... in the United Kingdom, it will be well to see that our home resources are fairly developed. Famine and dearth may be alleviated by importations of grain, and when the corn-trade shall have become permanently free, it cannot but preclude excessively high prices. But plenty, the abundance that produces cheapness, must ever depend mainly upon our own produce. Our growing population must look to ...

... Caliph Omar to burn the sessional papers of the Lords and Commons. The load of voluminous nothings which the press, at the bidding of our two legislative houses, annually sends forth, sits like an incubus on the nightmare-ridden imagination. The endless details, diffuseness, and repetitions contained in these documents can only be paralleled by the frequent unimportance of their contents. Our ...

... \nri which »m pied, Into ut eteninc'p ' Ut.k». aekno'wledimen'. Jot .irgii-kdoes not aeem vase..'ha* ti . reputable mode till .uk its. column* -..daily prat'.ica.ol Glob«, alway;.»tt.e sl'a.an extent p >in.i o>iU tie Times i» more scrupulous in the inkier acknowledgment, t - .. all the '* llai'-|T ws-mxtcraphs whLh it re-transfers li.i** c oluma* *•* >••••' Bane*.'-- -i»a 1 „ e ...

... Windsor, Tuesday.—The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Allied, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, left the Castle a quarter-past nine o'clock this morning for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. The royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Douro, lady waiting ; a maid of honour in waiting; Col. the Hon. C. ...

... some irritation against the commissioners, who are rather unfairly made responsible for our hasty summary portion of their opinions. A correspondent of a provincial paper most gratuitously declares that the report is part of conspiracy against the Welsh dissenters. As far as we have seen, the commissioners are, on the whole, more friendly to the dissenters than to the church—at least they have ...

... congress had not yet been constituted; the question of the presidency of the representative chamber was still unsettled. The meeting of moderado deputies which, had been convoked for the evening of the 11th, had been adjourned. The ministry was desirous of suspending the definitive constitution of congress, and all other active measures, until the arrival of M. Martinez de la Rosa, whom they ...

... impatience, sorrow, and dismay. When the wolf so ea-ily devours the shepherds, is the reflection, surely he will make but light work of the sheep. The sheep, however, seem in no danger; the she-wolf of Home, very dexterous for the moment at running away with shepherds, is without power or taste for preying on the flock. Your great founders of religion and of sects were wont to come forth ...

... The Hibernia, Capt. Ryrie, arrived at Liverpool! little after midnight on the morning of Saturday las Her dates are : New York, 14th Aug.; Boston, 16t Aug.; Halifax, 18th Aug.; Philadelphia, 14thAug.: Washington, Aug.; New Orleans, BthAug; VeraCruz, 2nd Aug. ; Puebla, 30th July; Mem 29th July; Brazos Santiago, and Tampico, 31st July. The Cambria reached Halifax on the 17th ins. the Hibernia, ...

... A motion was made that committee be appointed to revise the laws, followed by an amendment, that the society be dissolved. There was much discord among the members, arising principally from the late election, and the conduct of Mr. D. W. Harvey, who came in for a pretty considerable share of odium. After a somewhat angry debate the amendment was carried by two to one; subject, however, to ...

... What do the Irish representatives intend doing in the next session of parliament ? Do they mean to act as they did this year, when some of them were altogether absent, others agitating on impractica- ble subjects—some were abusing the existing government, and few or none of them giving any useful suggestions to the legislature ? Or will they turn over a new leaf, and give evidence of the ...

... smiles which welcomed its opening are fading fast into the winter of the royal discontent that is likely to gloom around its close. One cannot refuse praise to the conduct of the members, who have throughout displayed manliness combined with moderation, and considerable parliamentary tact There was no want of voices who pretended that the estates, on their meeting, ought to begin at the ...

... entitled Road Reform; a plan for abolishing turnpike tolls and statute labour assessments; published by Mr. William Pagan, Writer, in the year 1645. Mr. Pagan's arguments pe particularly addressed to the trustees and others in the counties of Fife and Kinross, and he has collected a vast mass of statistics and documents relating to the road management and legislation of thoga tricts, with ...