15 OCTOBER 1842, page 7

Opinions On The " Startlitig " News From Canada Come

forth in the daily papers with more or less confidence. A writer in the Morning Chronicle, who is obviously kept well-informed on Canadian affairs, ex- presses cordial......

Postscript.

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Acadia mail-steamer, which left Halifax on the 3d instant, arrived at Liverpool last night. She brings little intelligence in addition to the Great Western,......

Miscellaneous.

The Morning Post remarks, that the prevailing unhealthiness of the season has reached the higher classes : the Dutchess of Kent, the Arch- duke Ferdinand of Austria, the French......

East India Shipping.

Arrived—Off Penzance, Oct. 12th, Prince George, Grant, from Singspore. At Liverpool, Oct. 12th, Enterprise, Robertson, from Calcutta; 13th, Argyleshire, Scott, from Bombay. At......

"a Loonna-o" Wants To Know Our Meaning In The Use

of the word" charac- teristic" applied to Lord Ponsonby's letter on the domestic slavery of Turkey. The word did not express our meaning : "curious" or" clever " would have been......