Tun country has been coming forward in its volunteer organiza- tion of public meetings, and they have been so numerous that we may adopt a hasty classification, and describe...

Tim Queen and Prince Consort left Balmoral at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, and proceeded by the North-eastern Railway, to Edinburgh. Although the Grampians were covered with...

Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission on Tuesday until the 19th of November. The event attracted no public attention, the galle- ries of the House of Lords, which had...

A largo and influential meeting 0.6semble4 in St. James's Hall on Monday last ; the meeting consisted almost exclusively of Membe rs the Metropolitan vestries, convened by Mr....

LORD HARDWICKE ON THEi§TATE OF THE NAVY. At the Cambridgeshire Agricultural meeting Lord Hardwicke's speech was principally devoted to the subject ()Petite Na ; he disclaimed...

The whole of the sections of the National Association for the p ro. motion of Social Science continued their meetings to the close of l a st week, and papers were read in each...

After the proceedings of the Social Science Congress, the great hall of St. George's, Liverpool, was crowded to witness the distribution of prizes for the successful candidates...

Mr. Vernon Smith met a number of North Northamptonshire electors at Candle, on Monday, addressing them principally on behalf of his son, whom he described as " a chip of the old...

At the North Walaham Agricultural Meeting, Lord Wodehouse touched upon the politics of the day, and some passages from his sp eOC h are equally remarkable— He believedthat, no...

The annual ceremony of conferring degrees upon the students of Queen ' s Colleges, and of awarding them honorary distinctions, took place on Friday last ill St. Patrick ' s...

In addressing his constitutents at Arbroath, on Tuesday, Mr. Baxter delivered himself with great animation on polities in general, particularly addressing himself to prove that...

raSSi fi.—The Prince Regent of Prussia opened the Chambers on Wednesday the 20th instant, with the following speech- " I present myself to the National Deputies with painful...

Mr. I. R. Hind, the well-known astronomer, who dates from Mr. Bishop's Observatory in the Regent's Park, on Saturday, supplies some of the report which has been expected at his...

SATURDAY. At Reigate, yesterday, were nominated the Honourable W. J. Mon- son and Mr. W. A. 'Wilkinson. Mr. Monson repeated the denial of the report, industriously kept up,...

Her Majesty's Theatre is to be let, surprises musical people a good deal, as the course of the last season, down to its close, did not east before it any shadow of approaching...

That King John with all its poetical beauties will ever become a per- manently popularly work with the theatrical public is scarcely to be ex- pected. The wicked monarch, who is...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arm-HEDGE. Business in the Market for English Securities continues to be of the most h a tted character and almost altogether confined to dealers in "...

THE CONFESSIONAL AGITATION. IT is becoming one of the most curious branches of the mental economy of the English people, this platform work of the Parlia- mentary recess....

ErritEn Lord Hardwicke has discovered the best known "mare's nest" in the universe, or he will force the Government, be it Lord Derby's, Lord John Russell's, or any other...

To Times has this week vindicated its position as a leading d e partment of State, by disclosing to the British public the pecu- liar character of an intrigue carried on at...

of the United States is a most unpopul ar institution. All the world is tired of its recurrence. Those who understand it complain much : and those who do not undersand it...

TH_E " National Association for the Promotion of Social Selene()" has held its second annual congress ; the meeting at Liverpool has been by all fashionable tests " a success" ;...

THE Court of Aldermen was engaged in no unimportant duty on Tuesday last, when it pronounced judgment on the petition of Mr. Hewitt, a broker, against Messrs. Price, Gifford,...

ROBERT CHAMBERS'S DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND.* Tirr object of Mr. Robert Chambers in these ample volumes is to ex hibit the private life of Scotland, including the ruling as...

Tre author of 3fignonette tells us, that his tale was sketched as a distraction, when he " was suffering under severe trial and dis- appointment" ; and that he could not...

The long torpor of autumn among the publishers seems passing away, the last fortnight having witnessed some dozen arrivals. One- half of these, however, have been dismissed in...

Ou the 9th June, at Feonside, Canterbury, New Zealand, the Wife of Charles T lease Esq. of a daughter. i t i - 01 - 717th july, t Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand, the Wife of...

On the 15th May, at sea, from the effects of a fall from the inizen topsail yard of the American ship Tornado, Peter William Gofton Salmond, eldest son of the late Robert...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 19. Ban krupts.—Wuxtuu Wors, Eaton Terrace, Rotherhithe, baker—St - Ernes J.am es Finn, Railway Place, Fenchurch Street, wine and spirit...

Charles Tothill, Esq., to Sophia, daughter of the late Rev. Charles Maberly, of Owsleburp, near Winchester. On the 14th September, at Raymond Hall, St. Andrews, Jamaica, Major...

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