EVERY great reform in the condition of peoples has existed first as an idea debated by some few minds in a country. Free-trade existed in the works of Adam Smith, and was little...

have supplied the customary autumnal lectures to town and country. At the Oldham Lyceum, we have had lectures on the progress of education, from Lord Stanley, Sir James Shuttle-...

the Black Sea and in the Bay of Naples. The ultimatum from the French Go- vernment is said to have been delayed " another day " by the anxiety of Count Walewski that his...

sudden retirement from the Horse Guards. The veteran soldier will be attended to the grave by universal regret. Few men have wen a more general esteem from their country ; few...

Tax Court of Common Council resumed its sittings on Thursday. A letter from the Office of Public Works was read, notifying that the Go- vernment have determined to survey the...

The ceremony of opening the new " Lyceum " at Oldham was per- formed on Monday. The Mayor and Corporation went in procession to the building, and were addressed there by Mr....

Frances Marchioness of Londonderry entertained the tenantry of her Antrim estates, last week, in the market-house of Carnlough. Lord Adolphus Vane presided at the feast ; but,...

"Tatur.—The Emperor and Empress continue at Biarritz. They seem to spend their time very much like ordinary people out for a holiday —in excursions, sight-seeing, and amusement....

The Queen continues to spend her days after a healthy fashion ; now walking, now driving, in the woods and hills ; and Prince Albert stalks the deer with great perseverance. Her...

The week's obituary records the deaths of several remarkable persons, the chief of whom are Lord Hardinge and Sir Colin Halkett. When Lord Hardinge was stricken with paralysis...

York, with advices to the 13th instant. She brought accounts from Kansas to the 5th. " The Republican says that 160 of General Lane's men attacked Tecumseh on the 4th, but that...

intended to favour the extension of free trade, were una- nimously adopted. "The drapeau of our propaganda," said the Presi- dent, is " lib erte commercials." The delegates...

brought a cargo of wheat to Liverpool direct from Chicago on Lake Michigan-a distance of i 4470 miles. The voyage was performed in sixty days, including a detention of twelve...

appointed Sir Henry Barkly to be " Captain-General and Governor-in-chief in and over the colony of Victoria." The annual dinner of the Northamptonshire Agricultural Society was...

SATURDAY. Intelligence from Trieste, by telegraph-not the most trustworthy source, but sometimes authentic-states that Admiral Houston Stew- art is to reenter the Black Sea,...

the power under statute to remove the Master of the Workhouse, offered the Guardians an opportunity of reconsidering their resolution not to remove him ; coupling the offer with...

Athenian's, a " Landing Waiter " revives an old suggestion which cer- tainly ought to meet with encouragement. It seems that the Landing Waiter has devoted part of his leisure...

STOCH EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market continues in a doubtful position. The Funds have been per cent lower than they realized last week during a buoyant...

On the 12th September, at Corfu, the Wife of Lientenant-Colonel the Hon. Ed- ward Gage, R.A., of a daughter. On the 18th, at Dinnington Hall, Yorkshire, the seat of her father,...

That model renegade the Constable De Bourbon is the hero of a new three-act comedy in verse, written by MM. Descourcelles and H. de La- cretelle, and recently produced at the...

to very good purpose, is beginning to give signs of the periodical energy of its managers. The Merry Wives of Windsor is revived with new and appropriate decorations, and Timon...

which illustrate the same, (with the exception of the Raymi festival,) been been closely followed in a burlesque produced last Monday at Drury Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, as...

Matches , dis- plays the well-known talent of Mr. Barney Williams for representing Hibernian footmen, and exhibits -Mrs. Barney Williams in the novel form of a Yankee...

Mr. Murdoch, an actor from the United States, long esteemed among his own countrymen, made his London debflt at the - Haymarket on Mon- day, in Farquhar's comedy The Inconstant....

THE EQUILIBRIUM, A REPORT has arisen that the English and French Governments are about to send a combined fleet to look on while the Neapoli- tans teach their rang 'better...

Tli:E Mowiteer, organ of the French Government, is the vehicle for an Imperial explanation to the working classes of Paris on the subject of their lodging and rent. The...

Tae disclosures of the Royal British Bank show that it has failed from exactly the same causes which have led to the failure of other banks. The character of the failing banker...

- "I HATE Lord Stanley, he is so damned rational ! " exclaimed a man blasé in the world of public speaking. That was an un- gracious expression ; but it must be confessed that ....

MALT. So far as I have yet proposed to go in the direction of relief from taxation on articles of general consumption, most people will be inclined to go along with me, if I...

IY.—TICRET-OF-T.FAYE—REFORMZED •TRA .NSPORTATION. THAT transportation can only be renewed under conditions which do not now exist, is the plain result of all the evidence-...

ARK Y I MTE 0 VE3LENT. Six—The future of the Army is at present drawing considerable atten- tion. Taking great interest in the matter, and having some kw years' ex- perience, I...

Bristol, 18th September 1856. Sra—I observed in the Times a few days ago a report of the prosecution of two women for fraudulently receiving weekly allowances from parishes for...

London, 24th September 1856. Stn—I find from your article on "the Last Vote in the American Con- gress " that you take a very different view of the present state of affairs on...

Belfast, 15th September 1856. SIR—I regret to perceive that you, and moderate politicians in general, are inclined to regard the agitation against secret diplomacy as a mere ab-...

Lesketh How, timbleside, 22d September 1866. SIR —The able writer of "A Projector's Budget for 1857," in the last number of your paper, advocates the reduction of the...

DAILY'S TOIIR IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1796 AND 1797.* A ir.AN who could inspire Herschel and De Morgan with respect for his scientific attainments as well as for his personal...

man of many hobbies connected with hu- man life or its conditions, which he makes no scruple of riding as far as a hobby can be made to go. With a good deal of reading, and...

is a philosophical work from the pen of a German that might be read with pleasure by the general intel- lectual public of England. Save and except the words " objective" and "...

in Search of a Wife, religionists have made fiction a vehicle for their own opinions. Some writers with a natural turn for " heavy busi- ness" have done little more than throw a...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 26. Watt DEPARTMENT, Pall Mall, Sept. 26.—/nfantry-25th Regt. of Foot—Major- Gen. Sir H. Somerset, K.C.B. to be Col. vice Gen. Sir H. F....

BRITISH FUNDS. 2 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Omits Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1883 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 23. Partnerships Dissolved.-T. and S. Bryde, Liverpool, commission-agents-Bryde and Murray, Liverpool, ship-brokers-Carter and Co. Liverpool,...