31 AUGUST 1861, page 1

The Accounts Of The Harvest In England Are Exceedingly...

ing. The barley crop will be one of rare excellence. The wheat, though short in quantity, will probably make up by its quality a full complement of flour. Wherever the wheat......

Mr. Roebuck's Asseveration That A Contract Existed...

France for the cession of Sardinia, has not only been officially denied in the Moniieur, but it has been roundly asserted that even the thought of such a negotiation had never......

The New Bishop Is Dr. Thompson, The Preacher Of Lincoln's

Inn, not one of the peculiar class whom Lord Palmerston has usually delighted to honour. He is a distinguished logician, and has published a treatise of some repute on the Laws......

The British Association For The Advancement Of Science...

its preparations to hold its sitting at Manchester next week. It follows close on the heels of its Social sister in Dublin, and will doubtless, in its own peculiar way, be not......

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News Of The Week.

L ORD Palmerston has been installed as the one hundred and nineteenth Warden of the Cinque Ports. His speech on the occasion was stately, calm, and not wanting in his usual......

The Most Recent Estimates Of The Prospects Of...

more favourable than those of last week. Not only does it seem that the stocks on hand are larger than had been supposed, but the impres- sion grows stronger that the North will......

The News From America Has Not Been Of The First-rate

importance which the telegraph of Sunday first led us to expect. The battle in Missouri appears to have been a less serious affair than the first accounts represented it, though......

The Most Important Continental Event Of The Week Has Been

the dissolution of the Hungarian Diet, and the address of the Emperor of Austria to his Reichsrath, in which he comments on and defends that grave step. The satisfaction of the......

The Parliamentary Returns Of Exports And Imports For July...

for the first six months of the year have been published, and show a depressed state of our Export trade. The most remarkable feature is the falling off in the American trade.......

A Great And Unexampled Railway Disaster Has Proved That The

ex- cursion "to Brighton and back for half-a-crown," is not always a cheap one. Twenty-four lives have been lost in a railway accident of fearful horror. The collision in the......