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When Mr. James Wilson arrived in India he received addresses from the Chamber of Commerce, the Indigo Planters' Association, and the Native British Indian Association. Both begged that they might have the privilege of freely communicating with Mr. Wilson, so that he might know their wants, opinions, and feelings. In his reply, Mr. Wilson thanked them for offering their cooperation, and he invited them to " communicate with him freely and frankly on subjects of public im- portance." The Manchester Examiner states that throughout the negotiations on the subject of a commercial treaty with France, Mr. Cobden acted as her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and in that capacity signed the treaty.

The Emperor of Austria has appointed the Tuscan ex-Grand Dukes to Colonelcies of Austrian regiments. Remarking this, the Petrie ob- serves " These appointments seem to us very significant. Every one will under- stand that, under present circumstances, such an appointment would be a mistake if it were not an indemnification. Moreover if we never recog- nized the right of the Emperor of Austria to make Italian Sovereigns, we, on the other hand, never contested his right to appoint Austrian colonels." A body of the Roman nobility, chiefly office-holders under the Papal Government, signed an address to the Congress vindicating the Papal sys- tem, and praying for its continuance. But the dissidents were so emi- nent and so many that the project was abandoned.

The ex-Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany and all his family, Duke Ferdi- nand excepted, are at Schlackenwerth in Bohemia. The King of Sardinia is confined to his palace with an attack of rheuma- tism in the knee. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have arrived at Lisbon. The Duke de Nemours and his son have departed thence, bound for Cadiz. M. Emile Pereira gave a grand dinner on the 20th, in honour of Mr. Cob- den, to which M. Michel Chevalier, M. Bixio, and other politicid economists, were invited.

Mr. Matthew Talbot Baines, brother of Mr. Edward Baines of Leeds, died at his house in Westminster, on Monday, in his sixty-first year. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Baines was born in 1799 ; he was educated at

Trinity. College, Cambridge, a fellow-student with the late Lord Macaulay. Mr. Baines was called to the bar at the inner Temple. In 1837 he became Recorder of Hull; a post he held for ten years. He sat for Hull and for Leeds, and held office under Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdeen, and Pal- merston.

Sir William Ross, the distinguished artist, died on the 20th at his house in Fitzroy Square. He was minature painter to her Majesty, and an academecian.

Mr. Knightley, Member for Northamptonshire, has had his arm broken by a hunting accident. He is doing well.

The Honourable Mrs. Norton, says an evening contemporary, is so dangerously ill that very little hopes are entertained of her recovery.

The admirers of Archbishop Laud are about to erect " an appropriate mural braes " to his memory in Canterbury Cathedral.

A General Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists will open at Brus- sels on the let of August next, and close on the 30th September.

The Constiteetionnel announces that, owing to the favourable result of ex- periments already made, the intention is entertained of mounting all the French regiments of light cavalry on Arab horses.

It is stated that a pension of 1001. a year has been granted to Dr. Bigeby, the author of the " History of Knaresborough," in acknowledgment of his literary services.

" A piece of good fortune which rarely arrives to an actress," says the Journal du Havre, "has befallen Mademoiselle Emilie Dubois, of the Thatre Francais. An old gentleman just deceased has bequeathed her 200,000 frances, and he declares in his will that the bequest is made for no other reasons than admiration of her talent as an actress and of her ex- emplary conduct in private life."

The Entr'acte states that in the budget of 1860 the subventions to the imperial theatres and the Conservatoire de Musique are set down at 1,705,000 francs; indemnities or assistance to artistes, dramatic authors, composers, and their widows, 137,000 francs; encouragement and sub- scriptions, 200,000 francs.

The mortality of London slightly decreased last week—the number of deaths being 1397, or 31 fewer than the calculated average. Bronchitis, phthisis, and pneumonia were the most fatal diseases.

The camp of the Governor-General was destroyed by fire on the 11th of December. No one was hurt, but as the fire broke out in Lord Canning's tent, it is reported that all records and papers have been consumed.

Pressure on our space has compelled us to postpone I important papers. Among them the Letter IV. on the Statistics of Crime, and a Topic on the Fusion of Law and Equity.

Eaanum.—In our article on " The Commercial Evil" last week, we were made, by an error, to say that out of 84,719 cases tried in the County Courts, 175,952 ended in verdicts for the plaintiff. Tne latter number should be 75,952.