19 JULY 1856, page 16

Itittro To Fly Ehitnr.

GEOLOGY HOLDING ITS GROUND. Geological Survey and School of Mines, Jermyn Street, 14th July 1856. Slit—As it has been a subject of regret to me that the objects of the Geo-......

Pensions For The Bishops.

Lentestoft, 17th July. SIR—I am, as a clergyman, heart-sick and ashamed at the question now before Parliament, of pensions for the Bishops of London and Durham, and at the......

English Commerce And The Holy See.

Gloucester Place, 16th, July. Sin—The subjoined extract from Professor Fredet of Baltimore's Modern History shows how steadfastly, in a moment of great peril, Pius VII. stood by......

Comparisons Not Odious.

EVERYTHING is comparative. By dint of not taking too high a standard, Mr. Samuel Broome, the gardener of the Inner Temple, finds the atmosphere of London so much improved that......

Taste Of Public Bodies.

• Tavi,stoek Hotel, Jaly 1856. Sin—The other day, I dropped into Westminster Abbey at morning ser- vice. In this metropolitan cathedral, to which every foreigner resorts to hear......