... i The tragedy has closed, and the curtain has at length fallen over the sad catastrophe. The deplorable event will be deeply inscribed upon the historic pages of the reign of Queen. Victoria, and placed in scandalous pre. eminience above the! most disgraceful occurrences of the period. Fortunate would it be, if, as on the mimic stage, every sympathetic feeling could terminate with the closing ...

... AFW WORDS ON IMPORTANT MATERS. AE ~OR5 i [FtODS A FIEMALE CORwESPONDENT.) Having seen in THE CHARTER, a letter from Lord g Sm, which nosy mean anything or nothing, as the Brshay be, will you excuse the freedom I take in e to yu a few observations. It is only necessary nara aga~inst coofldin in Lord Brougham; it is only o friend that his lordship is dangerous. Compared with TaUeyrold he is pow ...

... Mi. O'CONNEDL-'THE PRECURSOR AGITATION. The following letter has been received by the Secretary of the Precursor Society from Mr. O'Connell, who is to attend another meeting at the Corn Exchange, on Mon- day next. Agitation is the order of the day:- zLondon, March 1. My dear Ray,-The first part of the experiment is made: the rights of the Irish people were opposed by our Liberal Government and ...

... THE INJ [ERENT RIGHT OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TO UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE PROVED FROM OUR HISTORY AND RE- CORDS. Having shown, in our last number, that the right of Universal Suffrage is logically deducible from metaphysical principles, viz., from the original gift of volition, or free- will, by the Creator, to every rational being, endowed with a capacity to exercise it, independently of the action of ...

... THE Whigs and the Whig-Radicals are uttering their jeremiades over the disunion that exists be- twveen the middle and the working classes, and are tendering their discreet advice and generous aid to put an end to this unseemly hostiliti'-etween two classes who ought to be united against tie common enemy, and whose differences can but tend to prolong the difficulties and ill usage of both. ...

... The London Central Dorchester Committee met on Wednesday, when Mr. Walker, of the Wheelwrights, was called to the chair; and in consequence of the secretary, Mr. Hartwell, being engaged in the defence of the delegates at Warwick, Mr. G. Tomey, of the Smiths, was elected secretary pro ten. There was a very full attendance of delegates; they appear to be trying to bring the business of the ...

... THE PAST SESSION. The six hundred and fifty odd gentlemen who devote themselves, heart and soul, to the service of this prosperous and happy country-have, at length, been released from their arduous labours, and have retired to the bosoms of their respective families, with an honest and well-earned conscious- ess of having performed their duty to the people and to the state. Would that it were ...

... 1 HOUSE OF LORDS. EThe sessional expos6 of Lord Ljndhurst, and the debates which followed thereupon, having taken place late on the Friday-evening, we were unable to do justice toi them last week. We leem them too interesting, how- ever, to beomittedin our parliamentary reports of the ses- sion, and therefore introduce them here.] Lord LYNDHURST commenced his speech by re- minding the House, ...

... It is no doubt to be regretted, that there is so much political and moral hypocrisy afloat in society, as it is only because pretension and reality pass current as equally sterling, that the nmirage of a man's public life is allowed to cast a sanctifying vapour over the plague spots of his private character, and thus assist in lower- ing the tone of moral feeling through the country. The ...

... VARIETIEL It appears tbat a garg of thieves ia Hul have hit uppon- a new plaa o'f tactics, and, by becoming regular attend.. ants at churches and chapels, contrive at the same tidii; to pick pockets.- Hull Aderfiser. . On- Friday morning the Rev. John Skinner, rectordof Camerford, whose mind had been for so. e time in. a state of derangennent, got possession of a pitol, and blew' his brains ...

... O'CONNELLS A8LUTISM. TisF Dublin Monitor, a journal which is conducted with equal talent and independence, has for some time past been calling public attention to some extraordinary proceedings relating to the Rev. Mr. Davern, a Roman Catholic clergyman, who, it will be remembered, excited Mr. O'Connell's strong displeasure by the opposition he offered to the Tithe Bill of last session, and ...

... FRANCE. The war in Africa occupies the almost exclusive at. tention of the Paris pppers, the M11onpiteur Parisiell lpub. lished despatches from Marshal Valee, the Governdr. General, dated the ] 5th, ] 9th, and 24th nlt., addressec to the Minister of War, including Abdel Kader's so. lemn ?? of war and other documents. Hos tilities commenced on the l7th. and the French troopi were taiecn ...