... I POLITICAL SrATE OF 0FRANCE.-LETrER V/I. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MtORNIXG CIIRONIC1,1. prilis, I)eenrher11, IS29 The Drapeau Blanc says, A crisis is near! inevit- able ! it will be short and salutary! The .Jacobin Jour- nals affect to believe that the Ministers desire to avert it: but thev deceive both themselves and their partl imn ! lhe Ministers are ready and determined: as calm as they are ...

... Notwithstanding the decent external demeanour generally evinced by the convicts under sentence of death in New- gatc, which is in a great measure owing to the humanity of the Governor and his officers, yet there are very frequent conspiracies entered into, and plans laid, in order to effect an escape, which only await an opportunity to be carried into operation, in order that they may relieve ...

... ZIMLVENCX OP, CHYRCI.ESUBTIMMN7 -k 6FAhucifYON. I ?? Cette multltdtue de* sectO dont on a'dpouute, est eo qix'fl y a pour la relgion de plus salutaire; elle felt que la religion ne cease pas d'8rt tal sentiment podr devenir ?? simple forme, urne babituio presque mdchanique, qul se combine avec tows les Exfes, et quelquafoia avec tous lea Crine8 . 1-BasNAvu[JioN STANT. 'The patriotic and ...

... BRt, iD-, TREEA I WARD. inl Onl Friday Mr. Williams, an inhabitant of this WVard, of attended before Mr. Alderman Key, at CU(hiiL1al, to answer the complaint of Mr. Millard, the War-d Clerk, for (le assaulting himt while fulfilling the duties ut his office at of thle Wardrnote, about seven o'clock onl Wednesdla' eveinci g. Sol Mr. Millard stated that, after the usual Imine iss ot the( t'h ...

... GERMAN PJPERS. We have received Prussian .States Gi:ettes to the 31 inst., Which bring accountsof the convAle1CCitC wf the Emperor Sil chol^A dorO to> the 28thl nIt. BFUtLIN, DEc. 3-Letters from St Patersburgb, of the 25th o( Nrveonber, bring tbe Lighly pleasing intelligence that his Ma- jettv the Emperor is in full convalescence. on the 1221 a favour- ,le ?? took place in the august patIent, ...

... The Anniversary Festival of St Andrew, for the be- T fit or tile Scottish Hospital, was celebrated yesterday the generous friends and patrons of the Institution, at m. D old London 'Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. His Royal a I hihness the Duke of Clarence arid St. Andrew's was du cted to have presided, but he sent a letter of apology tat r his absence on account of a bilious attack of indispo- pu ...

... EX7'BIR10NAINY ESC4PE OF CaPT. DILLON. The followirrg extraordinary niarrativ e is extracted from Captain Djillon's account of a voyage to ascertain the fate of, ],a P'erouse's expedition. After detailing at variety of coir- fliets between his party, and the savages of the Bleetee (corn- nionly called the Feejee) Islands, in which several of his men were killed, the author thus prceeds: 11The ...

... BI'U4-STHfLRtT WARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SiR-Your independent and well-conducted Journal having contributed more, perhaps, than any other part of the Press towards exposing the abuses of the Select Ves- try system, and thereby prepared the way to its abolition, I have to beg the favour of a place in your columns in order to exhibit abuses of a very similar character which ...

... TilE fOlRE IG.V Q1t}Af1a/JLY I141I:Y ,iND ,,IR .J.4lE'S , OATO lict H it Our readers will perceive, from the following letter ci 0 o i ?? anics 7'ac kinto,,l thlat he disclaimins the an- tlo!-hilp of the notice of the I te \. Duniont, in the ninti i mnihlv ut l/n IVal. ?? 1..iew, on a pass.ige of which Nwe anjiiadverted in a late nuiaibcr of I/he eIrot~ni/c. We should not have ventured to ...

... ENGLISH INDVD OTU1 II POOR-LdIVS. When an Englishman or an Irishman comes to Scot- land (poor as Scotland is, many of both countries find their way to it), and supports himself in any one parcih during three consecutive years, he becomes a parishioner, and is entitled to all the privileges of a native. Should he subsequently become unable, from whatever cause, to provide for him-elf, lie gets ...

... THE WATLiRFORD ALECTION. [PROM THE DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER OF MONDAY.] Dublin, 29, Merrion-square N., Dec. 19, 1829. SIR-The various statements which have appeared re- specting the proposition coimmunicated through me to MAr. O'Connell, to act as Counsel for Lord George Beresford at the ensuing election for the county of Waterford ; the (IC tails of that transaction given by Mr. O'Connell ...

... By the Dutch mail, which arrived yesterday, we have re- ceived an account of the sitting of the Second Chamber of the Statts-General on the Pth instant, in which it appears the Ministers sustained a defeat on the proposed decennial budget, and carried the annual budget by a majority of only one vote. This budget, in consequence of the smallness of the majority, and its connection with the ...