3 DECEMBER 1853, page 10

Topics Of The Day.

THE TRUE INTERNATIONAL TAW QUESTION. SELDOM perhaps has a controversy been carried on with so ranch ability, and at the same time with so little chance on one side o r so little......

The Society Of Arts.

A paper was read on Wednesday by Mr. A. Fraser, the engineer to Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co.'s establishment, on the vexed and vexatious question of smoky......

Opening Of St. Martin's Hall.

St. Martin's Hall is a most remarkable—almost a solitary—instance of a great public edifice, entitled from its magnitude and importance to the epithet of national, erected by......

The Department Of Art And Science.

An official circular has been issued to all masters of schools in con- nexion with this department, calling for their opinion—" 1. As to the ex- tent to which they consider......