... I ETY.MOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF COUtNTRIEs.-The foliow ing countries were named by the bhoenicians, the greatest cons mercial people in the world. These slames, in the Phoenician language, signify something characteristic of the places which they designate. Europe signifies a country of white complex ion-so named because the inhabitants there were of a lighter complexion than those of either ...

... LoveIL AET COLINS. ,%e feel horror at the tretmnent these excellent m~en receive. The heartless brutality-to which they are sub- jected make us feelanmitigated disgust at the cruelties they suffer. The coarse dietary of the prison is all they, are allowed. They are refused the libeity Of spending even one sixpence daily in. the purchase bf'provisibn. Potatoes and some kind of watery' sops or ...

... The following are the opinions of the Bishop of Exeter upon the subject of Government inspection of publiC schools:- It appears to me, in the first place, that the Government has a rigit to expect that it should receive au accurate re port of the efficiency or inefficiency of every school to the erection of which it has contributed. t Secondly, I think that this report ought to be full-nO ...

... THE BEDCHAMBER MINISTERS. The whimpering complaints of Ministers and Minis- terialists about what they choose to call ' the public attacks on the Sovereign,' are very disgraceful to them. Whose fault is it but their own that they are unpopular ? -that they are hooted and hissed by the public on all occasions, and that their Mistress is no longer the pub- lic favourite that she once was ? Whose ...

... [FROMia A cOaRESPONENT.] Notwithstanding the exultation of O'Connell at what he called the downfall of the National Con- vention, under the leadership of the foolish Feargus, which catastrophe was, of course, prog- nosticated by this political oracle, with his usual sagacity, he has not much to vaunt with regard to the success of that nondescript body, called The London Precursor ...

... CITY POLICB FORCE. * The folibwing'eomaiunieatloh was sent by thc Marquess of!rraby 't h& .RO it Hono.u alp the Lord Mayor, on. thlo appointment of.Mr..Daniol Whittle Harvey as Corarniisioner'of the City Police Fgrde';- the' Wtthal'Novesnber D, J189. My Lord-i hqvl the honour to acknowledge the re- ceipt of a letter, of the 2d instant, from the' City Re. raembrancer, Intitnatthg thatthe ...

... THE LATE THOMAB THOMPSO ESQ. To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sip-Your report of the-inquest on the death of this unfortunate gentlemaon is sufficibbtly accurate with the exception of its last paragraph; which involves a point in my evidence very matberial to ?? right, viz. - On Friday a consultation on his case took place, when it was decided that he should be put under restraint ...

... REQUISITION TO CAPTAIN DUNDAS FWOM GREEN IVCH, tc, -41 Yesterday, between one and two o'clock, a most nu.. meroas and respectable deputation from Grcen,;iclb, ?? and Deptford, headed by Charles Vatiwnood, Esq.,J. P., George Barrett, Esq., and CeP),,,n Thomp. son, waited upon Captain Dundas at thQ ibiduance-oilice, and presented to him a requisition frown the three boroughs, conitaiing above ...

... TIE. aGISTRATlIONS. To TUB EDITORnP.T88 TE MORNING CHBONICLE. SmB- Seeing In Fraser's Magazie a statement that claims igainof 17' for the Torics, in the borough of Taun.' ton, and upwards of 80 l' West Somerset, wvhereupon hopes are built of returning Tories for both these places at the next electiboi, Ibeg, through the medium of your journal' to assure'thepublic that those statements are ...

... LONDON: TUAIDAY, NOVABMBERi 26, 18i9 The :simplicity, propriety, and, good taste of the terms in which her MAJESTY's declaration of her approaching marriage was conveyed, have, ?? believe, been generally ainired. -iistappolutett faction, however, sees everything through the medium of its own jaundiced condition. - Nothing can be right or good, true or beautiful, while the Tories are out. A ...

... FOUR BON VIVANT$. - Theo. Cibber, in company with three other bon vivants, A made an excursion. Tbeouiiad a false, set of toeth; aseboad,- a glass eye; a third, a cork leg; but thefourth bad nothing particular, except a remarkable way of shaking bis heud. _ They travelled in a post-coach, and while at the first stage, after each. bad made inerrywith his neighbour's infirmity, they agreed at ...

... SATURDAY, NOVLIMBER 2, 1839. THE GREAT OBLIGATIONS OF GOVERN- MENT TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL EDIJi CATION FORTHWITH. We see that there is a project now on foot in the cdabinet to establish national education; atid thld t the proposed plan, of which nothing yet is known as to particulars, is approved in high and influential quarters. When we see the plan we will speak of it. In the meantime wye ...