... TO ?ATRICK OHIGGClfi, rsq. North Road, Drogheda, Aug. 26, 1846. Sir,-I write to express my admiration of your mas. terly exposere of the knave in politics and hypocrite in religluo, which you are now making in the Northlern Soar. If what Cobbett says be true, that whenever a hypocrite is exposed, there is a service rendered to the public; if this be true, you are rendering a most Inva- ...

... rATAL ACCIDENT ON TIlM GRAVESENI) ANDI RUCI1E5TER RAILWAY. (n tiday ifternoot, heti'eenl four and five o'cloiik, an =ec~idsnt, ?? aitlI losS (if life. occurre1 on the Gravesend aml Roe'tester flsilssay, Thl t;acts of the case will appear frtla the foilovving evidence given at the in- quest onl the body, ?? wsal be'd on aturday after. moon, at tao oe'locd . before Mr. Len is, coroner for the it ...

... PROGRESS OF TTIE AGITATION FOP. THE CHARTER. Already the reneweneii agitation for the Charter, is forcing itself on the attention of the press of the cmltty. Our readers will peruse with pleasure the following article from the Norfolk News and Norwic | Guzeue, on the great meetings recently held in the City ol Norwich, for the adoption of the NATIONAL THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Although we do not ...

... D ThE state of affairs in Ireland becomes daily more ominous and alarming. All classes of its population H are awakened to the necessity for instant action in G, order to avert in some degree the consequences of a N calamity so severe and so extensive as to be wholly Bi without a parallel even in the annals of that ill-fated N( country. As It does not always happen, however, that there Ki is ...

... PROSPECT OF AN EUROPEAN FAMINE- C RITICAL STATE OF FRANCE-SCAK- ~.CITY AND IN'CEN~DIARI1SM. The Presse states, on the authority of a private correspondent, that- We are about to enter on one of those calamitous yeats in which the ordinary resourres ire not suffivient fur the food of the people. The crop of 184i1 (adds the Presse) is entirely exhausted, and that of 184t has pro- duced less than ...

... THF FRENC1I IN ALGERIA. lr Amongt the most determined enemies of the D. Fiench in Africa, are to be enumerated the .Kbyles,,. ,, tribem dwelling in the ranges of the Lesser Atlas, le from Tunis to Morocco Of different race from the Le Arabs, they are believed to be the aboriginal inhabi. tants or Northers Africa. Secure in their wild ie valleys, they have ever preserved their independence i- ...

... WRECK OF HER MAJESTY'S SLOOP I ' ' OSPREY. I The following account of the loss of this beautiful a vessel is taken from the New Zealander of March 28:- c t It is with the deepest regret we have to announce v the loss of this beautiful brig of war, mounting twelve c guns, on the western coast, about 18 miles to the north- ward of Holianga. on Wcdnesday, the 11th inst., about. 3 o'clock in the ...

... I PROCESS OF UNDERWRITING. I To render the process of underwriting as intelligible as possi- ble, we may suppose a case, for the purpose of illustration - Suppose a vessel of the class A 1, registered for seven or ten years, be valued at £20,000 or £30,000, a policy Is effected upon her, and the owners or their brokers go among their friends at Lloyd's, and see at what rate she can be Insured. ...

... ' - A meeting conveaed by the Council of the Anti.SlaverY r, League for the purpose of reviewing the proceedings of e. the Evangelical Alliasce with regard to slavery in the e, United States, was held on Monday.evening at Ereter- h. ball, every part of which wis'densely crowded, several Indies occupying seats upon the platfornm. In the ijmme- l diale vicinity of the chair we observed William ...

... EITENSIVE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. Shortly before 7 o'clock p mmon Thursday an alarming fire broke out In the top story of Messrs. Maefie and Son's extensive sugar refinery, situated between the very nar- row thoroughfare of Bachelor-street and Orange-street, and separated from other buildings at the south end by Hale-street. The upper portions of the building, seven stories in height, was well ...

... TO THE INDUSTRIOUS OF ALL CLASSES. MY FRIENDs,-I do not now address you sec- tionally-making a distinction between that class of labour the most oppressed and that class least op- pressed: I embody all who work for a living, whether with head or hand, in one general list; and my object is, to convince all of that order of the indispensable necessity of forming a NATIONAL UNION for the ...

... FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT PRESTON, About balf-pest eight o'cloeck on Friday night an dcc alarm was given by various fire balls thet the size house n of Mr. Hibbert, in Stanley-street, was in flames. Imme.n diately on the fact being announced, tlts fire brigade, of with the hose reel, was on the spot. Ow'ing to the corn. hIR bustable nature of the materials used in the works, theth flames soon ...