21 JULY 1849, page 15

New Standard Of Value.

"WHAT is a pound ?" Let us abandon so vexed a question, gold standard and all, and fly to that immutable standard which Mr. Henley points out. " The only thing he knew of in......

Posting Facilities.

THE Postmaster-General has for some weeks issued a recom- mendation to householders, that they should put letter-boxes to their doors, in order to facilitate the more prompt......

The Horrid Hudson.

Mx. Hunson's reputation is going down an inclined plane, and he cannot apply any betake to mitigate the ruinous celerity of the career. In the accumulation of charges set forth......

The Assioric Comrnormisv.—at An Inquest In Westbury, Last...

the bodies of two infants who seem to have been poisoned with arsenic, five and eight years ago, Mr. Herapath called in question a recent doctrine as to the natural existence of......

The Smoke War.

WHILE Parliament fails to provide against the smoke nuisance because it boggles over an adjective, practical men concur in de- claring that it is possible to abate the nuisance.......