... Lord Gleneig has at once broken his trance, and the ties which bound him to a staggering adminis- tration. A somniferous colonial secretary was a marvellously proper appendage to a dozing ministry, and his loss will no doubt be severely felt by his congenial colleagues, during the brief space of time for which they will now misdirect public affairs. But to the country and to the colonies, the ...

... HOUSE O LORDS. MONDAY. Petitions presented: Fur Church Extension in Colo- nies. Against :-Rating of Workhouses; Intrusion; Alteration of Corn Laws. THE PETITION FROM NEWPORT.-Lord NORMAN BY wished to correct a mis-statement by Lord Teynham. The inhabitants of Newport were double in number to that stated by the noble lord, for instead of there being 6,000, there were 12,000. The petition was ...

... -4-- TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHARTER. Sunday Morning. I have been looking with intense anxiety for this day's CHARTER, in order to see whether you could not throw some light upon the inexplicable and deplorable proceedings in Wales, in which that sincere and ardent patriot, John Frost, appears to be deeply implicated-but you, sir, it seems, are as much in the dark, as incapable of drawing aside ...

... SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1839. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. We need not apologise to our readers for again occupying so large a portion of our space with accounts from various parts of the country, indi- cative of the state of the public mind at this alarming crisis, and with the debates in Parliament arising out of the same subject. This is the one thing that now occupies men's minds. We seem to stand ir. ...

... THE ADDRESS TO THE MIDDLE CL.ASSES. We insert, in another column, an address to the middle classes, which last Monday was put forth by the General Convention. Would to Heaven -we felt ourselves entitled to express a hope that this judicious, temperate, and yet earnest appeal, were likely to prove in any degree, or to the smallest extent, effectual. Rejoiced, indeed, should we be, if we could ...

... -.0 TURTHER EXAM-IN&.TION OF CHAEIISTS. Two persons, who had been absent ever since the 4th of November, and who, from the lenity shown at Mon- mouth, had felt a degree of security and returned to the neighbourhood, were apprehended on Friday and Satur- day last, and this mnorning were brought before the magistrates, and bound over-to appear at the sessions. THE WITNESSES ON THE LATE TRIALS. I ...

... , HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAT. Their lordships assembled to-day, and a good deal of curiosity was exhibited by the strangers present as to the statements that might be made on the subject of the re- cent ministerial negociations; but that curiosity was dis- appointed; for, although a good deal of whispering took a1 ce between Lord Melbourne and the Earl of Shaftes- bury, prior to a motion by the ...

... THE BONDS OF SOCIETYP . Gon passed sentence upon fallen man, &dabiing him to eat his bread in the sweat of his boiw ; this was the first-this the future fate of all the sons of men. Now, had Adarn like Job, been given to the caprice of the evil principle, we can, in our limi. ted, imagination of the powers of Satanic. malice, conceive no greater aggravation of the first sentence, than the ...

... RESISTANCE-A CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE. There are periods in the history of free Com- monwealths which show the glorious day-star of liberty in the ascendant, and times also arrive in which a declination from public virtue and moral justice, and from the original principles upon which the superstructure of civil liberties was raised,'strongly indicate the declension of tle wast- ing star, It is ...

... FOREICN AFFAIRS. FRANCE. PARIs, JAN. 13.-The question of an extension of the elective franchise to all National Guards occupies at present some attention in the French capital. On Sunday last between 500 and 600 National Guards as- sembled on the Place de la Bourse, and proceeded suc- cessively to the houses of Messrs. Lafitte, Martin (de Strasburg), Dupont (de l'Eure), and Arago, mcembers of ...

... I *'STOCKTON.-A Chartist meeting was held here last Tuesday evening, and was addressed by Mr. George Binns, 'of Sunderland. There is a noble spirit in 'eanny Stockton;' and'there'is this in the men and, women of Stockton-the' cannot le bhldgeoned out of :their no~lenesea ?? :s 'DA&umGTON.-. A meeting was held at this place in supp'ort o. the movemen t, 'an d' was,. addressed by Mr. inns, ...

... . CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. Thistbeing the day appointed for the transfer of Con- sol's ani New Three avid a Half per Cents., it was e p acted that a considerable amount of seock would be delivere~d, we do not however fiud that such has been hp cse, aI4. the Consols nkave Undergone little variation, havng op'ced at 93, to -, and being now at 933 to 2 for Accon t, arid 9I+ to -7 for Money ex ...