... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... cT ?? INOENN 10VS INVENTe ON.-Mr. .james,)Dunqan, at*-. | maker, Gleuluce, has lately constructed a small steam-engime, on the high pressnte principle, 'the xiovelty of which consists in the steam acting twice in the cylinder,i before.itespapes into the atmosphere, by which there is a saving of, half the fuel and half the water, which a common engine of the8 saie power would ?? Caurant. ...

... AN APOlOGY TO O'CONNELL. HJo people' are so often in error as the over-charitable; l And we find we were preomature in the opinion to which we last week inclined, that Mr. O'CONNELL was shamed into silence by the multiplied disgraces in which his erooked courses had involved him. We did not do justice to the i rpenetrability of the tough-bull-hide and seven- fold brass, in which he is armed, ...

... COUNTRYt Nzwo. ?? ?? I zi I ' METTilf MARKKCT.-A further -advance has this week taken jlace in the prices of both copper-and tin. Tile eopper is now at 901., cake 921., and best selected 94r. Tin blocks 871., bars 891., refined 921; Spe-Iter is short in stock, at our last quotation, 221.-Birnningham Advertiser. : JUDGE'S LoDGINos.-The Worcester corporation ma- gistrates were not honoured by ...

... [The following appeared in a second edition of the CHAM vION of Sunday last.] I IP4DSTSC RXPT. FOREIGN SUMMARY. The foreign papers and letters which have arrived contain some extracts of interest. It seems that Louis rHILIPPE, to wipe out the stain of having persecuted a BONAPARTE, has determined upon sending out to St. Helena for the remains of the late Emperor NAPOLEON, andinterring them ...

... THlE M1ORNING CHRONICLE LONDON: FRIDA Y, OCTOBER 19, I8. Our Foreign Express had not arrived at six o'clock. Dispatches were yesterday received from the Earl of DuanArm of the date of the 29th Sep. tember. His Lordship has not positively resigned, though we should be deceiving our readers if we did not state that he expresses a strong wish to be allowed to resign, founded on a conviction that, ...

... In transferring the following article, to which we have elsewhere adverted, from L'Echo de I'Orient to our columns, we would observe that the writer has erroneouslyused the words ?? of Kutaya throughout. It is perhaps super. tluous to observe that, as there can be no II treaty between a Sovereign and his subjects, it was by a simple agreement that Mehemet Ali was made governor of Syria as ...

... PRESENTATION of the NEW SFERIFFS IA 2TilE COUR T OF EXCHBQUER. Yesterday the new sheriffs for the city of London, Mr. Alderman Johnson and Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood, were presented to the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer for her Majesty's approval. Shortly before three o'clock the Lord Mayor and officers of the corporation arrived, when The REcoRnDE, addressing Mr. Baron Bankes, said he had the ...

... To THE EDITOR or THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Ss.-The practical wisdom of the city has been de. livered of a safe declaration on the error of the parliamen. tary committee in not calling before themn practical men during their inquiries into the state of the city po. lice. The committee did not, 'tis true, implicitly rely on the evidence of interested persons, but they consulted numerous ...

... DEPARTURE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON FR OM SIVITZERLAND. CONSTANCE, OCT. 14._To.day the entire population of Constance remained waiting during two hours at the gate of the town for Prince Napoleon, who was expected to pass through it on his departure from Switzerland. lie was to have arrived at noon, but two o'clock struck before he made his appearance. The crowd, so ready to indulge in sinister ...

... LETTERS FROM GEORGE IIM. TO LORD NORTH. The strong opinion pronoanced by the author of the article on the reigns of George the Third and Fourth in The Edinbur / Review, on the eorrespondence of the first of these monarchs with his ministers during the American war, naturally leads to a desire to know something of compositions the perusal of which would, it is said, even endanger the ...