... THE SWABEV DECISIONS, There are a few Queries which we should lEketo pro. 3 pose relating to the Swabey decisions. Did Mr. Swabey comply with the express terms of the Vagrant Act, and bind over the witnesses to prosecute at the Sessions; or did lhe, while making so admirable a use of the vague discretionary powers vested in him by . that Statute, neglect to observe provisions equally clear and ...

... LIBER T OP TRE PRESS YI PNDldi To THE EDITOR oF 'TE MORNING CHRONICLE. SiR,-Observing in your Jourfial of Monday an ex- tract from The Bombay Courier, of the 19th of April, containing allusions to my banishment without trial fromt India, as a punishment for venturing to question the pro- priety of .a Minister of the Church of Scotland being en- gaged in duties unsuited to his sacred profession ...

... - SO&14 AMERICAS. To THE EDITOR oF THE MORNING CHRONICLE: SIR, London, Aug. 14, t82: I should not have been induced totake any noticedf. f the letter in your Paper of this day, signed s A South American, but for the importance which you incor- i rectly, in my opinion, attach to it,'and the display with which you accompany its publication, the title in Roman capitals Intrigues of the ...

... MP. OWE TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLASGOW CHRONICLE. SiR-In your independent Journal of late a good deal of discussion has taken place relative to Mr. Owen. Who will turn out to be right or wrong, the public can as yet hardly de termine, as both parties have made statements which remain to be Proved. With us in the neighbourhood, Mr. Owen nmust have the worst of it, as we know that he has often ...

... Tle age of Fairs is gone as well as the age of Chivalry. Easy communication has destroyed the one, as well executed laws have destroyed the other. The peasant does not now travel twenty miles to buy what he can have any (lay at his own door, and the distressed damsel, instead of looking out for a knight- errant, calls for the constable. Fairs, with the exception, perhaps, of. Cattle Trysts, as ...

... L The original ol the followingPetition was sent to the Spanish Ministei at War, on the 28th June5 but up 'to the 8th July no notice had been taken of it SinE-Don John Downie, Field Marshal of the National Armies, IKnight of the Orders of St. Ferdinand, Charles IIl., ad Great Britain, and decorated with seven crosses for dis- tiguished actions in the field, with sentiments of the most ...

... CADIZ, JtNE 19.-On the 11th and 12th of the present month, the Spanish Cortes presented to the world the most gratifying sight that human eyes can behold; for, surrounded as they were with dangers, they, with an unshaken firmness above all praise, took the necessary measures for the removal of their Majesties and the Royal Family, together with the whole of the Government, to the island of ...

... From Bayonne Papers received yesterday, we have ex- tracted the following inteiligence:- MADRID, AUG. 7.-Those who calculated on the probity, the perseverance, and the military or political talents of Ballas- teros, have been mistaken. His bei gacornmunero induced the violent party in the Cortes to give him the command. Among the conditions that he had made with General Molitor, one is, that ...

... FRENCEH MANUFACTURE. PARIS, Serp.6.j -'Tje annual exhibition at the Louvre conti- nhes to attract immense crowds of visitors, which is not to be wondered at, considering what a flattering tribute it is to na- C tional vanity. There is nothing, however, in the whole collec-t tion, except the articles in the Salon des Mlfat/sematiques, which is worthy ofserious attention; indeed there is more ...

... TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE 9 MPA q .'CA ; Slit, As the Periodical Press hap,r ;2rt on a subject wvhichb it must'be' adrndtiid 1n1Tortance, viz. the necessi. of eio0dl Ltcrary Prop crty, ns t~s&Lpd some cases, rather*sever Iy tection which it vias-#upposed'every'ens Jury had declared 'by theif 'er.dict a one as the law ought to p 'is some charged with a iaht' of 2no¶le of Literary Claims tote' ...

... jRRY?,ANtJ. S S~~TATE CF THCTOT We the Reader ttetiot' extract of Letter frsom aEnniskillen The conduet of a certain Mgistrate cb; iu that place is strengly censured. VWhy' does not.Lord 'Ftins- Mx killer subnsit the'mantterjto Government, and have this person api superseded?' RBut why, indeed, is not Dempster.supersedied'?~ aw0 Much Was said at tbe tis e of the purgationof the Magistracy,. ...

... IMEETING of the'COUNTU Y . kSE:T. [)as AGRICUTIYRAL DISTRESS. ntiS ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 'tapone y h ih we The General4.leetinlg of this C ounty pone yteHg 14- Sheriiff, in plirsuatiCe of a Ii luigitioil presented to him, and Oak ilgsied by a great number of Magistrates, and by many of the, I'a :lgdip mn in the Ctianty, wats hield at the City of Wells, on: 1%yi'usd'ay% ast. The Meetinig wis appointed ...