... [FIIOM THE PRESSe. The fog which enshrouded the metropolis ou Thursday and Friday was, as might have been expected, productive of several accidents, none of which, however, so far as we hasi been able to learn, have been attended by fatal consequences. The editor of the Economist was making his way, in the obscurity, down to his office, and, as he thought, had entered it. He sat down, and said ...

... i 1'AFP.ON OF ST. MARIY CHURCH. s Stat Lonmillis umbra. il ?? fitst part of a new serial has just been put into v - dited by the Rev. Henry Newaand, the recently D e:car of St. ?? Church. It is entitled The a tos Church-What they teacb. His aim, he p has been that these sermons should be written as a- I title (ai poupulum, (the reader may be inclined to a .he ' I'd e). His veneration for ...

... THE SCHOLAR AND THE FARMER. Sir,-It is curious how d ifferent minds regard the same subject. I give you an instance:- On the 14th of September, 1817, Mr. Custos Corfe thus wrote to a professional gentleman at Woodbury:- You speak of 'Paseyism' and unpopularity' as grounds for removing a clergyman; but may I be permitted to observe that the first (Puseyism !) can convey no charge at all; for ...

... STARCROSS. The fortnightly petty sessions were held at the Courtenay Arms, on Thursday last, before Sir J. L. Duntze (chairman), and P. Hoare, Esq. WILLIAM HAWKINTS, labourer of Kenton, was charged by Inspector Timewell with stealing a quantity of wood, tie property of the Earl of Devon. He was detected by Timewell in Wdlborough plantation on the 5th inst. early in the morning. The Bench ...

... ANOMALYOFTHE MONEY MARKET.-In consequence of the Peace rumours, money is said to have been easier of late in the City. It is strange that the more easy money becomes the greater abundance there is of hard cash. TctULY DELIGHTFUL.-(GallOpiufg down the side of a field covered with mole-hills, on a weak-necked horse, with a snaffie bridle, one foot out of your stirrup, and a bit of mud in your ...

... OUTRAGE TO MR. BILLY WILLIAMS, I OF LAMBETH. 7 (raObl THE MORNINC ADVERTISER.) We hasten to proclaim, and in the same moment to denounce, the cruel mode in which all our daily contempora. rieS have joined-let us rather write conspired-to suppress the eloquence of one of the most intellectual and fascinating i speakers in the House of Commone-we mean Mr. William (otherwise Billy) Williams, ...

... - o 111- -a i - a D. BARNSTAPLE: RATrERt SIGNstICAlcT.-Tlle Castle-hill organ is' silent upon the fact that the Hon. John Fortescue has withdrawn from the collest at Abingdon. WYe know that the clique in this lborolughl are secretly delighlted attthe circumstance. Some complaints have already been made to the effect that ' the general influence of the famlily is not now attempted to be ...

... INASIONY OF THE CRIMEA. d A telegraphic despatch in the Moniteur, dated Therapia, 7th September. states that the French and Turks had set out from Varna on the 5th, and that the a English fleet was to join them at the Isle of Serpents. v The vweather was favourable. A similar report also h comes from Vienns in a different form, and is said to be s1 authentic. Advices from Varna to the 6th ...

... A despatch of Friday's date from St. Peters- burgh says:- Tbe Granid Duke Nicholas has a son. It is stated that M. Rothsehild has entered. into a oontract with the Bank of France to ttpply it with 280 zailbons of francs, or say XISW 000 iu speeie, to be made in monthly payments in the course of the next year. FOBaEGNERS {N ENGLAND.-At the G uildhall, Londen, or, Monday, Sir Peter Laurie drew ...

... It is not calculable what may be ac comilished in | everytbiug in life by moderate beginnings and judicious perseverance. i Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There tire foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not tonch or meddle with it; there are more foolish people weho, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and inangled for their pains; and there ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. THE IlAlIAN QUEbTION. .ord ilYND IR.'a , Ptfuloit to ziotire, called tlhe attention of the Itoure t, the afrlire of Italy. Remuinding the Houee thint it wras not in Italy alone that thley ,had liud experience of thle offectt of a ol i itare occupaition by Austria, hut il the Iritcipilities uls., To- p loerded to shoir hoo, by viitue of tde Treaty of Villcon the limirs ...

... A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Society bas a sin to expiate. It is now in the act of con- Lverting well-disposed boys into profigates, vagrants, and criminals, When we say society, we do not mean only that vague indefinite thing the million; but those, who I gis. hlte'and administerfor the million; most especially. ord. Palmerston,! Sir Gkeorge .Grey, Sir John Pakingtqn,,the Archbishop of Canterbury, ...