... is too important to need any apology for returning to it; even if the dreadful examples that have since occurred, did not again force it upon us. That the necessity of some addition to the personal security of the weaker sex is urgent, may be seen by any one who merely looks at the frequent of outrage that disgrace our police-courts. The cases there exhibited to the public gaze, even the ...

... CHILDREN AT ST. PAUL'S. Yesterday, the meeting of the charity children of the metropolitan parishes took place at St. Paul's Cathedral. The numbers were estimated between 8,000 and 10,000. When they were all assembled, the scene was extremely beautiful; and when they commenced singing the 100 th Psalm, their united voices produced a sublime effect. The psalms were chanted tne gentlemen of the ...

... the Hoard of Trade, the business, we suppose, may now be considered settled on the basis therein laid down. Our views on the character of this settlement having Icen given when the minute was published, little remains to added on the final act of the performance. We cannot however wholly pass over the concluding decision of a question of great importance, to the progress of which we have given ...

... to the order of the House of Commons, is now before us. The number of accidents is 116; of persons killed 73; of persons injured 84. These numbers taken by themselves, afford no means of estimating the comparative risk or safety of railway travelling, or the extent of care or negligence evinced by railway companies. In order to arrive at conclusions that can be relied upon, they ought to be ...

... A lecture on and in behalf of the ragged schools for the destitute poor was delivered yesterday evening by the Iter, ltobt. Ainslie, at the Literary and Scientific institution in Aldcrsgatc-strcet. The theatre of the institution was not well filled should have wished to have seen it, but the audience was of a most respectable nature. After short but fervent prayer, The Rev. Mr. Ainslie rose ...

... Saturday, numerous meeting of the shareholders of the Great North and South Wales and Worcester Railway- Company was held at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Greshamstrcct, for the purpos-c of agreeing not to nay an additional deposit of 1/. per share, which had been called for by the directors to enable them to go to parliament. Mr. Josiah Jl.vtes, tff the shareholders, was called to the chair. ...

... plain reason that they are a faction. Fiercely intent upon an object which they believe to involve both their pecuniary interests and their political importance, they are deafer than any adder to the voice of the charmer. Appeals to reason, facts, and human feelings, pass by them like the idle wind which they regard not. But the influence of that speech upon the public mind is beyond their ...

... and perturbations. are sorry to declare our belief that there is no such cloud of dense and dark ignorance in any part of the civilised world, as in some parts of Ireland. To inquire with whom the responsibility of this lies, is to open the complicated question of Irish misgovcrnment. But of one thing arc certain : tho main guilt of the Irish peasant does not lie at the cabin-door. The ...

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... Tuesday Evening was altogether a remarkable day on the Stock Exchange. The downward tendency in the valm- public securities, which for weeks past had continued almost without intermission, has been succeeded an unexpected and rather extraordinary reactior Consois closed yesterday at 93J 4i for money, and acco V nt next mouth), with the prospect of further depression fi-om the predominant ...

... name of the lady who met with the fatal acculent combe, recorded yerterday m the but Murphy, and she was the wife of Mr. of Woolwich. The person who met his death at time was the policeman of the station, named rick Shaw. On Tuesday evening inquest was held.on bodies the Gardeners' Arms, Balcombe, the particulars we transcribe from the Brighton Clarke, the manager of the line, and Mr. HoweU, ...

... Ayr.—Commission the Lord Lieutenant.—R. Crichton, gent., to be ensign, vice R. Mackay, promoted. Wigtown.—Commission by the Lord Lieutenant. —E. H. Maxwell, Esq., to be captain, vice E. Stewart, resigned. Inverness.—Commissions bt the Lord Lieutbnant. —J. Gordon, Esq., younger, to be captain, vice J. R. Dunn' resigned; Hon. J. Grant, to be captain, vice W. Mackenzie, deceased. ...