29 SEPTEMBER 1855, page 13

The Free-trade Members And The War.

271h September 1855. Sin—My absence from England prevented my seeing "An Old Leaguer's" challenge, in your number of the 15th instant, uutil today. A short an- swer may suffice.......

Topics Of The Day.

THE THANKSGIVING. PUBLIC feeling has demanded a thanksgiving for the hard-won victory in the Crimea; and it is instructing as well as curious to observe how, after a delay that......

'ii Cdtotrro.

He who has been in the habit of inspecting battle-pictures will have come to the conclusion that one is exceedingly like another. The same may be said of battle-plays, of which......

Education And Ignorance.

24th September. Sin—Although Mr. Symons has been perhaps a little supererogatory in the energy of his opposition to my letter of the 15th, yet he has done so much for the cause......

The West Indies.

Dunkirk, 25th September 1865. Sir Arthur Rumbold presents his compliments to the editor of the Spectator, and feels it to be a public duty to corroborate the statements which he......

Rttr Tott Ittitur.

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. 26th September 1855. Sin—I have no doubt your correspondent, "A Sufferer," has been incon- venienced as he describes. This railway lies between the......

Money Market.

Stoox EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A heavy decline has occurred this week in Government Securities, and the market has been occasionally over supplied with Money Stock ; but the......