... Among- the passions which belong to human nature we may recognize what way be ytermed the passion for size. Whoevrr may wish to indulge thispassiion in an ex. traordinary degree, may do so by paying a visit to Mil. .all. There they may see a ship which will accommo. date 4,000passengers, 800 of whom are first.class, and on an'an emergency can carry 10,000 troops. She will contain In boilers ...

... It was not withont some degree of reason that Sir R. T. Buiton the other day used the expression, What the Liberals term progress. Not that the phrase was here intended as arny disparagement of the thing in itself, but simply of the account to which that word has been turned by the Liberal party, and the flippancy with which it rises to the lips of many who would be sorely puzzled to define ...

... MI[SCELLANEOUS. On Saturday the Qaeen held an1 ItlyCstiture of tbe Most Honourable the Order of the Bath at the Castle, at Windsor. The third dratnatic perfornnauce took place on Wed. neaday evenitig at Windsor Castle, The Prnucess de Lieven died on Monday night in Colonel Bidduiph, master of Her Majesty's house. hold, haviirg lately married the Hon. Miss Seymour, Maid :of kionour to the queen ...

... IPSWICId, Saetearay, October 17, 197. THE DAY OF SOLEMN FAST. (Contilmied from first page.) ALDERURGW.-Two sermons were preached in the Church of this parish on the Day of Humiliation ; that in the morning by the vicar, the Rev. I1. Turner Dow. ler, and that in the afternoon by the Rev. Edward J. Moor, rector of Great Bealings, after which collections were made which amounted to the sum of £52 ...

... ie TIuE BROMLEY HURST MUaDoR.-Since the com.r id mittal of George Jackson and Charles Brown, charged I with the murder of Mr. W. Charlesworth, both the pri. 'e sonershave made confessions. THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LITTLE RBs. 0 SELL.STREPT.-We are glad to state that the unfor- s. tunate woman Emily Geary is progressing favourably, a and it is expected that she will be able to attend at Bow ...

... bte -=po r-d, 30iolal._ SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1S57. If credence were given to all that is stated from day to day by certaiR Liberal organs; Lord Palmerston would be justly regarded as the most popular man in Europe. Indeed his Lordship is represented in the ight of a flaming patriot, and a Liberal constituency place3 the representation of the City of London at his feet. Why does the noble lord ...

... CHURCH RATES AT HITCHANT. The parish of l ;tchai, so lon and so honourably distinguished by the good works of Professor Henslow, has been made the scene of unseemly contest upon the question of Church rates. The opposition arose in the absence of the learned Profeqsor-a fact characteristic of political dissent-who has addressed the following letter, dated the 19th uit., to the landowners anal ...

... I HARVEST FESTIVITIES IN. NORFOUk. The fourth annual harvest festival took p~ace at Brooke. near Norwich, on Friday, the 28tb ult., com- mencing, as usual, with divine service in the parish church. About 350 persons, the harvestmen, their wives, and children, then sat down to a substantial repast in the vicarage garden. Floral decorations of every imsainable form, festoons and arches, crowns ...

... in Mlr. Kimwarce's advertisement,inserted in first page, for Payment commence read Payment coam- wences. I F -- ?? IPswIlC. ^¢ttft-z~y *s~4, ?? THE BISHOPRIC OF NORWICH. In another column, will be found the valedictory ad.| dress of the Right Rev. Dr. Hinds, who, for the last seven years. has filled the sacred office of Bishop of the diocese. There can be but one feeling amongst all ...

... ILORD MAYOR'S gHeOW AND I ~BANQuEIT. This took place on Monday, when there was a great change from the ceremonials of former years. Black- friars Bridge had been usually selected as the point'of embarkation for the civic Party on their progress to Westminster; this year. bowever, the procession passed the magic portals of Temple-bar, and then, placing it- self under the protection of the High ...

... At the Inverness County Meeting on Friday last, relative to the India relief movement, the addresses of the Master of Lovat, Mr. Baillie, M.P., and the Con- vener, were appropriate, and delivered with much feel. ing. Mr. Baillie, however, assumed too hastily and conclusively that the Jndian Government had ordered the release of the prisoners at Cawnpore; and the Mas. ter of Lovat no less ...

... The following letter in the Times appears to deserve attention:- I seek to warn photographers in general of the great risk they run in the use of a certain salt, the cyanide of potassium, in their operations. My attention was called to the subject by observing in some of the papers an account, taken from a Cape journal, of a Dr. Ather- stone, who was dreadfully injured-in fact, all but k11- ...