... P UN C H IA N A. We select a few of the good things in the PUNCH bowl for the present week. The wit and humour ot our little friend are perfectly exhaustless. CORRECTION TO BE MADE IN ALL GEOGRAPHIEs._ Pyreneea.-A chain of mountains which was formerly the boundary between France and Spain. They were cleared away by Louis Philippe, in the year 1846, on the occasion of his son's marriage with ...

... they do, and to give the utmost amount of belief to all they say. But when case presents two bodies of evidence in diametrical contradiction, —one furnished by an inspector, three seijeants, and four private constables of the police force; the other by number of witnesses, respectable in station, strangers to cach other, and not labouring under any suspicion of collusion with the accused or ...

... DORSETSHIRiE FARMERS. We last week gave a very full report of au examina- tion that had been held at Rynwe, on the conduct of the farmers of th at neighbourhood, to wards their labourers, arising out of some letters written to the Times paper by the Rev. Sydaey GodolphinOsborne who has appro- ved'hiniself, in tile cause of the agricultural labourer, a Christian aid apostolic man. He cannot say ...

... liailw4j) Entelityclice. The railway from Hague to Delf was opened on the Oth inst. Tho first stone of the Templemore section of the Great Southern anld Western ?? was laid at Greenwood, near that town; on Tuesday, the ath instant. DUBIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILLVAY.-This half yearly meeting ofthe Dublin ail Kin-gstown Railway Company was hold on Friday at the companly's concerns in Wfest. laid.row, ...

... TA -1 IT 1. I rx s; .nL it. Thc folllving ?? of the itef events at Tahiti have been ; reiived byihe I'rench GecsrmcTieAt from C0eptain IBruat, dated Papctti, Juje 3, 184_ IijTiTiet; le A nistrc ...

... 'THE CLYDE NA TIGATION-THE TIDAL HARBOUR F i s IM ?? Err - ( MISKO The Tida~l Harbour Commission sat again on Frid5ay in the hail of the Clyde Trustees, Robertson Street. ialalie Anderson, at the reques~t Of Captain Washington, took thle Chair, andi, as on thle Previous day, a number of the Trustees and otherN interested in the river and. harbour affairs were present. Mr. David Bell was first ...

... jhe iJATE PLERIL of t/le GREAT WESTERN S TE A MER. lp M THE NEEw TrORE C'OURTR ANDl ENQU2IRERt olt EURiOPE EXTRA, SEPT.30,1 Thle follinwit1 is thel detailed account of the terrible s~torin neotrittred'r' fly the Great Western, of Which We have given All abtritet in our regrular edition :- ,iSotflriRts , Sept. 12, 184O.-The steama ship Grea! Wes- ttirn, B. It. Mathews, Es~q , co minlttter, ...

... FR0V TH!--LoNDO^- G.a92a'- .- Friday, Oct. 9. WAR OFFICE, OCT. ?? 18.1 5th Dragoon Guards-Assistant-Staff-Sargoesin William Ardem , to be AssistanttSurgeon, vice Attleck, promoted il thes -4,th Foot, October 9. 7th Light Dragoons.-Cornet \Villiam Babinlgtl, to be Lieutenant, by pulrchase, vice Ricardo, vho retires- Francis AtOiur Farrell, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Babingica, ...

... THlE GREAT BRITAIN. It trill be ssen by the subjnined statements that all e attempts to float the Great Britain, in Dandrua Play, have failed, and that the ship, should she lnot go to pisces, must remain there ilrtring the winter. Ol Satarddy night a second attempt was made to got her off by the two steam togs from Liverpool; but I their success was confined to heaving the steamoer's Stern ...

... Mr. Oastler lies been lately ;rublishing a series of letters in the 3forning Post, which even if they had been unobjectionable in other respects have been for W, 1t , ne w .e-Tp u h. -: - mex. MT, secltt the following extracts:- DESTITUTtIiN IN THE WIGHLANDS O SCOTLAND. The lax principles of Free Trade are now triumphant. No matter whether they be good or bad-wise or foolish -the professors of ...

... SIR,-Upon the 12th of August, 1836, now more than ten years ago, you told your slavish dupes at the Corn Exchange, that I was unworthy of the con- fidence of the Irish people, and that whenever the struggle came between the people and their enemies that I should be found in the RANiKS FIGHTING AGAINST THEM. From that hour to the present I have watebed your every move- ment, and although I was ...

... TOWN COUNCILLORS AND PUBLIC CONTR ACTORS. r r To gANtVgEL1OEJMEgRq., CandidaleforRodney-street Ward. Adav Sia,-The remark, that discretion is the better part of Mac valour, is peculiarly applicable toyoa at this time. I am read - surprised thatyou should put yourselfso prominently for- let I It ward at moment when such a course of proceeding is te N. sure to call forth animadversions on your ...