... TliE WEATRERCOCK OF PUBtLI -OPIION.: 0;. : What are theprincipls. Ties ewspper What does it believeand teach? We caninot~tell;. and what is more, we do, not suppose that iR this re- spect any one else is wiser.than ourselves. Thisais, of allthe questions that canl be put; the -most difficult to answer..- The problems with which3the Roman tyrant. puzzled his -philosophers, -are not smore Uhard ...

... NlATIONAL SUFRINGS -AND GO- VERNxUtAL EXTRAVAGANOE. TO THE ?? OP FfXnqOLeS !eEWSPAPEB SIR;-We have two expensive wars on hand, one an actuality,' the other in perspective. I allude to the Indian revolt and the Chinese difficulty. Supposing I that we do suppress the former, then we must instantly turn our attention to the latter. Mr. Commissioner. Yeh laughs in our face; and when Lord Elgin ...

... GATHERINGS FROX TEE PRESS. 10 S TO 3 W .Te East India, Coin- pany have recently taken into their. service some 40,000 of the ueen'strseea for whichthey have to provide not only the pay and oothing, but tne 'cot 'of transport, to India, and the heavy expense of moving them great distances in India. They are moreover called on'to make extyacr- :dinalyorntlays of meniyfor mu itions ef all kinds. ...

... TERRMG5 STORM. AND Dr.ASTES ON, THE' COAST. During the whole of Wednesday the wind blew fear- faly off the Brighton coast at S.S. ., and the sea, which' had been raging with great violence the wh'dlea of itlie morning, made the -King's-road impassable (at thre o'clock in the afternoon), opposite the baths, where it tore away -the stone copings of' the sea wall. A brig was descried in the ...

... ' HANGINGS .AND FLOGGINGS IN INDIA. The following letter is from i soldier of the 78th High- larnders, to a relative in Perth:- We arrived ?? on the 25th of June,,a distance of 421 miles, in eight daysand nine nights. On 'the even- ing of the 27th of June, there were 240 of the 78th-I was ote of them-and 100 of the Sikhs, and thirty of the Sowars, that is, native 'cavalry, west out of ...

... ?, MEW M. . 1. 1--, Metr t. r3hjF.~ Mr-. O'Brien has addressed a leter W~r1 Jhn r Mnia ?? Scriptjowtowards' the, fund-worthila e' n;fo o h erection of a- meitionent ?? ;0f 'hst 4'1ta Fathei Mathe. .'lcon~sp~e~witestat itlpeini'alad humj liae U O Pee'h ?? readinessvrith'whicb my onry men award borsiary. distinction too therpahtiesf English drialn'uti in'this ?? ihu osdrn whetherb thelir p e ...

... GARDEBbrG. The following is a'seasonable calendar dl gardening' operations:'- - FLOWER-6ARDEN: anSX anD ?? tiuB ?? 'some loca- lities the oeld' nights we have lately experienced must have greatly damaged the appearance 'of the more tinder kinds of plants; and such:et are t6 be 'aied should be re moved at once: Proceed, -therilere, 'with Po0iottg such plants with as mruch despatch as possible, ...

... Gos - or: TEx V . , Ta'tsysttryof te Waterloo bridge atrocityier, seem- ingly, as far removed from explanvatic a3 ever. As i5 invaiiably. the'case, whef -the understanding has no facts- to go upon, the imagination is most atee. - ce the. immense number of theories, surmises, and suggestions 'with which tbeauthorities ire inundated. Most, if tot all, of'these, we believe tee be wrong; Afltnogh ...

... Wednesday was set apart in the metropolis and through- out tba country, by royal eeommand,I 'le a sday' of fast' and humiliation on account of -the events in India. sermons were preached, as is usual on such occasions, in the various places of worship belonging to the Established Church and to those Dissenters who do not object to such national ex- prossions of opinion. The Roman Catholic body ...

... THE SERGEANT KITES NONPLUsED. -FAILURE OF THE RECRUITING SERGEANTS. TO TE1E -rrroR o53 RBntor;s's NRW5?APxit SIR,-We want soldiers, an~t cannot obtain them. The recruiting-sergeants only pick up half-starved, pigeon-breasted, knock-kneed urchins, most of whom are more fit for the sick ward of the hospital than the guard-room or .the sentry-box of: the barracks. It is %ut just-ce to the ...

... COI'~D1TION': OF TUE PEOPLE. (Fom Cos4&'ioaer.)s ' A. LUCIZFR1-N&TC, RAIUFACTORY. TO TE ED~OE T Rnrxo~ss HWSPAPIS TWt 'EE EDIoTOFiO -RONSmS' N P SIN,-The bbrough of :aclidafe contains, a pgpula tion of 80,000 soulso,'o upway di.' he town has.some celebrity, in connexion 'with thei name ?? B.obbin, whose proper. name was John .Colier.. Tim -was, in his way, a man of genius, and. has,, in ...

... LATEST FR0 M - IND FA. The Calcutta and China mails have arrived; butthe intelligence supplied fronm the seat of insurrection adds but, little to that printed elsewhere. It is said that the rebels in Delhi are quarrelling among themselves, and that they are in want of provisions and ammunition. It was also reported that the mutineers had offered to surrender, on terms, asking only that a ...