MECISTE11S have &cupied the public eye and mind to an extent which perhaps they scarcely hoped. If they appear at a public dinner, they are received with a welcome which must...

LORD STANLEY ON INDIAN POLICY. The custom of entertaining Ministers at City banquets is useful to them. It enables them to speak their minds if they are disposed to do so; a...

PUBLIC MEETINGS. The silence of Ministers, when everybody else is speechmaking, is a subject of remark. There have been of late meetings of many kinds, as our report will show,...

The proceedings of the Association have been brought to an end this week by excursion trips in the neighbourhood of the place of meet- ing. The members visited Harrowgate,...

The Mayor of Liverpool entertained Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sara , wak, on Monday, and invited the leading shipowners and magnates to meet him, in order that he might have an...

The Queen and the Prince Consort have driven out, among other places near Balmoral, to Alt-na-Gusach, Lochnagar, and the falls of the Quoich; Mr. Walpole accompanying them. The...

Mr. Walter Buchanan and Mr. Dalglish, the Members for Glasgow, met their constituents on Monday, and, for the benefit of the latter, went over the leading incidents of last...

The old Irish habit of extravagance, under the name of hospitality, appears still to have its devotees. The Limerick Chronicle mentions a ease in point. eA landed proprietor,...

plum—The Emperor and Empress have returned from Biarritz. They arrived at St. Cloud on the 29th September. Prince Napoleon left Paris on the 26th for Warsaw. He had just...

REFORM BILLS. The Ballot Society, through their committee, have called our attention to a draft bill to establish the ballot. It is impossible to print this docu- ment in...

The Commissioners transferred themselves to Weedon itself on Tues- day, and continued their investigations on the spot. They inspected the wliole of the departments and...

On the 2d September, at Gibraltar, Florence, the youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas Turton, Bart.; in her 19th year. On the 2Jth, at his residence, Marlborough Buildings,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A decided improvement has this week been apparent in all departments of the Stock Exchange. English Securities are steadily and firmly...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY. For some time it was supposed that the seats in Parliament rendered vacant by the appointment of Members to the Council of India could not be filled until...

On the 19th August, at Flowerfield, Coleraine, county Derry, the Wife of S. Law- rence Cox, Esq., of a son. On the 20th September, at the Hotel de l'Ecu, Geneva, Lady Mordaunt,...

Hon William George Grey, II.M.'s Charge d'Affaires, to Theresa Catherine, only daughter of Major-General Count Stediugk. Inspector-General of Cavalry in Sweden. On the 23d, at...

At the Surrey Theatre, which opened under its proper managers and for its proper season on Monday last, we have one of those attempts to make a suburban population digest...

L The following is an Abstract of the gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods, ended September 30, 1858, compared with the...

CHURCH-RATES AND CHURCH QUESTIONS. WE should prefer, if there is to be a church agitation, that it did not turn upon mere questions affecting property. Whatever new adjustments...

THE governing powers of Europe appear to be labouring under something like a lucid interval. The disposition at the moment seems to be one for the better, but it also tends to...

TICE advocates of the sale and purchase of commissions in the Army have recently crowed not a little at the easy victory which Lord Panmure's Committee of Inquiry obtained over...

Mn. ADDERLEY'S downright assertion that the Liberals, specially so called, have "no tenant-right" in Parliamentary Reform, has been interpreted to imply a claim on the estate...

REPRESENTATIVE institutions are on their trial in a fashion som what different from that contemplated by Prince Albert : tn ere e " are signs of a disposition to try them in...

A N English journal and a Sardinian statesman have marked out ne w guarantees for the independence and power of the press. The 2ymes has made an opportune protest against an...

IN the classic pages of David Urquhart, or in the description of the last Eastern traveller, you read how delicious is the Eastern practice of the bath ; how renovating are its...

we had a series of papers on the condition of the soldier. We proceeded mainly, though by no means ex- clusively, on the Report of the Royal Commission ; and we then took...

Jr there be one thing more than another which seems to require constant repetition, it is that in nine out of every ten cases of epidemics the disease may be prevented, if the...

CHTIRCH-PROPERTY. Sra — I beg to thank Sir Arthur Elton for the courtesy with which he has noticed my letter, and request a short space for reply. He does not deny that his...

Bra—As Sir Arthur Elton has taken up the cud g els on behalf of his own resolutions, I will leave to him to discuss the immediate practical q uestion with your correspondent who...

readers must all feel much obli g ed to a28"Politicali SetebDeisrerntz.r for havin g drawn from Sir Arthur Hallam Elton the candid and lucid state- ment of his views contained...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1883 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 28. Ban krupts-AVnauxSssrrir , Greyhound Yard, Smithfield, gas-meter-manufac- turer-Fru-we LAWSON, Howland Street, Fitzroy Square,...

PEON THE LONDON GAZETTE SEPTEMBER. 28. WAN OFFICE, Pall Mall, September 28.-Infantry-Coldstream Regt. of Foot 0 j _ t . • A Spittall, M.D. to be Assist-Surg, vice Phipps, dec....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 28. ADEIRALTY, September 11.-Corps of Royal Marines-Gent. Cadet E. E. Hill to be Second Lieut.

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the once of lows MAT - golf, 17, Bonverie Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriam. in the City of Jsindon ; and Published by the aforesaid Josarn...

OCTOBER 2, 1858. BOOKS. CARLYLE'S LIFE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. * Wr give an early welcome to these volumes. Their appearance is not only the event of the publishing...

book of Mr. Jeaffreson on ac- count of the novelists whose lives he has omitted. To this charge he has replied in effect, that to include every English writer of prose fiction...

they prefer other national poets to Longfellow. But the Anglo-Saxon world does not agree with them. Wherever the English language is spoken Longfellow stands forth " longo...

the weeds and wild flowers of our country, Lady Wilkinson has combined, in a very agreeable manner, the poetry and the pleasures of flowers, as well as the profit that may be...

A STOTHARD MEMORIAL. Thomas Stothard, the pure-hearted and gentle-minded, and (except Lawrence) perhaps the only British painter of his period whose name and works are still...

We take the opportunity at this the stagnant semen of art-develop- ment in London, of calling our readers' attention to a very useful—we mng ht almost say at the present day...

BOOKS. History of Friedrich the Second, called Frederick the Great. By Thomas Car- lyle. Vols. I. and II. Faults on Both Sides. By Mrs. Thomson, Author of "Anne Boleyn," &c. In...

A controversy which excited a far wider than local interest, and of which we took count at the time was fermenting last winter at Liver- pool. The Fine Art Academy oethat town...

Almost all London probably passes through the Strand at some time or other within a quarter of a year. If so, all London must be by this time aware that a picture-dealer in that...

TIONARY ERA.—" The second season of the Reformation, though treated now with unmerited disparagement, was not less worthy of admiration than the first. High Churchmen may be...