21 SEPTEMBER 1850, page 15

The Heterogeneous.

" AnairvAL of Jenny Lind at New York—Execution of Professor Webster": such is the heading of a New York letter in the papers this week. Its beginning introduces a new......

Books.

ME. W. S. GIBSON'S DILSTON HALL.. To have the head cut off is a great advantage to any one anxious for posthumous fame. To many minds, the tyranny of Strafford, the falsehood of......

Fares And Tolls.

CHEAP fares for hackney-carriage and railway are a real " boon " to numbers, but they are not yet arranged on a satisfactory foot- ing, and we notice a variety of complaints. On......

Mr. R. Welch, Of Totnes, Who Is Totally Blind, Cultivates

and rears with his own hands the varieties of flowers in their seasons, distinguishes the most beautiful from the inferior, and points out their qualities to astonished......