irAYWARD'S BIOGRAPHICALI AND CRITICAL ESSAYS.* Tais selection of articles from various periodicals possesses as much unity of character and more readableness than any...

fr.?r 31ftftpolil'. At a ileeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works on the 1st, ]Wr Bazalgtte presented a report, setting forth the method of working out the schefte of main...

IRELAND. Galway is in favour at the Vicerigal Lodge. At a meeting of the Harbour Commissioners last week a letter was read from "F Francis Plunkett Dunne," Viceregal Lodge, to...

DEATHS. On the 9th August, at Bareilly, Rohilcund, after a short illness, Licut.-Col. Cameron, C.B., while in command of the 42d Royal Ilighlanders; in his 43d year. On the...

PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. The portrait of the heir to the throne of which we spoke last week, as a photograph, has reached us this week in the form of a lithograph. It...

PuIt Irt. LEGGATT'S CITY GALLERY. It is very natural that picture-dealers should like to display their wares to advantage in a well-reputed room; and, in the New City Gallery...

ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH POEMIS.* In an extremely handsome volume of the gift-book class, the publish ers have collected poems by Milton, Pope, Goldsmith, Burns, Dibdin Keats,...

CHINESE DIORtAM'NIA. According to the rapid pace at which such things are managed now-adays, it was quite time that the recent transactions in China should be beginning to...

THE FRENCH ADVANCE FOR AGRICULTURE. W1I1LE we see the Imperial Government of France taking a lead in those military preparations which provoke uneasiness, we finld the Emperor...

LORD CANNING'S REPLY TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH. The demand for the despatch or despatches which Lord Canning had ient to the Secret Committee in answer to Lord Ellenborough's...

tot T,4ratrrs. In conformitv w-ith his announcement, Mr. Charles Kcan reopened the Princess's on Saturday last, w-ith the Merchlant c*f Jenice. With the single exception of the...

Sir-I must endeavour to justify to Mr. Freeman what I fear he will re- gard as an impracticability of conviction on m11y part, but permit me first to remove some misconceptions...

10tus tu t4t C-hitnr. CHLRCH II.A.TES. C'7 Ire el? C'oitt, 5th October 1858. SIR-There are * 1:y lDissenters wvho would unite with y-ou ill deprecating the poli,-v of de1f'n'...

EUROPEAN PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. TJIE monarchs of Europe are pursuing that established counsel which tells them that if they desire peace they must prepare for war; but they are...

WHlIG AN-D TORIY ON REFORM. TIlE waters of the Reform movement-a mere bubbling spring at present, running hither and thither, and threatening to expand into a marsh-are...

LORD CANNIN-G'S DEFENCE. LonD CANNING'S despatches on the subject of the Ellenborough N -Note " make no revelation. They belong to an account which we closed some time since,...

NEW NOVELS.* TIHERE is some force and a good deal of freshness in My Lady; but it is rather the freshness of inexperience than the originalit ' of art, while the basis of the...

TIlE BOY-NE HILL BUSINESS. The Bishop of Oxford has written a letter to the Commissioners appointed to lock into the allegations against Mr. West, and the Archdeacon of Berks...

SCOTLAND. Queen Victoria has continued her daily drives in the bracing gihland air, accompanied by her daughters The Prince Consort, joined by prince Alfred and the Count of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. DEFORM " because it is expected " is a subject manifestly rising in interest. The words of public men are watched and weighed, and here and there we have some...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE HOUR OF PROOF. ThErRE has been, within the last two or three weeks, a rush of facts about the prosecution of the slave-trade, and a discussin of thle...

TILE RUSSIAN- SERF-EMANCIPATIO.N. TILE' gigantic measure which the Emperor Alexander II. is attempting in Russia is one which commands the sympathy and. respect of all nations....

BOOKS. NOORTO-N'S TOPICS FOR INDIAN ST.TESMEN-,' MR. JOHN BRuCE NORTOIN is a barrister of Madras in varied and extensive practice, some of whose clients have been native...

vruuiurial. PUBLIC MEETINGS. 3fr Disraeli, it was said, would be sure to attend the meeting of the t Bucks Agricultural Association at Aylesbury-if his official eninents...