AT this day the whole of Europe falls under the ban of the French Law of Public Safety, since almost every country is in a condition which Imperial authority would pronounce...

TEE Queer held a Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. The Earl of Donouahmore and Mr. Mowbray were sworn in Privy Council- lors, and took heir places at the board. Lord...

The Lord Mayor's Easter banquet to her Majesty's Ministers took place on Monday, in accordance with custom. The Lord Mayor is a Tory, and he did not fail to let his official...

The Manchester Chamber of Commerce have spoken on the two India bills, and rejecting both have proposed a bill of their own. At a meeting of the Chamber on Thursday they adopted...

The Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh recently addressed a me- morial to the East India Company praying that greater facilities might be given for the spread of Christianity...

Mr. Smith O'Brien has addressed another manifesto to "the people of Ireland." He proposes that "three hundred of the ablest and most patriotic men in Ireland should meet in...

frantr.—The Senate was convoked for Wednesday to receive "a project of a Senatiis Consultum." • What could it be ? lie Senate is a mysterious body. Strange rumours were afloat....

The Count de Persigny left London for Paris on Thursday. Marshal Pe.lissier, it is expected, will arrive in London on Monday, Two pieces of evidence bearing upon the disputed...

SATURDAY. A letter from Dean Milman to the Bishop of London respecting pr o p ose d spec ial services in St. Paul's has been published this morning. D r. Mil man represents...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. On Monday the English Funds opened heavily, at a decline of per cent upon the final quotations of the previous Thursday. The markets have ex-...

• DEFENCE OF THE METROPOLIS. 5th April 1858. Sin—We hear occasionally of batteries having been made on the coast to repel any attempt at invasion, but it may be doubted whether...

The official correspondence on the case of the Cagliari has been published this week. It consists of 157 documents, in 137 pages of an uncovered folio volume. It begins with a...

Let the Haymarket bear the honour of being the house at which the holiday period is most distinctly represented. The new mythological extravaganza, on the subject of Plato and...

PROM TEE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 6. W,& s OFFICE, Pall Mall, April 6.—Infantry-18th Regt. of Foot—Gen. S. H. Berkeley, from the 75th Foot, to be Col. vice Major-Gen. C. Bishopp,...

Wednesday evening, at St. James's Hall, by the Vocal Association ; a body of amateurs lately formed for the cultivation of vocal music, and of part- music especially. Their...

THE LIBERAL PARTY AND ITS LEADERS. THE greatest fact of the hour in England, and the One that rn presses for attention is the disruption and anarchy of the great Liberal party....

THE grand objection to the state trials for political libel is, that they must be essentially shams,—a compromise of our system if they succeed, and, if they fail, a trick...

as yet taken place upon the case of the Cagliari has followed the lead given by the proceedings of the late Government, and the official documents in which they have been lately...

defects of our strong engine of modern civilization, the press, is that its strokes, however terrific, are brief—its exposure of the abuses of the social and political system is...

Ix has transpired that the Emperor of the French has been en- gaged in communication with some kind of council or commission convened for the special purpose of considering the...

WE now enter upon a section of the subject which forces us to treat it somewhat differently from those which have preceded it. The hospital is to the barrack what the...

THE Emperor of the French rode on horseback in front of a pro- cession, on Monday, proving to the world that, with due precautions, he can ride abroad without fear of being shot...

GIIIZOT'S MEMOIRS.. This volume of M. Guizot's "Memoirs to Illustrate the History of my Time" will not fulfil the expectations of many. The author avows and acts upon the...

observation in this volume, es- pecially on topics that relate to the author's own profession, as the diseases of the island, its climate, physical features, and local...

nom needlework and novels to churchyards and charnel-houses is a great leap ; but it indicates Mrs. Stone's versatility of talent, and the readiness with which she can grasp the...

SCOTTISH ART BODIES. A minute of the Lords of the Treasury, dated the 25th February, makes a clean sweep of the system of arrangements for art-purposes in Scotland, centralized...

The holiday week has not produced very much difference in the num- ber of books ; but their character is singular. A batch of novels indeed, are appropriate enough to the time,...

On the 21st January, at the Tynan Estate, Kandy, Ceylon, John Barr Sadler, Esq., second son of Thomas Sadler, Esq., Norton Mains, Midlothian, N.B. On the 26th March, at...

On the 20th February, at Calcutta, Horatio Senftenberg Ross, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, eldest son of Horatio Ross, Esq., of Netherley, to Caroline Delautour St. George,...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 6. Bankrupts.--CHAD FISHER RICHARDSON, Church Street, Stoke Newington, vic- dueller—Gamine Bazixrrr, Whitechapel, outfitter—Wimarr and Co. Hanley,...

Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 11 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer Bills, lid,...

On the 17th January, at Auckland, New Zealand, the Wife of Captain Frederick R. Stack, 65th Regiment, Major of Brigade, Auckland, of a son. On the 2d April, the Wife of the Rev....