three instalments, the translation of a letter addressed by Luigi Carlo Farini to Mr. Gladstone—an honest statement of the way in which Italy is governed. At the Paris...

DISPERSION has never been carried so far in any vacation as in the present. Not only has the Sovereign sought the custom- ary autumnal refuge in the Scottish Highlands ; not...

The Guards have been entertained at a dinner in the Surrey Gardens where two thousand sat dowtt to table with cant-Major Edwards at their head. It might have been better if...

actual events. Notwithstanding reports constantly repeated, that there "is to be" some kind of " amelioration" somewhere,—an am- nesty in Naples, an O'Donnell programme in...

of Good Hope, the Anglo-German Legion is destined to emigrate, if its members so please, and to be settled' down somewhere, probably on the borders of the Cape colony. It seems...

Tim Orme and Court are now in the Highlands. Before her Majesty left Osborne, she made a trip, on Saturday, over to Browndown, near Gosport, and inspected the two battalions of...

Sir Benjamin Hall attended at the Office of Woods and Forests on Monday, for the purpose of meeting several eminent architects, who were invited to offer suggestions respecting...

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce held its half-yearly meeting on - Monday ; Mr. Charles Holland in the chair. Among the matters men- tioned in the report, of a wide interest,...

The Eighteenth Royal Irish Regiment landed a short time since at Dublin from the Crimea, via Aldershot. Before the Russian war broke out, the Regiment had done good service in...

The Evangelical Alliance held its tenth annual conference last week at Glasgow, sitting from Tuesday until late on Friday evening. The meet- ings were chiefly attended by...

Biarritz. The Court newsman of the Bayonne journals records how the Imperial pair walk out alone, " arm in arm," by the sea—or visit the church—or bathe— all in the most...

Lord Palmerston, stating that, in consequence of the death of his brother, he will be unable to preside at the inauguration of the new Mechanics In- stitution ; but he hopes to...

SATURDAY. Queen Victoria was received at the St. Margaret's station of her Northern capital, on Thursday, by the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Mel- ville, and Mr. Sheriff Gordon. She...

The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Can- terbury was prorogued on Thursday, by Dr. Twias, the Vicar-General, =ill the 8th October. The Gazette of...

and his body was buried yesterday in the Highgate cemetery. M. Koenig, M. Lavigne, and many of Baumann's professional friends, attended the fu- neral, and performed "Christ is...

The month of September, according to announcements ' will be dis- tinguished this year by a more than ordinary amount of theatrical ac- tivity. On Monday next, after a brief...

terday, passed off quietly. Mr. Waddington the Chairman and the Directors were received without any kind of manifestation whatever ; but when Mr. Waddington said he should...

advices from Calcutta to the 17th, and from Bombay to the 29th July. The sole incident of general interest recorded in the journals is the murder of Mr. Horsley, a young man,...

the 15th the Consul-General of France gave a grand dinner to the Ministers and Consuls of the Foreign Powers, and that a toast was drunk to the union of the Principalities. The...

There has been this week a musical festival at Bradford. That thriv-• ing and spirited town, now a great seat of the Yorkshire woollen-manu - facture, has established on a...

the Constitutionnel, of ascertaining whether the present would be a favourable moment for reviving the Provincial Congregations, and whether the Emperor would be well received...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market shows no symptoms of a return 'to activity, and this week bears the same ruling feature as the last : the...

SIG — Your remarks on stitching, in your last week's number, call to my mind that some ten years back, in an article in the Westminster Review, entitled "Human Progress," I...

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT ? ME. WALPOLE says gossip, has been appointed chief of the Con- servative party, vice Disraeli superseded. What then ? What consequences are we to expect...

STREET-PREACHING. SM — It struck me in reading your article on street-preaching, that you took up two contradictory grounds-1st, That the auditors are intently lis- tening, and...

Mn. MARCY to accept the avowal—" Privateering is, and remains, abo lishe d, " but with the condition that the following words should be added to the declaration,—" And that the...

50XE of our contemporaries, hard put to it for subjects, have seized upon the coming coronation at Moscow, and seem disposed to discount that event. One of them sees all kinds...

WHAT are the present practice, condition, and effect of what has been called the Ticket-of-leave system? Strange to say, it is not quite easy to obtain from the officials who...

Cur any of our correspondents give us a satisfactory answer to a plain question ? Before we put the question, however, we must explain the circumstances which have led to it. On...

A LARGER. question has been raised, in a supplemental discussion, than the immediate issue of the Edinburgh verdict on the Scotsman. Quite apart from the merits of that special...

Pace Dr. Cumming, and the good people who are impressed by those lucubrations of his to which the Times newspaper assigns the compliment of large type, there can be no serious...

THERE are three noted clearing-houses in the world, and Mr. Babbage explains their principles, operation, and results, with a view to extend the application of the principle to...

POUR CONTINENTAL TOURS. * THE season has produced several books of Continental travel ; two of which, merely as travels, are of some account from the pe - cu liarity of the...

touching the capabilities of Lord Lucan as a cavalry general, and still more as to his fitness for a commander ; but there are few men connected with the late war who are...

poet of the age of James and Charles the First though living till the time of Charles the Second, was con- temptuously censured by the artificial school which came in with the...

Boom. A illanual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor; consisting of Descriptions of Public Records, Parochial and other Registers, County and...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 26. Partnerships Dissolved.—J. and J. Weeks, Rotherhithe, linen-drapers—Lynch and Blake, Upper North Street, Caledonian Road, manufacturers of...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUG. 29. Wax DEPARTMENT, Pall Mall, Aug. 29.—Caratry-3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—G. R. Itawlinson, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Blenkinsop, prom. 7th...

On the 1st July, at Aden ' the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Lowth, of H.M.'s Eighty-sixth Royal Regiment, of a son and heir. On the 20th August, at Muirtown House, Inverness,...

BR ITISH FUND S 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent...