The other delinquent in the French Railway fraud has been i arrested in the United States,-Grelet's colleague and principal, Charles Charpentier. His story is even more...

The collision of the week, on the North-Western Railway, al- I thoughi traceable to causes which might have been prevented, is more like an " accident " than many which have...

lcr'ljt enut. TjrF severity of this November weather has not deprived the Queen of those open-air exercises to which she is accustomed. With the Prinbess Royal, her Majesty has...

164t Vitrupotio. At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Thursday, Alderman Cubitt, Chairman of the Polioe Committee, brought up a report and moved that it should be...

The papers from the Cape of Good Hope throw a different I -colour upon the relations of the British colonists with the savages of the interior. Sir George Grey had struck out a...

,f ifit 5rt5. PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.* A series of public photographic portraits, valuable at present, will become more valuable with the lapse of years, subject to a few...

GENERAL FOX'S GREEK COINS.* The numismatic collection of General Fox, who has bestowed forty years' attention on the science, includes all the Bactrian coins of -fr. Burnes,...

'forrigu nfu~ cf"Onuiat. I raItrr.-Compiegne presents itself this week under two aspects. In one, all is festivity. Aomen sportsmen, dressed somewhat like vivandirsres and men...

During his stay at Manchester, Lord Palmerston received an iita- I tion to visit Liverpool; a request with which he promptly complied. Yesterday morning, the Towni-Council of...

I Monday is Lord Mayor's Show-day; and Mr. Finnis and fr. Sheriff Mcchi hale, between them, supplied some remarkable products of ancient and modern times to grace the...

POSTSCRYI PT. SATURDAY. I The Continental journals teem with evidences of the complication, of I which Austria is not sorrv to make the most; but some of the facts stated -if...

The Metropolitan Board of Works sat yesterday, mainly to decide on the plan for the Southlwark street-improvements. Various attempts were made to obtain from Mr. Thwaites some...

The Persia arrived at Liverpool yesterday afternoon, with advices I from New York to the 29th October. - The nervs is not of great moment. The Fremont party still talked of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. LORD PALMERSTON may retire when he pleases-he has won I Manchester, and the metropolis of manufactures is his own. The Premier met Manchester and Salford in...

When Edinburgh undertook to feast the soldiers of the dis- trict who had been in the Crimea, we might make sure that the Scottish capital would not only do credit to its...

The drama of the Danube has assumed intense interest this week, and now it promises to approach a happy ending. The Constittution nel has kept up a fire of " articles" on...

Never was Premier so lucky as Palmerston in patronage of the highest quality. He can bestow archbishoprics, bishoprics, and judgeships, with unprecedented profusion, for in his...

JFSTICE TO GREECE. ,lthens, 28th October 1856. Sit-A letter in y-our number of the 11th instant, dated Athens, and beaded " Two Sides to at Greek Story," demands an answer; for...

GOSSIP FROM BAVARIA. Muiicli, 3d .Noremibcr 1856. Winter has already come in 'Muaich. Fogs and increasing cold some days ago announced eits approach, and today we have had a...

THE MONITEUR AND THE ENGLISH PRESS. 5fth _Vonwiber6 1856 1 Sm-I can hardlv believe you are serious when you coiifess your ignorance of the journlls alluded to by the Je itwi...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. PARLIAMENTARY LNEFFICIENCY. THE phenomenon, noted of late very generally as a decline in the efficiency of Parliament, is a symptom affecting too important...

SCOTLAND. Each capital of the Three Kingdoms has now entertained large bodies of the Crimean soldiers; London taking the lead, and Edinburgh bringing up the rear. The banquet...

FRANCE IN RUSSIA. IF it should prove true that the contract for the Russian Railivays has been granted to French concessionaries, the fact is one of the most formidable that we...

ILLLUST1RA'ED BOOKS.* To "illustrate" a book well, has often the effect of putting out the reader, rather than enabling him to enter more sympathetically into his author's...

TWO GIFT-BOOKS.' SOME thirty years ago, when purely drawingroom literature began with the Annuals, the utmost that the mechanical ingenuity of that day could accomplish was an...

THREE -NOVELS.* HOLMiE LEE has attempted in Eatthie Brande a fiction with greater variety of characters and more complication of interests than in his previous tales. lIe has...

BOOKS. MRS. SPEIR'S LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA.* TIrE work of Mrs. Speir belongs to a class of books in which the pith of scattered and recondite information is brought together...

I JULLIEN'S OPERAHOUSE CONCERTS. 11er Majesty's 'Theatre, instead of the non-existent Covent Garden, is this season the locality of Jullien's concerts, just commenced; the...

PARISIA-N THEATRICALS. At the Variktes there is a new vaudeville, entitled La, Chasse atx Eeriteauix, the humour of which consists in the strange collisions that occur among a...

T-1 4r a r Tae Cavalier, originally produced about tw enty years ago, bears a I most decided imprint of its period. Twenty years ago, when the fsw-o theatrical patents were...

Irttas t o t I) r C II It ur. THE SPECTATOR' S TE]STING I)] VI SI ON-LIST. I I-i,,, Jl,, ' /,,i, , 3OUC,,,l temlc 3. SiR-Iii -our summai-Ny of Parliamentary Pri c,,iiig,, mV...

I At Drury Lane, the dramatic performances have been resumed for the |now closinl week; and Mr. Charles Mathews reappeared onl Monday, to the delight of all who witnessed his...

DEER-STALKING AND ANTI-DEER-STALKING. TiIE annual invasion of Scotland has been again attempted this year, with the annual defence of that unconquered kingdom. We do not mean...

THE ADMIRALTY AND THE COAST GUARD. AMONG the crowd of measures that received the Royal assent on the last day of the session, there was one entitled the Coast Guard Service...

J?ruui iIrifl 1. Lord Palmerston, accomrpanied hby Lady P almnrzton, has this woek paid his long-nieditated aisit to Ma.nc1lester. TIhe noble collide a-rived. on Tuesdav...

?i5t?tIauen U5. Sir John Jervis, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, whose health has for some time been impaired, died on Saturday night: he suffered from a fatal...

RECONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS. AN-OTHER change is to take place in the War Department. According to current report, the Under-Secretaryship is to beCceD perman'nt, at...