31 AUGUST 1850, page 15

Jokes And Facts About The Canterbury Settlement.

DIE affinity , between trading and colonizing may have been run- ning in the head of a facetious public writer, who also helps to administer the driest part of government, when......

The Senate Of The University Of Padua Is At Present

preparing for publica- tion two curious works, of which the manuscripts are in the h of that establishment. One is a translation in Hebrew verse of the Divina Comma- dia of......

Diplomatic Ph2eitomena.

BARON Batasicow off to St. Petersburg, the Chevalier Bunsen back to London ! " What do these exhalations portend? " Active pro- tocolling of late, and manifestly abortive ; much......

12 A Tlway Strike.

WICETHER it take effect or not, the general strike threatened by railway drivers and firemen ought to be a warning to the public. The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway......

Transmarine Telegraph.

TIM electric telegraph is laid down across the Channel between England and France; the salt sea is traversed by instantaneous communication. We stand on the threshold of an......