MAYHEW S DOGS. How far the dog-doctoring of this volume may be canonical, we cannot say. It is founded on a close observation of the animal's living nature, as well as a...

DISCIPLINE OF THE ARMY: MILITARY TRIBUNALS. THrE Commander-in-chief has virtually answered our demand for an inquiry into the state of regiments, by a memorandum which issued...

SIR BENJAMIN'S FIRST LABOUR. TurE new and unexpected turn taken by the cholera in a great increase, and the severity of the visitation, have stricken the less educated classes...

IRELAN D. IMr. John O'Connell has published an addr ss to "the Repealers of Ireland," counselling conciliation, and calling upon Repealers to act with men of all parties in...

SCOTLAND. The Queen and the Royal Family will depart from London on the 14th instant en route for Balmoral, by the Great -Northern Railway as far as York, and thence by the...

'frrign ndl Cfulnulial. FsANcE.-The doings at Calais and Boulogne have kept the sightseers of those happy towvns on the alert for the last eight days. On Saturday the Emperor...

NOTES AND QUERIES. A FEw Russian prisoners on board the Devonshire have shown, experimentally, the relish which Russians are likely to have for English prison-fare: they are to...

Almost as if to rebuke the too hasty calculations of men, the cholera has suddenly departed from the ratio that the increase had already marked, and the latest account of the...

The report that Russia has absolutely refused, through Austria and Prussia, to accept the bases of negotiation laid down by the Western Powers and accepted by Austria, is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. , TrE Russian Czar may look across the Continent to the encain- I ments near B3oulogne, and see the French Monarch from whom he withheld his Imperial...

All eyes are turned towards Sebastopol. That is the point at which the next action is to take place, and the action lies entirely with the Western Powers. It is probable that...

T.In Spain, by the exertion of firmness, aided, no doubt, by the respect which his consistency and probity have procured, Espartero has succeeded in greatly strengthening his...

3*li5uIIaun u 5. I The cholera has vastly increased since the last returns of the Registrar-General were publlished. His most re-aut return has great interest for all. " Il...

PARIsIAN' THEATmscAs. M. Thibaudeau, whose management of the TLeAtre du Taudeville was signalized by astounding successes and ultimate failure, is aucceeded by M. Louis Boyer,...

littrro tu tbt thitur. ON PROMOTION IN THE carX. 22d AUgust 1854. Siu-As I am inclined to believe that if the future promotion of officers in the Armv be carried out upon the...

w'rl4ve.tt Little has happened since this day week to expand the theatriefal thro. nicke. The production of Cymbdine at Sadler's Wells, creditable but not remarkable, serves...

Mr. Sloman, the carpenter of Drury Lane Theatre, who procured the arrest and detention of Madame Caradori and Signor Pavesi, by making an affidavit that they were about to fly...

The official returns of the number of visitors to the Crystal Palace, during I the week ending yesterday, show that the Palace sustains its attraction-the number was 43,7162. A...

BELL'S EDITION OF WYATT'S POEMS.* THE true claim of Wyatt to his poetical reputation seems to rest on the fact that he was the first modern-English poet; for although he and...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY. The Morning Chronicle correspondent at Varna, in a letter dated the I 24th August, gives some interesting details of the expedition fitting out at that...

Every year, Sheffield inaugurates its Master Cutler with a great ban- quet-" the Cutler's Feast." This year the celebration of Mr. Thomas Moulson's assumption of the office was...

TIjt Cnurt. ON his departure from Osborne for Boulogne, on Monday evening, Prince Albert was accompanied on board the royal yacht by the Queen, who returned to Osborne in the...

r hr 3~rtrnpulni. A Medical Council of the Board of Health, which has been appointed by Sir Benjamin Hall, held its first sitting on Wednesday. The Council consists of the...

I?r :V, ruidurn. Beverley seems true to its late representative, notwithstanding his disgrace. The Reform Association of that town has unanimously passed a resolution deeply...

BOULOGN E. THrE visit of Prince Albert to the camp at Boulogne sets the ingeuious, whether amongst readers or writers, upon the search for historical parallels. Although the...

RAILWAY CONCUSSION: A PALLIATIVE. Sm-The recent notice in your paper of an accident which happened to an excursion-train from Dover, as well as the frequent notices of a like...

SOMERSET HrOUSE STOPS THE WAY. Sm-Public attention has been directed lately to the want in our naval service of steamers of light draught of water capable of carrying heavy...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THANKSGIVING FOR THE HARVEST. TirE demand for a day of thanksgiving on account of the abundant harvest is so natural that it can scarcely be refused. If, as...

BOOKS. KAYE'S LIFE OF LORD METCLLFE.* CHARLES Lord Metcalfe was rather a valuable public servant-an able administrator and a judicious ruler-than a great statesman. I That he...

(~rjr 3Iruil. RESULTS OF THE WINDISOR COURTS-MARTIAL. [On Tuesday, the Mlarrniny C('ronicle covered nearly one of its large pages with dociments arising out of this portentous...

TWO NOVELS. The Pride of Life is not equal to The Henj)ecXked Husband of the same authoress. In that novel, the illustration of weakness in yielding to a wife, if not a more...

PROGRESS OF CORRECTIONAL DISCIPLINE. LASTING and progressive, we trust, will be the action not only of the statute called the Youthful Offenders Act, but of the principles...

iuf 3 rts. THE MEDIEVAL COURT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE. - If any architecture may be safely left, without description or criticisW, to the feelings of those who contemplate its...