... i I I: ' _ FRANCE. Thie latest Paris papers received contain but little of ft importauce ' The investigation of the returns (la verifi- cafien des pouevoirs) of ministers at the late election was still. proceeding before the Chamber of Deputies, and s acer ed likely to furnish materials for more than one l parliamentary inquiry. A meeting of the members of the a I gazche (Liberal) party took ...

... FACTS AND SC ApS. 4-A . I Louis XV.-The hedchtamber of Louis the Fifteenth 1 (atVersailles) was otiginallyabilliard-rro'M. It was here fi that Chamillart made his fortune, by. beating all the courtiers at tile game, and ahlp wing the Kittgto beat him. After Louis the Fifteenth had put his bed in this room, he d was seized wilh .the smgll-ox: all his courtiers. ran away through dread of the ...

... During the week several railway accidents have oc- curred, which are entirely attributable to ?? carele, sness of the sufferers. On Monday, about 20 minutes before one o'clock at noon, a man named Joseph Atkinson was walking along the Manchester and Bolton Railway, at Clifton, when an engine, to which was attached two coke- waggons, came up behind him. He was not walking on the same line of ...

... THE OPERATIVE. LONDON, DEC. 9, 1838. TIlE CANADIAN STRUGGLE. Thc absorbing theme of the week is Canada. By the arrival at Liverpool of the packet ship, Orpheus, in sixteen days from New York, we are put in possession of Canadian intelligence up -to the 15th, and of American news up to the 19th ult. From the journals of those-dates we learn that the insurrectionary movement commencdd by the ...

... THE OPERATIVE. LONDON, MAY 26, 1839. THE,, BLESSINGS OFITE EXCLUSIVE SYSTEM. I. : The enemies of popular freedom. are constantly blaming the friends of the people for their endea- vours to awaken the labouring classes to a sense of their wrongs, and the evils of their social condi- tion. Mr. Fielden and Mr. Oastler, are by Lord John Russell described :as promising to lead the people to a ...

... From the Wandsworth and Claphanm Working Men's Association, to the Working Men of Surrey. Fellow-Countrymen-We have viewed with regret the seeming apathy of the Working Men of Surrey. Behold I men of Surrey, the glorious straggle which is now agitat- ing almost every part of the United Kingdom in favour of the People's Cbrter, which will e ventually, in our opinion, become a mighty engine of ...

... TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, 4c. of National Rent. We received, paid into the trea- surer's hands, and took receipts on Monday for the follow- ing sums: 51. from the Totnes and Bridgetown Working Men's Association; and 11., being the subscription of a Radical Reformer in Delph. We hope our Totnes friends will take advantage of the postponement of the time ap- pointed for presenting the ...

... PUBLIC 7UEETINGSQDURING THE WEEK. 'A m . - A meeting was held at ?? sinxglon, on Wednesa qruis of Camden,Ke singonon ednsday evenin~g last. ,Ar. Emn Sal a; 1in thle char.Te meeting ;vaj addressed ;by Messrs. J . Richardson, of Manchester, andim rf, James Tay- lo, ofRoclidale. Sveral resolutions i ieepassed, ex- pressive of confidence in the Convention, the propriety of signing the National ...

... . i, tENCOUNTEAI WITH A WILD BUFFALO. I ?? ' It hailnf been reptesented to Mr. Campbell, indigo ri p.lxenm atfallnasore, by the Ryotts living near one of his ifactories; tliatg wild Ibull-buhlo had for solne days in- d fested'1sle neig-hboutrliood, and bad destroyed three of the y vilagers';a party, consisting of Mr. Campbell, Major C., b1 of ?? nrigineers, anid a Lieutenant G., of tthc same i ...

... On Wednesday mTrurit lsts, intelligence was brought into Whitehaven that a tremendous explosion of carburetted hydrogen gas had taken place in one of the coal-pits be- longing to H. Curwen. Esq., of Workiligton Hall. situate at Lowca, between three and four miles from this town. 1The pit at which this awful catastrophe occurred is called f John Pitt. Around tthe mouth of this pit on ...

... |ltbRD liRO2iJHA31'S SKETCHES OF Pt811t I I . CHARACfttaS. I I WIT OF LORD NORTH. But if it would be endless to recount the tri- umphs of his tempe c, it would be equally so, and far more difficult to record those of his wit. It appears to have been of a kind peculiarly charac- terestic and eminantly natural; playing easily, and without the least effort; perfectly suited to his placid nature, ...

... I We do not, in the columns of THE OPERATIVE, pay much attention to the tales of scandal and the idle rumours constantly in circulation respecting the Court of the Queen. Bat the case to which we now call the at- tention of our readers is of no ordinary description. It appears that Lady Flora Hastings, a lady of spotless re- riesation, of the strictest morals, in attendance upon the Duchess ...