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THE ELECTIONS

... KILDARE. On Saturday the nomination took place. The Marquis of was proposed by the Right Hon. R. M. O'Ferrall, seconded Mr. Roberts.—Mr. Barton proposed Mr. R. 8. Bourke, Mr. Carter seconded the nomination. Mr. H. Orattan, M.P., proposed, and the Rev. G. Doyle, .P., seconded, Mr. J. A. O'Neill. A poll was demanded, and fixed commence on Monday, the result which will be seen in another column. ...

Commerce is the life of England. Credit is the life of commerce. Retail trade, it is tru >, runs great

... measure upon ready money; but much is done even over the counter, in which no other coin passes than the demand of the customer, and the bow and smirk of the shopman, as the article is rapidly selected, weighed, packed, and pushed across. If we pass from the bustling shops of Oxfordstreet or the Strand to the more retired walks of Mammon, those narrow and silent alleys of the City, ...

As we anticipated, we have had several eommuri jations condemnatory of the present system of hospital ..

... not one exculpa:ory. We shall, therefore, recur to the subject. :urning to the report of the Commission on Charities, ippointed by the House of Commons, we find full letails of the wealth, government, number of patient, other particulars, with regard to St. Thomas's' ind some other London hospitals; and we are glad to find that our own view of the matter is that, which, , almost every ...

MOSUL, Nov. 15. Three years ago, Europe learned with horror that Kurd chieftain, named llederhan Bey, had mass& ..

... Christians in the mountains of Kurdistan. The claims of the surviving brethren of these murdered men upon the sympathies of Christendom were disguised the sectarian denomination of Nestorians. Who were the Nestorians ? Some affirmed they were the lost tribes of Israel; others assigned a different origin. What appeared certain was, that they were the only people in Asia who spoke the pure ...

Fine Arts

... A Gallery of British Art proposed.—The Society of Arts, hear, are about to revive their ancient custom of exhibiting pictures in their great room. They propose to make, once in the year, a collection ihe works of some eminent living painter—to charge for admission to the exhibition—and apply the profits to giving a commission for a picture to the painter whose works are exhibited, to be ...

Music

... Her Majesty's Theatre.—The Queen went in state to the theatre last evening, when Jenny Lind appeared in Norma. It is hardly necessary to say that the house was crowded to overflowing in every part. Her Majesty entered her box precisely at eight o'clock, attended by a -numerous suite. On her appearance the whole audience stood up, and received her with loud and prolonged cheers. The curtain ...

IRELAND

... _. .. Dublin, Not. 27. The week which hag elapsed has been one of the most quiet and orderly Ireland has enjoyed for some months. Whether this improved condition is owing to the session of parliament and the prospect of remedial applications, or to the more efficient working of the poor law, which is gradually gaining on the general distress, it is difficult to say ; but the result is clear ...

NEWS FROM INDIA

... (From the Timea.) We have received by extraordinary express Bombay papers aad correspondence to the 13th ult., brought the Moozutfer steamer, despatched to Suez to convey the new governor-general (Lord Dalnousie) to Calcutta. The following is the letter of our correspondent : Bombay, Nov. 12. —The news from India is not remarkable. Peace prevails in the British territories Lord Hardinge is ...

Fine Arts

... The National Gallery.—lt is now certain that Mr. Vernon, the well-know connoisseur, has given his celebrated collection of pictures of the British school to the British psoplc, and that soon a proper permanent apartment attached to tli? National Gallery can be got ready for their reception that Mr. Vernon will deliver the treasure he has already informed them is willing to give to the trustees ...

COURT OF ALDERMEN

... Yesterday, a court was held specially to consider a motion by Alderman Humpbery, That the Remembrancer be directed to prepare a petition to parliament for a bill to alter and amend the act of the 11th Geo. 1, c. 18, for regulating elections within the city of London, with a view, amongst other things, to extern! the elective franchise in the election of aldermen and common councilmen. The ...

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MAN

... I CHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY, i In addition to the notice which we gave of this disaster on Saturday, we w furnish, chiefly from the Halifax Guardian, the following details: —The train consisted of six carriages, and was drawn by one of the company's j new and powerful engines. Nothing occurred until the tram reached the Luddenden Foot station, when appears that a rail broke on the down line ...

WALES

... A Hint to the Farmers of the principality is given in the North Wales Chronicle of Tuesday. The editor of that journal, in article upon the prospects of agriculture, and on the necessity that exists for farm improvements now that protection withdrawn, says : Model farms, got the landed proprietors for the edification of their tenantry, are effecting quite a little revolution. One of these ...