... We resume our examination of these Tracts, which we verily believe are written by the Father of Lies him- f, self to give the people a distaste for religion. The main o purpose of these vile little works is to recommend the p payment of taxes as a most Christian custom to which v none but infidels can object, to reprobate all amusements fi as the Devil's toys, to advise the savings of earnings ...

... ISTATE OF MANNERS IN ENGLAND BEFORE 1618. [t'toOM A ate. 05' AURVISEV'S IN THIE ASIS3IOLE LIBRARY, OXON-] Before the last civil wars, in gentlemen's houses, at Christmas, 4 the first dish that vwas brought to Ehe table was a hoar's head,a with a lemon in his Tonotli. At Queen's College, Oxon, theyf stil retail, this custom; the hearer of it to thel hail sirging to an (ld tune in old Latin ...

... GERMAN PAPER$. TnSvSTEP DEC. 7.-Important news front Hydra, of the 23d of NoV. has arrived here, which will be heard with interest In Chris- tian Europe. ¶'Iheheroic Greek seamen, in theirsllghtnmercantile vessels, had followed the great and Turkish fleet to the neighbour. hood of Tenedos, and there saw, with impatience the enemy at anchor, with the intention of returning to Constantinople as ...

... I (sro0xe TnE DUSBLIN JOURNAL OF MONDAY5. hII (THIRiD EDITION). CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE THE LORD LIEU- ki TENANT. This evening Flenry I-atidwich, and George Graham, were Pi fully committed by Counsellor Gabbett, for having, with divers other persons, feloniously conspired, confederated and agreed to kill and murder, his Excellency Richard M~arquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. ...

... THE MollISNG. CHRONICLE. LON DO N:St TUE3SAY, DiC1WIMAER 24,1822. he A mercantile express arrived yesterday from Madrid, vv bringing advices from the Spanish capital up to the 14th instant. Every thing was iranquil there at the above date, and the most favourable accounts continued to i arrive from the .'rovine s. The only new, occurrence ir that had taken place in W4idrid, was the banishment ...

... :,I z .?7 , RPAIAE,,f IfIR - W s. TO TirE I~DlO o n Before Ii jail triuble yduwh WA 1 dsuslno h evils -Attendant on the present State of ch~urch Incomes and Church tPatronage, I beg leave to suggest that the judgment of the Public g on these important subjects, may be nacterially assisted by a series of Extracts1 from the niost authentic Ecclesiastical History. The Extracts to which I allude, ...

... ST. I'HOMAS'S DA Y. ,sSaturday was the most peaceable day of Election for Common t- Coincilmnen that has been seen for nsany years in the City, there d being but two contests, and those were nor considered as political h cnests. The onlytquestion agitated, has been as to the nmerits of the e respective Candidates as advocates of the politics of the majority of d the Ward. With the exceptionof ...

... PAnIS, DEc. 24.-On Sunday evening, before the performance of Divine Service, the King transacted business with A1. the Court de Villele, President of the Council (if Ministers. 'This afternoon, his Alajesty successively transacted business with ?? the President of tle COaDcti, Al. the Dlirnister of Foreign Affairs, and AI. the Keeperof the Seals. The health of Marshal Davoust, which, during ...

... SPANLhH PAPERS. tO MeADIm, DEC. 9.-THz G WEaNMENT.-Yesterday the King te 'Was pleased to dispatch the following decree:- le Dots Fernando VIT. by the grace of God and the Constitu- ,e tion of the Spanish Monarchy King of the Spains, to all whom It these presents may concern, be it known, that the Cortes Extra- to ordinary have decreed thus- re The Cortes Extraordinary, in the exercise of ...

... CUBA PIRATAS. Extract of a letter from Havaninah, dated November 6 You will, ere this reaches you, doubtless have heard of the fitting out and sailing ofa flotilla front this place against the I'iratts, who have for so long a tline infested our neighbourhood. The account which we have received of thie progress of this flotilla, is up to the present time very unsatisaactory, as they spread ...

... MENDICITY SOtIETY. to THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR, ,The reputation of the Mendicity Society is so well established, and its usefulness so generally appreciated, iblitht$' bliperhaps obtaim your permission to address Ia w ors upon a iubject closely codlitected with its prosperiyn ' ' 77 ' In the month of March next, the Gentleman' now, acting as Assistant Manager, intends to resign ...

... [FroNe A CoRamsroNDENts.1 The exact value, or what may by some be considered as more than its real value, the actual cost of the wonderful manifesta- tions of loyalty, for which the late Lord Mayor assumed so much credit to himself in his speech on Sr. Thomas's cday, at the Ward- mote of the Ward of Vintry, may be ascertained, by the curious in sucs matters, at the office of the Chamberlain ...