of the convention to which, after so many formal delays, the Powers have agreed, are not inconsistent with what was generally expected last week. They have resolved that a force...

l'AntrANrcsa ought, by this time, to have been out on its holi- days, and it must be admitted that, within the last week, Mem- bers have evinced a laudable anxiety to get...

should be admitted to the Councils of the Great Powers has been followed up by a conditional assent from Prussia ; the condition being that Sweden should be admitted to these...

to the efforts of the friends of Mr. Brunel, a -movement is only now made to do justice to the memory of Robert Stephen- son, whose great works are to 'be seen in every quarter...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OP Loans. Monday, August 6. 'Land, Loan, and Enfranchisement read a second time—Industrial Museum (Scotland)Bill ; passed...

The Courier , a Newfoundland journal, reports the arrival of the Prince of Wales at St. John's on Monday, the 23d of July.. The.Hero and her at- tendant vessels had been sighted...

The Poor Law Board is at issue with the City of London Union as to the exclusion of the Reverend Mr. Pocock, the chaplain, from the workhouse. The imperial Board requires the...

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, embarked on board the Royal yacht Fairy, on Friday...

The Berwick Commission this week has been engaged in the examina- tion of witnesses ; the principal of whom have been Mr. Jeffrey, writer of Jedburgh, and Mr. Richard Hodgson,...

naurr.—The Moniteur of Saturday announced that the representa- tives of the Great Powers assembled on Friday, in order to sign the pro- tocol stipulating that the measures which...

A meeting of noblemen and gentlemen under the presidency of Lord Llanover, has been held at FendalPs Hotel, Palace Yard, to originate subscription for a statue to the late...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FILIDAY AFITRNOON. The market for Consols, which was very good, 94 buyers, on Monday gradually drooped; today it was weak upon the announcement of is loan for...

SATURDAY MORNING. In the House of Commons yesterday, the Speaker had to take his seat at the clerks' table and wait for Members to make a House. Mr. W. Williams was the...

THE INDIAN LOAN AND ITS ACCOMPANYING MEASURES. As we have all along recorded the views we honestly entertained upon the Indian Army question, we are now ready with equal...

IT is worth while to glance at the arguments employed by the Opposition against the equalization of the Customs and Excise duties upon paper, because arguments advanced on a...

A VERY interesting question is discussed by our esteemed corre- spondent, "A. W. W.," whose communication will no doubt sug- gest to our readers in the manufacturing districts...

THE criminal class seems within the last week or two to have been bent on driving to an extreme the question,—whether crime can be traced to an absolute turpitude in human...

THE report of an unexplained phenomena, written by a very well disciplined observer, and published in the Cornhill Magazine, under the title, " Stranger than Fiction," throws a...

and five years of incubation upon this last of five ponderous volumes, the author reveals some con- fessions which are as startling for their naivete as they are per- plexing,...

THE reasonableness of Captain Shakespear's dictum, that every Englishman in India ought to be a sportsman, is well exemplified in the person of Mr. Dunlop, whose distinguished...

Two works, neither of which seems to be below the common average of ephemeral novels, have been sent to us for reviewal ; • High Church. In two volumes. Published by Hurst and...

TER Emiriar Coarmsruasnwr, by Mr. Charles Reade, is a searching ex- posure of the disgrace and injury entailed on this country by the tolerated piracy of the works of French...

Among Mr. Murray's forthcoming books are "The Great Sahara, or Wanderings south of the Atlas Mountains," by H. B. Tristram; "Lin- coin's Inn Sermons," by Wm. Thomson, D.D.; and...

indulgence in the execution of the tasks they undertake for the gratification of us more matter-of-fact people. Ideas will not always flow in a fine frenzy—they cannot be spun...

Lord Clyde has given a sitting to Mr. T. J. Barker, the painter of the large picture of the Relief of Lucknow, which has been for some weeks ex- hibited in Waterloo Place....

On the 3d of August, at 39, Portland Place, the Wife of J. Bonham-Carter, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. On the 3d, at 7, Wellington Terrace, Sandgate, the Wife of Dr. J. Fraser,...

the Art-Union of London was opened on Monday. There are about 150 pictures, of, which the choicest are " Tantallon Castle," by J. Byer; an English pastoral, by H. B. Willis,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Cicalng Priem.) 13stuni. Moadloy. Toad.* Waxes noes. Prldog. S per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities...

Bankrupts.--FitEDERICA CnocKroan, St. James's Street, eating-house-keeper- Enamin Joint Buss, junior, Ship Street, Brighton, stationer-EDWARD GANDELL, and HENRY JOHN TODD '...