... An important encouragement has been given by a recent Act to that educational organization of the druggists and dispensing chemists which we hold to be a measure that should be made universal. At one time, the body of chemists were entirely without organization and any little chandler-shopkeeper who chose to add drugs to'his- stock of tapes and dry-goods stood in the same position as the ...

... AMERICA. NEW YORK, SEPT. 8. GENERAL POPE has been relieved from the command of the army in Virginia, and is assigned to the command in the north-west. Nearly all the Confederate troops have been withdrawn from before Washington. A Confederate force, 5,000 strong, has crossed the Potomac at Point of Rocks, and occupied Frederick, Maryland. They were enthusiastically received by the secessionist ...

... THE Monorchia Nazionale of Turin, September 4, says:— A second conf3rence of the ministers and personages who were present at the first took place yesterday. After a long discussion the majority were of opinion that the rebels should be tried by special military com- missions. The military authorities are in favour of trying by a disciplinary council the 32 officers of the royal troops who ...

... CITY, SEpr. 9.—The funds remain very steady, at the recent improvement, notwithstanding the continued inactivity of busi- ness. Consols are officially marked 93J and I for money, and for the account. The present quotations are respectively 93J to and 93f to j. The official business report is as follows:- Three per Cents. Reduced, 92, |, New Three per Cents., 92, |; Thirty Years Annuities, 18S5 ...

... On Tuesday last, the autumnal show of this interest- ing society, took place within the Courts of the fine old ruins of the Castle. We have, on many previous occa- sions, entered fully into the historical incidents connected with this fortress, and spoken of the romantic views em- braced within the range of its towers, so that it will be superfluous to say anything further on the subject, than ...

... Breach of Promise of Marriage.-At Lincoln, on Wednesday, befote-Mr. Burton, under sheriff, the trial of Simon v. Epton was heard. The plaintif, John Simon, in the,case of seduction, is a farmer residing at Goxbill, near Hull, whose daughter, 22 years ofsge. had been most heartlessly seduced bv the defendant, Villiatn Epton, also a farmer, residing at Goxhill; and the plaintiff in the second ...

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... THE ARTS, LITERATUBEjf&e. SINCE the unsunned historical treasures IN the posses- sion of the London Corporation has been publicly known a D'ropoaal has b. en niade to tLe City authorities that a mm of money should be devoted to the publication, of ;hose valuable illustrations of our early social and politi- jaT history. This proposal has been declined but we. 'says' the Athenamm) believe a ...

... The somewhat unusual circumstance of the launch of two ships from one yard in one day took place on Satur- day last, at the yard of Mr. Charles Lungley, at Dept- ford Green Dock, Deptford. One of the ships is built of iron and the other of wood. The one which is con- structed of iron is a beautiful large vessel with fine lines having a length over all of 224 feet, length on deck 202 feet, and ...

... THE COURT. THE QUEEN and the Royal Family, accompanied by her Serene Highness Princess Hohenlobe, arrived at Rheinhardtsbrunn, which has been placed at Her Ma- jesty's disposal by his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, soon after 9 o'clock in the morning. Her Majesty travelled throughout the night by special train from Lacken, stopping an hour and a half at Cologne, where her ...

... NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT. CHAKLES BASSETT wishes to contra lict the statement made at the Cardiff Board of Guardians by the Rev. H. J. Thomas, in reference t) the new union, that the Pentyrch Guardians had no notice of the m'etded visit of Mr. Graves to Ponty- pridd. ...

... (By our London Correspondent.) London, Sept. 16th, 18:12. We have now before us the official reports of Cialdini and Pallavicino, of the afJail at Aspromonte, together with s'atements niar'e by Garibaldi himself with several of his officers, and we can no doubt form a pretty cnr. rect estimate of the circumstances under which the Italian patriot was wounded and captured. However, it appears to ...