THE recess has set in with such unusual severity that we might almost imagine the country to be devoid of political in- terest, almost sterile in domestic events of any kind. ;...

A special general Court of the East India Company was held on Wednesday, Sir Frederick Currie in the chair, for the purpose of sub- mitting to the Court a resolution, agreed to...

choirs, — Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester', — held this year at Hereford, began on Tuesday. The cathedral is now undergoing a process of repairs ' and the opening service...

Mr. Grant Duff has visited his constituents at Banff and Peterhead, and has delivered to them his views upon political and local affairs. At Banff he discoursed in this wise on...

It appears that the reported arrival of Cardinal Wiseman in Ireland, last week, was premature. He did not land at Kingstown until Mon- day. A deputation met him at the pier. At...

EMU II4.—The Queen's stay in Prussia, has been prolonged, but it is stated that she will not bend her steps homewards until today. She has repeatedly visited Berlin, seeing its...

graph Company have published the despatches which have passed under the Atlantic between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan. They are as follows— The Queen to the...

SATURDAY. Telegraphic despatches in anticipation of the Calcutta mail of July 17, have arrived this morning. The bulk of the Indian news reported is old, but some of the...

Although the comedies of Messrs. Morton and Reynolds never held an exalted position in the dramatic literature of the country, but rather marked the commencement of the period,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Notwithstanding the inactivity which has existed throughout the week in the market for public securities, the real business doing has been of...

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC OPINION. Jr is not impossible that the singular and unsatisfactory position of affairs in Parliament, and the apparent improbability that any new...

THE Crimean war has evidently , forced upon Russia a change of tactics. We have long suspected that it had not compelled her to abandon the objects at which she was aiming,...

THE latest American newspapers tell us that a monument of con- siderable pretensions, just completed at Charleston, is ab,nit to be erected to the memory of the Honourable...

A CONTROVERSY has been going on for some time, respecting cer- tain public schools of London : it was begun by the Tames ; other journals have joined, and among a host of...

Is a merchant ship which conveys passengers "a floating hotel " ? May it be converted into a floating prison—not only in the sense of Sam Johnson, who said that "a ship is a...

THE Emperor of the French is endeavouring to create that kind of organization which would constitute perfect national unity. Napoleon is the motive brain the French nation the...

CROSSED CHEQUES. _London, 218t August 1858. Sin—Since the publication of your paper containing an article on my im- proved form of bankers' cheques, I have received...

CHARLES KNIGHT'S POPULAR HISTORY OF ENGLAND. ° THESE third and fourth volumes of Mr. Knight's work extend from the accession of Edward the Sixth to the Revolution of 1688, and...

be held at Brussels on the 27th of next month. The laws of different countries on these subjects vary considerably, and within the last few years there has been a disposition to...

to the events of her career, or to the interest which she excited in the public mind, the life of Mrs. Schimmelpenninek has but little claim to be recorded in two volumes. From...

account of the results of a visit to St. Petersburg and Moscow, with a call at a country-house in the vicinity or en route. The title of the " journey " is therefore something...

Booxs. Jurenile crime; its Causes, Character, and Cure. By Samuel Phillips Day. Sermons and Addresses del jeered in the Chapels of Marlborough College, 1852 - 8. By George...

On the 24th June, at Jullunder, Punjaub, Brigadier Henry Winchcombe Hartley, Colonel in her Majesty's Service, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 8th (King's) Regi- ment. On the 6th...

On the 14th August, in Baker Street, Portman Square, the Wife of Lieut.-Colonel A. Macleod, Madras Cavalry, of a daughter. On the 17th, at Ilighwood Cottage, Finchley, the Wife...

Blom, Major of the 2d Battalion of the 11th Regiment, youngest son of Sir Robert Lyn c h Blosse, Bart., to Louisa Eliza Grace, widow of the late Rev. Edward Illingworth, of...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE AUGUST 24. Wan OFFICE, Pall Mall, August 24.—Infantry.L44th Regt. of Foot—Major - Gen. T. Reed, C.B. to be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Ashworth,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 24, Bankruptcy Annutled.-SAYVEL NEWNAN, Lee, Kent, builder. Bankrupts.-WillJsm Runts POWELL, Leadenhall Street, ship-broker-Humor Joux HALL,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &and. Monday. nosegay. Widnes. Thor,. Friday, per Cent Consols 961 961 961 961 97 Ditto for Account 965 965 961 96; 97 911 3 per...