... TO THE EtDITOR OF REYNOLDS'a NEtWSPAPER- SGR,-It is altogether a healthy sign to find that peers are endeavouring to find out a reason for their existence. Nobody has been able to find a reason yet. If the truth is to be told, it is that the peerage, like TopBy, has s growed. Mr. Disraeli, in his novels, has given the most candid account of the origin and progress of the peer- age. There ...

... rULIG DZ. O.. PU-L:O A . ; . Atagr at n . ai1d 1a ct'~tter on ?? fakvocir ff the Per i'-nvpe ll', h,.r Wvi ?? M .P.I who woo3 ?? 15te ?? iC i~ forth tko rna~sre an't prif'c'iji~ oete Said twenty' vyiqrs !i- tb I d,7ned ~- .,f the iea p Ic ty tT- I' ' i i,, nnhlie runicencejh'i iI- ' and the, ex'er' Mi w'i~ iu been male te i a,iirvn h ec n''enftiesid'.uh any nrevinliis twenty~ s yi n ...

... oro THE EDITOR OF REYNOLDS S NEWSPAPER. SIa,-That nations, like individuals, are sub- -ected to fits of insanity, seems pretty clearly proven in the pages of their histories And, takidg 5dvantage of these periodical outbreaks of msd- oes8 certain persons styled sovereigns and nobles frequently manage, after having been ignomini- xusly ejected from power and office, to contrive to get back ...

... Sl.:T OBNOXIOUS TAhDE UNION. 'O T'Hi TI)TOR OF NFEWN(3t,1S itWSPAPER. Sl', -I'here are good turd bad trades' uniolls. !11~t Siie Salile as there are goud ant lrd l ft all .,A il es, of ,)Iel :111,1 ;11 l trli ...

... 1UR DAILY CONTEMPORARIMS. tl1E M1IDLAND RAILWAY OIiANGRS.-Y0ne ?? affi-ins that the whtle thing will amount to this that fires wi'l be sn stantialiy unchanged on the Midland line, that the first, socond, and third classes will he just as disminct rse they always have been, and that the comfort of the travelling pnblic will be better provided for than ever. It is a pity, perhaps, that the ...

... THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY RUND. Onl Mondgy,an influentially-attended meeting, convened by circular, in connexio vwith the above movement was held at the offices of the treasurer of the fund, Fleet-street. Mr. Hamilton Hoare, the chairman, said: As all present were men of business, he wvoald, w thout any general re- mark3, at once enter upon the tinfstion which had called them together. In carrying ...

... PROPOSITION FOR A PBROSCUTION. Mr. C. W. Stokes, describing himselt as a London merchant (says the Pall Mall Gacett,), has published an inquiry as to whether Professor Tyndall has not sub. jected himself to the penalty on persons expressing blasphemous opinions, 9 and 10 Will. III, cip. 32. The inquiry is addressed to Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary; and with his pamphlet Mr. Stokes has ...

... o To E EufToR 01' R13YNOJLDS'S NEWSPAPER. Slc-'The corporation of the City of London r one of thsee iustitutions which Englishmen, almot from their cradle, are taught to rever- ,elce and idmkir. Probably the more sen- sil ase it3 they grow up. discover that the thinigs in early youth they so highly revered are ?? the most corrrupt, rotten, and obnox- jOla5 of our institutiors. Many who before ...

... TUE REPU13LICANS AND THE nOYALVSIT TO BIUXMINGHAM, A meeting of Republicans was held at the Public Office, Aloor.strcet, for the purpose of protesting against the expenditure of the public funds in illuminating end decorating the town at the forthcoming royal visit. Mr. Potter presided. There was but a moderate attend- ance. Mr. REDDALLS complained of the manner in which they bad been treated ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENO& The Bonapartist Septennist, M. Delisse-Engrana, has been elected on the ballotage in the Pas-de Calais by 81,460 against 74,181 given to M. Brasme. This majority of 10,000 is attributable to the fact that the greater part of the 17,000 Legitimists, whose candidate retired after the first ballot, voted oat of hatred of Republicanism for M. Delisso Eagrand, who was supported ...

... A rr:Vzn-sP!TCZEN TOWN. Aspecial nseidng of the Darweis Local Board wa hcd in the ho rdj-rUn, to rocreivo the report ol D [le,- Stepllbins, who 1usd been appointedl by thib evl(o'r meat floarsi to jiseestigate the cause ol'th.- feyiro, i,1, now ragfi- in thatk town. Mir. Snaps. octityi i tli0' 'h find lbsn public wera admaittedl to the msetctjne j)r. Stephbens s;aid it was not for the first ...

... A gWoU&L LIUM&oir aS4MT. Vf0 T'I UDITIro 03o 9McNrVJS'9 RE.OSPWPe1nft. &Br,-I think you -will apee swith me tbattherewre few things more calculated to distress the'average intel- leot than to read the way some of our most eminent men indilge in Pharisaic self landition between the walnuts and the wine, vile the Lord Mayor'sedinner. The Duke of Cambridge thinikz thatmeverbeforewere we so ...