... 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 ...

... J. S.—Wa raqaoot him aoaaalt tha “DUgateh” of tho loth Daoomhar. Wo ban anally right foal diasatioflsd with earmdn amr Canaagsadanla, whom wa am. doing atmaat •Uige, (or Moving *f imagiaary (TtoTaac**, wkleh aaaaaTATiaa woaU aaariaoa thorn aaa iaaailattia I. laara refer Uaa aar aambars af tka Mth ami Daoaabar, aa ha will than perceive that hare act aagfeotad the exealleat Mr. Field an. The ...

... apt to say. How I should wish to look like that oiticer, although he has lost arm.” He forgets the starvation endured before going into action—the oeld and bitter nights spent in drenched clothes wet fields in bivouac—the momentary forgetfulness of all misery in action, until the shoulder-bone, shot, is splintered into bits; then the little sympathy felt, every one being for himself; then the ...

... DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The new ballet, the » Spirit the Air, produced this theatre on Saturday, was receired with great and aeserred faraur from the commencement the conclusion. The ilory founded upon the Pleiad,” and Spiril of the Air {H. EUler). who. like the lost sUr, becomes mortal upon receiving an impression of the tender passion, was beautifully personated. Her dancing excited much ...

... by the late ▼iritation, are beyond all conception. It i« almost impossible to conjecture the amount of the injury. A ship, with net cargo of provisions, has again tailed to>day, and the public subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers are most ample. At the bead of these is the Court; besides the 20.000 florma given by the Emperor, there are from tke Empress 5.000 florins : and from the ...