... M ANSI.A RGHTEII.— I he governor of Padman workhouse has been committed to the House of Correction at Preston, by the magisliaies of Burnley, on a charge of manslaughter. It ap- peals lhal an old man, an inmate of the woikhouse, and who was verv dutv in his habits, was taken to the pump in the yard, i nd afterwards laid upon some shavings, in a corner of Ihe house, where he died. This rook ...

... Our attention has been drawn by a valued correspondent o a slight error which occurred in our leading article ot ast week, and which, uncorrected, was likely to do injury o an old and consistent Reformer. On referring to the irticle, we t:nd we there Mated that Mr. Bonham Cartel vas amongst the most prominent of the canvassers for Sn Francis Burdett. We should have slated Mr. Bonham, he member ...

... ORIGINAL CHARADES. (No. XI.) i is sweet to view. Beneath the genial breath of Spring, My first bud forth, a lovely thing, O'er which Aurora's handmaids fling The silver dew. 'Tis sweet to hear The name of one the heart doth love, Echoed like music from above, And such rnethinks my next will prove To some, most dear. Within the tomb Soon I shall rest my weary head, 1 Then may my whole its ...

... hnration and scurrility never have been, nor never shall be, Emitted by its as allies in the cause with which we are identi- I. Prirate character is one if the possess ions of civil society, id, ought to be held sacred. We Ifill not pennit it, so far 11 ice are concerned, to be invaded. We therefore decline the fsertion of Censor's letter to a speaker at the late public h'lIer given in ...

... THE WANDERING PIPER. This distinguished unknown is now in Liverpool, and has recceived permission from the authorities to perform every fore- noon and evening during this week in the Court-room of the Sessions'-house. We understand the public buildings were in like manner freely tendered to him in every city and town which he visited in the British settlements and United States of Ame- rica. ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. Letteis from St. Sebastian, under date of the 14th, have been received. They contain an account of a defeat sustained by the Christinos on that day, which has proved most disastrous to the unfortunate British Legion. The base and cowardly Spa- niards fled on the first attack of the Carlists, leaving the legion, amounting to 700 men, to contend with the entire Carlist ...

... The Councils of Commerce, Manufactures, and Agricul- ture, have been discussing the duty on the importation of cattle, which weighs so heavy upon Alsace. The agricul- tural interest, predominant under the Restoration, raised the duty to X2 sterling a-head upon horned cattle, and baffled all attempts of even the Government to reduce it. The attention of the Council is now turned to this duty, ...

... The Austrian Lloyd contains a letter from the captain of the Austrian steam-boat, which was recently run down and damaged by the French man-of-war steamer, of a hundred and sixty horse power, the Dante. The Austrian captain affirms that the act was wilful on the part of the French commander, and he has entered a protest on the subject at the office of the Austrian consul-general at Smyrna. ...

... QUKEN ELIZABETH'S REASONS FOR NOT MARRYING.—The Itouse of Commons having, in the year 1558, in the first parliament of Elizabeth, made a request that her Majesty would marry, whereby, they said, to all their comforts we might enjoye, as God's pleasure might be, the royal issue of her bodie torayne over us, the Queen, after a short pause, the answer following :— As I have good cause to do, I ...

... SIR,-Perceiving that Chrislianus is as wide of the purport of my note of the 27th ult., as he is timid and shy of the principle in my address, I will endeavour, if possible, to express myself in teims more intelligible to his apparently obtuse understanding than I seem in that communication to have been able to achieve. Be it therefore observed, that 1 would not reply to his farrago,-first, ...

... Every man who respects the Christian religion will respect the Christian Sabbath,! and not only respect it himself, but en- deavour, by example and precept, to prevent its being desecrated and stained by others. But it is not a necessary result that he should fortify his arguments with fines and imprisonment, and follow Sir Andrew Agnew through all his mischievous vagaries. The Sabbath is a ...

... The fete of Wednesday, in Paris, was attended with rather a melancholy circumstance. Some vaga- bonds created a disturbance at the gate or grate of the Champ de Mars, where a mock siege of a citadel had at- tracted considerable crowds. Many were robbed and lacerated, and in the crush eighteen people were killed, several of whom were women. There were also a consi- derable number wouaded and ...