... -~ween the hours of ten a.m. on Tuesday and the same hour CU Wednesday, not fewer than ten fires oc- curred in the metropolis, which kept the firemen and engines duringthatperiodincontinued movement. One fire took place at 3 Tennis-court, Middle-row, Holborn, belonging to Mr. J. Quain, a carpenter. It commenced in the cellar, in which a Quantity of shavings were de- posited. Timnely ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-On the 7th instant you published a letter from your correspondent, Alfred, upon the above subject. Every person whose mind is properly and justly consti- toted, and who looks upon any questionwith an unbiasied eye, will exclaim with Alfred, that the granting of a license at the corner of Wellington-street, Strand, and within two doors of Mr. Spilman's, ...

... THnimE is a baker whose temper is so fiery, that he heats hlis own oven with it; and his. customers say the biscuits'are always crisp and the rolls crusty. PHILo~OPMY.-A luxury of reason for the use of the lucky; but which can do nothing for the unlucky. SAM,- said a mbotber, to one Of her wery obedient sons one day, how many logs have you sawed, eh?' Why, marm, when I get this and ...

... )Ve have never been slow to praise the Swedish Nightingale. The new Queen of Song has had all tle homage we can pay to her as a mortal, for she is but human after all. She sings very like an angel, no doaabt, and has other heavenly attributes; but there is something incomprehensible about her just norw. What is she going to do in the way of singing ? is the general question, and we do not see ...

... DUBLIN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. ZONTEMPT OF cOURT AND COMMITTAL OF MDt. JAMES MARTIN. Mr. James Martin, brother of Mr. John Martin, the p ,oprietor of the Irish Felon, having been called, and appeared at the bar, ad r atn TPrhe Chief Baron addressing him said Mr. Martin, the foremals of the jury who tried your brother has Men- tioned to the Court a circumstance which occurred upon the night that ...

... London.—Mr. Arnold, yesterday, went through the lists of the following parishes: St. Sepulchre, Bridewell precinct, St. Bride, St. Dunstan in the West, and the precinct of Whitefriars.—Mr Bright, M.P., who was on the list of St. Dunstan, in respect of the offices recently occupied by the League, at 67, Fleet-street, was objected to by the Tories. It appeared, from the evidence of a witness ...

... career last Saturday. No less than five newdaily and weekly publications are announced meet the demand of freshly created reading pablic of native growth, among others 11 Popelare, L'Ecfun del Tempo, II Ctmtentporaneoy and, perhaps, the most important of all La Giuritprudenza. This last journal is to be-modelled, on the Frendt Gazette Tribunaucr, and is the natural offshoot of a most vital ...

... who was in oar service in India, and, we believe, was compelled to quit it, is a benefit rendered not merely to the cause of truth, but to the mutual good understanding between the countries. Nothing has tended more strongly to keep up the ignorant hatred and prejudice of France against England, and of England against France, than the stupid falsehoods of persons who have written accounts of ...

... they do, and to give the utmost amount of belief to all they say. But when case presents two bodies of evidence in diametrical contradiction, —one furnished by an inspector, three seijeants, and four private constables of the police force; the other by number of witnesses, respectable in station, strangers to cach other, and not labouring under any suspicion of collusion with the accused or ...

... that the subject has not been taken by the new administration merely as a good cry for the country. The theme is prominent all the late electioneering addresses. Military training schools are being established for the fiist time since wc have had standing army. our dockyard schools a better mode of examination is introduced, and more substantial rewards are held out to the apprentices ...

... clo£d Joseph Henri, and preparing their verdict, after six hours' deliberation, was a sentence labour for life (travaux fords perpetuity) was not present when the judgment was and an officer of the court went immediatelv to V prison to communicate it to him. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Blanqui for Bordeaux, was admitted after short tion, and a protracted debate began on the of M. Dessaigne, ...

... ADELPHI.—This Evekixo, PAUL PRY. Messrs. Wright, Lambert, Selby, O. Smith, Cullcnford; and Miss Ellen Chaplin. To be followed by JUDGMENT OF PARIS; or, The Pas de Pippins; and ABRAHAM PARKER. Doors open at 64. PRINCESS'S.—THIS Evening, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Vining, Ryder, Compton, Barker; Madame Vestris; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Smithson, and Mrs. Foebrokc. To be ...