... BRITISH AMERICAN POLITIC8. FIROM TIlE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, NO. 105, roR OCTOBER, 1839.1 (Continued from the Morning Chronicle Of Saturday.) To turn to another topic. The precedents and mod's if thinking of the old world did not stop short of their 3ffects at this attempted union of Church and State. The iame ignorance of the state and tendency of things in a tew country, which alone could ...

... CORN-LATIV'. --W The following letters, which first appeared in the Perth Advertiser, attest thc progress which ttso question for re. peal of thc corn-laws is making among the landq wners:_ To the Sceretary of the Dundee Anti-Corn-law Association Kiuilocil, Die. 0, 1839. Sir-I am glad to inform you that Lord Kinnaird has ngreed to become a mosaber of the Dundee Anti-Corn-law Association. The ...

... 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, ...

... NO TABILIA. ARAGO's ELOGE OF WATT.-And what was done to honour, during his life, this new Archimedes, this bene- factor of the whole human race, whose memory genera- tions yet unborn will for ever bless ? A peerage is, in England, the highest of dignities-the greatest of rewards. You naturally conclude that Watt was made a peer. It was never even proposed! To speak plainly, so mnuch the ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHARTER. Sir,-It will appear evident to you, as it must have appeared to every honest precursor, that the letter very properly refused* in the Penny Catholic Magazine; is, throughout, of a 'personal nature; embittered, without any just cause, against the sin- cerity, services, and patriotism, of the Rev. A. P. Magee, and the council of which he is a chairman. Mr. A. W. ...

... THE SOCIALI S. SOCIAUtST SW[NDLEst.-A journeyman tailor, well known in Oldham, who had lately become a popular lecturer amongst the Socialists, and had been entrusted with the management of a co-operative provision shop, decamsped on Thursday se'nnigbt, and carried off a suva of money to the amount of upwards of 301. ?? has not been heard of since. The people whona. he has swindled are ...

... I AGRICULTURAL AD UlURT AFFAlRR. I NEW MODE OF PROMOTING THE GROW'THI OP TREES.- The Duke of Portland has, we learn, just commenced a new system of strengthening and promoting the growth of trees in his Graco's grounds about Welbeck, by putting pigs in the plantations, and confining them in a given space for a certain length of time to root the ground at the foot of the trees, and of course to ...

... 'IHE RIOTS IN WALES. (From outr DtDi? Corresrondent.) NEWvORT, 'T'eIHURSDA.Y EVEN1NG.-Whatever doubts might have been entertained relative to a postponement of tbe trials of the prisoners, wvho have been committed on various charges arising out of the late riots, appear to be now completely set at rest. You will have seen that the proceedings be-lore the magisirates were snspended on Friday. ...

... (From the Morning Chronicle of Thursday.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR,-Some months since you were obliging, enough to insert a letter or two on the state of the rural population in the south-western counties. Sincerely do I wish that I could nosy acquaint you with their improved condition; but,-un-. happily, the state of our labourers at the present moment is most lamentable, ...

... PETITION OF THE MEDICAL STUDENTS-OFFICIAL STUDENTS. The following answer has been transmitted to the Secretaries of the late meeting of the London Medica Professors and Students-by the honourable Secretary of State for the Hum Department. Gentlexnen.-In answer to your petition of the 26th Ult. setting forth ' the inadequate and diminished sup- ply of subjects for dissection,' and praying. for ...

... ST. PAUL'S C(IJURCR-YARD NO TAWROUGH.FARU.* To THE EDITOR Or THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sla-Passing by the end of St. Paul's Church.yard this day, between three and four o'clock li the afternoon, I was surprised by seeing policemen stationed to prevent public conveyances passing into that great thoroughfare, and loaded omnibuses were driven one after the other through the narrow defiles of ...