... LATEST INTELLICENCE. CIrY, SATURDAY. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The attention of our city friends has been engaged this week hy a balance sheet of the affairs of the United States Bank, put forth by Mr. Jaudon. We give the document entire.- TO THE SHAREHOLDERS IN THE BASE OF THE UNITED STATES. London, December 4, 1839. Gentlemen,-Herewitli I hand you a copy of a condensed statement, which I have ...

... 0 The Houses of Lords and Comrntnn mnet cn Thursdaypro forma for the ?? ?? by Royal Comr mission. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Normanby, and Viscount Duncanon; and Parlia- ment was prorogued accordingly to Thursday, January 16tb, then and there to meet for the dispatch of divers and import- ant business. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Wed- ...

... I I OXFORD, Dec. 5--This day the following degrees were con- ferred:- BACHELOR IN DIvINITY.-Rey. Isaac Williams, Fellow of Trinity. MASTERS or AaTs.-Rev. Charles Thorp, Magdalen Hall; Rev. Henry Teush-Heck-er, Trinity; Rev. Francis George Jackson, Trinity; John Nash Tvndale, Wadbam. BACHELOR Or ARTs.-John Mitchell, Edmund Hall; Wm. Andrew Faulkner, Magdalen Hall; Thomas Grey Clarke and Edward ...

... RUSSIA AND THE CHARTISTS. Not in vain have we for several months pourtrayed the infamnols career of the Foreign Minister; since all parts of the British empire now ring with denunciations ominous of his future impeachment; and the public press, not of England alone, but also of her colo- nial dependencies, has learnt to re-echo the grave charge brought against Lord Palmerston,-tthat of ...

... I A COLUMN OF CLMPPINGS. I LORDs BROUGUIAM AND ?? quote the fol- lowing anecdote from the Metropolitan :- Zleeting With a Scottish Baronet at Tours, last summer, wve learned the folloV- ing circumstance illustrative of the ' ancient intimacy ' oxwhich 'xisted between Lords Bmougham and Melbourne. 'Upwards of thirty years ago Sir G. S. Mackienziv, of Coul, ill Ross-shire, was wraited upon at ...

... CITm, SATURDAY. FOREICN AND COLONIAL. Since our last, despatches from India have been received, but do not bring very agreeable intelligence respecting commercial affairs. The stoppage of the China trade had begun to produce it; effect; British manufactured goods of all kinds continued much depressed. Some unpleasant feeling was general respect- ing the money market, but rather in anticipation ...

... [LATEST EDITION.] SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1839. The restless population in the manufacturing dis- tricts are again being stirred up to rebellion by the Chartist leaders. Meetings are again taking place in all the towns and villages; and an attempt is being made to get up another edition of that monstrous hum- bug the National Convention. The new delegates, it is said, are to sit at Newcastle. ...

... HORTICULTURE' As the season is now rapidly advancing, we must anticipate the approach of severe weather, and take all the precautionary measures which. our respective circumstances may require. Hitherto, in the vicinity of London, the weather has been com- paratively mild and open, with only an occasional warning of the approach of danger in the shape of a frosty morning. And it may happen ...

... FOREICN POLICy.1 TO TEE EDITOR Or THE ERA. SIR,-The perusal of your articles on Our Foreign Policy ads afforded me an infinite deal of gratification and instruction. I perceive, however, that you are falling off, inasmuch as that (1lev do not regularly appear; this is much to be regretted at tih particular time, because thle people are awakening from abeir apathy, and inquiring into the ...

... ABD-EL-KADER OF ALGIERSe The Hadji Abd-el-Kadur Oulid lMabiddin, who baa jais re- mewed hostilities with France, (Vide Era, numbers 63 and 64), belongs to a most ancient family of Marabouts, and descends, likehis kinsman, the Emperor of Morocco, from the Fatilmite Caliphs. He was born at Guetna,a sort of seminary near Mas- cara, on the -lachem territory, where the iXIarabouts, his an cOstors, ...

... I I THE TORY PREPARATIONS FOR POWER. (From dthe Examiner.) It is most certain that the Tories reckon upon the revival of the bray of No-Popery as the means of their restoration to power. It is equally certain that should they succeed in gaiL- ing their end by such vile means, their tenure of place vould be unstable as water, their official life as brief as the glory of their own orange lilies ...

... CX I- THE METROPOLIS. LEG ACY DUTy OrrCE.-The office of Comptroller of the Legacy Duty Department at the Stamp-office, Somerset I-louse, having become vacant by the retirement of the gentleman holding that situation, the Lords of the Treasury have taken advantage of the opportunity to make an arrangement, by which a considerable annual saving is effected, and the legal depart. ments of the ...