CITY, FRIDAY EVErNIG. Before we proceed to the business of the week, we must apologise to our readers for again alludingto that most absurd scheme, which, when hatched, was intended to be called the COUNTRY BANRrUS' AGErCy COMPANY, which, however, ire feel convinced will share t

THE MAGAZINES-(continued). BLACWcnooD.-The number for this month commences with one of the many affecting tales in which a hero, gifted with genies and acquirement, is doomed to realize the sentiment of Sir Walter Scott, that " Literature is a good staff, but a sorry crutch." Bo

THE TURF SUMMARY FOR 1810, WITH CLIMPSES OF 184l-(coitinued). Scott's teetm came through the town, as Custonisry, on the Sunday afternoon," en route" from Pighurn to The Salutation, and, as usualthe wh1olesportingfraternity were strewed about to salute them, with greetings or ma

The Duke of Wellington will return to Apsley House about the middle of next month, and in the interim his Grace wvill entertain a succession of parnies at Strathfieldsaye. The Marchioness of Lansdowne has, within the last few days, presented to the church at Cabne a very elegant

|I DTHE IRA- | SUNDAY,`LCOUNTRY D DEICRON. , 'SUNDAY, D BEMBER 27;, 1840.. The militar 'ditator' f S i ha; in extreniely bad. taste, ifwnot Imnthe sprit of-gros's.:ngratitude to our Whigs,'who, wit..their:. ass'umedprinciples 'f "non. intervention,'!?,place~dhim.i hislpresent pos

ARRIrVAL 'OF ,ET-E-" N I - BRISTOL, THURtuBiY, Iac. --24o 'CbbtX, 4.i -me ?? Western, Captain"xesken, srrivedti1 Kis'gvoad this morning at.-4 o'clock,; after a passage of 14 days 10 hours from .Ne*York, having sailed thenceit 1 o'clock,'P.54 Lof Ibe 9th. -This voyage is -the more

TINDEPENDENT WEST MIDVESEEX ,ASSU': J RANCE COMPANY, oppo'sitei tho Bizaiar kBAkiERSTREiET, POxTnh2t.SQuARX , LONDON; South St. David'swtreet-,.Edmnburgb Ingram-street, Glasgow; and Sackv4le-street, _ublina Eipovered lunder-tho ?? 'oS .fitsment of 14th George3rl- 22nd Geo. 3rd; 5

-I 0* -T**H _- ;Of whhihedsmuh Aor BuAmiOH` AHall oni,-ondayinight; tpiac htws ?? demonstration, and togive a4w6oe oM S uk am, on his returts Y it'm the Uhl ?? '~buhngahea, tverrn phc gr~eipsaV, littlunide itand ~twithatan'ding th6 stoppage .of the, Cbhhka trade, had nQ exo l e"p

LONDON OAZIET TES7;7 `iFol Tesday aVsvm~OII, Diecember 2,10 1840) G.luilAnd F. Low jun. Stanaled loisfe Esex,.grocers1 --T.-Fried~d'ahd T Maatn q Lvrpool sn'reaoedsesW 3,.RIoome anfd I Whitton,-r BrgtieSle jiron-,andsteel-rollers -B. ~eare~nd 3 ?? ?? .gseju-auadTurers yemr. .brew

- MR. APPLEWHAITE'S HOUNDS.. Age Name. Sire Dam. 7. Draper Dele"ate ?? Miracle Jubilee ?? ksiclcted's Joker ?? Dainty :Nyrmidon ..Mornior ?? Roluish - ?? ?? Ditto Violor v;.MrWicksted's Vulpecide Heroine 6.. Cardinal ?? Cardinal .Mr Choadick's Rosebud Columbine . . Ditto ?? Ditt