12 MAY 1849, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

ENGLAND IN THE WEST. FORTUNE favours the Manchester school. As the potato-rot helped them to a repeal of the Corn-laws, so another triumph seems coming to them by means of......

Irish Weakness.

SELF - SEBEING is apt to be suicidal in its results, but in Ireland the suicide stands so close upon the original act that to any people with faculties less perversely trained......

The Farm School At Redhill.

WHILE acknowledging the excellence of the institution, the neighbours of the Farm School which the Philanthropic Society is establishing at Redhill have taken alarm at certain......