... TO CORRESPONDENTS. Noemis we believe, intends to serve us his proffer is kindly and politely expressed, but we must decline his present favom. A Treatise on Acids would, we fear, make our readers look sour. Querela, from Newport, shall appear next week. Autumnus has sent us seven closely-written pages of what he calls poetry! on the scenery about.' Whilst we regret that our friend has ...

... PORTUGAL. The Gloucester Journal of Saturday last says, The Helen, which arrived here yesterday from Faro, which .port she left on the 19th October, brings intelligence of a very severe action fought on that day between the Miguelites and Pedroites, and as the French corps in the service of the latter were generally believed to have been bought over by bribery, very little doubt remained that ...

... Borough, Monday, Nov. 18.—Good new hops, both in pockets. and bags, sell somewhat briskly, yearling hops very tardily, at last week's prices. [n older hops than yearlings, little or no- thing is, or has been for some time doing. Currency East Kent, in pockets, 1831, SO. Os to £0. Os, 1832, X5. Os to £6. 10s 1833, J7. 10s to X9. 10s Mid-Kent, 1831, zCO. Os to £ 0. Os 1832, £4. 15s to £5. 10S; ...

... A curious correspondence has been just published in the Irish papers, arising out of the dismissal of a Colonel Blacker from the commission of the peace, an event which, under all the circumstances, supports the gratifying hope that the Government intend even-handed justice towards that long-oppressed country. The gallant Colonel ranked as a champion of the Orange faction-a party that has so ...

... I have been young, and wild, and gay, To all but beauty blind And sighed all night, and sung all day, To ladies stern or kind I've told my love in manly prose, I've written it in rhyme; And now I'm crowned with age's snows, The scent of yonder withered rose Recals that pleasant time. 0 then were hopes that chased my sleep And fears that made me thin And many subtile wiles and deep My proud ...

... BANKRUPTS.—James Elude, Mincing-lane, wine merchant.- Robert Johnston, Wapping-street, victualler.—Henry Robert Plaw, Modifoid-court, Fenchurch-street, merchant.—WDliam Huckel, Duke-street, Westminster, lodging-house keeper.— Margaret and John Bristow, Commercial-road, Stepney, engine makers.—Benjamin Watlock, Walcot, Somersetshire, lozenge maker.—James and John Cotter, Toxteth-park, ...

... AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—THE KING V. NICHOLSON. Mr. Follett (with whom was Mr. Talbot) showed cause against a rule which had been obtained by the Solicitor-General for a criminal information against Mr. George Nicholson, a solicitor at Hertford, and a Mr. F. W. N. Bayley, for insulting and chal- lenging a gentleman, styled Baron Dimsdale. It appeared from a number of very long affidavits, that Mr. ...

... A petition, embodying the substance of the following declara- tion, has been forwarded to us, with a request that we would allow it to remain for signatures at our office this we freely admit, and hope that a general expression of public sympathy throughout the kingdom may be of some little service to the brave but unfortunate sons of Poland The undersigned deem it their duty to record their ...

... London, Thursday Evening. The Paris of papers of Tuesday, which arrived this morning, contain no information of a decisive character from Spain. There are accounts, however, from Bayonne, of the 15th, and from St. Jean de Luz of the 14th instant, which state that General Saars- field was to proceed on Vittoria by a combined movement.- Saarsfield himself was to lead a division by the road of ...

... DOMESTIC. Considerable importance is attached to the deliberations at the Cabinet Council, held yesterday, at Brighton, and many reports were in circulation last night at the club- houses. Among others, that of a partial change in the Ad- ministration was most freely spoken of.-Herald, Tuesday. It is rumoured that the Eart of Mulgrave wishes to re- turn to England, on the ground that the ...

... MISCELLANY. EXPERIMENTAL RAILWAY.—A Lecture was given, or rather a conversation was held, at a temporary building and railway, situate in Park-street, near the Grosvenor-gate, Regent's-park, on the Economical, rapid, and safe travelling on railways by means of Mr. Saxton's Locomotive, Differential Pulley, by which simple invention, the placard states, a horse, walking at the rate of two or ...

... ALEXANDRIA, SEPTEMBER 30.— My attention, like that of most strangers who come here, was immediately directed to dis- cover by what means the Pacha had been enabled to raise the character of this country, in so short a period, from nearly abso- lute barbarism to a position of importance in the eyes of Europe, and also toodiscover what effect his government had produced oil the condition of the ...