11 SEPTEMBER 1852, page 16

A Ra Tlway Hint For Next Spring.

AMONGST other clear and tangible defects in the railway plans, is the want of some contrivance as a substitute for the stage-coach top. In the old stage-coach you could " ride......

Portugal And Her Patron.

QUITE unintentionally, we have ruffled the Junonian serenity of our great contemporary. In describing the flatness of our times as it was illustrated by certain manifestations......

Books.

FOURIER'S PASSIONS OF TSB HUMAN' sour..• THE first impulse by which a tolerably sane mind is moved after reading a few pages of the work, so delusively entitled The Pas- sions......

Scottish University Tests: The Glasgow Professorship Of...

THE recent death of Professor Thomson of Glasgow, and the con- sequent vacancy in the chair of Chemistry, have called forth an ex- posure of the existing test system in the......