. ron i rri I. Mr. P. A. Tay-lor the most ultra of the two radical candidates has re'zred from the contcst at New-cast]c-upon-Tvnc: the struggle now lies ,et-.crin Mr. Somerset...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY AFTERN'OON. W We have good authority for announcing that the Princess Alice is be- trothed to his Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse.-Morning...

i The election for Newcastle took place yesterday, and ended in the return of Mr. Beaumont. At the close of the poll the numbers were; Beaumont, 2346; Carstairs, 1500; Majority...

I From Vienna comes a report which tends to corroborate those received from Constantinople, touching the prolonged occupation of Syria. Vienna, -Deceminber 7.-Endeavours are...

I The Paris correspondent of the Globe supplies an interesting notice of the opinions of Baron Bunsen on the retention of Venetia" It appears from a communication to the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. WE are reminded of the near approach of Christmas by those I annual symptoms of good cheer-the Birmingham and Smithfield Cattle Shows. The eventful year 1860...

The panic in the United States is accepted as a result of the election of M1r. Lincoln. The Southern fireaters and disunionists are held chargeable with the sudden scarcity of...

The deputation to Lord John Russell, praying for his aid as Foreign Secretary on behalf of the native Protestants of Spain was a well intentioned display of sympathy for...

Mr. Bright has made a speech at Birmingham, characterized by I - his usual vehemence, and perhaps a little more than his usual animosity against the owners of landed property....

THE SUPPLEMENTAL FRENCH TREATY. THE Commercial Treaty between France and England is now an accomplished fact. The negotiations have survived the sneers of witlings and the...

BRIGHT ON LANDED TEN-URES. BIRMINGRAM has become a British, we should say, a Brummagem l)elphi. Formerly we looked for oracles from the farmer's ordinary at Aylesbury, or the...

A WORD FOR POOR INCURABLES. IT is hard for a rich man to know that he has a disease which is incurable. Consumption, cancer, dropsy, are sad companions for the remainder of...

THE FRENCH TEE-ATY. Contention between her fayjesty and the E'mPeror of the Preenl, supslevnentary to the Treaty of Commneere of Januair.-y 23, 1SG60; wcith. alloi1 annexed...

rIj Cfourt. TiF QUEIN- gave audience on 'Monday to the Count de Persigny, wvho, presented his letters of recall, and to the Count de Flahaut, who delivercd his credentials as...

Jr 3!tropulio. A ( deputation lwaited rpour Lord John Russell at flie Foreign Office, 'n iVWdnetsray, upoo the subj! et of religious persecutions in Sp;1ii. Lord Stratford d(e...

SCOTLAND. The election for the Wick Burghs, vacant by the retirement of Mr. Laing, took place on Saturday. There was no opposition to Viscount Bury. He is elected with the...

IRELAND. A repeal meeting was held on Tuesday night at the Round Room of the Rotunda, Dublin. A green banner inscribed, " Aid yourselves, and God will aid you," was waved...

,urrigu nui o uininI. franrr.-Thc Emperor of the French vent last week to Compibgne to hunt and shoot, and returned to Paris on Saturday. The Count de Persigny has arrived in...

3Ru5ir. At present we can only record the production of Balfe's new opera, flianca, thec Braro's Lidle, on Thursday night at the Royal English Opera, Covent Garden ; this...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.* The beautiful volume upon which Mlessrs. Owen Jones and Ircnry Warren seem to have lavished all their art, shows us the poet's fancied dream touched with...

A letter from Caserta, November 26, says tbat, " after considerable delay and uncertainty as to the course which would be finally taken by the Sardinian Government with regard...

I TOPICS OF THE DAY. CRITICAL CONDITION OF AUSTRIA. TIIE Austrian empire is as singular an instance of the vitality ot a composite political power as the Ottoman Empire...

TIlE UORSE AN-D HIS EIDFR.' IT is thirty years since Sir Francis Head suddenly achieved a I distin-uishled position in literature by his Roiqlh Rides Across tlic Pamnlps, and...

COVENTRY CHRISTIANS VEBASUS SYRIAN CHRISTIANS. TliE maxim that charity begins at home is very narrow and vulgar, but it is not without its merits. It is not so sentimental as...

CAMBRIDGE JUSTICE. THE case of Kemp versuts Neville-an action for false imprison- I ment brought by Emma Kemp, milliner, against the Honourable : and Reverend Latimer Neville,...

31UisattI nurn. - - Sir Baldwin Walker has resigned the office of Surveyor of the Navy and it is said will probably command a foreign station. The Board of Admiralty have, it...

BO OKS. TILE FIRST RING OF ENGLAND.* [FIRST NOTICE.] FOR a century aud a half following the Conquest, England was governed by kings who were, most of thens, born in France;...

ANNE PADFIELD. Tam arnrt n ---- - A ' ' . TiE great prerogative of mercy lodged in the Crown, but really exercised by the Home Secretary, is very lethargic in its operations. A...

!NEW NOVELS.* TILE author of Lorenzo Benoni and Doctor Antonio is a good English novelist-although, and because, he is an Italian. Although he is a foreigner, he writes English...

REV. J. J. BLJNT'S ESSP-S.0 TWELVE essays contributed to the Quarterly 1Reicw by the Rev. J. J. Blunt, the late Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, are entitled to a...

- - OILI('IAD SUCCEsSION OF LIFE ON THE EARTH.* MB. DARwI-N has made the origin and succession of living species the leading philosophical question of our day, but, much as it...

LITERARY NEWS. Mr. Bentlev is preparing for publication a series of "Lives of the Archbishops of York," to be followed by the " Lives of the Archbishops of Armahli." Mcessrs....