17 OCTOBER 1846, page 14

Dearth, Cotton, And Railways.

IN several striking incidents, the approaching season is without precedent. It is the first winter after the repeal of the prohibi- tory Corn-laws • and England sees dearth all......

The Fourth Alternative.

"WHAT is to be hoped, what to be done?" So asks an able writer on foreign politics in the Daily News; who, like most of his fellows in the London journals, is just now somewhat......

The Present Task.

THB consentaneous move of the Irish landlords to abandon the Dublin meeting, is a confession that they at least had nothing in petto more effectual than Lord Besborough's assent......