ScraNcE has usurped the foremost place in the popular regard this week, having summoned its representative meetings in va- rious parts of the country.- Early in the week, Lord...

London streets are subjected to repeated obstructions by authorities and public companies, obstructions productive of great inconvenience and expense. The subject has provoked...

PUBLIC MEETINGS. Political movement seems to be entirely confined to those gatherings which distinguish the British autumn, when the county Member meets his constituents at...

statue of Sir Isaac Newton at Grant- ham, on Tuesday, was celebrated with marked success. The monu- ment is the work of Mr. Theed the sculptor. It stands fourteen feet kigh, and...

Leeds, selected as the rendezvous of the British Associaiion this aa- tumn, began to fill with visitors on Monday. The earliest proceedings took place on Tuesday, when the...

The news from Balmoral continues to report the daily drives of her Majesty, and the assiduous attentions paid to the deer in her forests and the grouse on her moors by the...

It is rumoured that the Irish Government are about to prosecute Tipperary journal for reporting the flagitious and seditious speeches of the O'Donoughue and Father Kenyon at the...

frearr.—The Emperor, contrary to rumour, had not quitted Biarritz at the date of the latest advices received yesterday. Prince Napoleon, it is said, had been suddenly called...

THE WEEDON INQUIRY. The Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the manner in which the great military clothing depot at Wooden is and has been conducted, commenced its...

Some steps have been taken to ascertain the causes that have led to the failure of the Atlantic telegraph. The cable has been sub- jected to a series of testa by Mr. Varley, the...

mutiny at Portland has ap- peared in the Times from an "eye-witness." Hearing the convicts were expected to strike for wages, he went to Portland, pocketing a friendly revolver....

Young gentlemen, who detest young ladies they have never seen, merely because they are expected to marry them, are exceedingly useful to playwrights, however troublesome they...

SATURDAY. The great Boyne Hill confessional case was yesterday the subject of an inquiry in the Toumhall at Maidenhead before Commissioners ap- no i n r e d by the Bishop of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The extreme easiness of the Money Market and the enormous amount of bullion accumulating uninterruptedly at the Bank hits not yet succeeded in...

THE COMING REFORM BILL. IT is difficult to believe that the coming session of Parliament will result in orderly legislation upon so momentous a subject as Re- form or, indeed,...

1T is not three months since we had occasion to comment on Lynch-law at New Orleans. Now we have to remark on a de- monstration, otherwise essentially unlike, but still...

IF Peel had survived to this present year he would have had the finest opportunity that ever opened before him, grander even thee his acceptance of free trade or his adjustment...

GREAT services demand great recognition. The Indian war has been fruitful in heroic men and in heroic services. Had a series of occurrences been designed by some overruling...

" Jr a Government does enforce quarantine," says a correspondent of the Times writing from Malta, "it ought to make such ar- rangements in its lazarettos for the reception of...

WHAT do we know about the immortality of the soul, that we should doubt it ? As little as the rose-leaf beetle knows of the generation that comes after her, for whom a divine...

THERE are many agriculturists and working men who annually share a meal with the owner of the land on which they live, and at that annual dinner exchange, not only felicitations...

ABOLITION Or CHIJRCIi-ItATES. September 21st, 1858. Sni — If I understand aright the drift of a "Political Dissenter's" letter published in your last, he honestly admits, and I...

Sra—In the report of the Leeds Musical Festival, contained in your last number, it is said that the York Musical Festival "was crushed long since by the interference of clerical...

WINTER'S SIX MONTHS IN BRITISH BURMAII. * IF " the eye can only see what it brings the power of seeing," still more true is it that a man can only observe what the charac- ter...

in Parliament, died on the 16th, in his 74th year. He was the son of a Lon- don merchant engaged in the Baltic trade. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered...

grown to be a trait of the ambitious " tale" appears in Era Desmond in the three volumed novel. A whole chapter is devoted to the description of an Irish country-house and...

Yarra," and said his say on more prosaic life in "Howard Plunket," Mr. Kinahan Cornwallis has turned to a new trade, and succeeded better, we are happy t o find, in gold-seeking...

(Front the 9th September.) Rocas. The Courtship of Niles Standish, and other Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's protected edition. Studies of Christianity: A...

On.the 15th, at Naples, the Duchess of Castrovillari, of a son. On the 21st, at Eton, the Wife of the Rev. J. W. Hawtrey, of soon. On the 27th July ' at Courtallum, Madras...

On the 31st August, at Bad-Brackenau, in Bavaria, Mr. Andrew Shortrede, pro- prietor of the "China Mail." On the 10th September, at Gais, Switzerland, the Rev. Valentine Samuel...

FROM THE LONDON GAZRITE, SEPT. 21. WAIL OFFICE, Pall Mall, September 21.—Royal Engineers—Lieut.-Col. E. Frame, from the Seconded List, to be a Supernumerary Lieut.-Col....

On the 9th, at Coleshill, Warwickshire, Anne Eliza. second daughter of the Bey. John Wingfield Digby, to Iloratio Granville Murray Stewart, Eat., of Catty, Kirk- cudbrightshire,...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SF.PTEMBF.R 21. Partnerships Dissoleed.-Redgate and Co. Sneinton and Nottingham, lace-manu- facturers-Carson and Kilgonr, Liverpool, drysalters-Grime...

Ammar:re, Sept. 17.-In consideration of the successful operations on the Polio, as recorded in the Supplement to the London Gazette of the 27th of July 1858, the following...

BRITISH FUNDS. (ClosingPrices.) 3 Per Cent Consols Ditto for Account Redu tPer Cents ced ew 3 per c, nti Long Annuities Annuities 1885 ( 11 ::, k 133°3 k. Per Cent S tock...