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... The bold and comprehensive scheme proposed by Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, for the foundation here of a permanent and free art gallery and museum on a grand scalers much talked about. The words art gallery, although per- baps the best that could have been selected, convey but a faint idea of the magnificent undertaking suggested. In the long letter which he addressed to the local papers, Mr. ...
... appointment* for tbe Wittb. Monday, 27th.Chepstow Fair. ...
... fit. A CABINET CopNCiL was held on Saturday. HER MAJESTY visited the Haymarket Theatre on Saturday. No alteration has, taken place in the Court arrange- ments for the ensuing month. It is expected that her Majesty will leave town on the 8th or 9th of March for Osborne, and will return to town a day or two before the day appointed for the first drawing-room in 1860, the 24th of March. THE first ...
... PROPOSED PEACE WITH MoRocco.-Negotiations i:V»r peace with RY >»JT of (writes a Spanish rrespondent). It is said that immediately after tne C; oture of Tetuan, which place is not expected to make serious resistance, as it is armed only with old cannon, ad as the Moors are suffering from sickness and famine treaty of peace will be signed at Tangiers; ana wiac, t le basis of it will be an ...
... Iflrattllsntras Jinf Trigmtt. AN OFFENCE NOT KNOWN TO T sis- pension has been presented to tl nburgh High Court of Justiciary for a prisoner, n,h ahe ground thit the offence of which he was found guilty—viz., at- tempting to pick pockets—is not an offence known -,o the law. The Lord Justice Clerk has granted a war- rant for his interim liberation, on his finding bail for 21. sterling. THE ...
... An ordinary wanderer in the London streets cannot fail to mark the great difference observable in some of the shops which meet the,eye though he may regard the effect produced as the result of chance. A more careful observer notes in the windows of the linen drapers, silk mercers, milliners, and others, that it is by arrangement the attraction noticed is produced. There is a shop on Ludgate ...
... THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY. The Paris journals of Monday publish the following message:— Cjiambert, JAH. 80. Yesterday the party hostile to a cession of Savoy to France made a demonstration. Nearly 260 persons assembled from all parts of Savoy at the request of the residents of Chambery, and uked information of the Governor as to whether it was the in'ent'op of the King of Sardinia to cede Savoy ...
... As the volunteer corps have now become fully recognised M a national institution, every word of seund ad vice which points out the means of making the armam ent more efficient must be highly acceptable. It will be admitted that, of all men, Garibaldi is the general most fitted, by his experience of volunteers, for the duty of instructor on this theme con- sequently it will doubtless be ...
... VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF ORANGE. —We have been informed that the Prince of Orange, who has been visiting his grace the Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, during the present week, will go to Bath and Bristol, and proceed to Tintern Abboy and Raglan Castle after which he will honor Lord and Lady Llanover with a visit at Llanover, where his Royal Higness will probably remain two ...
... TOWN TALK. BY 01JR LONDON CORRESPONDENT v Our readers will understand that we do rial hold ourselves re- sponsible for our able Correspondent's opinions.) MR. GLADSTONE'S Budget occupied him four hours to explain, and fills some sixteen full-sized newspaper columns. The best thing I can do will be to give you the pith of the whole state- ment. The Custom House system is revolutionised. In 1842 ...
... TREDEGAR. BRISTOL BANKRUPTCY COURT, FEB. 2nd. (Before Mr. Commissi iner flil).)-Re John Dunlop, Tredegar, draper and grocer.—At the dividend meeting under this estate, Peter Dunlop, a brother of the bankrupt, tendered a proot for X56 5.. for salary alleged to be due as a ser- vant of the bankrupt. Mr. Press, on behalf of the assignees, objected to the proof, and examined the party by whom it ...
... Outturn in gmtcr. The corporation of the city of London have resolved 'to present to Capt. F. Leopold M'Cliutock, lt.N., the freedom of the city in a box of British oak of the value of fifty guineas, in admiration of his dauntless spirit, exhibited in repeated efforts to rescue. 1*8 of his fellow-countrymen; anrlm te., timony of his having after many years of unsuccessful se-irch, ascertained ...