4 OCTOBER 1845, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

RAILWAY FINANCE. How many dabblers in railway shares ever bestow a thought upon the railway itself? The early speculators in railways con- templated the development of a new......

A Fifth Estate Discovered.

THE renewal of monster-meetings in Ireland has sufficed to sug- gest to a Liberal contempory some reflections on a new political power—" Popular agitation is one of the......