in a despatch dated the lst inst., states that the French troops were engaged with Arabs on the 2oth ult., and lost one serjeant, two private chasseurs killed, and five wounded but that the Arabs were compelled to retire. the 29

The following admirable sketch of the House of Lords is from a series papers in the Britannia, entitled, "The Anatomy of Parliament":—ln all probability, the majority of my readers have never been within the walls of the House of Lords and would rather have a circumstantial desc

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daughter ' At Morpeth, on the 9th inst. the wife of Jas. Thompson Eso of a son and heir. 1 At Acomb, on the 7th inst. Mrs. Mewburn, of a son MARRIAGES. in this town ' the inst. f iT llllam Laurence Cocks, Esq. surgeon, FlleotT y.oun eBt daughter*of the late Thtmai ii S: sur eon