29 OCTOBER 1842, page 12

Philosophy In Sport Made Science In Earnest.

FROM the Morning Herald of Wednesday we learn, that Sir Teem- BARD BRUNEL and Others, forming a deputation from the Royal Humane Society, waited upon Prince ALBERT a few days......

Progress Of The Opium-war.

IT is impossible to read the accounts of the military operations in China without shame and disgust. It is not war, but sheer butchery—a battu in a well-stocked preserve of......

Civilization Of The Negroes.

THE Negro tribes of which Europeans have most knowledge are those between the Great Desert and the Bight of Benin. Tlie Northern tribes, bordering on the desert, are much......