to the American Congress that has ever emanated from the head of the American Republic. It is remarkable for its direct speaking, even upon the most delicate subjects, and for...

THE French Government has definitively identified itself with the proposition embodied in the pamphlet of M. Gueronniere, and the Pope has intimation of the fact under the hand...

is re- ported to have approached within a few miles of Tetuan. The troops have suffered severely from wet, cold, exposure, disease. Instead of 40, - 000 they amount to only...

Mr. Atherton, the new Solicitor-General, was reelected for Durham on Monday without opposition. He declared strongly for reform, including the ballot, was not sanguine touching...

in a more animated aspect. The Reform Bill, Mr. Bright at Bir- mingham, Dr. Cullen, Mr. Pope Hennessy, two Parliamen- tary elections—these, or incidents very like them, have...

The movement has not in the least degree slackened. Gradually ne,w corps are springing up, and the number enrolled cannot be far .from 100,000. The farmers of Huntingdonshire...

The Message delivered to Congress on the 27th of December is a document of unusual ability. It occupies upwards of six closely printed columns of the Times, but its length is...

Tun QUEEN has walked out in . the grounds of Windsor Castle every day, with the Prince Consort, the Princess Alice or the Princess Louisa. The Prince Consort has been out...

The remains of Lord Macaulay were buried on Monday in West- minster Abbey. The funeral procession started from Holly Lodge, Kensington, where the late Peer died, shortly after...

A public meeting on the subject of Parliamentary Reform was held at Birmingham on the 6th, and cursorily noticed in part of our impression last week. The principal speakers were...

Fraure.—The question of Congress or no Congress still occupies the purveyors of news. Mr. Reuter, the agent who collects telegrams, fur- nished on Wednesday the following...

The largest Pro-Papal meeting yet held took place in the "Cathedral," Dublin, on Monday. Dr. Cullen presided and delivered a long speech. He poured out his praises on Lord...

The declaration of the British Roman Catholic laity, published some time since, has called forth an admirable letter from Sir John Simeon. It is dated from Swainston in the Isle...

London yester- day. The main facts have been anticipated. But it is stated that since Mr. Wilson appeared at Calcutta the salt-duty had been increased, and the Income-tax bill...

sentenced by the Court of Police Correctionnelle to imprisonment for fifteen months and a fine of 500 francs, for swindling and for the illegal practice of swindling.

Mark was privately exhibited yesterday. It is an admirable panorama, and will no doubt attract the attention it deserves.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The settlement of the January Comol account chiefly occupied the atten- tion of dealers in the English Market during the early part of the...

Court of Ex- chequer against Mr. Skene, now Consul at Aleppo. The case was partly heard yesterday.

SA21111.DAY AFTERNOON. We have communications from Paris and Turin, each throwing some light upon the most interesting points in the present state of foreign affairs. Our Paris...

Bankrupts.—Enwpg HAWKER, Southampton, homeeopathic-chemist— Jona Dram, Birmingham, grocer—EDMUND TuomAs SHADWICK, Penarth, Cardiff, common-carrier—Joins STOATE BATE, Cardiff,...

Ebrington, of a son. On the 2d January, at No. 7, Rue Balta.°, prematurely, the Wife of Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, Esq., 11.1'., of a son. On the Id, at Stoke. Devonport, the...

147, Fleet Street, 12th January, 1860. Sr—As one who passes his life among working men (will you, ere at- tention to the expiring "strikes" ceases), permit me to say that it is...

THE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. FEARS have been expressed lately in an illustrious journal, and expressed in a peculiarly systematic and emphatic manner, lest...

THE object of the Spanish Government in forcing a war upon the Emperor of Morocco has not been very obvious. Why did Mar- shal O'Donnell determine not to be satisfied with the...

ABOUT the middle of last month we heard that the captain of the famous yacht Wanderer had arrived at Liverpool without his ship, and that the men on board had mutinied and left...

THE state of the Tea trade begins to excite something more than solicitude,—that look-out for practical measures which solicitude always prompts in the Anglo-Saxon race; except...

WHILE men are pursuing their conflicts, philosophers are calmly pursuing their discoveries; and while the Pope is threatened with being freed for a more elevated, and it is to...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) IT was stated in the first letter of the present series that the annual astimated cost of crime in England and Wales amounted to sixteen millions...

MAJOR NOEL AND THE LATE PRINCE METTERNICH. Oatlands Park Hotel, 10th January, 1860. Sm—The Spectator of last Saturday in the notice of an article in Fraser's Magazine, "...

CHURCH HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. * Mn. CinisrNamur, in his History of the Church of Scotland, has endeavoured to furnish a continuous narrative of the events which mark its...

of mankind" is offered us by the unwearied traveller and facile writer, J. G. Kohl, in his wanderings round " Kitchi-Gami," the Indian equivalent of Lake Superior—" the Big...

Magazine, in his " Round-about " postscript to the first number—" I wonder, do novel writers themselves read many novels ? " No. Happier than reviewers, for whom that drudgery...

We have just received the new number of the EDINBURGH REVIEW, and though we have not had time for more than a hurried glance over its pages, even this has been sufficient to...

It is stated by several journals that Lord Macaulay has left behind him the materials for another volume of the "history of England," the pub- lication of which is likely to...

Co- vent Garden along with the pantomime, Puss in Boots ; and the com- bined attraction of these pieces draw full houses every night. Mean- while the manager and manageress, Mr....

In the absence of new theatrical facts we may inform our readers as to the peculiar points of attraction offered by the several pantomimes. Drury Lane is on the same large scale...

[Published by Messrs. Cocxs and Co.] The Classical Pianist. Edited by Brinley Richards. "Twilight is Darkening." Schlummerlied, composed by F. Kucken. The English version of the...

Mr. Henry Cole has just given private circulation to a miniature fasciculus, expressing "Some Thoughts on Hampton Court Palace, its Pictures, Tapestries, and other Works of...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last 00Ielat Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian 5 p.Ct. 58 French 44p.Ct. Belgian 41 - 991 Mexican 3 - Ditto 24- 55 Peruvian 41 -...

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The seventh annual exhibition of the Photographic Society was opened to private view on Thursday ; and so densely crowded was the room, that anything like...