covered. We cannot be said to receive the announcement with joy ; but there is a deep satisfaction in ascertaining the truth with regard to that devoted band,—in learning the...

As time advances light begins to dawn over the proceedings at Biarritz, and our well-informed correspondent at Paris gives us some very probable intimation of the course which...

move- ment contemplated by Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, in conjunc t tion with the Manchester Reformers. It is now said that the popular agitation 1T to, be one for an " untaxed...

the first sod of the Andover and Redbridge line, connecting the _great port of Hampshire with the coal-fields of Wales. In many respects the line is opposed to the principles...

dis- tinguished by many points of interest, although the communica- tions and discussions have not generally been of so popular a character as in former years. Sir Charles Lyell...

The news arrived in London on Thursday that Captain M'Clintock had landed at Portsmouth on Wednesday from the yacht Fox, and had hurried up to London carrying with him verbal...

con- stitutes no authenticated deliverance explanatory of the causes. But the newspaper reports of the examination place us in pos- session of the facts, and will enable the...

The proceedings of the British Association at Aberdeen have not been characterized by any startling novelty. The sections began to sit at the receipt of "papers " on the 15th ;...

The first sod of the Andover and Redbridge Railway at Romsey was cut by Lord Palmerston on Tuesday. This line is intended to connect Southampton with the South Wales coal...

The struggle in the building trade between the employers and society men has assumed somewhat of a new form. The employers have sought, and in some measures succeeded in...

The strife in the parish of St. George's-in-the-East has been greatly lessened by the intervention of the Bishop of London. The vestry took the initiative in declaring their...

The Queen has driven to Lochnagar, Altnagusack, and other places, sometimes accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and sometimes by the Princesses Alice and Louisa. The Prince...

On the 14th of September there was a " monster" revival meeting at Armagh, and the special correspondent of the Times was there to see. It was got up partly by the agency of the...

attention, but no authentic information has been published of the doings of the two potentates and the diplomatists assembled there. It is remarked that as soon as King Leopold...

The Cabinet Council held last Saturday was attended by the following Ministers—Lord Palmerston, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, the Duke of New- castle, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY itionNuge. [The letter of our Paris correspondent will be found to contain in- formation of great interest in connexion with the gathering at Biarritz, on...

The manufacturing districts in the North am, generally speaking, very busy.

Next Friday, the 30th indent, will be the last day this year of the - Revel Palace Pleasure Grounds and New Arboretum being open to the publielis they close for the season on...

Government to sup- press the Fourth Battalion in the 102 Regiments of the Line, the forming of which battalion had been decided on during the war. King George of Hanover...

some extracts from the _Edinburgh Courant, intended to enlighten us on " the other side " of the Annuity - tag, which he says we have overlooked. We are obliged to him, but may...

or stone stairs, by which each " riser " would be so locked into the " tread " that the stairs would be self-supporting. There is scarcely a thing in the whole range of building...

nest. Ile as- serts in the Dublin journals that "it is the intention of the present Go- vernment to endeavour to set aside the contract with the Lever Company for the conveyance...

STOCK EXCIIAXGE, FRIDAY Arnearamx. The Consol Market has fluctuated during the Week between 9i1951 and 951 95/. Business, though probably rather more activethnit last week,...

To mitigate the horrors of war is to render humanity a service. Messrs. Savory and Moore, the chemists, of New Bond Street, have to our mind succeeded in doing so, by the...

We were shown by Messrs. Newman an ingenious clock recently in- troduced, and called an "atmospheric clock." This clock is in appear- ance like a long thermometer, without,...

To enable the public to derive full advantage from the photographic negatives made, officially, for the Science and Art Department, from rare and valuable objects in public and...

To the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, her Mgjesty's Principal Secretary of State for India. The Humble Memorial of a Surgeon in Her Majesty's Madras Army, Respectfully Sheweth-...

Messrs. Newman and Son, the opticians of Regent Street, have just invented a new form of spectacles. The peculiarity of the construction is, that the frame for each eye is...

THE SAN JUAN QUESTION. WE will not say that it would be a disgraceful testimony to the want of intelligence in both the communities of England and at the United States if any...

Jr is one of the mistakes of modern systematic reasoning to sup- pose that human perception is only attained through a form of appeal which can be reduced to words. Such a...

WITH a decision not unnatural in the representative of what was once, although in a small territory, a sovereign family, Lord Derby has taken upon himself to enforce a new law...

Iar commenting upon the progress and prospects of various branches of trade, which it has been our custom to do, we cannot entirely overlook claims which are forced upon our...

IT is refreshing to hear of Spain doing anything besides re- pudiating debts and conniving at the Slave trade. With the new expedition against the Moors a new life will commence...

THE memorial of the Surgeons in the Madras Army sets forth a just complaint. If a discussion were raised as to the moral and social position of professional men, every person...

supposed to guide men, and does when they think about it, temper governs them much more con- stantly, or we should see half the disputes which obstruct indus- try and diminish...

APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. 14th September 1859. Sin—I observe in the Spectator of last week, some remarks suggested by the "Smethurst reprieve." Upon the circumstances of that...

BALZAC TRAVESTIED. * " THE condition of French translation, in this country, is per- fectly scandalous." So says Thomas De Quineey in the last volume of his collected works, now...

has often given the first hint which has led to great discoveries, and difficulties, which no direct efforts availed to solve, have suddenly vanished upon a fortuitous change in...

In literature properly so called the week has produced only live new books, of which three are American. Mr. Bayard Taylor's TRAVELS IN GREECE AND RUSSIA is an octavo volume of...

a novelist in "Raised to the Peerage." Faults there are neither small nor few in her first work, but they are for the most part the faults of inexperience and exuberant energy....

Mr. John Bardoe Elliott, a well-known Oriental scholar, formerly of the East India Civil Service, has presented to the Bodleian library a very valuable collection of Persian...

The only dramatic novelty of the week is a short farce produced at the Haymarket, which, under the title The Rille and how to use it, warns us against the abuse of that popular...

Bankruptcy Annulled,-Joan Joanna Hanwoon, Manchester, hosier. Bankrupts.-Joan HARRISON, Page's Walk, Bermondsey, builder-jastEs GREEN, Northampton, builder-Tnonss Fnagers, Cross...

Marie, on Les Trois Epoques, a celebrated play by Madame Ancelot, originally associated with the name of Mademoiselle Mars, has been revived at the Gymnase, with Madame Rose...

Bankruptcy Annulled.-Enwsan BATES and JOHN FELTUS, Manchester, brewers. Bankrupts.-ANnui Fiasco, Oxford Street, dentist-Iona HUNTLEY KENWAIID, Bristol, milliner-HENRY WILLIAM...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Trednes. Thurs. hei d ay. 3 per Cent Consols Si 951 951 95, 95, 951 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 95...

On the 13th of September, at 16, Stratford Place, the Wife of L. W. Desanges, Esq., of a daughter. - On the 13th, at Castle Forbes, the Countess of Granard, of a son,...