through the House of Commons to raise the limit of the local force of Europeans to be maintained in India to 30,000. Although the measure is ostensibly intended to cover any...

THE debate of Monday night, the capital incident of the week, was a great Parliamentary parade. The oratorical forces on both sides drew up en grande tenne, and fired volleys of...

of the Great Eastern, the trial of its gigantic engines, and a convivial celebration on board with Lord Stanley for chair- man. So far all looks well for the big ship. She will...

fairly aux prises. The men having refused to sign the docu- ment, the employers have locked them out. The leaders of the men sit in Conference, and the employers sit in...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF TEE WEER. Holum or Loans. Monday, August 8. Royal Assent to the Charing Cross Bail- Way Bill—Colonial Legislatures Power of Repeal Bill—Admiralty Court...

Zurich, and some hitch has occurred in their proceedings. The Sardinian minister has been excluded and one of the Aus- trians has started for Vienna. Is it true, then, that...

As the workmen refused to sign the " document " propounded by the Association of Mester Builders, the latter, on Monday, locked up their establishments. Everything was conducted...

Tao QUEEN and Prince Consort have been alternating their ordinary' out- door exercise at Osborne this week with riding and yachting. They, With the royal children, on board the...

The Great Eastern made a move on Monday in the right direction. Some three or four hundred visitors, composed of Members of Parliament, merchants, and distinguished engineers,...

The election of a new member for Taunton in the room of Mr. La- bouchere took place on Tuesday. There were two candidates, Mr. Ben- tinck, a Tory, and Mr. Barclay, a Radical....

The upshot of the meeting of the Roman Catholics at Dublin is thua described by a Roman Catholic journal. They sat four days, and the greatest unanimity prevailed. " We deem it...

The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce sent a memorial to the War Office, begging that measures should be taken for the erection of a bat- tery on the island of Inchkeith, for the...

franif.—All Paris is alive with delight at the prospect of the splendid spectacles that are to celebrate the entry of the army of Italy into Paris on the 14th, and the Emperor's...

Signor Mazzini has published a long manifesto on the state and pros- pects of Europe. He lays it down that Imperialism is the most urgent danger of Europe, and that it is a...

Tins week trade has been dull with the wholesale houses in the City engaged in the general drapery trades. On Thursday last, the stock of the old-established firm of Castle,...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. Parliament was prorogued today, until the 27th October, by Royal Commission, and the following speech was delivered. "My Lords and Gentlemen—We are...

" the Ministers and deputies went this morning to the cathedral to implore heavenly benediction. "They were cheered at the opening of the assembly. A great number of the...

the Deanery of Ripon, rendered vacant by the death of the Honourable and Reverend Dr. Erskine, upon the Reverend Thomas Gamier, B.C.L., Rec- tor of Trinity Church, Marylebone....

In consequence of the augmentation in the demand for accommodation at the Bank and in the Discount Market, it was pretty generally thought that an alteration would yesterday...

Messrs. Minton's imitation or rather reproduction of the splendid kind of china formerly made only at the royal factory of France, quite equals the old 'and celebrated pine...

LORD ELMO'S MOTION. THE last debate of the session has confirmed the views of those who predicted that not reform but foreign policy would occupy the most prominent place in...

G. Thomas's horse-shoe, and writes to us to avow that he distinctly " advised the inventor not to incur any expense on its account."

A time comes to all of us when we can neither thread a needle nor mend a pen. In a small way ingenuity has never been more success- fully applied than in this little tool for...

On the 30th of July, at Paris, the Wife of F. W. M. Bond, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. On the 1st of August, at Blythswood House, Renfrewshire, the Hon. Mrs. Rowley, of a son. On...

THIS matter is not one of easy adjustment. An attentive perusal of the views of Earls Clancarty, Donoughmore, and Granville, and of the speeches of Mr. Hennessey, has not tended...

BE. WHAT shall be done with the Militia ? The question smacks somewhat of irony, for at present we have no Militia. There are certain regiments raised as Militia which have been...

TEE master builders have carried out those measures which they projected last week with the view of frustrating the designs of the men who initiated the nine hours' movement. On...

Shelley not a man to be judged by ordinary rules. Question of the attempted assassination in Wales; of morbid visions; end of Ms character for veracity. Caution against forged...

Ma RAREY, after a retirement of some weeks' duration, gave another public exhibition on Saturday, of his system of taming savage or unsubdued horses. A very large audience...

Wno killed the wild goose at Shoeburyness the other day at a distance of upwards of six miles ? Was it- .. Longbow from Ireland ? Strongbow from Tweed 1" Our contemporary, the...

has adopted the following brief and telling report on the Dover contract. " 1. The attention of your committee, during the short time which bas elapsed since they were...

BIOGRAPHY OF ma. CHARLES KEAN. * 7HE biographer of Mr. Charles Kean writes avowedly under the influence of " years of uninterrupted private friendship, and pro- fessional...

are casting off the trappings of the past more rapidly than ever was done before, we are not less remark- able for the care we bestow on preserving or reviving the memory of...

failed to damp the martial ardour of Mrs. Duberly, she accompanied her husband and his regiment to India in October 1857, in quest of fresh mili- tary experiences. The 8th...

The popular melodrama, entitled Flowers of the Forest, has been re- vived this week at the Adelphi Theatre, after an interval of seven years. Veteran playgoers when they look...

Two important books on the far But have appeared this week. One of these, Captain Sherard Osborn's CRUISE IN JAPANESE WATERS is already known to the readers of Blackwood's...

The Scotsman announces that the late Principal Lee has left some MSS. which will serve to keep his memory alive in the world of letters. " His Pastoral Addresses," says our...

Two veteran dramatists, M. Goubaux and M. Adolphe Choquard, have recently died. The former is the eollaborateur of M. Alexandre Dumas in the drama, Richard Darlington, and is...

LORD NORTHWICK'S PICTURES. The dispersion of the gallery of the late Lord Northwick by Mr. Phil- lips' hammer is an event in art circles which calls for special attention. A...

with Meyerbeer's Dinorah, given for the sixth time. The house was as crowded as if it had been the height of the season, and nothing could exceed the brilliancy of the...

The Department of Science and Art has arranged an exhibition of original drawings and sketches by these two greatest masters of the painter's art. The collection of drawings is...

merchant. Bankrupts. - YTNcENT Artacartemi, Austin Friars, merchant-HxzEstian WINOAD, Nettleham, Lincolnshire, tailor-Jons FREEYA.N, Blackfriare Road, chemist - Result...

Essex, horse-dealer-ELIzanure Warns, Lc wisham, schoolmistress-ERA-YOE% Moss, Regent Street, lamp-dealer- CuariLEs Taoaxxvozoser ALREwas, Staffordshire, ale-dealer-Joint Come,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. trans.. Thurs. Friday. 951 954 951 931 954 951 954 984 951 951 95 9E4 95 5 9 9.14 44 931 93 2 95.1 95...