... it met with general approval. Mr. DENMAN, representing the law-Mr. HODGSON, representing the railway companies-Mr. PUGH, speaking for localities which want more railways, and other members, all agreed that this check was necessary. It is a trade with ...

... whose judgment I rely, that it is the perfection of their ensemble which, above all, sets competition at defiance. I do not speak of the classical drama of MOLIERE. Hisgcomedies are performed mainly in the dead season-usually in most inferior fashion ...

... OPPOSITION.-We learn from a reliable source that M. Thiers, in order to prevent a split in the Opposition, has consented not to speak against the September Convention. It is asserted, that notwithstanding the efforts of the Catholic party to induce him to adopt ...

... regret that the Cabinet of the Tuileries had not made a miore energetic use of its influence in favour of the Duchies, or to speak inore correctly, of the Middle States, to form a coun- terpoise to the two Great German Powers. The French Envoy reported this ...

... is the immense advantage which the actor has,-he stands in the suffused light of an imagination kindled by the author. He speaks the great thoughts of another; and is rewarded as the bearer of glad tidings is rewarded, though he be the mere carrier of ...

... was resumed last night. It occupied the later part of the evening, but the debate was of considerable interest, and so we speak of it first. Mr. RoEBUcK reopened the discussion by a characteristic speech. The intense feeling which colours-too often o ...

... reputations are extremely scarce. One reason of this, and perhaps the main reason, is that the constant practice of parliamentary speaking has a tendency to breed in most men an inveterate addiction to the common- place. It is only at rare intervals that questions ...

... e of the Herald, whose Southern sympathies are so strong as to deprive his opinion of the value it might otherwise have, speaking of the war meeting at Richmond, says, One resolution animated the mighty assemblage, and that was to fight to the last ...

... being already between Charlton and Blackheath. Captain Tyler considers that the signalmen ought to have been provided with speaking instruments. It is no doubt desirable, he says, that a signalman should have the means of ascertaining from the next tel ...

... wanted: she had a fine house, fine clothes, presided at his table, received his guests-but was a cypher. If she ventured to speak, her husband never interrupted her rudely, never set her right, never contradicted her he simply ignored her : he listened ...

... Queen-Mother of Holland died yesterday afternoon at the Hague. We shall soon be brought within what it is the fashion to call speaking distance of India. Sir Charles Bright writes this morning to say that a tele- gram was received yesterday in London direct ...

... statesman of the old conti- nental school-of the school of TALLEYRAND, METTERNICH, and GENTZ: not, of course, that we mean to speak of him as rivalling some of these gentlemen in finesse, but as founding his statesman- ship on the same sort of personal q ...