6 SEPTEMBER 1845, page 12

Topics Of The Day.

PROGRESS IN SOUTHWARK—BACKWARDS. SOME peculiarities in the contest for Southwark relieve it from the tiresomeness of so protracted a struggle. In Mr. Pilcher, the utmost......

How To Prevent Railway "accidents." One Of Those Terrible...

accidents, which are now of more than daily occurrence, illustrates the absolute necessity of subject- ing railway-servants to some strict discipline of the nature of a drill.......

"site-refusing."

LIKE that Yankee who challenged his foe to walk off the Exchange at New York arm-in-arm, the Free Church of Scotland has rushed into a suicidally false position, and has......

Law Reform: The Small Debt Act Of 1845. The Act

8 and 9 Victoria, c. 127, "for the better Securing the Payment of Small Debts," is a more important statute than the mere title indicates Power is given by this act to the......