... PO LITI CS. AN ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER AND POLICY OF RUSSIA. In resuming the subject we commenced last week-the posi- tion of England in regard to her foreign relations-we think a word of explanation may be proper. It is not our intention to make this department of the journal consist of a consecutive series of political essays. We are desirous rather of availing ourselves of the tide of ...

... I The followving is the petition presented on Friday night to the House of Commons, by Mr. Masterman, from roprietors of hotels, taverns, arid victualling houses in Eoridon and its neighbourhood:- A Most humbly ?? your petitioners are proprietors and keepers of hotels, taverns, and houses licensed and used for the sale of wines and spirituous liquors, and the general accommodation of her ...

... MR. GEORGE HUDSON, HIS FAULTS, I ~~AND HIS FOES. Were we to see the whole A Division of Police pounce upon a highwaymafln, knock him down, keep him down, and all at once belabour him might and main, we should cry Shame! We should con- demn if we did not interfere, and feel disgust if not pity. Men are now hunting Hunsox. The whole pack is at his heels, in full cry, and eager to tear him to ...

... bENERAI lithodj N . BROMLEY. The whole of the victuallers in this division obtained the renewal of their licenaha without difficulty, ther -o being a single pollce complaint against any of them .ot HOUSE AT V~ASOX'S-H1LL, BROM .Mr. Gbo applied on behalf of William Osmar for a license to this house. The applicant was a brewer-, at Masou's-hill, and bad carried on the business of a beerhaouse ...

... TAkinm thee C - ND. - 'A trd M.g these individuals as a body they are an unedu- cated, POMPOUS, overbearing set of officials, who, dressed in a little brief authority, entirely forget that their position with regard to the public is servile instead of authoritative Tbeirignorance renders them totally unfit to he invested with the slightest power which they are of course at all seeming ...

... ?? Taut BEAITY.- Virtue (says Lord Bacon) is like a rich stone, best, plainly set. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. Beauty is as summer fruits, which ate very easy to corrupt, and ?? list. STANDARD OF EXcELENct.-The true way to excel in any work; is to propose the brightest and most perfect example for our imitation. We must improve by the attempt, even though ...

... l Noo_ TRFFC I ORTHEsN AND EAaTaus.-The half-yearly meeting Bftishopsgatey was held at the comany's offices, Bhpgaetation, last Monday-Mr. R.n aterson in the chair. After the usual preliminaries a report was read, which said that the dividend on the respective shares of the company, for the half year ending the 30th of June last, would be payable on and after aturday, the 25th inst., as ...

... THE RECENT SUCCESS 0F BRITISHJ ARMS IN INDIA. The welcome intelligence has arrived that the Sikhs have been completely routed by Lord GOUGH in a pitched battle, and public confidence in our Indian troops is once more restored. The parti- culars of the conflict, however, have not yet arrived; so how the battle was won, and what it has cost us, remains to be told. There is not any doubt about ...

... dYN OP SI S. l I _ THE Government contract for 100,000 gallons of rum for the navy, was again taken on Thursday by Messrs. Lemon, Hart, and Sons, of 59, Fenchurch-street. TREAsuRE FROM CaiNA.-The vessel Salopian, just arrived in the docks from Hong Kong, has brought fifty- nine boxes of treasure, as a portion of her cargo consigned to order. Rossass A DEAsLERs SN PIGS.-It is well known that ...

... LATEST FROM THE, CONTINENT. che Moniteur de Soir publishes the following ,itional telegraphic despatch from General alnot:- The Neapolitans are on their march to Rome. The French army will occupy the city before Nothing can give an idea of the ardour of our Our wounded, to the number of 159, leave Bastia, on board the Sanc. ;'he National, with reference to the foregoing, merely censures the ...

... i HE COAsT DEFENCES. The batteries on the Thames and Medway districts will all be completed in about two months from the present period, and will be of a very efficient description for 'the defence of these important navigable rivers. Thenuniber of ?? to be hiounted for the defence of these rivers is- tbirfeden at Sliorn Mead, thirteen at C6alh'ose Point, fifteen at Grivege'nd, and ?? at ...

... THE cdiRISTMAS PANTOMIMES AND BURLESQUES. As Pantomime is now in the ascendant, the following inee, penned on the first appearance of the younger Gritlaldi, at Covent-garden, in Consequence of the indis- position of his respected sire, 11 Ol Joey Grimaldi, ae he wee familiarly termed, may not be uninteresting to our readers, as swig. -th e ation in which a popular clown, a Pantomnimic Star, ...