... naturally attributed to the influence of recent political events. — Brussels Herald EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. A series of robberies of the most extraordinary and extensive character were perpetrated on the up and down mails traversing ...

... learn, brought forward Mr. Charles Dickens as a candidate. The election takes place on Monday, the candidates now in the field being, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (the present Lord Rector) ' the Earl of Slriftesbury, and Mr. Dickene.—Nortlt British ,Daily JUDICIAL ...

... him has i ts d ouble in hi s o wn works. Suppose we give this anecd o t e i n the wor d s o f Mr Charles Dickens. He was very fond of a boy known to Mr Dickene, an extraord;narily small boy, b ut of gre at spirit, who was a midshipman in the navy. Whenev ...

... own head. his copy comes to the publisher in type. The only other English author who equals him in this particular is Charles Dickens, who is most careful as regards MS. A DOMESTIC BANK ROBBED. —A lady in Glasgow employed a cabinetmaker to remove her frniture ...

... ThIAMES. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--Catherine Harley, a woman of the town, and Joseph Silvery, labourer, were brought before Mr. Paget charged with assaulting and robbing Romeo Gomez, aman of colour. The prosecutor, a seaman, stated that be was leaving the Red ...

... her that may prove ultimately advantageous. The feeling of the Jiebtew'hecemes not stunted by the desire of gain, as Charles Dickens would fain make the world believe ; but on the contrary, while he is labouring with fixed industry, to earn an independence ...

... The evidence given in this case was similar to that given in the case of the robbery of Mr. Grey, on Saturday. The prisoners all of them denied any knowledge of the robbery. The jury found them all Guilty. Henry Bates, 19; William Barrett, 16; John Den ...

... as a clerk, was indicted fur unlawfully obtaining by false pretences, of William weaver, the sum of 17s. 6d.• of Charles Samuel Charles, the sum of 235.; and of deorge Brodie the sum of 275. 61., with intent to cheat them respectively of the said moneys ...

... that the new Ifork announced under the title of The Pic Nic Papers, by Various Hands, in 3 vols. post Bvo, edited by Charles Dickens, Esq. (Boz), author of Nicholas Nickleby, Pickwick, &c., with illustrations by George Cruikshank and Phiz, will ...

... discharge the remaining part of it, being wet. C. DICKENS, ESQ. (Boz), IN LIVERPOOL.—The annual Christmas soirée, at the Mechanics Institution, having been postponed in order to suit the convenience of Charles Dickens, Esq., who had promised to preside on the ...

... Paris, £B. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, presentation copy, inscribed W. M. Thackeray, from Charles Dickens, whom he had made very happy a long way from home. For this little book, an ordinary copy ot Mr. Dickens's story, there ...

... intrinsically deleterious masterpieces of imaginative literature, world-famous fictions, let ns say, like those of Mr Charles Dickens or of Sir Edward Lytton. If Edith Dombey is mentioned once in The Doctor's Wife as having haunted the memory of Isabel ...