... ?? Taut BEAITY.- Virtue (says Lord Bacon) is like a rich stone, best, plainly set. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. Beauty is as summer fruits, which ate very easy to corrupt, and ?? list. STANDARD OF EXcELENct.-The true way to excel in any work; is to propose the brightest and most perfect example for our imitation. We must improve by the attempt, even though ...

... l Noo_ TRFFC I ORTHEsN AND EAaTaus.-The half-yearly meeting Bftishopsgatey was held at the comany's offices, Bhpgaetation, last Monday-Mr. R.n aterson in the chair. After the usual preliminaries a report was read, which said that the dividend on the respective shares of the company, for the half year ending the 30th of June last, would be payable on and after aturday, the 25th inst., as ...

... THE RECENT SUCCESS 0F BRITISHJ ARMS IN INDIA. The welcome intelligence has arrived that the Sikhs have been completely routed by Lord GOUGH in a pitched battle, and public confidence in our Indian troops is once more restored. The parti- culars of the conflict, however, have not yet arrived; so how the battle was won, and what it has cost us, remains to be told. There is not any doubt about ...

... dYN OP SI S. l I _ THE Government contract for 100,000 gallons of rum for the navy, was again taken on Thursday by Messrs. Lemon, Hart, and Sons, of 59, Fenchurch-street. TREAsuRE FROM CaiNA.-The vessel Salopian, just arrived in the docks from Hong Kong, has brought fifty- nine boxes of treasure, as a portion of her cargo consigned to order. Rossass A DEAsLERs SN PIGS.-It is well known that ...

... LATEST FROM THE, CONTINENT. che Moniteur de Soir publishes the following ,itional telegraphic despatch from General alnot:- The Neapolitans are on their march to Rome. The French army will occupy the city before Nothing can give an idea of the ardour of our Our wounded, to the number of 159, leave Bastia, on board the Sanc. ;'he National, with reference to the foregoing, merely censures the ...

... i HE COAsT DEFENCES. The batteries on the Thames and Medway districts will all be completed in about two months from the present period, and will be of a very efficient description for 'the defence of these important navigable rivers. Thenuniber of ?? to be hiounted for the defence of these rivers is- tbirfeden at Sliorn Mead, thirteen at C6alh'ose Point, fifteen at Grivege'nd, and ?? at ...

... THE cdiRISTMAS PANTOMIMES AND BURLESQUES. As Pantomime is now in the ascendant, the following inee, penned on the first appearance of the younger Gritlaldi, at Covent-garden, in Consequence of the indis- position of his respected sire, 11 Ol Joey Grimaldi, ae he wee familiarly termed, may not be uninteresting to our readers, as swig. -th e ation in which a popular clown, a Pantomnimic Star, ...

... According to annual custom on the 9th of November, the new Lord Mayor (Alderman Farncomb), accompa- nied by a numerous and splendid procession, left the Guildhall shortly after eleven on Friday morning, for the purpose of taking water at London Bridge,passing through Gresbam-street, Basinghall-street, Fore-street,Moorgate- street, Princes-street, Cornhill, Gracechurch-street, King William ...

... DOVER, WEDNESDAY.-This gigantic undertaking, which has been steadily and satisfactorily progressing since its commencement two years since, was this day visited and inspected by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The noble and gallant duke arrived at Walmer Castle on Monday, and came over here this morning to preside at a special meeting of the HIarbour Commissioners, of whom his grace as Lord ...

... The Cholera is no longer in everybody's mind- the one thing talked about and dreaded. We have the consolation of knowing that the epidemic, having done its worst, at least for the present, has declined, until the official returns no longer alarm the public, and we may reasonably calculate upon its speedy disappearance. Supposing, however, that a day arrives when the Registrar can report that ...

... MIORE ANTICIPATIONS FROM SWALLOW., BATH AND SOMERSET, APRIL 17th. Lansdowne Trial. - Phillippa, first; First Chance, second. Weston Stakes.-Officious, first; Knight of Gwynne, second. Somersetshire Stakes.-Pyrrhus the First, I believe, will not see Bath this season; if he does, his chance for this race is very poor. Halo will be reserved for Chester. The following lot are very likely to be ...

... THE LONDON GZb!TiY,,. TUESDAY, Ju3o 3. BANKRUPTS.-R.MILLAR, Prinfvs-sRrt'z` Sri t'tlt F.. manl and pickle mnerchant.-W. T. CREt-i. ' r jl 11 ?? . victtautler.-J. BARLOW, Wharf-road, Ctty-;o..a c* ?? --5. EliR'rLAND. Btecttingtoo and Hlampton ?? ~L~btr', coat merchant.-E MU!IFORD, Great al; I ?? 1H. MILES, Grrenlwich, builder.-J. CIIO tKxto. .a +matLi~ry, hotel-keeper.-E.BIJRBIDGE, Piocauilty ...