... The annual summer festival of the Ancient and Ho- nourable Lumber Troop took place on Wednesday after- noon at the Highbury Barn Tavern, Islington. The dinner and wines were, as is usual at the festivals of this society, of the most rechercheAdescription, and the rompany, which was very numerous, in'cluding several of the leading commercial and political characters of the city of London, ...

... DELEGATES PRESENT EACH DAY DURING THE PAST I I - I . WEEK. Wed. Thu. Fri. :URN5, ~ ~. * C. B. C. B C. B.. BuRws, WlLI~am G. . * *_ __ __ _ Bussy, Peter, . . _ _ A COLLS, JohN, >. . T- t 4 1* CLBAVE, John, . . t -Tr t1 t 0 CARPEXTER, Willitm, * - -- -t CA rssO, William, . . * _ - _ CRAIG, Hugh, . . . . t t t + ti. DUNCAN, Abram,a t t t t t t DxrECAV, Jolm, . * *_ __ __ _a DEAN, Christopher, . t ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. The Duke of WELLINGTON begged to ask the E noble viscount opposite whether, when he addressed the i house on the subject of the Birmingham riots, on Thurs- I day last, he was aware of a letter which had been sent 2 from the Under-Secretary of State to Mr. Hebbert, who had written to the Secretary of State on the part of cer- tain inhabitants of Birmingham ? Viscount ...

... A SOLDIER IN MAR OF IAB CHARTISTS! TO T!55E EDITOR OF THE CHARTER. SIB,-Some inebriated lunatic sheds his venomous slander over the July number of the United Service journae, under the signature of FLIJELLYw. This in- happy individual manifests his lunacy by a vain endea- vour to write in the style of a military man; and it is evidently his puerile ambition to be considered as such. But (and I ...

... I cannot even enjoy my murders now, said an old lady to her medical adviser, intending by a strong, instance to show to what an extreme degree of apathy she had become reduced. The old lady was a true Englishwoman. A morbid passion for the marvellous and the horrible pervades all classes in this country, so that no event, at all out of the common, takes place,but it is perverted, ...

... SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1839. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. We need not apologise to our readers for again occupying so large a portion of our space with accounts from various parts of the country, indi- cative of the state of the public mind at this alarming crisis, and with the debates in Parliament arising out of the same subject. This is the one thing that now occupies men's minds. We seem to stand ir. ...

... THE ADDRESS TO THE MIDDLE CL.ASSES. We insert, in another column, an address to the middle classes, which last Monday was put forth by the General Convention. Would to Heaven -we felt ourselves entitled to express a hope that this judicious, temperate, and yet earnest appeal, were likely to prove in any degree, or to the smallest extent, effectual. Rejoiced, indeed, should we be, if we could ...

... . CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. Thistbeing the day appointed for the transfer of Con- sol's ani New Three avid a Half per Cents., it was e p acted that a considerable amount of seock would be delivere~d, we do not however fiud that such has been hp cse, aI4. the Consols nkave Undergone little variation, havng op'ced at 93, to -, and being now at 933 to 2 for Accon t, arid 9I+ to -7 for Money ex ...

... DISTURBANCE AT BIRMINCHAM BiRMINGHAM, THURSDAY NIIS1T. At about a quarter-past nine I was in the neighbour- bood of the Bull-ring, when a cry was made that the people assembled by Nelson's Monument were attacked by the police. The scene at that time was past descrip- tion. Sixty of the A division of the London police,' under the superintendauce of Inspectors Martin and Partridge, arrived by ...

... 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 ...

... HOW TO RESTORE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY. There can be no public safety till the legislature is fairly and honestly embarked in a series of reforms, both 5 political and social. We include under the term social both economical and educational measures. The ob- vious cheapness and facility of justice-the obvious I freedom of food from artificial enhancement of price by w the corn monopoly-the obvious ...

... . Amongst the memorable acts of the House .of Commons during the past week, has been the augmentation of the salaries of the Commissioners of the* Metropolitan Police, from 8001. to 12001. per annum. Mr.-tAKLEY, Mr. FimT)EN, and Mr. WlV-IuAriS were the only members who ex- pressed themselves in opposition to the ministerial proposition, which wvas carried by a majority of 87 to 7. Mr. ...