... 5STRA TEGIC MJlSKRPRRSENTA AojNS OF A CONTEMPORARY. iv. he In the discharge of our duty as journalists, d, we have very rarely, and never without extreme . reluctance, entered into controversies of a personal -nature with others engaged in the same vocation. U- Such squabbles can possess very little interest for ,st our readers, and we have always found a sutfi- cient abundance of topics of ...

... WEEKLY COMPENDIUX. * Iir HenryStuart, Ml.P. for Bedford, died suddenly on Thurs- day morniniig. There is, therefore, a vacancy iu the represen. tatioji. iy 'The Reverend Hugh Pollard Willougli 3 who fired a pistol n at Mr Giffard, a barrister, in the Central Criminal Court, was p- found Not guilty, on the ground of insanity .' r Willough. is by insisted'ohndefending himself. 'He isto le kept ...

... T`H E A R. The following despatches appeared in tho London papers of Mondav:- IrNrNA SAnaoMA.-Lord. Westmoreland received a despatch yesterday, according to -which, the guns of the two forts at the entrance to the harbour of Sebas- topol were dismounted by the artillery of the fleets. Reliable ?? information has just been given me that this is not exactiv correct. The Allies had about 105 men ...

... WHO IS AIRS. NIGHTINGALE? Mfany ask this question and it has not yet been adequately answered. We reply, then, Mrs. Nightingale is Miss - Nightingale, or rather Miss Florence Nightingale, the . youngest daughter and presumptive co-heiress of her father, be William Shore Nightingale, of Embley Park, Hampshire, e and the Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. She is, moreover a young e, lady of singular ...

... rFR'OM OUR OWX CORRESPOXDENT.3 LISBON, OCT. 26. The Government has at last acted upon the au: thorisatiou of the Cortes, given in August, and published a modification of the tariff duties. The changes are neither uumerous nor important. That in cottou goods tends rather to an easier classifica- tion than to any augmentation or diminution of the rate. In woollens or silks there is not any ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE LUSITANIA. LYVEliPOOL, TUESDAY.-The screw steamship Lu- Jo sitania, Captain G. H. Haraw, arrived in the river 0O last night, with the Brazil mails of the Ist inst., 34 )2 2o passengers, and £20,000 in diamonds. Her dates re are Rio Janeiro, Out. 1, Bahia, Oct. 6 ; Pernamn- ibuco, Oct. 9 ; and Lisbon, Oct. 26. 4, Several of the passengers of the Lusitania had o arrived in ...

... I IQSIAN APOL6GY FOR !IHE MAL-TBEAT INTS OF THER: WALACHIAN AND I 0I.AVAMLIS.,: J t is a good sign of ;th age that even the Czar of 'mintsi 4.ussai, whien arraignpd. -at -te bar of public opinion, Cie feels that it 'would be uaqkafe for him to decline to mrost p lead in his defence. The -following laboured apo- mg logy for- the crueltiev exercised towards the militias at pe of Wallachia .and ...

... DUBLIN, OcT. 31. The circumstance that a public meeting-the first, we are told, of an inteaded series of such meetings- was held at CAllan, in the county of Kilkenny, on Sunday last, for the purpose of reviving the tenant right agitation,which has been slumbering for a good part of the year, is not of much importance; but the proceedings gave rise to an incident which may pos- sibly be ...

... . . .. .. .. MORNING EXPRESS. 1 BY ELECTWIC TXEILEGRAPH. THE CRIMEA. A Russian despatch, through Vienna and Warsaw, states that 30,000 Russians, under General Leprandi, It surprised the English right flank on the night of the 24th October, at Inkermano, on the Tchernaya, and. b took five redoubts and several guns. ...

... DENMvIARK. i [FnOMI oUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] COPENHAGEN, OCT. 24. According to the Danish ground-law, Whenever the one CObhnber is dissolved, the other adjotirns its : sittirgs till a new session of Parliament. The i Lower House being dissolved, tbe Speaker of the Lands-thing prorogued the sittings of that Chamber yesterdav. OAle of the mertbers (Wessely) then ex- :olailed, 4the constitution ...

... Ties grand military. fcce given on Saturday, in aid of the several funds for the relief of the sick and iwounded and widolws and orphans of her Mlajesty's forces en- gaged in the Russian war, has proved so success- ful that we believe every one present, although ex- pecting something great, was literally astonished at the splendid event of the day. LonTg will it be be- fore the quiet ...

... LIVERPOOL.-GREAT FIRE.-THE PATRIOTIC FUND. (riost oUit OWN~ CORAZ5CO911111i.tin TItONAY, Oct. :301 trad( Great excitement was created ini the central district ofof WI Liverpool, on.Thursday forenoon, by a report that fire had expo broken out in an underground vault Of the extensive ware- 'ties; houses situated in Launcelot's Hey, belongn oJae oY- Imo,P neux, Es q.. and occupied by produce ...