... As we anticipated in our last, the accounts of the last invasion of Canada were much exaggerated. New York papers to the 20th ult. have reached Liverpool, and clearly show that the affair at Detroit was wretched in the extreme. The brigands did not muster strong, and were soon taught the perilous nature of their position. The American public are now fully enlightened respecting the Canadian ...

... SIR,—In your Merlin of last week, I perceive a letter signed Thomas Prothero, in which he accuses the originators of tht, intended Newport Dispensary of ulterior motives. A, one of those parties who wished for the early establishment o' so charitable an institution, I beg to state that I had only ont object in view, namely, the relief of my fellow creatures wher lying forgotten and unseen ...

... The sentence of the Llanidloes rioters, will be found in another part of our paper. Unhappy men they are doomed to pay the penalty of their folly, in hearkening to the counsel of base Demagogues, when all but treasonable harangues excited them to deeds which the law was bound to investigate and punish. Two of them, we perceive, are sentenced to seven years' transportation! Had they heark- ened ...

... DOMESTIC NEWS. Piiohov,vrtoN or Pakmamknt—TnuitM>A>.—Tlii> be, ing d'P day io which Parliament was prorogued, at twu o'clock, the Lord C hancellor, the Marquess of Normauhy, and Viscount Falkland, took their scats in the House ol Lords as her Majesty's Commissioners for a further pro- rogation.—Tbe Commons havinu been summoned, were represented al Ihe Itar by Mr. Hickman, die second clerk, and ...

... In a field belonging to Alt. t'hmj ...

... » .THE EMPRESS by RUSSIA.—A Berlin letter, quoted by the Brussels Independent, states that the Empress of Rus- sia will go to Italy in the autumn to make a long stay there, on account IIf her health, and will beaccompanud by the Duke and Duchess of Leuchtenberg. INDISPOSITION OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF HANOVER. — inc IVing of Hanover, according to a letter of the 18th instant, quoted in the ...

... STATEMENT IN VINDICATION OF LADY FLOIIA HASTINGS.— We have hitherto abstained from moie than a mere allusion to the infamous charge made against the purity and character of a lady, high in the confidence of the Duchess of Kent, because we considered there might have been gross exaggeration in the case, and we were unwilling that the pages of the Merlin should give currency to either false or ...

... GRAMMATlCS. Arrah, Teddy, an' wasB't yer name Teddy O'Byrne before you left ould Ireland Sure it was, my darlint. But, my jewel, why then do you add the s. and call it Teddy O'Byrnes, now?—Why, ye spalpejn hav'nt I been married since I kem to Ameriky and are you to ignorant of grammatics, that ye don't know when one thing is added to another, it becomes a plural. The worthiest people are ...

... The Maniteur, of Tuesday, which was published at a much later hour than usual, contains the important intelligence of the Sultan's death. This renders the settlement of Eastern affairs a matter of mech greater facility than could otherwise have been the case. The telegraphic dispatch conveying this intelligence was placarded at the Bourse complete, and is as follows STRASHURG, JULY ]5, Six P ...

... GOODWOOD CUP.-5 to 2 against Mr. Holdsworth's na. De. ception—taken b i0 l agninst Lord Westminster's Richard f^oe e /J Mr- Ferguson's Harkaway—taken 10 to I against Mr. St. Paul's Galewood-lakcn. IHE GOODWOOD SrAKrs.-8 to 1 against Ruby—taken 15 to 1 agams van a en 20 to 1 against Mr. B. Pearson's na- Romania—taken. b Nc\v MARKET JILYSIAKES. g TO against Lord Exeter's Hellespont—offered 6 ...

... FROM THE FRKNCII OF VICTOR HUGO. THE tomb said to the rosy— The day-beam waters tlx e willi tears of clew, Oh! flower of love, that brightly glows, What dost thou with those drops of pearly hue i The rose said to the tomb— What dost thou make of all that's shed Into thy open gulf of fearful gloom,— What dost thou do,—oh, kingdom of the dead The rose said- Gloomy tomb, 'Tis in the shade I ...

... LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The packet ship Siddons, Capt. Britton, which arrived here this morning from New York, sailed on the morning of the 26th, but did not bring papers later than the 25th, as there were none published on the 26th, in consequence of the preceding day being Christ- mas-day. In all the New York papers of the 25th, there appeared the report that Sir A. M'Nabb, one of the British ...