20 JANUARY 1849, page 13

Breaking Up Of Mettray.

Wa learn with deep regret that the reformatory settlement of Mettray, near Tours, is in danger of being broken up, through the disordered state of the national finances :......

Books.

ROBERT E. LANDOR'S FOUNTAIN OF ARETHUSA, * Tars work, by the brother of Walter Savage Landor, is a philosophical fiction, designed to test the conduct of modern society by the......

Renewal Of The Indian Mail Contract. Govbrnment Took A...

doubly unusual in the negotiation respecting the renewal of the contract for the conveyance of the Indian mails,—first in throwing the service open to renewed com- petition when......