AT last, we have copious accounts of the storm and capture of Sebastopol; but while they increase our sense of the magnitude and importance of the action, they are calculated...

Lord and Lady Palmerston casually passed through Northampton last week, on their way to visit some property at Duston. Both in going and returning they were spontaneously feted...

Tun Court newsman records a series of short excursions this week, show- ing that her Majesty makes the most of the fresh air of the North. Thus, we find the Queen and Prince...

The new Sheriffs, Alderman Kennedy and Alderman Rose, were sworn in yesterday at the Guildhall, with the usual forms and ceremonies. Then the Court of Aldermen assembled ; the...

The mone- tary difficulties that press yet more heavily upon other states than France, make themselves apparent in the proceedings of the French financial authorities, who in...

eTne Canine—In the middle of the week the public were put in pos- session of an abundance of materials descriptive of the terrible encounter of the 8th September,—compact...

A Farming Society, consisting of 120 members, has been established in Tipperary ; the Earl of Derby president. The first auniversary of the society was held on the 20th instant...

At a Council held at Balmoral on ',Monday, it was ordered that the Archbishop of Canterbury should prepare a form of Prayer and Thanks- giving to Almighty God "for the signal...

SATilltDAY. This morning, on the eve of the Thanksgiving appointed by Govern- ment to celebrate our military triumphs, the rimer echoes in powerful language a sentiment of...

Anaustarrr, Sept. 27.— Corps of ito)al Marines—First Lieut. P. M.Itudd to be Capt. %ice Halliday, retired on full-pay; Second Lieut. J. Small to be nit Lieut. vice Budd,...

and Brevet-Major the Honourable Leicester Curzon, of the Rifle Brigade, the bearer of the despatch announcing the brilliant and important successes achieved by the army under...

some of our Ministers and Members of Parliament in this holiday time. Thus we have reported, all at once, speeches delivered at wide distances from each other, by Mr. flume's...

France. September has been very favourable for the ripening of grapes, and the disease has much decreased or altogether departed from some localities : the produce will not be...

the Allies —of cavalry and infantry to Eupatoria, and of reconnoitering bodies on Throughout the week, rumours of movements on the part of the Allies —of cavalry and infantry to...

Stoox EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A heavy decline has occurred this week in Government Securities, and the market has been occasionally over supplied with Money Stock ; but the...

271h September 1855. Sin—My absence from England prevented my seeing "An Old Leaguer's" challenge, in your number of the 15th instant, uutil today. A short an- swer may...

THE THANKSGIVING. PUBLIC feeling has demanded a thanksgiving for the hard-won victory in the Crimea; and it is instructing as well as curious to observe how, after a delay that...

He who has been in the habit of inspecting battle-pictures will have come to the conclusion that one is exceedingly like another. The same may be said of battle-plays, of which...

24th September. Sin—Although Mr. Symons has been perhaps a little supererogatory in the energy of his opposition to my letter of the 15th, yet he has done so much for the cause...

Dunkirk, 25th September 1865. Sir Arthur Rumbold presents his compliments to the editor of the Spectator, and feels it to be a public duty to corroborate the statements which he...

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. 26th September 1855. Sin—I have no doubt your correspondent, "A Sufferer," has been incon- venienced as he describes. This railway lies between...

THE successful termination of the attack on Sebastopol has revived the controversy on the new system of fortification alleged to have i been employed n its defence. On one side...

FROM the days of Peter the Great to the treaty of Adrianople the Russians bad been accustomed to vanquish the Turks, dissipate their tinwieldly armies, storm their fortified...

CoNmecrioN appears to be the true expression applied to the ac- tual state of money-matters in France'; though the impulse stu- diously and continuously given by Government to...

A. VAGUE sense that "something is brewing" among the states- men of Western Europe, raises an expectation that " the Italian question is to be settled." Let us ask ourselves...

BEFORE " protection " received its quietus in England, much pa- thos was bestowed upon the impending decay and destruction of our rural population. How many lamentations over...

Sin BENJAMIN HALL, it seems, did intend to send a carriage-road through the ornamental waters of St. James's Park ; and he avows that he framed that unconstitutional design...

WHAT is " necessary" labour-so necessary that it can be per- formed on the Sunday without infringing the acts of Edward and Elizabeth, which forbid the pursuit of an "ordinary...

IF France is under arbitrary rule-if the Government keeps a firm hand over everything that is published within the country- we might expect to find a great reserve in the...

WAIL-OFFICE, Sept. 25.-64th Regt. of Foot—Major-Gen. J. Freeth. Quartermaster- Gen. of the Army, to be Col. vice Gen. Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B. deceased. lot West India...

On the 21st September, at Scarthingwell Hall, Yorkshire, the 'Wife of Henry Con- stable Maxwell, F4q_, of a daughter. On the 21st, at Garswood, Warrington, Lady Gerard, the...

BRITISH PONDS. (Closing Prices.) Sawa. Monday. Tuesiny Thwr4. Mag. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account ao so aln 8911 831 901 :.1 I ra 3 per Cents Reduced shut...

Tuesday, Sept. 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVE1).-Capper and Co. Skinner Strcet-Ogilvie and Co. Liver- pool, merchants-Neate and Fletcher, Uttoreter, surgeons-Smith and Argles,...

LONDON, MIDDLESEX, AND WESTMINSTER. FIRST PUBLICATION FOR 1855. List of Persons who have taken out GENERAL GARB CERTIFICATES at 41. Os. 104/. each, including the additional...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the oMce of JOS.Ya CLLYTON, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dan- stan's in the West, in the City of London; and Published by the...

MURRAY'S HANDBOOK. OF PORTUGAL. • THE conclusion to be drawn from this very capital guide to Por- tugal is, Do not go to Portugal unless you are prepared to undergo penance in...

SEPTEMBER 29, 1855.

two volumes are the result of official opportunity and the responsibility it creates, especially in minds that have a natural bias in favour of the aborigines of a barbarous...

Tire second series of Sermons by the late Mr. Robertson of Bright- on appear under the same disadvantages as the first series. They were not prepared by himself for the press;...

FINE ARTS SECTION OP THE PARIS EXHIBITION—NO. II. In our first general view of the Paris fine arts collection we endea- voured to characterize the several European schools. We...

Booxs. Sporting Adventures in the New World'; or Days and Nights of Moose- Hunting in the Pine Forests of Acadia. By Lieutenant Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery. In two...

DECIMAL COINAGE. London, 22d August 1855. Sin—The problems to be solved are these: to provide a convenient mo- ney of coinage, a compendious money of account, and a popular...

September 1866. The importance of an inexpensive transfer of land is so grata, that no apology is needed for an endeavour to bring the subject within the com- prehension of lay...