... ^oetr BRITAIN'S BROTHERHOOD. YE Muses inspire with minstrel fire, Great—grander—higher, this tivrn lo:rs lyre And let the burden of my song be Patriots—Brothers British Scions Here your kin for ages flourished, Here you lived—may still be living, Have been, are, and will be nourished Here your sires lived before you, Here their bones in quiet lie, Here you, too, at life's sure finis, May be ...

... [From The Critic.] The History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion, by the Rev. Adam T. Farrar, being the Bampton Lectures for 1862, will be pub- lished shortly by Mr. Murray. Mrs. Newton Crossland has a novel in the press entitled Mrs. Blake, which will be published by Messrs. Hurst and Blaokett, in three volumes. Mr. Buckle, according to last accounts, was about to ...

... ST. HILARY. CHURCH RESTORATION.—The old church at this place, which was in a very delapidated condition, has been restored at the sole cost of Mrs. Mont- gomery Treherne, as a memorial of her late husband, the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne. George Gilbert Scott, Esq., of London, is the architect who has superintended the restoration, and Messrs. James and Price, of Cardiff, have executed the ...

... glmm uf glarkts. MONEY, STOCK., and SHARE MARKET.- Strange and paradoxical as il may appear to the general reader, the advance in the Bank rate of discount this week from to 3 per cent., has beed attended by the happiest and most beneficial results to tlie financial and commercial public, for it has proved, at one and the same time. a protection and a relief. This power on the part of the ...

... On going into committee of supply, General PEEL asked if any decision had been arrived at m regard to the reserved fund raised by the sale of commissions, to which the attention of Parliament was especially called on the report of the committee on military organisation. He did not object to the existence of the fund or its legitimate application, but to the mode in which it was raised, and its ...

... On Thursday Mr. Payne, the coroner for the City of London, resumed and concluded an inquest at St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Thomas David Coade, a reader employed at the Morning Chronicle office, who came to his death under very mysterious and unex- plained circumstances. It appeared that the deceased and a number 01 other persons employed at the Morning Chronicle office, held a ...

... A frightful and deliberate murder has been com- mitted at a retired (jprmhouse, called Outbiti Farm, about five miles from Redditcb, by a farm la bourer, named Geoige Gardiner, hia victim bdtii.; tic servant. named Sarah Kirby, a mode-t and well-con- ducted girl. The following particulars are gleaned on the spot. The girl had been spending a few days withher- fiiends, and returned to her ...

... The Slave Trade. In answer to Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr LAY AltD said that a treaty for the suppression of the slave trade between this country and the United States, which con- ferred the right of search on British cruisers, had been con- eluded. ...

... The Northern Whig gives the following additional details relative to the murder of Mr. Herdman:- On Friday morning, the intense feeling created by the dreadful murder, the previous evening, of John Herdman, Esq., of Cliftonviile, Belfast, was rather increased as the news spread throughout the town, giving the full details of the horrible circumstances, and the fact that Wm. Herdman, a cousin ...

... In 1851 the London Exhibition was supported by 13,938 exhibitors, of whom 7,382 were British, and 6,556 were foreign. That was a year of peace; but in May, 1855, there was war with Russia, and the siege of Sebastopol was in progress, yet there were seventeen or eighteen thousand exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition, of whom—the French being about equal in number to the British in 1851—the ...

... The weekly meeting was held on Saturday, under the presi- dency of R.O. Jones, Esq. The minutes of the previous meeting were rea-l and con- firmed. STATE or THE norSE. From the master's report it appeared that there had been admitted during the week Go persons, and 75 discharged; total in the house (including 10t> in the refuge), 40S increase, as compared with the corresponding week of last ...

... EATING THE ARTICHOKE. The Federals are working out the old metaphor, and eating up the South leaf by leaf, as a man would eat an artichoke (remarks the Times). It is a pleasant occupation to one, not too hungry, leisurely inclined, and with plenty of time on his hands; but the artichoke is not a vegetable exactly adapted to a passenger who has but ten minutes for his dinner, and who has to ...