... I N'OT IN THEr PARRIANA. The writers of personal memoirs are prone to fall into the Caurtci ttrt our modern portrait painters. They will give you a general oii their subject, omitting or softening down the obliquities a-n aspelitte ij.. moral or physical character: a portentous squint shall nerve int viting leer, or poetical frenzy; an Ossa of a wcartf stanvrl. cace ta promontory like a ...

... - T.HE EXAMINER. LOND(N, OCTOBER 18, 1829. Tate outline of the Treaty between Russia and Turkey, which wvo published by the on~lite Ir last week, tuens out to have been tolerably accurate. A -perusal, however, of some of the.clauses, which we girt in another column, will shiow that the details exhibit still more strongly the dictatorial power of the Emperor NICHOLAS, and the complete ...

... Peter Fenn's sentence is commuted to transportation for life. TjlE RIIIN&.-What with the facilities aflorded by the stean)-boats, tile numerous graphic representations of Rhenish scenery, and the yal00 written descriptions of travellers, we cockneys shall soon he nost asll't acquainted with the banks of the Rhine as the banks of the Thales T add to our knowledge of this memorable stream, a Mr ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, June 22. The House was some time occupied in remedying a mistake which had arisen in regard to the Regulation of the Employment of Children in Cotton Factories. This Bill had received a ?? amendrnent by their Lordships, which, by some mistake, had not been communicated to the House of Commons for its concurrence. A Committee was therefore appointed, and a conference was ...

... I (From thI Anti-Slavcry Reportcr.) It appears by the Postscript to the Royal Gaeictt of Jamaica of the 29t, November last, that on tile 25th of that month a petition had been presented to the House of AssembIl on behalf of one James Franklin, formerly of Kingston, in that island, but now of Great Britain, setting forth That the Petitioner, having had considerable intercourse with St Domingo ...

... NOTABILILA. A CLUEVER BILLI WE see in the Parliamentary Report, that ,The LoRn ADVOCATE has brought in a Bill for thmrem eriectual Prevention of Murder by Suffication, in Scotland. The project seems rather difficult, but nothing is impossible to Par- lisiment, and the powerwhich made a bit of silver paper and a shilling of the value of a guinea, may easily prevent suffocation from the slop. ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT.25.-The funeral of his late Majesty tono place on IlieT,. day. At an early hour the movement of the inhabitants, and thes taneous suspension of labour, indicated the anticipation o a grasponn unusual solemnity. The road by which the procession was to pass Wa thronged by an expectant multitude; and notwithstanding the ienw, concourse, the greatest order prevailed. The troops ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE EtXAMINER. SIa,-I hate cant by whomsoever it is put forth. In a country news- paper it is announced, that there is a society of Christians formed at Nanclheeter, who have determined to refrain from animal food and to live Vn vegetables, and my purpose is to prove that it is a mockery on the part ofits members to call themselves Christians; bitt in my humble opinion, thley ...

... - LONDON, APRIL IS, 1828. WE refer to some extracts under our Foreign head, announti t formal assumption of authority by the new PRESIDENT of G t 'which ceremony was attended by salutes from the English Fro th' and Russian ships;, in the port of Egina, where the ceremony t I place.. We also learn by a letter from Zante, extracted by the Freed papers from the Austrian Observer, that Sir ...

... - - ?? Part Is the madness of many for the gain of a ?? ?? MIR HELY HUTCHINSON AND THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. Aa HErLY HUTCIRNSOS'S refusal to pledge himselfto hostility to any Administration opposed to the Catholic Claims, has drawn down upon him, in the debates of the Association, expressions of virulent odium, and the propriety of the political Ban directed against him has been affirmed by ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS, Monday, Feb. 4. Lord Kixa,, on the part of Lord Holland, postponed the motion of which the latter had given notice for to-night on the subject of our relations with Turkey; Lord Holland was too much indisposed to attend the House-The motion was finally fixed for Monday next, when the Lords were ordered to be summoned. Thursday, February 7. In. a Committee of Privileges on the ...

... EDucATfow.-The principal schoolmaster of Rouen made a public experiment of a new system of teaching reading, a short time since, Three of his scholars, who did not know a single letter, after only thirty two hours' instruction, were enabled to read 'With precision, and quick enough to be understood by every one present. FORCE DP IMAGINATION.-Joseplh Scales, Esq. about five years since, met a ...