... MESSRS. STRAHAN AND PAUL.-It appears from the City article of the Times, that a memorial is about to be presented to the government, through some of the first houses in London, praying for the pardon of Messrs. Strahan and Paul, who have now completed three years of the fourteen years' penal servitude to which they were sentenced. One of the grounds is that, under an act passed last year. ...

... At the working men's concerts at Liverpool on Satur- day evening Mr. Gladstone delivered an address in the course of which he said, Now what shall I say upon the subject of this entertainment? Don't be frightened if I go back to the beginning of the world— (laughter)-for I promise you I won't stay there; and if I mention the word it is only to say that they who consider music to be a ...

... The weekly-meeting, held on Saturday, was oc- cupied, so far as the public are concerned, with a complaint that was made by a pauper. E. David, Esq., presided as usual. As the relief list was being proceeded with, Mr. CORY said a complaint was made to him by a female named Probert, respecting Mr. Paine's assis- tant and the relieving-officer Mr. Lewis. As to the former, she stated that she ...

... MR. ALBERT SMITH AT HONGKONQ. HONGKONG, Aug. 22.' Here we are, all safe and sound, among them at last, surrounded by janks and pigtails, and noble ladies and l have bought the inclosed pictures from a splendid merchant who has come off to the side of the ship on three planks by the aid of a broomstick. We left,Singapore on the 23rd ult. I was immensely delighted with it; it is quite a Chinese ...

... DOG FIGHTING.—A WARNING TO THE FANCY. —Upwards of a dozen persons, notorious in Liverpool as prominent members of the world known as the fancy, were charged at the police court of that town with being conaerned in the brutal and illegal sport of dog-fighting. Inspector Horne said that on Monday night he and seven officers went into a beerhouse in Peter-street (one of the worst streets in the ...

... ..tMrnmrnrrmm THE LOSS OF ATLANTIC STEAMERS. It is a noticeable fact, says a New York journal that, notwithstanding the superiority claimed for iron steamers, on the ground of their security from fire a steam ship of this description is the first of the Trans- atlantic lines to perish from conflagration. The coinci- dence is also remarked, that the destruction of the Austria occurred on the ...

... gmentific. NATURAL PHOTOGRAPHY.—M. Badefc died ft f short time since after an illness of three months. He was in the habit, during his illness, of sitting at a window looking upon the street, where hq remained motionless for hours together watching the passers-by. The house opposite was inhabited by a M. Peltrie, who was not 8 little surprised quite recently at seeing, to all appearance, the ...

... ENGLISH BAPTIST CHAPEL.-On Sunday eveninff last, the Rev. G. P. Evans delivered the 5th of his course of Sabbath lectures, at the above named chapel. The subject of the rev. gentleman's lecture on this occasion was Woman. Having selected text so pregnant with matter for an eloquent and glowing discourse, it might have been expected that Evan's 5th lecture would have been better even than the ...

... THE DUNMOW FLITCH.-The Dunmow Flitch has this vear had a new application, having been offered by Mr. Barnard, of Monkshill, at the meeting of the Agricultural and Labourer's Friend Society, as a reward tor the labourer and his wife who had brought up the largest family with the least parochial relief. The prize was won by Samuel Archer and his wife, aged 60 and 59, who bad ten children, of ...

... SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE COMET. Mr. H. Hall, of St. Alban's, in writing to the Times, says Has it occurred to any of your readers that the comet is a body similar in form and condition to the sun, ro- tating round the sun and also round its own axis? It has long been considered as an established truth that the sun is surrounded by a highly luminous atmosphere, extend- ing in the form of a lens ...

... Local Maxims, and a Sketch of Local Politics, are una. voidably kept back till next week. Several communications are unavoidably left over. ...

... fxtaptt fatal giMipittt DROWNED MEN* WASHED ASHORE.—W. H. Brewer, Esq., held the following inquests at the Six Bells, Peterstone, on Friday the 8th instant, on the body of a man unknown, washed ashore, and on Monday the 11th instant, on the- body of another unknown man. There was a gash on the side of the neck as if from a sharp instrument, or perhaps from a shell coming in contact with the ...