... oUR CAP_ 1B39.. O - FORTUNE KNOCKS ONCE AT LEAST AT EVERY MAN'S DooR..-PerhapS'it dsee;rbut there are many who have no sooner gone to open the door, than they find the knock proceeded from a runaway.-Punch. - A; SER' OPERA NIGHT.-' Now,' said the grim and snuffy barrister, ' you obviously know nothing-about this place; and so don't call nights brilliant, and people * good, until you are ...

... THE ! INSURRECTION IN PARIS ?? I m . T I _ _ _ __L PARIS, WEDNESDA*. O TTuesday France sustained a loss, in tnourningifor whih-'she will be joined by the entiee literary wordId. The gresitauthor of the :Genie du Cbristin~isme,' M. dei'Chateaubriand, died in Paris yesterday morning, at 'half-lait eight o'clock, in the seventy-ninth year;oI his age. .On -being informed of this, the French ...

... rOREIGN INVASION-AND THE WAR AT DRURY-ILANE. I Certain members of and friends to the theatrical profession of Native Talent 'said there would be a row at Drury-lane, if the French Company who have taken it appeared there, and as that com- pany attempted to perform SMonte Christb on Mon- day night there was a row, one which lasted from the first rise of the curtain to the final fall ...

... IAPRE ON & C8O -lT - 9PTAL Q I SEVERAL GHARTEIT. L-EADERS.-tI S,,0 3tA .I . ?? - __ - On Wednesday, at. Bow-street Police-CourtU Jdhn Fesse4 2, ?? ewllr Ales-. aadeiShare, 3, George-rOyW, John's-row, St.;.Luke's, Copper-plate'pnrl'thil,5n ?? ~ WiWli-., 33, Half.Mboon-streeti, B~ishopsgate' -Withsout, baker,' were: brought before Mr~ Henry, on warrants, in which they were charged with having ...

... EMPLOYMENT OF THE DESTITUTE POOR On Tuesday night a meeting of Licensed Victuallers was held in thle Lumber Troop Hall, Fetter-lane, with reference to the employment of the poor during the enslitig winter, on the plan proposed by the National Philanthropic Association. Mr. SMITH, of the Red Lion and Ball, Red Lion-street, Holborn, was called to the chair. He stated that a circular had been ...

... I THE ERA. COUNTRY EDITION. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1848. THE OVERTHROW OP FoUIS PHILIPPEi The reign of LouIs PHILIPPE is at an end. The hypocrisy of years is overthrown in an hour. Tb. throne of the barricades has been overthrown be barricade. The Monarch which was to have tea surrounded by Republican Institutions, seems leI to end in Republican Institutions witho t y Monarchy. Louis PHILIPPE ...

... DIORAMA, RECENT'S PARK. The two new pictures now exhibiting at the Diorama are Mount .tsa in Sicily and the Interior of St. Mark's, at Venice. The latter we took occasion to notice lately when it first appeared; the former is fresh from the hands of the artist, M. Diosse (pupil of Daguerre), who painted both. They are both extraordinary works of art, and for the effects of light and shade ...

... Public spouting is a safety-valve to the English patriot. Let him have his say, and he is satis- fied; and as John. Bull knows the windiness of words, he lets his children talk. The Irish, how. ever, generally follow up words with blows ; some- times, with them, the blow comes first. The pa. tience of John Bull, however, has its limits. Men may talk treason until forbearance, on the part of ...

... -~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 ...

... 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 ...