11 AUGUST 1855, page 15

Conversion Of Private Banks.

"Farm without knowledge," says a writer in the Merchant's Magazine, is the principle which distinguishes private banks from joint-stook banks ; but the distinction between the......

Progress Of Railway Prosperity.

THE latest Report upon the general state of railway business, from the department of the Board of Trade, presents a satisfactory pro- gress of traffic and revenue, and an......

The Darlington Poisoning Case.

Tsrrs dark inquiry is evidently destined to occupy the attention of a public pampered with " news" in the intervals of more import- taut subjects. Charles Lamb used to say that......