MY DEAR SlR.—Paris, the city of luxury, of riches, and of prodigality, is also the city of misery and indigence. Yet, but for the luxury and profusion which prevails, there would be more misery and want than now exist. Therefore, the money expended upon the caprices of fashion c

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 29th ult. The papers announce the arrival of Don Francisco de Paulo on the morning of that day, attended by a numerous escort. The Madrid Gazette contains an official notice of the taking of the quicksilver mines. The Corresponsal mentions

Lord ASHLEY, having presented petitions from the Wesleyan, Baptist, and London Missionary Societies, praying for the abolition of the opium trade, rose to submit to the adoption of the House the following resolution :—" That the continuance of the trade in opium, and the monopol

The causes assigned last week for a probable rise in the funds have operated for a further improvement, and an additional one is to be found in the intelligence by the Indian mail. But little speculative business has been done, owing to the near approach of the account day; but

- The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that it was now his duty tq make the motion of which notice had been given, and he could assure their lordships that he felt he had undertaken a most painful task; but he felt it was his duty to set aside all personal feelings • and he was well

On Wednesday a special general court of the Proprietors of Stock in this corporation was held at the India house, " for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors documents relative to the successful military operations in Affghanistan, and resolution of thanks, adopted in con

ROCHESTER CASTLE. Rochester, from its having been a station situated at so important a passage over the Medway, m ight well be supp ose d t o have been fortified by the Romans. The probability of this is strengthened by the Roman bricks still visible in several parts of the wall

saddened by illness, and he felt with all the acuteness of a sensitive mind the civil rudeness of many who ought to have understood what they owed themselves and others. The damps of our English November Clung too closely around him; his manhood was in its strength, for he had J