its winter positions and its national vice—drunkenness is habitual and pre- valent. Is not the simple fact a disgrace both to army and nation? Why is it suffered to continue ?...

character of the electioneering intrigue which induces some men to employ the opportunities of office in pandering to any prejudice that may exist against England, as a means of...

THE vacancies in the Cabinet are still unfilled, and the en- deavours to replace Sir William Molesworth and Lord Can- ning have been sufficiently protracted to draw attention...

to resist a reduction of wages ; a much more formidable sign than the " dear bread" demonstrations of the day, both be- cause more real and likely to be more extensive. There...

Union, by the leading promoters of the system of juvenile re- formation. The Union will have a central o ffi ce in London. It will give unity to the action of those who have...

Tax Qtreans has taken her usual drives, weather permitting ; and Prince Albert his exercise of shooting, once with Lord Palmerston, otherwise alone. Lord Raglan had audience of...

Yesterday was " Lord Mayor's Day " ; and brought with it •the cus- tomary civic proceedings—shorn, however, of the customary pageantry. The new Lord Mayor's procession was as...

As Mr. Macaulay, the President of the Edinburgh Philosophical In- stitution, could not attend to open its winter session on the 2d instant, t his place was filled by Sir John...

Earl Gifford was returned for Totnees on Monday, without opposition; Mr. Mackenzie retiring entirely from the contest. The new Member in- formed his constituents, that when he...

The-brief stay of the Lord-Lieutenant at Belfast has given great satis- faction to that mercantile community. Lord Carlisle went there osten- sibly to visit Lord Dufferin, and...

FRANCE. —Tho visits of European celebrities to the Court of Louis Napoleon continue. Yesterday week, the Emperor received at St. Cloud, Count Vilain XIV, Belgian Minister of...

Two Cabinet Councils have been held this week. One was the ordi- nary sitting on Monday ; which lasted three hours. The other was-an extraordinary sitting, yesterday ; which...

letter written by a lady of calm observation and sound judgment, from which we are permitted to make an extract. Speaking of an article on Prison Discipline in a recent number...

as Quartermaster-General of the British Army in the East. Colonel Herbert served with the Forty-third in the last Caffre war, and as As- sistant-Quartermaster-General to the...

SATURDAY. The festive gathering in the Guildhall last night to inaugurate the reign of Lord Mayor Salomons was attended by several Cabinet-Minis- ters, Diplomatic...

when some papers with promising titles are to be road. The -Royal Geographical Society will open its winter session= Monday:;_ when some papers with promising titles are to be...

the ascendant singu- lar things befal him. Yesterday the workpeople of "Christy and Co.'s hat-manufactory, Bermondsey,' presented him with an address, and en Admiral's hat !...

is to leave Marseilles on the 1st December, remain three weeks in Egypt, and then sail for Calcutta. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland embarked at Dublin on Thursday, for...

little aided by contemporary wit, have betaken themselves to a rummage of old stores ; and the result of their search shows that, as in the case of .Alad- din, old lamps may...

Ambleside, 31st October 1865. Six—Through the pages of your journal allow me to call attention to the Medical Officers of the Army at present serving in the Crimea, the Sur-...

1, an- nounces that Colt's revolvers have arrived in that city in " immense quantities,"

THE PEACE AND THE WAR DISPUTANTS. Snt—I regret that you should deem me to evince a violent and bitter - for I value your opinion. The growing misery of the war, the dubious...

Garden Theatre ; which he has fitted up for the purpose in the same way as at this time twelvemonth, with the addition of a new dress-circle: . of open boxes, projecting in...

STOCK EXCHANOZ, FRIDAY APTIINOON. Confidence in the monetary position of the country is increasing : towards the establishment of which, has been the knowledge, that the...

Manchester, 7th November 1855. SIR—A few remarks made by Mr. Putnam, at a recent meeting of book- sellers and authors in New York, induces me to believe that the time has at...

Belfast, 6th November 1855. Sin—In my last letter I spoke of the necessity of transferring dime 'functions of Parliament which are really administrative to a department of...

4 1rle .Bury, 29th October l855. Sin—There is a point relating to the last news from the North Pacific which I think will interest you, and to which it seems important to draw...

MR, COBDEN'S FACTS AND FALLACIES. MB. COBDEN has so often lent the weight of his single politied success to give substance to fallacious bubbles, that his authority has, in a...

Sin—As nothing is so rare in England as just opinions or authentic inform- ation respecting the affairs and sentiments of the nations of the Continent, I venture to send you...

TEE letter of Mr. George Seovell to the electors of Southwark points directly to the spot at which administrative reform is most necessary. Mr. Scovell, who had apparently been...

Tire special coalition between Lord Palmerston's Cabinet as it stood and Lord Stanley, heir-apparent to Lord Derby, has mis- earried. Strange to say, however, it is the weaker...

" KNOWLEDGE is power," writes the philosopher, with a flourish ; but ten to one, if you place before him the things about which he knows, and ask him to do with each that which...

Dv whatever cause incited, the disorders in India call upon the Government to pursue one course which is simple, uniform, and obvious,—it is to overrule the anomalies which...

BAN ON THE SENSES AND THE INTELLECT.. PSYCHOLOGY has been gradually growing into a reasonable study, from which a man of sense may derive pleasure and instruction. Being an...

effort, we do not understand The Mystic, we shall not pretend to give any ac- count of it, or to pass any judgment upon it beyond what is in- volved in 'this statement of fact....

the Three Kingdoms the age of clubs. Men not only lived but carried on the business of life in taverns. The physician could be " seen " by his patients at his coffeehouse ; the...

school of novels, which professed to paint daily life in order to impress a moral on the reader by the attraction of a tale. Edgeworth, Opie, Hof- land, Austen, and others,...

Boom. Ix spite of wet, war, and the coming volumes of Macaulay, the publishers are beginning the winter season with more spirit than might have been ex. pected under such...

THE CRYSTAL PALACE. OH Saturday last the Directors of the Crystal Palace opened to the pub- lic a collection of the Works issued by the Arundel Society, with original drawings,...

Wife of the Rev. W. B. Harrison, of a son. . On the 2d, in Moray Place, Edinburgh, Lady Milliken Napier, of a eon and heir. On the 3d, at Bedgebury Park, Kent, Lady Mildred...

WAR-omen, Nov. 9.—Cavalry--3d Regt. of Drag. Guards—Lieut. J. W. J. Gif- ford, from the 12th Light Drags. to be Lieut. without purchase. 7th Drag. Guards—Capt. C. W. Thompson...

ADMIRALTY, Oct. 26.—Corps of Royal Marines—To be Second Lieuts.—G. L. Top- man, Gent. Cadet; G. H. Elliot, Gent. Cadet; W. W. G. B. Willis, Gent. Cadet; G. W. Oliver, Gent....

[From the Official Return.] Ten Weeks of 1845-'34. Week of 1865. Zymotic Diseases 268.3 .... 227 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat • 43.9 .......

iron-founders —Coldwell and Sons, Wakefield, worsted - spinners ; as far as regards R. Coldwell — D. and J. Jones, Festiniog, Merionethshire, drapers—J. T. and W. R. Woolston,...

SHARES. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) RAILWATI—. Bristol and Exeter 86 Caledonian 57/ Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties se Great...