9 NOVEMBER 1850, page 11

Vacant Pedestals Of London.

" NATURE abhors a vacuum," according to the Aristotelians. It may not be easy to define what was meant by this postulate, or what may be the precise sensation of Nature from......

Rtiftro To T4t

TREATMENT OF THE POPISH AGGRESSION. 5th November 1850. Sin—Let me begin my letter by fairly stating that I differ with much that you have written upon the recent Papal outrage.......

The Two Dmurches — "look At Home."

Sin—The Papal mind, if it is subject in things secular to the same failings as fallible mortals, must surely derive satisfaction from the state of confusion and alarm into which......

Colonial Land.

Sni—The officer retiring from the Army may receive, if he pleases, the value of his commission in land in certain of our Colonies. There seems to be no reason why the same......

The Egyptian Canal.

Stoke Newington, 7th November 1850. Srn—The important intelligence which has lately been communicated to the public that arrangements are likely to be made for opening a......

Cheap Branch Lines For Railways.

1 Adam Street, tidelphi, 4th November 1850. Sut—Now that it has come to be understood that the value of landed property is materially enhanced by railway communication,......