... I I This month has been very propitious to the ad g rops avnddepastured sheep and cattle, as d also to tillage and field labours generally, Its le temperature has been sufficiently mild, and there ad has been rain enough to refresh the whole range is of vegetation, and to give to rural scenery an in. rie viting and animated appearance ; as well as to mellow the soils that have been recently ...

... .-, --- - - Zg- I-J - Pis Ig ('Abridged from a letter to the Editor of the St. n~ *James's Chronicle.) a. The- 6olumns of the London papers have been t 'h inundated fora fortnigbt past with accounts of'proceedingsd id in 11Birminghian. Such exaggerated reports have gone c foriih_.!that one would be inclined to think that the whole at pop4!alition of the place arc attached to thelpolittcal ...

... REMARKABLE JAY..--A lady residing at Black- heath has in her possession a fine jay, which displays -1.-.: a - --- -A -A-Ii on .n pari~narv instinct allied to reason and reflection in no ordinary degree. The bird repeats distinctly any w.rd that might be uttered before. Shl can identify persons after having once seen them, and been told their names; the latter she will pronounce with surprising ...

... A great religious change is taking place in Ger- many. The bible is read with avidity by the Roman Il1iillJ I IU111:-JPI 1a . -~a 's . a; - -- catholics ; and the clergy of this religion are, in many parts of the country, making strenuous efforts for the abolition ofcelibacy, and for liberty to read the mass in German. In various instances they have turned pro= testants, with a great ...

... LIVERPOOL PETITION FOR TUE ABOLIrION or SLAVERY. d, it, The zeal which was at first manifested to sign the 1Y Liverpool petition on this most important subject at suddenly abated when the news arrived that Minis- al ters were in a minority in the House of Lords on ilI the Reform Bill. Hundreds of persons who in- ky tended to affix their names have declared, that deeply re interested as they ...

... antE SAc 3itotol MAreuI SATURtDAY, Mtl 5. WHY IS THE NATION. TAXED? IHEMe is a question of some moment, if men would but learn to consider it rightly. Why is the nation taxed? It is a question which comes home to all oui pockets: we all know and feel louw the nation is taxed, but few have taken the trouble, caltly and deliberately, to ask themselves-- why ? The surface politician will answer, ...

... btje lFrermnau0 Woveu-ml | FRANCE. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday with the Messafler des Chalnbres and Le Nouvelliste dated Wednesday. The Messager des Chrcmbres gives a prominent ar- ticle respecting the departure of M. Pozzo di Borgo for Petersburgh, which, after briefly sketching the material events of his life in a manner not very favourable to him, though there is no ...

... [MEEINU: Ai'IbALbtthGIaAk TO PirtIOi FOR Tit ; AIOL1TOX OF LFFES.- ' ?? On Sund~ay lest tile inhabitan~ts of IBalbri~ggn, anid tie coontia uOU0 dtrc s, aemedto petitiou fur the rhtal abolition of c the, ad t adpt practical arid decided measures t eiv themeselses fronm the presonre -of that grievance. The meetingI was held inl the Apen air, as no building ih the town.wotild he wai- I a Zi~ty ...

... PIVAlE CORRESPONDENCE. ?? - ~~Lqndon, May 19, 1$3T. y~hat a tifliuig accident may often determiue the destinies of a t nation. Upi to the moment when Lord Alt~orp msde his detlara- ytiox; yesterday, there were not more than a dozen members of the House of Commons eware that mutters had been flnally settlesd. - ?? Altborp himself wa not aware of it an hour before. The -fact is, that it tame ...

... STATE Of THE EM1PRF. Who eosn say what the state of the British empire is at this moment ? The London '.'ory journals of Friday, and some of the liberal evening papers, talk of the Duke of WELLINGTON's having gone to Windsor, by command of the King, to forn, an administration. We do not believe it. At three o'clock his highness held a cabal of the boroughaaongers at Apsley House, and he was in ...

... . ChIOLERA. By wbatever at.-e th1,e, diease eixisting pt fti the Ittt eighit or ten days o ggbt p 7r3e bi des; nated, it is unhappily true that it has consigned ° unexpectedly early grave the heads of SeVeral fartt in the city, and a great umnrber of other b-lpleja , 1; [,S metancholv effects have, however, beer, principallyc( tdI he enscerably pool-, whom it dia not please Divine urovideut ...

... PARTY SPIRIT-THE WHIG. IN our last'number we felt ourselves under the necessity of exposing the firebrand'violence of our contemporary, the Northern7 Whi,, ose Iabits of. exaggeration are prover_ bially so furious, that even those *who agree with him in principle are. often compelled to regret ~tbe dangerous na. ;tUre of his advocacy. Our contempoirry-hais -returned a :brief, hesitating, and ...