... : . 4 7; I . t ~. I: - - -- ?? ?? - !il : A S o ~~~firoin~h. -S,SB . 3X1, B a | -lHere-I am, -31r. Editor, with the snowdrojs again, and fresl and vigorous as the' earliest of JOhnD Quills and crocaes The Britsh pblicgenoitll sj~ki, and thtipprepciating, au ,cersihe rl iono;twh itnguy ' thmeve ybei cumin; subscraibers -to' TmrE ERA, will, of course, be in ecstaciet at the ajinouncement: of ...

... I 311WEM~~REEMA :.N ?? Meetings for Next. Week. Monday, July ?? Nos. 206, 228, and 80.. TusdayNee105and 27 Wednesday-.acommittee of Royal Benevolent Institution at three. Lodges Nos. 13, 15,22,172, 205 752. Thursday-Quarterly General Court of Female School, at twelve. Lodges os. 248 and 778. TiEs FrEMnsoes' QuVa ?? AOZmM. Bro. George Boutledge and Co., Farringdon-stre t. This part is a very ...

... ;. THE SICE: OB T>THB I1 PORT.RMnTT'VtT . -H L fromL15X1VU , c TsHUR ?? tthe usual fortnightly meeting of the guardians of the poor of the Porteta Island Union,. held last evening, Mr. J. F. Pratt, J.P., chairman, attention was called to the death of John Williams, a seaman, weh had.been landed from the Himalaya. This sea., mn had died seven hours after his admission into the workhouse, and ...

... , a The pomp and circumstane of war are So glorious that men have never been wanting to exclaim, in tfle langage 'of the ancient Roman, It is sweet to die fior onie's country. This her6oi and patriotic spirit still lives amongst us, and the British people are as 'fearless as tbeir forefathers in courting the dangers of the battle-field, It' rises with the dire character of the emergency.: In ...

... ROYAL CALAM1^ITIES. Notwithstanding the antipodean distance at which fortune and caste keep the members of the hueman family apart from each other-the prince ol his throne from the beggar on his dunghill; the statesman guiding an empire from the labourer guiding a plough; the bishop in his palace from the curate in his lodging-there are nevertheless points in life at which we no sooner touch, ...

... THE FOLEY-PLACE TRAGEDy. On lW esday fineaso at 4P jddo&, Mr Wakl thi soroneq 0thhe wep~ divisiah e Ntddlgex, and the j Vtlg*te the deatie of Mr. Joseph uLrera'- i~oanerwee4 t; who was op-rdered by an Italian named buigi i~ B a~ residence, I$q. fi, Foley-place, narylebo d pon S u4~y the 7~li wstant, was j,4med pursuant to adjourn, jnent, 4,e Middisee Hospital.?K - t 'Iwsy an'u ted, from the ...

... ARRIVAL OF SIC} AND WOUNDED. An express down train from London arrived at the Strood station of the North Kent Railway shortly after three p.m. on Monday, containing twenty-five detacbmentss of 'regiments serving in the Crimea. The whole of the detachments are invalids, and owing to the number of disabled soldiers-about sixty of them having lost their, legs in the late engagements with the ...

... IMPORTANT MEETING OF LICENSED Victuajers at Manchester. At a special meeting of the committee of the Manchester and Salford Licensed Victunalers' Association, held on the 4th inst., when deputies from Stockport, Rocbdale, Droylsden, Ashton, Oldham, and Glossop attended, the report of the Central Association, with respect to the Parliamentary inquiry into the licensing system, and the recommen- ...

... SYNO0PSIS. I THE British Museum closed on Monday afternoon for the purpose of cleansing &c., and will be reopened to the public on Wednesday, the 9th inst. The total number of visitors to the Museum, from Wednesday week until Monday inclusive, was 41,947. LONGEVITY AT THE ISLE OF -MAN. - An aunt, an uncle, and a niece dined together in Athol-street, Douglas, on Christmas.day, and their united ...

... THE CAME LAWS. As the Game Law question will, we are told, come again before Parliament this year, we are induced to extract from a letter which appeared in the morning papers, and signed WnLLAM CRAW- SifAy. This gentleman's remarks, we think, put the subject in the only light in which it can fairly be used. He says:- The present extent of law as to game, if I understand it correctly, is ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-I take the liberty of addressing you relative to an accusation in your paper of last Sunday, wherein I am stated as wishing to blacken the character of another man, or the purpose of polishin t my own. I feel somewhat chagrined that such an article should have emanated from the editorial We, as it savours (in my opinion) of an illiberality which does not ...

... NOW, MdR. m1ERIMAN! Civil stri'e brings strange cbaracters as well as great characters to the surface, and if society were, in this country, thoroughly stirred up, we should see conspicously swimming about, oddities as singular, and, we fear, as dangerous as those which have figured in France. Generally speaking, with usmen become acknowledged as leaders before they are listened to; that is, ...