1 NOVEMBER 1845, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

THE MONSTER DISEASE OF PARLIAMENT. DISMAY at the overwhelming mass of railway legislation which Threatens Parliament for next session, has probably occasioned the report, "that......

Gregarious Avarice.

AVARICE and the other selfish passions do not, like those which are more social in their workings, become ennobled when they move great masses at once. On the contrary, their......

Il Libro Di Ferro.

A NEW aristocracy is springin g . up—the aristocracy of railways. Your "cotton lord " begins to give place to the" extensive share- holder " ; a phrase which implies a......

The Best Time For Undoing The Corn-law. Undue...

that a man does not see his way clearly ; undue precipitation, that he does not see it at all. True promptitude and true caution lead to the same result. The wise man bides his......