10 JANUARY 1857, page 11

The Stormy Weather At The End Of Last Week, Which

continued up to Tuesday morning, proved very disastrous on our coasts, causing many -wrecks, with a considerable loss of life. The North-east coast of England was the scene of......

In The Same Week In Which A Death From Strychnine

is reported in London where there was an almost total absence of the usual symptoms, an account has arrived from Melbourne of a suicide by the seine poison, where the......

The Export Of Horses Has Been Prohibited Throughout...

be wanted to assault the Swiss glaciers. • It has now been ascertained, that by the earthquake in Crete, on the 12th October, 538 persons were killed, and 637 wounded ; 6512......

Postscript.

SATURDAY. The week, not remarkable for striking incidents or unlooked-for news, closes much as it began. One novelty, indeed, is this morning reported. For some time there has......

Mr. Humphrey Brown, Member For Tewkesbury, Was...

on Saturday last ; the petitioning creditors being the Royal British Bank; debt 40,000/. Yesterday the bankruptcy was annulled on petition ; both the debt and the act of......

A Rival Has Appeared To The Oude Railway Company, In

a scheme called the Oude Central Railway. The Oude Railway Company declare the Central to be an interloper, attempting to appropriate the title of the company first in the......

The Committee Of The Stock Exchange, In Consequence Of The

Great Northern Railway having registered transfers which they had refused to do on a previous occasion, have discharged the resolution for striking the Shares out of the list.......

Fi4t Toratrts.

Sentimental philosophers have frequently lamented the injury done by commerce to the nobility of human nature ; and Napoleon I, when he termed the English a nation of......