THE OBSTACLE TO A STRONG GOVERN'MENT. Manchester, 5!h September 1855. SiR-At the close of my last letter I promised to show, this week, how we might obtain a strong Government....

(TIA"DI Qfntrm A three-act piece, entitled The Man with Many Friends, works out for I the benefit of the Haymarket a moral, so often inculcated already, that if mankind has...

The imposing placards with which Mr. Anderson, the " Wizard-of theI North," has papered over the Metropolis prove the reverse of the flourish of trumpets that preceded the...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS. The marriage of Louis XV. with Maria Leckzinski, daughter of the * dethroned King of Poland, has furnished M. L6on Gozlan with the subject of a...

SUNDA.Y MUSIC FOR KENSINGTON GARDENS. 30th Auyust 1855. SiR-As one of those who would observe Sunday as "the Lord's Day," but not as a Jewish Sabbath, and who believe that the...

rrttrro tn ttf LE ? it Ur . TnE TIMES AND MR. ROEBUCK. SIR-In these days of huge shams and pretexts, and ostentation and hypocrisy, and swindling trading, and patriotic aping,...

,furripu flln fnInlnial, CRIFEA.-There are letters from the camp to the 27th of August. They report no new event, but depict a state of incessant activity on both sides. The...

IT 4 t J,? a r i 5 CE x Ij i h i t i n ii. T11E last two or three weeks will have leavened England with a considerable mass and variety of opinion as to the merits of the...

INDIAN TORTURE. TnE inquiry into the use of torture by persons officially employed in India has been productive of a great moral lesson. The torture is proved to be a flagrant...

THE RAILWVAY CRISIS. FOURTEEN MILLIONS sterling, and more, have been expended by about three-fourths of the Railway Companies in the United Kingdom. in obtaining acts of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. DISAPPOENTMENT in the Baltic and impatience in the East are the | grand characteristics that appear on the face of the week's intelligence. At the same time,...

At home, the season presents the usual suspension of public affairs in their routine, but with an uncommon activity in several domestic movements. The Queen is oft to the...

At the Bank meeting on Thursday, expectation was fulfilled by the enhancement of discount to four per cent. The step had been explained by anticipation, as partly designed to...

SIR CHARLES AND SIR JAMES. THAT which Sir Charles Napier needed when he was in command over the Baltic fleet, and which the Admiralty did not supply, has been made quite...

THE ARTILLERY EXAMINATION. WrE have this week a tabular statement of the results of the examinations for candidates seeking admission into the Artillery, the Royal Engineers,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE BALTIC QUESTION. WHAT is the reason for the perennial inaction in the Baltic? After two years' patience, the public is beginning to ask that really...

NAPLES. THE mutterings of Vesuvius are not more significant of an approaching eruption than the murmurs which prevail in the political society of Naples; and the agitation is...

A Turin despatch, dated September 7, states that " the Sardinian Lega- al tion accredited to Tuscany, has been recalled, on account of difficulties arising out of the...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY. j Lord Panmure communicates the following intelligence received yes- z terday from General Simpson. " Crimea, 5paniicr 3.-Our batteries opened fire at...

The annual Cutler's F cast took- place at Sheffield on Thursday, with I the usual ceremonies on the inauguration of the new Master Cutler-Mr. F'. T. Mappin,-and more than the...

GENERAL XLAPKA'S WAR IN TUE EAST.* WIrH the exception of Sir Howard Douglas's criticism upon the siege of Sebastopol, this volume is the most authoritative publication for its...

BOOKS. MACLEOD' S THEORY A-ND PRACTICE OF BANKING.* SOME thirty years ago was a time of dogmatism in political econo. my. The mathematically abstract mode of expounding the...

Visullaurguo. |A statement has been published, showing in a tabular form the results of the examinations for appointments to the Royal Artillery and Royal I Engineers, held at...

'T?4f 4houiurro. A long vexed question respecting the rights and authority of the University and of the Municipal body in the town of Cambridge was referred I some time ago to...

'T ?r 'RIrtroputio. The Assessors appointed by Sir George Grey to set out the new wards of the Metropolitan districts, under Sir Benjamin Hall's Metropolis Local Management...

,LrVr Cuurt. TIiE Queen left London for the North at half-past seven o'clock on Thursday morning; accompanied by all her family, and attended by a numerous suite. Lord...

MR. BRIGHT'S RITSSIAIq BRIGADE. a. Bi. 5th September 1855. Si-I cannot but think that your correspondent " An Old Leaguer" does gross injustice to the Free-trade party in the...

DECIMAL COINAGE. Allerton Priory, 31at Augtsst 1855. SiR-Your correspondent HI. has, in his letter on Decimal Coinage in the last number of the Spectator, attributed to me,...

SCOTLAND. I The annual competition of the Duke of Richmond's tenantry for agriIcultural prizes took place at Gordon Castle on Tuesday last week, and has been reported by the...

N E-V -NOYELS.* TirE theme of Tf-oman's Derotion is one that is as old as patient Grizel, and which has of late years, been much reproduced, with variations and improvements...