... The psntornime, so far from being, as is comrnolly imagined, an invention of modern times, wag ancient even among the Greeks. The term in derived irrne. diately from pantomimes, which signified one wrho could relate and imitate by gestures. They indisputably ex. isted in the time of Plato, who encouraged there per. formance?, and upheld them. They constituted a con. siderable part of the ...

... jorciga F RA N C B. A Comisoresso-r has been appointed by the President of the Recsisitlic to examine the ministerial accounts for 18.19. Tile directors of the llanis of France have declared a divi- dend of 52f. per share for the ialf-year eding the 31st De- cember, 1849. Eighlt Socialists, confined in prison at Lyons, lave effected their escape. Tihere las not vet heen anv modification or ...

... SIR R. PEEL AND HIS TENANTrRY. The following is a copy of a letter which has been addressed by Sir Robert Peel to his tenantry:- To ?? Tenant-Farniars on the Estate of Sir Robert Peet. I wish to communicate with you on the present state and the prospects of agriculture, so far as thev concern our relations of landlord and tenant, and I know not that I could select any better mode of ...

... I- these days of change and progress, every year is an aneus mirabilis, and it is as hazardous to aver that the one to which we have just bil adieu has been more rc- markable than its precursors, as it is to predict that the year upon whose threshold we step to-day will be signalised. bv events which will constitute the lanilmarks of ages. Still the year 1849 has ad(lded no small nor ...

... LiI WILLIAM WILSON, yTRE PHILANTHROPIST OF BRADFORDq icr Three weeks ago, we rccorded the death ot WVn! Wo Wilson, Esq., a member of the Society of Friends, at Bradtilrd, and inl a brief paragraph noticed some cs. of his claims to public velneration. A memnoir of ull him at considerable leniztih has sinrce appeared in the lie Bra(dford Observer, anud the facts it reveals are so striking thlat ...

... LA telegraphic summary of the following appeared a in Se Morning Clronicle of yesterday.]t LIVERPOOL, D Ec. 30. a The Royal Mail steamer Europa, Captain E. G. t Itt, arrived at Liverpool this evening at nine f o'clock, with the usual mails from the ng nited States and Canada, and 23 passengers. The Hibernia arrived at New York on the 18th. The 0v Xuropa left Bostoma on the l0th, and Halifax on ...

... i Yesterday a meeting of commercial travellers took t place at the London Tavern, Bishopagate-atreet, for the a purpose of arranging the necessary preliminanries relative to t the formation of an establishment, to be called The Commercial Travellers' Club-house, Mr. A H. MOORE, of Gray'&-inn, took the chair, snd in explaining the objects of the meeting, stated that, although the number of ...

... BANGOa AMD BIIIAUN '1,Ais UNION. a o A itD ?? I On Wednesday last, tihe fortiaigthtly ?? of then g Guardians was held at' the Blaird-rclao, Utiolu-lhouse, Mr. Clhas Diolknell in'thle Ch:Lir. The applid'ations 'ire. ihe first instance disposed n .f, after which the Chliliinsan, nailed 'nn Mr. RichardF Davies to proceed oni his petitioll for enlarged powers to .Boards ofGuardiens. h ?? said lie ...

... El -3 _I . SUMNMARY OF THE PUBLIC PRESS. TIF Tiiles is full of adliration of the tewv agitationt set on foot by Richard Cobden, on the subject of the colonies, which it considers as good as Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, or the Repeal of the Corti Laws, and obscrves that if it be only once granted that ?? England has now forcsworn religious, civil, and commercial monopoly, ...

... (From the Gobe.] We were enabled to make the following important aneounoement in the greater part of Our impression on Saturday: We understand that additional measures will to-morrow be brought into operation for diminishing Sunday labour at the Poetoffie. By (1) a partial discontinuance of the pre- sent Sunday morning delivery between the 3 mile and the 6-mile circle in London, about 100 ...

... I -. . . at h The still small voice of truth and soberness from th t Drayton Manor will strike more terror to the souls tu of Protectionists than the loudest trumpet-note of ?? y defiance. Sir Robert Peel's letter to his Tamworth Ps e tenantry will be attentively scanned by every far- on Y. mer in the kingdom; and a study of the plain leB- of w ~r -sons which it inculcates must, we ahould ...

... O CONCILIATION _ HAL. I.OYAAL NATIONAL 1I?1PAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly ineeting of tile Association was held yes- terday in Conciliation Hall. Tlhe attetleance was numerm -, and among these present ?? O'Ccrnnell, Esq, AMN.., to( Michael Murphy, ?? Peter Slevin, J. Ratsrty. P. Quan, I a Bernatd Brady, M. Nowlan, Edmolloi Doyle, H. Maguire J. ry Kelly, B. Nolan, P. Murphy, Iernard Moran, ...