ttmttr to tin ORitur. RIX 1: OXONIENSES. SIR-F. A. F.'s indination at the triumph awaiting Lord Derby at Ox- I ford is highly laudable; but it can scarcely be said to be...

4tIh Octobcc- 1852. 1 Sn-You and the world in general are quite mistaken about Lord IDerby's I election as Chancellor of Oxford. Exoteric observers suppose that it is a...

A CHANCELLOR'S SOLILOQUY. Walk'd o'er the course at Oxford !-''pon my word, They're not such blunderers that Hcbdomadal Board. j " Defend mne from my friends! " at first I...

5t3 Octolber 152. { STR-Whi]e I agree with Tou in the main on the question of the Oxford I Chancellorship, there are one or two points on which 1 think you, and some of your...

As in this country, so abroad, the events consist less of deeds than prognostics. In France, " Napoleonic ideas" are rising witli. all the signs of an approaching climax. Louis...

An heiress convinced beyond concealment that the man of. her- choice is by no means a creditable match, but committed to6 far' to retract, and therefore obliged to go through...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. mm. JoHN BRIGHT has the honour, for the week, of occupying the most conspicuous position, as the leader of something which the general flatness of the...

According to a very general wish, it is understood that Parlia- ment will meet earlierthan the original announcement, tiking a week out of October to allow time for the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. NEW TRENCH PIECE ADAPTED AT THE WESTMINSTER THEATRE. THiE approaching recognition of his Imperial Majesty Louis Napoleon by the Court of St. James's,...

LORlD DERPBYS LAST STAND IN CANADA. A GOOD general always tries to choose his own ground, but when he has a free choice he never would choose the verv worst that lie could take...

REUBEN' MEDLICOTT.* TnE proverbial ill success of didactic fiction may arise from this: instead of selecting a story which contains the moral, writers force a moral into a...

frll'4f '94fatrio. I We observe with regret that the manager of the Princess's is entering upon what seems to us a doubtful line of policy. Hie has done so much that is...

I Drury Lane has fulfilled its threat, by reopening with a wretched com- panv, composed of utter strangers to&the Metropolis, who do not even pretend to anything like acting....

We have received a letter, dated " Queen's Prison, 8th October," and signed " G. II. De S. N. Plantagenet Harrison," stating the case of the writer in reply to our notice of...

The IHaymarket and the Adelphi both opened on Monday, without the production of any novelty; the reappearance of Madame Celeste at tMe latter, after a year's absence, being...

An extensive robbery was committed Last night or this morning at the premises of Mr. Jones the watchmaker, Post-office, Strand.

SCOTLAND. Towards the close of her Highland sojourn, the Queen has been somewhat incommoded by the weather. Nevertheless, she drove out last week, among the passes towards...

IRELAND. The Free-traders and Liberals of Belfast gave a dinner in honour of Mr. John Bright, on Monday last. Mr. Robert Grimshaw presided; and among the company were Mr. Kirk...

POSTSCRIPT. SITURDAY. I A letter from Aberdeen announces that the Prince Albert arrived at that port from the Arctic Seas on Thursday. She brings no accounts of Sir John...

I President Bonaparte arrived at Agen on Wednesday; and cmbarkcd next day on the Garonne for Bordeaux; which he reached in the afternoon. There is no variation in the character...

HOW TO STOP THE RAILWAY-ACCIDENT SYSTEM. Ii nakedness, the character of the railway accident at Aynho, on the new .Birmingham. branch of the Grcat Western Railway, has never...

AINTI-CHOTLERAIC FORTRESSES AND FIELD-WORKS. ALTIMOUGH it is far too late to take precautions for preventing the lodgment of cholera amongst us for a season should it be...

Migallaurnuo. We mentioned last week, on the authority of an Edinburgh paper, that the Queen would leave Balmoral and arrive in Edinburgh on Monday next. It is now reported...

I SOLDIERS AND THE ROMISH PRIESTS IN IRELAND. THE recently-published correspondence between the Reverend P. Conway and the Irish Commander-in-chief, respecting the withdrawal...

THE AWINE-DUTIES. To supply raw material for manufacture in the newspapers, seems to be the object to which Parliamentary Committees now direct their industry; and one of the...

Ti B3Irtrnpu I5. The Committee of the Common Council of the City of London, appointed to inquire as to the most fitting way of honouring the memory of the late Duke of...

In Colonial affairs, the greatest of the events is one still within I the domain of rumour. Not that the official correspondence about the Clergy Reserves in Canada belongs to...

BOOKS. LEAR'S JOrBNAL OF A LANDSClPE-PAINTER IN CALABRIA.'R . CAI-AMABRI is about the least known and the most primitive country in Europe, without excepting the Adriatic...

,futrigu auu Cn1nuiaI. FRANc.-Returning from Toulon to Marseilles on the 29th September, on board the Napoleon, President Bonaparte set out at once for Aix; passing through...

-MORLEY'S PALISSY THE POTTEERD. THE name of Bernard Palissy is familiar to the amateur of ornamental art, as the originator of a style of pottery that perished with him; the...

'Ar Vrnuiurro. The Surrey farmers had their field-day and ploughing-matcb, near Epsom, on Tuesday. The dinner in the evening drew together three of the County Members and...