16 DECEMBER 1843, page 1

News Of The Week.

ONE common characteristic of political rumours is peculiarly ob- servable in rumours before the session—that their truth or falsehood makes scarcely any difference to the......

France Has Its Ante-sessioaal Heavings Just Now. Tames...

indeed, are studiously quiet, and the usual party-feuds are lulled. But the Parisians grow more and more uneasy, as they feel the galling chain of forts closing around them ;......

• "incendiarism" In The Agricultural Districts Begins To...

a standing head in the papers : and although in particular instances there may be too ready an assumption of the fact, and much ex- aggeration, there appears to be no doubt that......