18 JANUARY 1845, page 14

The Queen With The Farmer's Friend.

A NATURAL association of ideas has led the Queen to follow up her visit to the pigs of the Smithfield Club by a visit to "the farmer's friend" at Stowe. Her reception at the......

Railway Statistics.

SOME statistical information respecting railways, equally curious mud im- porumt, has been published by Mr. Hall. an eminent -sharebroker at Liver- pool. It appears from Mr.......

Mr. Pritchard As Consul.

WHEN the French assumed the Protectorate of Tahiti, Mr. Pritchard hauled down the Consular flag. This was not meant as an intimation that Mr. Pritchard intended to withdraw from......

The Talisman.

THERE is one thing that masters all. It is in everybody's reach —no, not everybody's, but in the reach of multitudes. Do you de- sire to aecomplish any enterprise that depends......

The Bat Tue.

THE battue system of sporting seems likely to expire from awer-inilidgence. At Stows the game was so packed to be shot at, that the keenest sports- men, not mere hardened......