... Napoleon when speaking of the influence exercised the newspaper editor, made this forcible remark — journalist a giver of advice, regent of sovereigns, tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a hundred thousand bayonets. ...

... The First Locomotive.—Such was the origin and early condition of the railway. We must now shortly speak of the motive power employed on these rude tramways. Till within half a century of the present time animal power was solely employed to move the waggons ...

... not allowed by the laws of France to speak at a public meeting—(hisses from the left)—I ask permission to do so as an act of courtesy from the president (Hisses.) It appears, Mr. President, that are prohibited to speak English at this meeting by some clause ...

... of sorrowful meditation, the drapery broadly cast, and yet as a whole the picture is weak ; —of the latter we hesitate to speak all we think, because we have heard that it was executed in haste, and without time for the exercise of the taste and judgment ...

... improvement which yo« are so desirous of promoting.—(Loud cheers.) Referring to those improvemeats of internal communication, speak not merely of the introduction of those great modes of communication which recent times have produced, and whieb, hawever ...

... SWAIN. 80 mournfully she gazed on him As her heart would break ; Her silence more upbraided him Than all her tongue might speak! So mournfully she gazed on him, Yet answer made she none ;— But tears that could not be repressed, Fell slowly, one one. I ...

... until the close of the London exhibitions, we should stand a better chance of procuring works of a better class. Generally speaking, Liverpool can boast of greater names, and'more important pic tures—and why ? that we leave to the consideration of those ...

... HARGREAVES CHORAL SOCIETY. The last concert of the late season, or, to speak by programme, the sixth concert of the sixth series, was given in the Free Trade Hall on Thursday evening. the usual disposition of the society's performances\his should have ...

... chair. The letter of the pope in reference to the Irish colleges was read, and ordered to be entered in the minutes. The speaking was principally monopolized by Mr. Jno, O'Connell, on whose suggestion a special meeting of the association was fixed for ...

... once declared to the celebrated comic actor, P° t,er ' that one, two, or even three prizes, were assigned destiny, generally speaking, to every man but that she could not tell when and where any particular person f or t u nate numbers would be drawn, without ...

... and housed, how would such as he dare to stand forward and speak ? A working man when urged to remedy this state of things, might say, What csn I do? I have no voice, no talent for speaking; but working men must not be lowered in their own estimation ...

... men only feel! «ut Jesus looked upon the scene of death, And marked the negro's last expiring breath bustamed that breath to speak a parting word— An humble witness for his gracious Lord— And bade him, like the dying Prince of Heaven Pray that his murderers ...