17 SEPTEMBER 1859, page 2

At Home, The Explosion Of The Great Eastern Has Supplied

a topic valuable to public writers in this dead season, and it is there- fore hunted down over and over again, like the veteran deer of Windsor. The inquest on the bodies is......

The Indian Mail Brings No Fresh Assurances To Dissipate The

uneasiness created by the last. On the contrary, the measure which Lord Clyde had taken to arrest the efflux of the disbanded Anglo-Indian soldiers appears to have had very......

We Turn From European Complications To Our Own Troubles In

the East. The story of our Chinese misfortune may be briefly told. When Plenipotentiary Brace appeared on the 25th of June, at the entrance of Pei-ho, with his escort, to exact......

The Session Of The British Association For The...

Science is distinguished this year by the presidency of the Prince Consort. There has been, we believe, scarcely a single occasion in which the Prince has appeared before the......

The Morning Herald Has Called Attention To The Dispute Be-

tween Spain and Morocco, provoked, it is supposed, by Spanish encroachment, or by Moorish apprehensions of such encroach- ment. From this account, the main facts appear to be......

A New War With China.

The telegraph brought the sad news early in tle week that 464 officers and seamen had been killed and wounded in an engagement at the mouth of the Pei-ho river. Treachery was by......

In Italy Itself, The Latest Event Is The Formal Presentment

of a request from the Duchies of Modena and Parma to be united to the kingdom of Piedmont ; the address being presented jointly as from a province already united. It was frankly......