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... PLEASE to remember the fifth of November! The annual return of this truly London boys' festival brings to our mind the folly of its forced popularity. The day stands as a red letter day in our Calendar, and thanks- givings for the royal escape are duly read and celebrated in our churches; but why the day should be allowed to be kept as one of the licensed, holidays for vagabond and urchia ...
... RUSSIAN PREPARATIONs.-An interesting letter from the Hertfordshire Incumbent appearsinTke Times. He refers to the recent ukase (preceding that for the general levy an- nounced within the last few days), ordering a levy of no less than twenty-three in the thousand in the two governments of Orenburg and Samara. Every man drawn from these provinces will, from his previous habits of life, be a ...
... TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Reader. We believe there are no published sta- tistics on the subject, There are letters for W. at our office. A correspondent, in praising a song at the recent per- formance of Judas Maccabceus, at our Town Hall prettily quotes that it was— Music of Paradise which still is heard, When the heart listens. ...
... AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18, 10.45 P.M. The Africa has arrived with advices from Boston to the 7th, and New York, via Halifax, to the 8th, and 875,057 dollars on freight. The United States District Court bad sentenced Joseph Wagner, convicted of enlisting men for the British Foreign Legion, to two months' imprisonment, and a fine of 100 dollars. Respecting tho difference with England, the ...
... STARTLING NARRATIVE OF CRIME. Some months ago, says a late Francisco paper, a large section ot the interior country, embracing portions of the counties of Calaveras, El Dorado, and Placer, was the theatre of a series of horrible and mysterious murders attributed to Mexican banditti. In most cases the victim was miner, known to-have been working claim, and situated in a locality where, in the ...
... HERALDRY has no special representative in the periodical press I seek therefore the aid of your columns; for archi- tecture and heraldry are nearly allied. I' doubt not that you are far better acquainted with the precious metals than with the coppers of the nineteenth century still.you can hardly fail to be the occasional possessor of a penny. It is a highly respectable and ancient coin of ...
... ACCIDENTS AND CRIMES. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION- ON BOARD SHip.-On Friday, Captain Halsted, R.N., Secretary to Lloyds, received communications from the Admiralty, reporting a shock- ing catastrophe on board the English ship, Abbots Read- ing, of Liverpool, while lying in Valparaiso harbour, on the 12th of September last, accompanied with loss of life. In a letter, dated the 13th ult., the master com ...
... THE EMIGRANTS RETURN TO HIS DESERTED HOME. SWBET AUTUMNS with thy pensive mien, And gorgeous robe of golden green, How lovely is thy fading form, (Ere scath'd by Winter's ruthless storm) When crown'd with wreaths of every hue, Each leaflet gemm'd with pearly dew. How dear to us thy last pale flowers, Thy breezy morns and twilight hours, When temptingly the dark grapes shine, In clusters ...
... DANTZIC, NOV. 9. The following electric telegraph despatch has been re- ceived at Dantzic ;— The Vulture has arrived here; the Exmouth,the James Watt, and the Colossus have gone to K ...
... A western editor wishes to know whether the law re- cently enacted against the carrying of deadly weapons applies to doctors carrying pills in their pockets. NOT DISAPPOINTED.— Well, Robert, how much did your pig weigh It didn't weigh as much as I ex- pected, and I always thought it wouldn't. Sydney Smith used to say, that he was none the better for the jests he made, any more than a bottle ...
... THE MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Monday, Nov. 26th. Penisaa Pluid. Toll Bar. Friday, 30th Skenfrith Bridge. Monday Dec. 3rd Lanthewy Court. Thursday 6th. Dingestow Bridge. At half-past ten. PROMOTION.âAmong tho promotions in Friday's Gazette, we perceive the following:âBrevet. -Royal Artillery Captain G. H. L. Miiman to be Major. Major Milman is a nephew of Sir Charles Morgan. ...
... FRIDAY'S MARKETS. LONDON CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY. For English wheat, Monday's rates were obtained, but little doing. Foreign held firmly, but quiet. No change in the value of flour, but trade less brisk. Bar- ley wanted, and price rising. Good sale for oats at pre- vious terms. In Rape and Linseed many operations. Free sale for Linseed Cakes, and a further advance. Rape Cakes fully as high. ...