... Our readers will recollect that we have fallen foul of the London Drapers again, and as one of the trade has written to us what, in his sim- plicity (which we really. believe to be honest, for there are good as well as bad in all pursuits), he deems a defence of his calling; and as, moreover, his remarks confirm all that we have said, and actually further our purpose in exposing the system ...

... I DPEADMVL CATASTRbPHE AT THE PIRAUS. By several letters from the fleet, we are enabled to relieve the most painful abxiety on the part of tose- who have friends dn board the Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C.B., by giving the names of those who are known to have perished, and those who are reported missing, but about whose fate there is no doubt. Michael Breen, lieutenant (1849), in command of ...

... RAILWAY MIEMS. AND TRAFFIC. I LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.-It is rumoured that this company intend to give notice of an application to Parliament to construct a short line from the goods terminus on the Blackwall Railway to the Haydon-square warehouses, for a goods depot. LONDON ANDNORTEH-WESTERNRAILWAY.-Afurther Portion of this company's Buckinghamshire line, from Islip to within three ...

... SECOND EDITION. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1850. a As has been our custom for half a score of years, at this season, we withdraw our attention, for a moment, from those matters of general interest which employ, or should employ, the pens of jour- nalists, and, to use a homely phrase, look at home. To many this would be an easy and a pleasureable task- But, considering what is writ is writ, a ...

... !THE, ,ERA. I COUNTRY 2EIDITXON. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1850. | The Protectionists seem to have been sorely, auu, as we think, unnecessarily, troubled by the Bury speech of Lord STANLDY (on which we commente in our last), anld Mr. G. F. YOUNG has addressed a querulous epistle to his lordship, to which Lord STANLEY returned a placable reply. The fact is, Lord STANLEY possesses a greater share of a ...

... I - OUR CARPET BAC. - COUNTER-IRIUTATION.- Is there any other little article we can show you to-day, sir ?-Punch. CURIOUS EPITAPH IN A FORGOTTEN C}HURCH- YARD. Here lies a box of life pills. WIT,-One of the first principles of wit is good temper; s arrows ought always to be feathered with smiles. When they fail in that, they become sarcasm. r Am T -not a little PALE ? ' inquired a lady, ...

... SN-O I MR. W. H.. GORE LANGTON, of, Newtous-parl,, la&s given the handsome suny of' o towards the erection of pu lit fountains in Bath. MASS&CRIB OF TIRE FRENCH PROTESTANTS.-The medal struck by order of Pope-Gregory XIIl., in the first year of his Papacy, to commemorate, the memorable Eve of St.Bartbolomew, 1572, when more than three thousand Protestants were slaughtered in Parin, by order of ...

... THE CIVIL LIST, Crown Itevenues, and Bad Management. In following out our notions of Financial Reform, and the conduct which we take the liberty of declaring ought to be pursued by the economists of, all parties who aspire to au honest determination, we would point boldly and uncompromisingly, to the Civil 'List. Seeing what we do, viewing the way. in which the revenues of the Crown are ...

... WHAT THE WHIGS AR.E! I A Friendly Sketch. We like to be well and clearly understood by oar friends and readers-we wish to deal fairly, truly, and honestly by them-and we, therefore, do not disguise that we have received some suggestions that the tone of some of our articles, on exclusively political topics, has been too stringent upon the parties forming the present Administration. We have ...

... SECON E DITION. GREECE. FINAL NOTE OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT. COMPLETE SURRENDER. 5M. LONDOS TO MR. WVYSV,. Athens, April 27. The undersigned, minister of lis MIjesty the King of Greece, hastens to reply to the note which the Hon. Mr. Wyse did him the honour to address to him under yes- terday's date. Tile king's government accepts all the conditions therein laid down, reswarking only, that ...

... $ECOND EDITION. I rzqAL SETTLEMVIENT OF THE GREEK Question. Tile proceedings in the French Assembly on Friday ere hiaghly ilmporttant. Thie Mirnistei for Foreign Affairs efficidllY announced that the English Government had accpted the solution ot the Greek question as proposed by France, viz., by suibstituitngr for the clauses of the ,rrcelerriet conririded St Atheis on the27th April, which ...

... THE FALL OF THE yTFINAMS, Ai(D The Thunderer in a Fright. The decline of the Times newspaper is by no means an impossibility; and, as the velocity of its descent must be in proportion to its weight, the fall of that great luminary, when it does occur, is not likely to occupy a considerable space of time, not- withstanding its- present extraordinary altitude. Let the Thunderer once begin to ...