... 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 ...

... NOBLE SPORTS. SkAKSPaAut says, it that the poor beetle feels the pangs of death as acutely as the giant. Practical men should argue that the position is true in theory but false in fact, for we may remark that sympathy with animal suffering is in direct proportion with the size of the subject. Bull-baiting is never mentioned without becoming expressions of abhorrence. The bull is a large ...

... LONDON, OCT. 12, 1828. THE various accounts of the progress of the war between Russia and Turkey, and the general course of proceedings in the East of Europe, being much too vague and lengthy to be given at full, it will be our endeavour in a summary way to state the substance of them. In the first place, the Russians themselves acknowledge the neces. sity of a partial falling back from before ...

... LONDON, OcT. 19, 1828. TnE: foreign news received during the week is merely continuors of that which formed the subject of the summary in our last number The whole of it tends to shew, that as regards everything decisive in the way of warfare, Russia has been completely foiled. It must not however be too rapidly taken for granted, that the Turkish question is settled, as NicHOLAS will be ...

... WEEKLY COMMERCIAL REPORT stile . a. . . ?? . . . , ., ?? Of til The affair of the Dardanelles has again increased the coule . l h has merceaatil. word fox the IVake of 1eViagton's adra ?? produre4 ~a tissue of, measures for the* -esbarrasssmieft Of his.,~st. commercial subjects, ever since it has been forned. By the stirages fatality that ever seized upon men who are ,n thi side of Bedlamt ...

... A2RREST OF MR LAWLESS, ON A CHARGE OF RIOT AND SEDITION. (From the Globe of last night.) Dublit, Thursday, half-past Twelve o'clock. Matters are at length come to a ?? Lawless has been just arrested. Mr Farrell, chief peace-officer, proceeded to his house in Leeson street at twelve o'clock, and there arrested him, upon a fiat from Mr Justice Burton. The charge against him is for having ...

... The decline in the price of Wheat that has occurred in the last week, shews that the advance was -merely speculative, and it has brought an im. mense influx of Flour and Wheat to market. Thrashing, we understand, is become general. But if there be a scarcity of corn, we confess that we are by no means anxious for a decline in its price, inasmuch as that circum- stance will ultimately aggravate ...

... THE AOUIEEN OF PORTUGAL. FALaMouTHvs SErT, 27.-The young Queen of Portugal landed this day, when she was received by the Official Authorities with every mark of respect A flight of steps from the shore to the quay had been erected, -hich with a platform extending to the street, were covered with scarlet cloth; and while the ships in the harbour, covered with pendants and ensigns, and with ...

... , --Nrr vt~ CATHOLIC ASSOCIATiON, SEPr. 25.-A letter was read from giving an account of his progress through various parts Of Irell lowing are the most interesting portions of it -` On Thursda. Louth, and there I learned a circumstance which I respectful the consideration of the Association :-A noble lord, in the nE of Dundalk, has given 201. to be divided among those me .4o fortunate people ...

... ALL NATURB -AlIVE. We live in an age frritfil beyond example in wondetful discoveries; for Nature, hunted to the quick by philosophical research, is daily suffertg one or other of her secrets to escape. ln anarticle'written twelve months ago, We gave some acc~oupt of the experinentasv of Dr Milne Edwards; which seemed to establish the extraordinary fact, that all'the parts of the animal ...

... TEA.-r ijohnson, in o'e of his letters in Boswell's Life, bomliains of havinr had but one sound night'srest during 20 years. The Doctor drank tea to exhets: his kettle waseever dry. SOBER UNIow.-L. related' to me a whimsical story of a physician, who one night hearing lamentable groans and cries, went-to search whence they proceeded; found a man and .woman dronk, thrown out of 4n overturned ...

... I NEWSPAPER CHa ?? a, . d . French have resolved to erect a monument to Dr Gall rPOArTING D1VINE,~-It is a faaitthat a ReverenId 1ivine, about the I of the late Doncaster races, preaching to a congregbtion in which ew there iwoulnd be several sporting characters; dite? fer his texf llowing words: _ So run that ye may obiajo ; u d in the 6ourse sermnoh; stated tthat thie rtles of the course ...