26 NOVEMBER 1859, page 11

Topics Of The Day.

THE STATE OF EUROPE. ONE of the legacies which the great French Revolution bequeathed' to posterity was the mania for large standing armies. France, defied, poured forth myriads......

Births:

On the 13th . of November, attliatlf; the 'Wife of Colonel G. H. Robertson, C.B. and A.O.C. tithe Queen, of a son.. On the 16th, at Cortachy Castle, the Countess of Girlie, of a......

Iteyivaxs:

November 3, 1859. Sin—The reviewer:of Dr. Hecker's famous. book on tha Bpidemies of i4e _Middle Agee in your last impression might have extended his com- parisons with much......