... PORTUGAL. Extract of a letter from Torres Vedras, dated Oct. 17:— After all my expectations of being in Oporto during the winter, behold us here occupying the celebrated lines of Torres Vedras-immortalised by British valour and British talent, under the Duke of Wellington. We received a sud- den order to embark from Oporto on the 26th September, and on the following morning sailed from the ...

... LORD DURHAM AT SUNDERLAND. The following are extracts from an admirable speech re- cently delivered by this consistent statesman and patriot, at Sunderland. His advice to the electors as to the mode in which they should exercise their important privileges, is de- serving of the utmost publicity:- It is true that the connection between us has been latterly less immediate—it is true that I have ...

... Mu RDER AT PLUMSTF.AD.—It is our painful duty to re- cord a diabolical murder in Plumstead, which has thrown the neighbourhood into a state of great excitement. The unfortunate victim of the fiend-like deed was a respectable farmer, named Bodell, and the person suspected as the per- petrator of the horrid crime is his own grand-son, John Bodell. It appears that on Sunday morning se'nnight the ...

... Thou fading Rose, upon the tree Whence all thy mates have flown, How sadly do I gaze on thee— So lovely and so lone. Thou hast lived to see thy sisters all Around thee droop, decayed- And every,flower of summer fall, And every beauty fade Thy love, the nightingale, is gone, The butterfly is dead- All darling things have, one by one, Forsaken thee, and ned The leaves are dropping from the trees ...

... LORD MAYOR'S DAY, Nov. 9. The Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, accompa- nied by the civic authorities, proceeded by water to Westminster- hall, where his lordship was received with the customary cere- monies by the judges. The procession afterwards returned in the same state. The fineness of the morning, and the more than usual splendour of the pageantry, attracted a most numerous ...

... Wednesday se'nnight was the day fixed upon for proceeding to the election of a repiesentative for this city, in the room of Saml. Adlam Bayntun, Esq., deceased. The Hon. Thomas Dundas, Charles Francis Barkley, Esq., ofSunbury, Middlesex, and Mr. Mortimer Bayntun, a brother of the deceased member, had seve- rally been in the field as candidates. Mr. Barkley, however, retired some days before ...

... It is gratifying to perceive that the condition of the Irish poor is now becoming a subject of such general and marked attention as to promise the speedy adoption of some system of amelioration, some legal provision for the millions of our fellow-subjects, half starved and destitute in a land of ferti- lity and abundance This is not only a question to which the minds of public men are directed ...

... (Sittings in Banco at Westminster.) MITCHELL V. JENKINS. This was an action brought against the defendant for having arrested the plaintiff for a larger sum than was really due. The defendant arrested the plaintiff for £45, for tithes, and it appeared that, in giving the bailiff instructions for the arrest, he had de- sired that, if Mitchell was prepared to pay a sum of rather more than £28, ...

... The following letter has been received by Robert Williams, Esq., in reply to the address of the inhabitants of Monmouth to the Rev. J. E. Tyler, inserted in our paper of the 2d instant. Would that such a reciprocity of kindly feeling between the clergy and the people weie more general!— 24, Bc-dfoTfl Square, Nov. 7th, 1833. My dear Sir,-You will easily believe me when I assure you that, on the ...

... BANKRUPTS.—Joseph Glover, London, commission agent.— John Edmund Richard Cracknell, Acorn-yard, Limehouse, and Wade s-terrace, East India-road, Poplar, engineer.—John Davis, Fleet-street, upholsterer.—Thos. Harcourt, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, brass founder.—John Acton Boden, Drury-lane, needle manufacturer.—John Everard Farr, Baldock, Hertford- shire, carpenter. John Edward Collingwood ...

... There are great doubts whether ministers will give up the As- sessed Taxes. The evil genius of the government is for making a stand, as it is called, against the demands of the people. Those who desire the downfall of the ministry can wish nothing more to the purpose than that they may attempt the stand advocated by Mr. Stanley. Even now, however, we repeat our often expressed opinion, that ...

... Monday, November 11.—This day's supply of beasts was ntt. merous, and of average November quality its supply of sheep and porkers rather limited of calves moderately good. Trade was, with each kind of prime meat, somewhat brisk, at fully with the middling and inferior kinds dull, at barely, Friday's, quotations. (Per stone of 81b. sinking offal.) Lnferiorbeef, from 2 2 to 2 4 [ Prime beef, ...