The fiat has gone forth for the close of the Industrial Exhibition on the 11th of October. Thus die away, like smoke in the trans- parent air, any hopes that may have been...

TitOSE who from their social position are naturally expected to as- sume the place of leaders in any general movement of the Roman Catholic body, appear to have looked coldly on...

North American Provinces and the Mother-country by means of the establishment of a packet station at Galway, unable to persuade Government to adopt their views, have resolved to...

all parties in France, and give form and colon; to all their move- ments. • The latest rumours attribute to Ministers a project for averting disturbances apprehended from the...

It was intended that the Queen's route from Buckingham Palace to the station of the Great Northern Railway, on the 27th, should be through Baker Street and along the New Road;...

Even the supposed unchangeable China is visited by the spirit of mu- tability. Acoordiug to the latest intelligence from the " Central Flowery Land," it is highly probable that...

Tax Royal Family remain at Osborne, in good rustic health. On Satur- day, the thirty-second birthday of the Prince Consort was celebrated by a gtot, and a great entertainment to...

The British Arehmological Association has been celebrating its eighth anniversary this week, at Derby. Sir Oswald Mosley delivered an hie augural address on Monday. On Tuesday,...

The great aggregate meeting in Dublin, of Roman Catholics from all parts of the United Kingdom, for the inauguration of the Catholic De- fence Association, was held on Tuesday ;...

FRANCE.—The Parisian journals have been hardly tasked this week to supply news of interest. The trial of the Lyons conspirators has extended through the week, but has not...

The progress of the Queen through Edinburgh will not be made so ex- citing an event to the citizens as it was last year, when there was the masenio ceremony of founding a public...

It is announced that the Queen will, as she returns Southwards from , Balmoral, on the 9th of October, visit Liverpool, Manchester, and Sal- ford ; making herself the guest of...

The accounts of the harvest and crops from the various districts of the kingdom continue favourable : a good average crop may be expected, but hardly a superabundant one. We...

the Evan- gelical Alliance, was held in Exeter Hall yesterday evening ; the Hon- ourable Arthur Kinnaird in the _chair, The Reverend Ba,ptist Noel, the Reverend Mr. Kuntzey from...

SATURDAY. We are happy to learn, from unquestionable authority, that Sir George- Grey has derived considerable benefit from the sea air, and is now very much better.—Morning...

Broca EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market gave way in the commencement of the week, and prices declined from to 1 per cent; to rally again, however, until the...

of " The Orelunaal Society." Its object, in the words of the public announce- ment just put forth., is the performance of works in the highest class of orchestral music, with a...

the blank weeks has been the one just past. M. Bouffe, after playing his two or three Old characters, has taken leave ; and the St. James's Theatre is engaged by the famous...

instant, an- nouncing the appearance of the British fleet under Admiral Parker off Tunis—on the errand of backing the policy of the "Turkish Sultan in call- ing to account his...

The disappearance of Madame Sontag's name, for two or three weeks,. from the bills of Her Majesty's Theatre, gave rise, of course, to many - on nits and rumours of disputes...

TTIF, CHURCH AND HER RIVA LS. Nor to move, seems to be the resolve of the Church of England collectively, according to the judgment of her authorized mana- gers ; not to move,...

" So long as railways are conducted by human agents," says Mr. John Ellis, M.P., Chairman of the Midland Railway Company, " they must be liable to accidents, however stringent...

THE announcement that some of the Nizam's territory is to be seized for arrears of subsidy is coldly received, not because the English public is adverse to territorial...

A REPORT from the Minister of Justice to the President of the French Republic has some points of interest, mainly of the statistical kind. It relates to the administration of...

IT is a great mistake to attack the Caffre war, or any other war- fare of the kind. The war is immensely useful : it is a school of arms, without which our military men would be...

THE EASTERN COIINTIES A.N.D BOUTH-WESTEILN ILAILVATS., , Butway, - WI August 1851. Sin—Tour last week's article -on the Railway Contusion suggests a re-, mark which I should...

Tan act which first imposed a tax with reference to income was the 38th of George III. chapter 16, passed in 1798. By that act, Mr. Pitt, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, fixed...

of a luggage-train which arrived last week at the terminus of the Orleans Rail,- way, are destined 'to mark an epoch in the history of the _French navy, and to afford the...

LETTER M.—INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT AND COOPERATIVE COLONIZATION. Tall Mall, 18th August 18.51. SIR—I proceed now, in conclusion, to exhibit the organization by means of which the...

IIIGNET'S HISTORY OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. * THE sex, the fascinations, and the misfortunes of Mary Stuart, as well as the probable influence of her deposition, imprisonments,...

middle island of the New Zealand group, from Banks's Peninsula to Foveaux's Straits, and a return journey by land, form the subject of this volume. The subordi- nate topics are...

drift of Mr. A. O. Saxon's "Own Story," beyond that he is endeavouring to impress some philosophy in the form of a fiction. The " word to the reader," dated from the "New...

earnestness which arises from a strong conviction, expressed in a close and powerful style, are the literary characteristics that separate this volume from the mass of sermons....

COMMISSIONER TREMENHEERHS REPORT ON THE MINING DISTRICTS. Mr. Tremenheere was appointed under the act 5 and 6 Viet c. 99, to inquire into the operation of that act, and into...

WAR-OFFICE, Aug. 19.—lst Beet. of Life Guards—A. W. Peyton, Gent. to be Cor- net and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Lygon, promoted. 2d Life Gu ards—H. C. Lane, Gent. to be Cornet...

the Official _Return.] of Ten Weeks 1841-50. Week of 1851. Zymotic Diseases 3,907 .... 342 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 476 .......

On the 26th May, at Hongkong, the Wife of the Lord Bishop of Victoria, of a son. On the 15th August, in Curzon Street, Mayfair, the Lady Catherine Wheble, of Hulmershe Court,...

BRITISH FUNDS. Saturd. Monday- (Cloning Prices.) Tuesday. Wanes. Ihers. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Aceouut 961 961 961 96 961 113 96i 961 964 3 per Cents Reduced...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED.-Abernethie and Hollingtons, Hackney Downs, market-gardeners ; as far as regards J. Abernethie-Abernethic and Hollington, Bromley, Middlesex,...

ADMIRALTY, Aug. 15.-With reference to the plan of naval retirement which ap- peared in the London Gazette of the 27th June 1851, and to the promotion of officers which appeared...