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Mr. Charles Green Junior, Emulous Of His Falter, Ascended...

from Stepney, in a new balloon, the Albion, for a trip to the Coutinent. He was accompanied by a Mr. Bradley. The balloon sailed away gently towards the Sussex coast.......

A "terrific Explosion " Startled The Inhabitants Of...

nine o'clock last night : the pavement in Middieton Street was torn up and the report was heard as far as King's Cross, half-a-mile off. It is supposed that gas had escaped into......

The Importation Of Fresh Pine-apples In A High State Of

perfection from the West India Islands, is a new feature in commerce. This has been conducted on a large scale by a mercantile house, and the effect is that the fruit can be......

Topics Of The Day.

WHAT WE THINK OF OUR NEIGHBOURS. IT would be well could people, if not exactly according to the wish of the Scotch poet, "see themselves as others see them," yet see themselves......

The Packet-ship Roscius Arrived At Liverpool Late Last...

intelligence from New York to the 26th July. There had been a riot at Kingston in Canada, on the 12th. Some Orange lodges had been celebrating the anniversary of the battle of......

The Following Anecdote Is Sent To The Times By An

ear-witness, " A. B."— • " A decent farmer's wife, travelling up to town f-om Oxford, addressed a gentleman opposite to her—' Ah, Sir, these arc sad times : what is to become of......

Money Market.

STOCK Excti8N08. FRIDAY AFPIERN008. The decline in the exchanges noticed in our last has not continued; a com- plete change having taken place; and on Tuesday last the rise in......