... PO LITI CS. AN ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER AND POLICY OF RUSSIA. In resuming the subject we commenced last week-the posi- tion of England in regard to her foreign relations-we think a word of explanation may be proper. It is not our intention to make this department of the journal consist of a consecutive series of political essays. We are desirous rather of availing ourselves of the tide of ...

... It is reported that two regiments are about to be immediately sent to Canada, so alarming are the accounts received rinm that quarter; biut the ditliculty will be how to replace them. Qz'rry._ Would not the 1,200 marines now employed is Spain be mul ch more legitimately employed at home in garrisoning cither W oolsviih or Portsmouth, so as to leave more troops of the line available on o1n ...

... DEVON PORT. | Onl M4o'day evening a meeting was (for the first time) sum- noncd b' the Working Men's Association at Devonport. The place selected was the Long Room, Stonebouse, calculated to contain nearly 2,000 persons, and it was fully occupied some- thne before the business commenced. The assemblage was com- posed principally of working men, whose deportment throughout a as perfectly ...

... During the week several railway accidents have oc- curred, which are entirely attributable to ?? carele, sness of the sufferers. On Monday, about 20 minutes before one o'clock at noon, a man named Joseph Atkinson was walking along the Manchester and Bolton Railway, at Clifton, when an engine, to which was attached two coke- waggons, came up behind him. He was not walking on the same line of ...

... THE OPERATIVE. LONDON, DEC. 9, 1838. TIlE CANADIAN STRUGGLE. Thc absorbing theme of the week is Canada. By the arrival at Liverpool of the packet ship, Orpheus, in sixteen days from New York, we are put in possession of Canadian intelligence up -to the 15th, and of American news up to the 19th ult. From the journals of those-dates we learn that the insurrectionary movement commencdd by the ...

... OkIGPWAL COIMMSICA IO1T. . ,; i, . ?? TO THE EDITOR OF t THE OPERATIVE. ; Si isi nistructed, by the Finsbury National Rent ' Contilttee, to inform the public, through your columns, that an address was delivered on Monday evening, at the Hall of Scienee, City-road, in aid of the National Rent, by J. Bronterre O'Brian, Esq., to a very Intelligent and at- tentiveaudience, ofh the subject of ...

... THE REFORM ACT-VOTES OF LODGERS. The Reform Act has conferred the franchise on all fpersons being occupiers of a house, sirop, workshops, Iwarehouse, cellar, or other building, within the meaning of which are classed-shops occupied although by vlodgers), in trade; workshops, warehouses, arid cellars, which all come within the anearirig contemplated by the Reform Act, arid in fact every ...

... On Wednesday mTrurit lsts, intelligence was brought into Whitehaven that a tremendous explosion of carburetted hydrogen gas had taken place in one of the coal-pits be- longing to H. Curwen. Esq., of Workiligton Hall. situate at Lowca, between three and four miles from this town. 1The pit at which this awful catastrophe occurred is called f John Pitt. Around tthe mouth of this pit on ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TuUVRIDAY. ABOLITION OF TIHE NEGRO APPRENTICESHIIP SYSTEM. The Duke of WELLINGVTON, aving presentedlapetition prmying lor the abolition of t1e eppreaticeCSliP system on lthe istotinicuest next, wished to ask the noble and learned lord (Lord Itroueghan) wv1hat eourse h1e intended to pursue on this point, whethler lie meant to introduce a separate bill to aboltob the systemi, or ...

... LI7TEGsI, ON. *- dy l fi ,ast thle annual IMneniig Ul lll VI :^gde y , bd s held in one of the collcge .lpr;te , brt,,, E ?? M.P., took the I He report of th2 council it appears frO is proceeding in its course of 0 rovement. 'l'he number of Ip lar imprv it0 u'aclied on the 17th ult. to 467 O! f mredicine, and 141 in that of arts. 'l'o 0 1school also an advance of 13 on l;ejunor announced last ...

... ELECTION COMMITTEES-MoNDAY. YOUGH AL. The committee mhet at tile usuial b1oar, and tile MeIMI5 and agents having, been called !in, and thle Vvitncss, John lParker, bPI.-ilZ in attendlance, thle croossexallifnation of' Richard. ~1niethi, Esq., of lliar, a rsie by Mr. Axi'tLDi,,,aws Ile said : I hadl taken all active part at former 1~icctiai5, altboug~i not to so great anl exteilt as upon the( ...

... I A^h'E rq.PPR &ATIPCESHIP-GREA T | ..3L BE TAt , A Public Meeting tit(*qual1l'd in numbers and respectahilit (fr un in door meeting), was vesterday held a t Exeter-aelt, Nrte pupa fPetitionting, ?? fi,r the abolition of ?? tp It ard bcen announced that Lord b ~ gaiwol aete chair at eleven o'clock, nnd long~ brore the doors were opened, a considerable crowd of roost respiect~able persons, ...