23 FEBRUARY 1856, page 15

A Brazil Nut To Crack.

Bairn is one of the countries whom the caprices of our Foreign Office, under the impulse of bigotry, have excluded from friendly alliance with this country. It is a remarkable......

The Bills Of Mortality.

DEATH visits us in the most unexpected forms ; and we are more impressed by the removal of a few of our fellow creatures in dis- tingnished places, or in sinar modes, than by......

Woman's Mission.

London, 18th. February 1856. Sre.—I am one of the unfair sex who consider the appointment of a female clerk in. the Civil Service as an injury to her sex. We have been in the......

Itttrso To To Etitur.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY: THE LAST PURCHASE. remptown, 20th February 1856. I have seen today, for the first time, the new picture in the National Gallery, attributed to Paul......