... (From the New Monthly Magazine.) In Moscow all kinds of churches exist, and amongst them is a church, it cannot be called a mosque, for Tartar worship. I at- tended on Friday; and as they had no minah to call the pious at the hour of prayer, the Imaun mounted a wall, and stood in a tottering situation, exhorting the people with Allah is God to prayer, come to prayer-prayer is to be preferred ...

... The above institution, at a late meeting held at the society's house in the Adelphi, after the usual routine business was dis- posed of, arranged the rewards in money, and gold and silver medals, for the session 1830, to be given for the following, among other improvements in agriculture, the arts and sciences, viz.- Gaining tracts of land from the sea, and bringing the same into cultivation ...

... FRIDAY'S POST. The William Thompson has arrived from New York, and brings papers from Halifax to the 10th of last month. We ex- tract the following :— The grain crops in this district are finer than they have been for several years; the straw in some instances is short. Large fires have been raging in this neighbourhood.- On Monday week very serious apprehensions were entertained for the ...

... will,! en R RE- STATE OF TRADE.—The symptoms of an approaching mt A' lR)Proveinent in trade are now manifesting themselves, more fieri °r less> iQ all the great manufacturing districts of the coun- lowl ry J nor is there to be found in any of them, as we believe, thj ai)y serious want of employment., except from causes to- fyoni |ally distinct from a paralysed state of manufacturing indus- ...

... All the intelligence which has been received from the East of Europe since the conclusion of the treaty between the Russians and Turks is favourable to the hopes conceived of its effects, and of the good faith of the contracting par- ties. The fine-spun stories of the Parisian papers, of the insurrectionary movements of the Pachas in the rear and on the flank of the Russians, have vanished, ...

... As the important measure of supplying the town with water is now revived, it appears proper that the detail of the plan pro- posed upon a former occasion should be submitted to your consi- deration, and at this time, because the adoption of any one plan will prevent the proposal of another at a future time, even if the first should be defective. Mr. Smith, the engineer, recommended that the ...

... LIVERPOOL, OCT. 6.—The directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-road having offered, in the month of April last, a prize of X500 for the best locomotive engine, the trial of the carriages which had been constructed to contend for the prize commenced to-day. The running ground was on the Manchester side of the Rainhill-bridge, at a place called Kenrick's cross, about nine miles from ...

... WITH IRON.—Pamot, Darley, for Oporto.—Sarah, Lawson; Ju- bilee, Falkener and William, Williams, for LoKdom.—Conway Jones; and Cordelia, Williams, for Dublin.—William, Clampitt, for Cardiff. Eliza, Davis, for Runcorn.—Acorn, Esson,for Kirlc- aMy.—Gleaner, Cermack and Caledonia, Hurst, for Newry.— County of Cork, Davis, for Glasgow.-Klte, Oxford, for Teign- mouth. -Cornelia, Evans, for Liverpool ...

... MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday. The usual premiums were awarded for improved cultivation, and to farm servants for good conduct. The members having dined together in the evening, proceeded to discussions on agricultural subjects. 'lhe Chairman begged to call the attention of the meeting to the two subjects which had been fixed for ...

... I I3rtttøfJ. In the absence of all foreign news, the attention is re- called to our domestic situation; and among the most in- [ f Cresting, though not perhaps the most important of these, to the present state of the Cabinet, and to the question of i the changes which may be introduced into it previous to f 'he next meeting of Parliament. The long prorogation of arliament affords time for the ...

... To the Editor of, the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—On Thursday last, I wrote a letter very hastily to the Editor of the Cambrian, (it being then too late to write to you as well,) on the inconvenience and expence incurred by parish offi- cers, for want of more magistrates, or the more punctual attendance of those that are in the upper, and in part of the lower division of the hundred of ...

... CORK SPECIAL COMMISSION, OCT. 23.-JohnL.eary, Jas. Roche, Jas. Magrath, and Wm. Shine were put to the bar on a charge of having conspired, on the 8th January, at Done- raile, to kill and murder George Bond Lowe, Arthur G Creagh, and Henry Evans, Esqrs. There were several counts in the in- dictment-viz. for conspiring, with others unknown, to perpetrate the murder of the three gentlemen named ...