PlatrAmEn is dying hard. In very small " Rouses " there have been long and sharp debates, a few Members keeping up the character of the session for talk with astonishing vigour....

from good sources of intelligence, Messina among them. It appears to be probable that he* has effectually circumvented the enemy. First he threw on to the opposite shore a...

Prince of Wales reach us from British North America. Everywhere he is met and welcomed with a spit of manly loyalty, which shows how strong is the bond of faction between...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEk. House OP Loans. Monday, August 20. Royal Assent to the Census (Scotland( Bill, the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act (1854) Continuance Bill, the...

his tour amidst the unabated ardour of all classes of the population. He arrived at Fredericton on the after- noon of the 4th instant, after a run up the river St. John between...

Several other witnesses have been examined ; among them, Mr. Ralph Anstruther Earle, formerly private secretary to Mr. Disraeli, and for a short time Member for Berwick. Having...

London has really gone out of town. The week is barren of political or civic news. Mr. Spurgeon at the Tabernacle, the Stepney murder, the great fires, and the rain, have been...

The provincial Volunteer corps are now in full activity. Preparations for county reviews are going on in all directions, and sonic reviews and inspections have taken place. The...

ymin.—The Koniteur of Wednesday contained a note on the in- tended progress of the Emperor and Empress. It is as follows- " Their Majesties will leave on the 23d instant, on a...

The Queen has driven abroad, visiting the fine scenery near Balmoral, and the Prince Consort has been deer-stalking. For some time they were in retirement, in consequence of the...

Mr. William Smith O'Brien.has publicly endorsed the wild statements, contained in the French pamphlet called La Question Irlandaise. Al- though he does not desire an invasion of...

The Morning Post has given prominence to the following extract from a private letter, dated August 13, addressed by Mr. Cobden to a friend in this country- " I have still no...

SLT1TIWAY AFTERNOON. Both Houses sat last night to wind up business—the House of Com- mons meeting at a quarter past three, and counting itself out at a quarter past six. In...

the Nord respecting the royal meeting at Tiiplitz. The Universal German Gazette of Leipsic gives its own version of the alleged eohvention between Prussia and Austria. "The...

the 28th instant. A Privy Council will be held at Balmoral on Monday morning, at which the Queen's speech will be settled. We understand that at its rising today the House of...

ment of a port at the city of Thorion on Lake Leman, and the improve- ment of the already existing port of Evian on the same lake, as works of public utility. Reports of the...

dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom to George William Fox Baron Kin- naird, by the name, style, and title of Baron Kinnaird of Rogge, with remainder in default of heirs...

During the last twenty years no fewer than twelve patents have been taken out in this country and in France for the purpose of superseding the cumbrous and inconvenient mode of...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Money Market this week is more sensitive than for some time past. The fear of a bad harvest and the unsettled stateof Italy create a want...

CADETS FOR THE INDIAN ARMY. Bombay Pkesidency, 18th June, 1860. Sut—The system now in force which directs that Cadets for the Indian Army on their arrival in this country...

Calcutta, Juno 18, 1860. Sin—In the papers from Calcutta, which will now be reaching England, there is contained the evidence of ryotts i (cultivators) and others as given be-...

Blackburn Lane, 13th. August, 1860. Sin--4 have read with very great interest the letter of your correspondent "A. W. W.," on the migration of labour, and also your remarks...

Belfast, Sra—I do not see how any man possessing a common , sense can fail to recopize the necessity of putting our doe. of defence; but it is not so clear, that we ought to...

ARTISAN RIFLE CORPS. THE lively discussion on the best mode of obtaining the military se rvices of the artisans of England may help to clear the ground, and lead to the...

Ix a speech delivered recently at Kirkdale, Lord Derby made some admirable remarks on a question which deserves much more attention than has hitherto been bestowed upon. it. The...

FASHION changes in commerce as well as in every other field of life. A little while ago, Fashion looked down upon American securities of all kinds, but now the capricious...

THE COMMITTEE ov 1861. THE Committees of 1848 and 1854 constitute in some degree exemplaria ad evitanda. We mean no disparagement to either of those two bodies ; both of them,...

IT appears to be suite decided that the National Gallery shall be altered, so as to give more room for the pictures, without,disturb- ing the Academy ; not only so, but a new...

Since the article with the above title appeared in these columns, we have extended our researches somewhat further into the matter, for the purpose of discovering whether there...

THE HISTORY OF ITALY.. Two volumes of a new history of Italy form the first instalment of a work which the growing interest in the fortunes of that beautiful peninsula renders...

a fascinating book, belonging in right both of subject and treatment to the choicest class of Travel-Literature. The vast panorama it unfolds is one of the most marvellous in...

a thing in English as a good metrical version of the Psalms—that is to say a version sufficiently accurate to satisfy the Hebrew scholar, and sufficiently rhythmical and grace-...

Dr. Wa.agen's IIANDBOOli OF THE GERMAN, FLEMISH, AND DUTCH SCHOOLS OF Parsrise, though based on that of Kugler, is essentially a new book, the merits or demerits of which are to...

"Lectures on the History of the Fine and Ornamental Arta," by Wm. B. Scott, head master of the Government School of Design at Newcastle, are announced as forthcoming by Messrs....

An interesting picture, called "The Presentation in the Temple," by Mr. R. Dowling, an artist whet has spent most of his life in Australia, is to be seen at Mr. Betjemann's in...

Routledge's Church and Home Metrical Psalter and Hymnal. Edited by Charles II. Purday. , One Hundred and One Popular Psalm and Hymn Tunes. Selected and ar- ranged by Charles H....

Mr. Barry Sullivan appeared on Monday, at the St. James's Theatre, for the first time since his return from America, and played Hamlet in that careful well-considered manner...

of our art de- partments, it may be as well to explain that the actual cost of the pic- tures bought at the Northwick sale was 2078/.

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) per Cent Console Ditto f or Account I per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annutties 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101...

Day of Wrath," and "The Plains of Heaven," after being ex- hibited in nearly every place of importance in the kingdom, are now shown in Mr. Mabley's gallery, 143, Strand. They...

pictures in their Comhill Gallery, and the most important one is "The Relief of Luelmow," which now appears with the portrait of Lord Clyde from the life, painted since his return.

On the 31st of May, at the British Consulate, Foo-Chow-Foo, China, the Wife of Walter H. Medhurst, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul, of a daughter. On the 13th of August, at Netley...

Street, Clerkenwell, watchmaker-Pamir and JOHN ARNOLD, Luton, Bedfordshire, straw-plait-merchants-Davin TEARLB, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, straw-plait-dealer-Joss:Fa...