15 FEBRUARY 1845, page 2

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RAILWAY LEGISLATION. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET proposed and carried the following list of Members as a Select Committee to inquire into the......

News Of The Week.

TAXATION has been the uppermost subject in everybody's mind, every look being turned to Friday and the decree of the oracle. Deputations have besieged Downing Street, bearing......

There Is A Startling Coincidence Of Allusions To...

as if our " prosperity" were already hurrying us over the brink into the vortex of a " commercial crisis,' such as sig- nalized the years 1825-6 and 1835-6. In the distant West,......

A Veryunpleasant Scene Was Performed In The Theatre Of...

;University on Thursday. Mr. Ward stood there as defendant, hefore the multitudinous and vociferous assemblage called Con- vocation ; and, after feebly defending his Romanizing......