We quote the following pa...
WVe quote the followiing paragraph from a Prench jour- nal :-" The mnaster hairdressers of the Society of St. Louis are to celebrate to-day a funeral service ror the re- pose of the soul of his late MIajesty Louis XVIII." The Rtreets of London, perhaps, never v.were in a more dirty and disgraceful state than they are at present-the principal thoroughfares are in many places almost impass. able. The Strand, after having been blocked up for more thani a month to be repaved, is at length re-opened, and the carriage-way is even worse thani it was before the repair (as we suppose it must be called): it is full of immense holes, forming receptacles fbr mud, to the annoyance of the foot passengers, and endangering the lives of all who pass in carriages. Lord Stowell, notwvitbstaniding his advanced, age, and the increase of his bodily infirmity, has just returned from a trip to the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. An especial yacht was sent from Cowes to convey him to England, where he hals arrived in good health savd spirits, aifter a delightful vovaye. We are happy to learn that tnle health of Str Robert Peel is rapidly improvinc. Mr. Secretary Peel, who has been on a visit to his respected fathler, at Drayton anor-house, has returned to London~. W'olverhamRptors C'kronir.le. . Rumnour states that Mr. Canning is tletermined, at the opening of Parliame6it, to bring in a law rendering it corn pulsoYy on every servant of the Crown In Ireland to sweat he does not belong to all pvolitical Society.-W aferford Mirror. We understandl it is in contemplation to remove the packet station fromr Howth to lKingtown, the insecurity and diffi- culty of entering the former harbour having been now fully aseer- taned. Indeed, it was well known 15 years back, when that har- bour was constructing, that it would never be of any scrvise to navi- gation or trade. T.he fact is, the construction of it was one of those Jobs for which Ereland has been so celebrted, and we are convinced it never woudd have.been used, even as a packet station, had it not been deemed necessary to give some colourmng to the job-._ Wqter. ford 1litr6rer