... 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 ...

... . i, tENCOUNTEAI WITH A WILD BUFFALO. I ?? ' It hailnf been reptesented to Mr. Campbell, indigo ri p.lxenm atfallnasore, by the Ryotts living near one of his ifactories; tliatg wild Ibull-buhlo had for solne days in- d fested'1sle neig-hboutrliood, and bad destroyed three of the y vilagers';a party, consisting of Mr. Campbell, Major C., b1 of ?? nrigineers, anid a Lieutenant G., of tthc same i ...

... I ~ - - 40 Many of our best reforms are but copies of the approved usages of our forefathers, and payment to mnem- bers of Parliament, for their services to the community which they represent, is but an attempted return to one of them. The following extracts from the court books of Ipswich, prove, that for two centuries at least, the prac- tice of remunerating members was common enough, with ...

... WVESTMIiNSTER REFORMI SOCIETY. A meeting of the members of this Society was held on Wednesday night, at Stannard's Hotel, Charles-street, Covent-garden, when the following address was agreed to- TO TalE niGtIT lION. TIlM EARL OF DURItAM. ' We, the members of the Westminster ReforriSociety, approach your Lordship with feelings of great respect, and consider your presence in England at this ...

... ~~PULI METIGS RESOLU 'IN A ;.Lw JL X ?? RESOLUT'IONSOF THE FELLING WORKING Xygrf -ASSOCIATION. ResolveAi Ist, 'thaii we' have read thle address from the Precursor Secketyof Ireland, and 'are filled with mingled feelings of sorrow and disgust-ilisaluscls as the senti- ments Containedi in that address are unworthy of men call- ing themselves the frierids of Treland; 2nd, If the bonds of alliance ...

... II Sin-The circumstances of the times are such as make b me receive with satisfaction an intimation that I should 1 not be thought obtrusive in offering my remarks. Time T was when we corresponded regularly and habitually; and Ii if the practice was useful then, there can be no objection g to its occasional adoption now. 9 The return of Lord Durham has produced a conjuncture n in which it is ...

... TIHE DISSLNTER INIPELISONEDt FORl NOT GOING TO CHURCIh. On the 30th Nov. a public meeting of the parishioners of Lilauelly was convened, to consider the case of' AMr. John James, who was committed to gaol for non-payment of costs of a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court against him), for absenting himself from the parish church. Air. NV. Rees, choUrchWardenr, having been called to the chair, The ...

... . CAPE OF GO0D HOPE,. 'Else situation of the colony of ?? of Gooid lop ij evidently becoming critical if but a soull portion of the complaints and statements with which the papers and p,'ivate letters abound on every ?? are alonb founded ia -faet. Ther- Grahals's Town journals to the '5tl of Ge- tbernjare filled'with -opious-s details of the trials of Hlot- ?? the native-tribes; principally ...

... GRANDMAIA'S SUPERLATIVE TWIADDLE, TnlE MARCIH o0 RiEaI6iEENT.-Tihe lic ndrspeis' shopmen, travellers, anid porters, have latell taken it into their heads to change the namises by ?? the) have hitherto been described, and to call themselves zssitants; and nro greater offence can be given to the young ~ighsts of 1ounter than ~o call them shopmen, or seiants. Nothing less than open rebellion ...

... The following correspondence has recently taken place between the Home-office and the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lancaster:- (corP.) * Whitehall, Nov. 23, 1838. la My Lord,-I have the honour to acquaint your lordship, that having received from the bench of inagis- trates at Hyde, near Manchester, a report of a meeting which was lately held in that town by torch-light, I directed a letter ...

... GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY TO TIHE DEMO- CRACY OF NORWICH. DEMOCIIrATIC SISTERS AND BRETIImw-TlhrOugh the medium of the People's Paper, the glorious and hard- working OPE'RATIVE, I embrace the earliest opportunity, which illness would allow me, of expressing to you my acknowledgments for the truly distinguished honour you thought fitting to confer upon me-the honour of being in deed, and in truth ...