... NO TAB ILIA. FRENCH AND. ENGLISH.s I have travelled 200 leagues it 40 days, with- out perceiving that I am in want of anything. At four o'clok in the morning, I eat half a pound of *rice, boiled with sugar in milk; I drink milk on my road, when my servants succeed in procuring it I metimes see a hundred cows put in requisition for a single glass; and my cook-s zeal would set fire to the ...

... NOTAB ILIA. Tim PHANTOcs PORTRLAIT.-A stranger came recommended to a merchant's house at Lubeck. He was hospitably received; but, the house being full, he was lodged at night in an apartment hand- somely furnished, but not often used. There was nothing that struck him particularly in the room when left alone, till he happened to cast his eyes on a picture, which immediately arrested his ...

... LONDON, AUGUST 23, 1835. The four bills which form the Fieschi project of law, have all been presented to the French Chamber. The report drawn up by M. Sauzet, has left their provisions (with the exception perhaps of article 3) even less acceptable to the journalists than as they origi- nally issued from the closet of the Keeper of the Seals. With re- gard to Article 3, which forbids the ...

... LONDON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1836. A more just and liberal course of government than the Queen Regent has hitherto sanctioned can now, it is evident, alone save Spain. The movement against Toreno's ministry, new modelled as it has been for resistance, has spread from Cadiz to Corunna and Vigo. In every place the tone of the self-constituted juntas has settled down from the first excitement of their ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolves to venture unon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiased truth, let him proclaim war with mankind d ia mode le pai~s de Pole-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men, they fall upon him riths the iron hadsid of the lawv; if he tells these virtues, when they ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THIE EXAMINER. Ssp,-After reading much in the papers on the subject of Mr Balfe's opera, The Siege of Rochelle, I resolved to judge for myself as to its merits, and accordingly have visited Drury lane Theatre several times, in order to form a just opinion on the subject. You vill permit me, sir, to glance at the state of the English lyrical drama at the present time. The ...

... - The opposition bench is now without its leading members. Sir R. Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, Sir H. Hardinge, &c, some days ago took leave of the House for the session, and quitted town. The House has now sat twenty-six weeks, or half a year; and though the Commons expect to finish their labours next week, they will have to wait a week at least for the Lords. GEN. EVANs.-An address has ...

... THE EXAMINER- 'LONDON, NOVEMBER 15, 1835. -fome considerable sensation appears to have been excited during the past week, in Paris, by the fact, which is no longer doubtfiul, that the Chajgd ?? of the United States had demanded and obtained his passports. He was not likely to embark: before the end of the month, but all diplomatic intercourse between him and the French Government had ceased. ...

... LONDON, MARCH 1, 1835. General Sebastiani, the newly-appointed Ambassador from France to this country, has been suddenly recalled. His assistance was needed by Louis-Philippe in the new Ministerial appointments consequent on the resignation of the President of the Council, which has just taken place. Marshal Mortier, who has always been undlerstood to have consented to hold office merely until ...

... LONDON, MARCH 29, 1835. The new Ministry of France have commenced in a somewhat startling way. M. Thiers, in claiming the secret funds, demands from the Chambers as a vote of confidence in the Cabinet, twice as much as is usually given. He will not be satisfied with less than a hundred thousand pounds. It is the intire Cabinet (said M. Thiers) which, after taking the orders of the King, ...

... CAsIsImDnee-Tr Spring Rice -tas re-elected here wvithlout opposition, having been put in nomination by Mr Hlowell and Mr Gunning, the Esquire Bedel of the University. We have noticed the right lion. gentleman's speech elsewhere. NoMIsNGxnAar.-Sir John Hobbouse was also re-elected without oppo- sition. Within half an hour after his re-election Sir John Hobhouse left Nottingham for London. There ...

... NO TAB ILIA. LOvE IS A RaD Baica HousE.-He felt quite angry with the Horse Guards for having built any barracks in so frightful a country as that which they were approaching. It was all arable; but there were no enclosures, no hedges, no hill, no dale, no woods, no copses, merely a succession of fields * in the highest state of cultivation it is true, but that circumstance did not add to their ...