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  2. THE CORPORATION.

    Present His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen Richman and Glandfield. Councillors Lawson, Egan, Hay. Harman, Stewart, Witt, Futcher, Platts, Martin, Cox, and Field. ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  3. THE PEN AND THE SWORD.

    The rumour runs that Lord Raglan, having threatened to visit the neck of the Times correspondent with a halter, unless he made quick and judicious flight from the camp, the Time.s has thereupon opened its columns ...

    Article : 1,555 words
  4. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    We have been favoured by M. Macdermott, Esq., with Perth and Freemantle papers to the 10th of May. The recent session of the Legislative Council terminated on the 26th April. Previous to adjournment, an ...

    Article : 613 words
  5. BALLAD SINGING.

    Ballad-singing, the vestige of the minstrelsy which Cromwell, in 1658, silenced for a time, was common in the last century. "The Blind Beggar" had conferred poetic celebrity upon Bethnal-green; "Black-eyed ...

    Article : 588 words
  6. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir—As anything relating to the vexed question of the disputed Acre in Victoria-square must he interesting to your readers and the pul[?]v generally, the publication of the following letter, which appeared in the ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  7. LITERATURE.

    A pauper child in London, at seven wars old, knows how to go to market, fetch the beer, to pawn father's coat, to choose the largest fried fish or the nicest hambone, to nurse Mary Jane of three—to conduct a ...

    Article : 1,208 words
  8. A LIBERTINE AT HIS OWN FUNERAL.

    There was once in Seville a young gay fellow, Don Manuel de Manara by name, who having come to a great estate by the death of his father, gave the reins to his passions, and plunged into all kinds of dissipation. ...

    Article : 1,524 words
  9. A RUSSIAN POET.

    Pouchkine had scarcely made his appearance in the literary world when he published an ode in which some admirable poetic instincts revealed themselves, not. however, without an unmistakable political bias. A ...

    Article : 904 words
  10. MISCELLANEOUS.

    It is said that the P. & O. Company have not thought fit to wind up their affairs at King George's Sound station, although they had instructed their agents to do so in the other colonies; and the inference is drawn ...

    Article : 877 words
  11. LAW AND POLICE COURTS.

    DRUNK AND DISOKDERLY. Six persons were fined for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. HORSE STEALING.—John Webb and William Roberts were brought up on remand, charged with stealing, on ...

    Article : 116 words
  12. TRINITY BOARD.

    Present—The Harbour Master, the Collector of Customs, and Captains Scott and Malcolm. Investigation into the conduct of the captain of the Europa and state of the vessel. ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  13. ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

    Our last re-unue ot' political news from New Zealand painted the state of affairs in that colony in somewhat gloomy colours. The acting Governor was left at Auckland, in the painful position of having made an ...

    Article : 707 words
  14. A PEEP AT SAN FRANCISO.

    Gorgeous decoration is characteristic of San Francis[?]; the people pay high prices for the necessaries of life, so velvet and gilt work are thrown into the bargain. In the "shaving saloons" this system of internal ...

    Article : 985 words
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