... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... On Monday a mneeting, was beld in Newark. in consequence of the seltit of notice to quit, deiv'ered from the Dukeof Newcastle toa nuaba)6 electors of the borough who ?? refused to vote for the Duke s n1ownic. Mr Sadler, and had voted for Mr Semjeant Wilde. A large ?? 1hid bv erected in a convenient place, and it was crowided to excess. So t ten ?? Sesjeant Wilde entered the town, escorted by a ...

... AGITATION-REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. I TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Srn,- The all-important subject of Parliamentary Reform employs at this time so many excellent writers, that no one who is unaccustomed to public business can approach it but with diffidence still I feel embol- dened to address a few words to you on the subject, hoping to point out sanie weak parts in the hydra of corruption, and ...

... , HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, Feb. 16. THE CAT1HOLIC QUESTION. Atumber of petitions were presented against the Claims of the Catholics. Lord CoLCHESTER, in presenting one of this description from the Protettant B3ishops and Clergy of Dublin, took occasion to avow that his sentiments remained unchanged; that tee saw with regret the course adapted by Ministers; and that it would lead to the ...

... .1 . w M-- I d: (From the vestern Tlimes.) We last week inserted an account of a most unprecedented occurrence, at Stoke Church, on the 25th of November, and we confess it was not with- out astonishment that we perused the details of an occurrence so disgrace- ful to civilized life,-so abhorrent to all correct Christian feeling. Surely the grave was not the place for a dispute, such as the one ...

... THE POLITICA L EXAMINER. I - Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few-PoMsi. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. A LATE number of the Quarterly Revieiv contained an article on the State and Prospects of the Country, remarkable (considering its place) for the sobriety of its style, the temperance of its tone, and the fairness of a statement of very considerable compass. The Edinburgh Reeiew has taken ...

... TO THE EDXTOR OF THE EXAMINEBS Sin,-A writer, in the last MontslS Review (p. 500) white criticizing Lord King's Life of Locke, has fallen into an error, not quite singular, yet betraying no small neglect of a due attention to dates and circunmstances. To prove that Locke's 1 practical politics were still less sound than some of his theoretical views, the Critic asserts as As a well-known and ...

... LONDON, AUGUST 23, 1829. THE new French Ministry continues to engross public attention in Paris, and to excite considerable interest here. Its chances of keeping its ground against the national will diminish almost daily. Admiral de RioNr, the only popular man of the whole set, has refused to accept the Marine Department. Many members of the Council of State, and some employds in the ...