30 AUGUST 1856, page 9

The Loom Versus The Stitching - Machine.

SIG — Your remarks on stitching, in your last week's number, call to my mind that some ten years back, in an article in the Westminster Review, entitled "Human Progress," I......

Topics Of The Day.

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT ? ME. WALPOLE says gossip, has been appointed chief of the Con- servative party, vice Disraeli superseded. What then ? What consequences are we to expect......

Provincial Music.

There has been this week a musical festival at Bradford. That thriv-• ing and spirited town, now a great seat of the Yorkshire woollen-manu - facture, has established on a......

Itttrrs To T4t Ettitur.

STREET-PREACHING. SM — It struck me in reading your article on street-preaching, that you took up two contradictory grounds-1st, That the auditors are intently lis- tening, and......