... There 8 a picture of what I might be, as the country said to tbe badly drawn map. Wat am de diffurance, Sambo, 'twixt de vatch and de politishun Umph, me gib dat up. No, spoke it out, Sambo. Umph, no, me gib It np. Vi, you stupid nigger, not know de am full ob tic-tacs, and de politisbun am full ob tac-tics? Ya, ya, me know dat, nigger. Vi den did you not spoke it out Nigger looked ...

... RADCLIFFE MEETING. MONDAY. The Heaton Pass Handicap was won Mr. Cliff's The Jade, beating Mauehllne, Milksop, and Barbery.—Won by two lengths. The Selling Handicap was won Mr. Cliff's Our Sal, beating Spider, and Dred.—Won by length. Tbe Wilton Cur was won by Mr. Singleton's Hegira, beating Lazy Lass, Captain Wedderburn, Comoro', and Laird of tbe Dale. —Won bead. The Two-year-old St axes were ...

... unfortunate man was un*. «,t intoxicated tbe time, and endeavouring tXSSSSSim Beeve. for tbe purpose of seeing that vessel he staggered and fell into the £flP*ltMm«Srt wa.rn.de rescue him, . fe, p^d' could got out of the water quite extinct. inquest X the gave verdict of Aocitien- »? w« native of Wakefield, V ...

... a-long time past baa been, the excuse of tbe smoke producers, when they have been asked why they did not consume it, that there was complete and effectual apparatus for tha purpose that, ia met, there waa real smoke-consumer, and tbat it was an act of injustice put them to the expense of purchasing and fitting up machines which did not answer the intended purpose, and whichihad the ...

... Science at Leeds, has kindly promised to deliver lecture before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. We have not heard what will the subject of the learned gentleman's lecture, bat the lecture, are acre, cannot foil interesting one. ...

... ( Concluded from last Week's Intelligencer.) Among those who wrote for the newspapers of the last century were many men distinguished in literature :— Swift, Addison, and Steele were of the number ; so were , Johnson, Fielding, Smollett, Chatterton, and, probably, Burke. Smollett was fined and imprisoned for libel on Admiral Knowles, published in the Critical Review, which he had set up in ...

... we have already announced. He may be considered to represent tbe Madras Presidency and army, neither of which had any representative in that part of the Council elected by the late directors, or among those hitherto nominated by tbo government. General Vivian was nominated director of tbe East India Company under the act of 1853, and commanded the Turkish Contingent the Russian war. He was for ...

... The Trustees of the British Museum have purchased the Bliss Correspondence from the executors of tbe Oxford Doctor. new catacomb and a basilica have been discovered some miles from Borne, on the road to Naples, in some property belonging to tbe Prince Barberini. Six columns of precious marble and several interesting inscriptions have been already brought to right We are glad to be able to ...

... E LANDSEER'S titania and Sitt BOTTOM.' The great artist has produced the great . Raffaele made Marc Antonio; Rubens created „Uio»' nB atorB * k. and white, the persons ,•■ and Eddclink ; to the delicate handling of you* Mieris we owe the inimitable burin of Wille; West developed Woollett, and Wilkie Raimbach. It O wonder that a style of painting so pronounced as Landseer's, coupled with ...

... Two New York mechanics have taken out patents for improvements in the method of laying submarine telegraph cables. IYI. Nadar, the well-known photographist, is just about to make novel experiment in his art—to take a kind of bird's-eye view of Paris and the neighbourhood, with a photographic apparatus placed in the car of balloon. Galignani's Messenger. The valuable and extremely interesting ...

... Abraham Cox, cook, aud Peter Williams, seaman, were recently tried and convicted in Portland, Maine, for the murder of the captain, mate, second mate, and one seaman of the brig Albion Cooper, on the the 28th of August last. It appears that the cook confessed to the crime, and gave circumstantial account of its committal. He had grudge against the mate and captain, consequence ol ill-usage. Ou ...

... son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the distinguished advocate of the abolition slavery, and head of the great brewing firm, by Miss Gurney, fifth daughter of tbe late Mr. John Gurney, of Earlham Hall, Norfolk. He was born September 16, 1812, and married, April 12, 1836, Catherine, daughter of tbe late Mr. Samuel Gurney, of Ham House, Essex. On the death of his father in October, 1845, be ...