News in Brief
On Saturday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, in Downing-street, which was attend- ed by the Earl of Liverpool,'the Earl of Weestmorland, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Peel, MIr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, Mr. Huskisson, Vis- counit Sidmouth, &c. The Cabinet continued in delibeta- tion till about S o'clock. On Saturday a Committee of the Lords of the Council assembled at the Council-offlce, Whitehall, to hear appeals from the island of Jersey. lYe understand that General Iturbide, before leaving this country fbr America, had prepared for publication a statement of the causes which led to his attainment of su- preme power in Mexics, anc4 of the eveiits which preceded, accompanied, and followecl his abdication. This work has been translatedl into English, and will appear in a week or ten days. It is remarkable that letters have been received in town from Mexico, dated the 8th of Marcb, in which the expec- tationa is distinctly expressed that the ex-Emperor Iturbide meditated, returning to that country, and the existing Go- vernment declared to be perfectly aware of his movemejits. Intelligence had then just arrived -of his leaving Lghorn for England, which yas well known to he preparatory -to his present undertaking. A vigilant look-out had b~enl di- rected. to bekept at all the ppTtr;in-order to ecxure tl o bis lauding. - '; *- --