26 JULY 1851, page 11

London, 24th July 1851. Sin-the Lesson Deducible From...

on the Grosvenor Pictures had not been lost upon me; but I did fancy that the favour of a spontaneous order of admission from the noble owner would have been in- disputable. On......

The Select Committee On Newspaper Stamps Have Published...

They do not directly recommend the abolition of the stamp, but they sug- gest that "news is not in itself a desirable subject of taxation.' The delegates of the Peace Congress......

Misrptlaums.

M. Thiers is reported by a Parisian paper as having started for the Pyrenees, and by the Messages. du Soir as on his road to London ; to start thence early in August for Vienna,......

Postscript.

SATITRDAY. The formidable stage of " Committee" on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, that cost the Conant:1,s so many troubled sittings, the Lords glided over in a single sitting,......

To The Editor Of The Spectator.

Red Lion Square, 25th July 1851. The late Duke of Bridgewater gave his pictures to be held as heirlooms by the persons taking his estates. Many of your readers will recollect......

Mr. Munro Has Received A Commission From Mr. Gladstone To

execute in marble his group of Paolo and Francesca, the plaster cast of which we men- tioned as almost the only work of promise in the English sculpture-room at the Great......

Births, On The 16th July, At Stoke Flamond, Bucks, The

Lady Julia Bonwens, of a daughter. On the 16th, at Album Surrey, the Wife of Martin F. Tupper, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th, at York, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Vicars,......