... Charles Dickens gives, in one of his letters, an interesting glimpse of his state of mind while composing one of his recent stories:- I have been beset in many ways; but I shut myself up for a month, close and tight, over my little Christmas book The Chimes.' All my affections and passions got twined and knotted up in it, and I became as haggard as a murderer long before I wrote the end. When ...

... There are now 267,091 milliners in England: Dickens very ungallantly calls them the army of vanity.' THE SLmONoES KsIND oF HiNT.-A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of her rings will go on his little finger. A man who is advertising, Lodgings to let to early risers, at Banbury adds, Cochi. China fowls of un- usual vocal powers are kept on the adjoining premises. We have heard ...

... OTHER DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE-PARK. The scene which took place on Sunday last in Hyde. park iong be remembered by those who witnessed it. Three lock was the advertised time for the prtoceedingsto begin, d, notwithstanding that Sir Richard Mayne bhid had acardeposted inthenmetropolis, announcing thatthe meeting l~id net be allowed to take place, long before that hour onstitution hill and the ...

... N'ORTH DEVON. CRE DITON. A lad named Simmons had two of his fingers cnt off, last week, i-y a soda ater machine, the property of Mr. Williams, of she Shin) Inn. III course of some extensive alterations in his premises, 'Mr. Searle, lozenge muisnifacturer. was directing a nman namned Ford in what directionl he sheold excavate under a long shed ou hic preinises,whie,. in consequence of the wall ...

... rit*to . SATURDAY. JULY 21, 1855. % FtO r Ma variety ef interesting Foreign and Domestic .. Aews, see the Sopplevzent. R]EMA1NS OF LORD RAGLAN. THE event which we are looking forward to celebrate with solemn ceremony, is one of -a nature to live long in the memories of the citizens of Bristol. The day witness- ing it will be of .historical arid national import, and will connect our city, in a ...

... + Ck1t ,fffrfjgIt elfi g lit . Tgelict [Continued fioin the Supplement.] OPENING OF THE F3ENCI LEGISLATIVE A SS: I rv B LY. The text of the speech delivered by the Emperor of the French on the opening of the Legislative Assembly on Monday last, has been received. It is as follows :- Messieurs les Senateurs, Messieurs les D)putes- The diplomatic negotiations commenced during the course of our ...

... LANDING OF She nernailfl of Tofu Up s7unereal EIJqUfe0. T rece t h ns of the, eceased Comn- ?? Of the British army in the Crimea, and the attendant ceremony of escorting them on their way to the place of sepuiture, at Badminton, took place on Wednesday, and it is gratifying to be enabled to state that the occasion passed off in a manner worthy of its solemnity, and creditable to the reputation ...

... THE MONST1s DENtONSTPUhTON IN HYDD I PARK. SERIOUS RIOT, AND APPREHENSION OF SEVERAL PERSONS. The scene that took place on Sunday in Hyde Park will long be remembered by those who witnessed it. To attempt to give anything approximating to a correct description of it would be impossible. The reader must therefore imagine that he is standing at Apsley Gate, looking down the carriage road on the ...

... SPAIN.-According to a despatch from Mar- seilles, new troubles have arisen in Spain. The statement is, that ?? a rising has taken place in Catalonia. The pretext of the rising is the question of the salaries. Two manufacturers bad been assassinated at Barcelona. The National Guard had refused to march. The Captain- General Zapatero bad shut himself up in the citadel with the troops that ...

... LONDON-WEDNESDAY. SPAIN. Bercelona advices of the 10th say the strike of the military continued. The troops were still in their barracks. The General had not left the Fort. The houses of the manufaeturers, merchants, and National Guards had been marked during the night with different signs, doubtless to point them out to the vengeance of at the people; meanwhile the artisans and workmen who gh ...

... DEMONSTATION IN HYDE PARK SERIOUS RIOTS IN BELGRAVIA. The illeasy feeling that generally pervaded the metropolis on Saturday ia connexion with the announced repetition of a Hyde-pairbdemonstration on the following day was proved by-te evehi not to have been altogether without foundation, athough #fe result was less serious than was anticipated. It was ksown that extensive preparations bad been ...

... Dorset li'llitla.-Lieut. George Sing, to be captain. Royal Wiltshire Cavalry.-Lieat. Charles John Thomae Conolly, to, be cantain. ?? Breckneek ZMlitla.-Enslgn William Dowding, to be lieutenant. Warwickshire Militta.-William Angustus Norton, Gent., and Charles John Sale, Gent;, to be ensigns. Warwlckc'hire Yeornanr Cavalry.-Cornet John Thomas Ark- wright, to be lieutenant; ueorge Catteal ...