10 AUGUST 1844, page 16

The Letter-opening At The Post-office.

THE able and exhaustive report of the House of Commons Committee on the Post-office * strips the question of all personality. It not only establishes that Sir JAMES GRAHAM has......

The Late Ministers.

TIME and space have not yet been annihilated : Windsor is still out of town. By a pompous enumeration of precautionary arrangements—railway express-trains and electric......

Dropping Off.

AT the Burns Festival, Professor WILSON remarked—" Of his three sons now sitting here, one only, I believe, can remember his father's face." To a native of the land of BURNS......

Mrs. Houstoun's Yacht Voyage To Texas And New Orleans.

THE name of HOUSTON Will be as conspicuous in the annals of Texas as the names of RomuLus and NUMA in those of Rome, should Texas maintain an independent existence ; but whether......