hardly .a subject for legislation, and may be much more effectually dealt with by the Jockey Club than the Parliament of England.

ask concur- rence only alternative lay between a simple adjournment of the House to repeal the Act passed last session empowering the Government instead of a prorogation, or...

spiracy," and another at Greenwich for " assault," have brought into prominence the relationship of workmen to each other, and to their employers. We question the propriety of...

of the British Empire ? The :mail from New Zealand brings news of bloodshed arising out ot long standing quarrels on the vexed question of land sales. Under the circumstances as...

clause in the Census Bill requiring of every one a statement of religions " professions." A deputation of Tories followed hard upon the deputation of Dissenters, and Lord...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. }foam or Loans. Monday, June 11. Ecelasiastical Courts and Registers (Ire- land) Bill read a second time—Church Temporalities (Ireland) Acts...

consent of the King his master, has capitulated to General Garibaldi, and the royal troops must by this time have em- barked. The conditions of the conqueror were severe, but...

For the present, the war has terminated with the capitulation of Pa- lermo. We are not yet in possession of details, but the fact is beyond dispute. On the 6th, after due...

A deputation of gentlemen connected with the Conservative party, in- cluding Mr. Disraeli himself, waited upon Lord Palmerston on Tuesday, to beg that he would retain the...

THE QUEEN held a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. At the Privy Council, Dr. Longley, Archbishop designate of York, was sworn of the Privy Council. Mr....

I tA. very severe Church-rate contest was finished at Northenden, in Cheshire, on Saturday. The poll extended over two days. At the meeting on Friday, a show of hands was taken,...

The good folks of Edinburgh have been delighted and disappointed by the advent of the Channel fleet in the Firth of Forth. At the end of last week, nine line-of-battle ships, of...

Judgment was given on Tuesday in the remarkable case of Mary Mat- thews's infant by the full Court of Queen's Bench. The Chief Justice, in delivering his judgment, stated that...

iranrr.—It is now generally believed that the Emperor Napoleon will arrive at Kehl on the Rhine today, for the purpose of passing to- morrow with the Prince Regent of Prussia at...

Lord Clyde is to succeed the late Lord Strafford in the Colonelcy of the Coldstream Guards. Two other colonelcies now vacant are to be filled by Major-General Mounsell and...

to the meeing at Baden. It is as follows " One day last week Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the French Am- bassador, informed Baron Schleinitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that...

SATURDAY MORNING. The House of Commons sat in the morning, (yesterday,) and made some progress with the Annuity-tax Abolition Bill. The evening sitting was opened by the usual...

M. Montanari is well known as an artist-modeller. He is not satis- fied, however, with having achieved a reputation in a branch of the fine arts; but he must try 'his artistic...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The tendency of the markets in all classes. of English stocks and securi- ties has this week been decidedly downwards, and, although as yet...

On the 6th of June, at Cefn, near St. Asaph, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Williams Wynn, M.P., of a son. On the 7th, at 2, Upper Hyde Park Gardens, the Wife of Sir John...

THE PENNY PARCEL POST. Belfast, 13th June, 1860. SIR—In your reply of last Saturday , week to my proposal of a penny parcel post, you say that it would necessitate the...

THE DEFENCE COMMISSION REPORT. THE report of the Royal Commission appointed to consider the Defences of the United Kingdom is now in the hands of the pub- lic, and no doubt...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, 71/NE 12. Bankruptcies Annulted.—HENBY CLEMERSON, Loughborough, Leicestershire, iron- monger—Wuxi/al GEORGE Manynr, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, upholder....

of the world, eluding to nearly the whole of Europe, in a state of fermentation. irs,Beena. be on the eve of organic changes which involve the constitution of Empires and the...

WE remember reading, some years ago, in a book of travels in Spain, an account of the Presidio of Valencia—a prison where kindness was made the agent of reformation, where the...

WEATEvEa. may have , been the faults of the system upon which India was ruled in the days of the Company Bahadoor and they were great, for they bred the most stupendous military...

Tan Church of England has no more dangerous enemies than those who have the most exalted notion of its rights and privi- leges. A few grains of common sense, a prudent readiness...

ANOTHER charge of conspiracy, brought before the Clerkenwell Police-office, brings up the whole subject of the law relating to combinations and their results. No part of the law...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES ROBERT LESLIE, R.A.' " IT is owing to the innate modesty of the late Mr. Leslie's cha- racter," says his judicious editor, that in his...

On the 8th instant, Professor Faraday delivered the last of the series of Friday evening lectures for the present session, and explained to , a large audience Bonelli's...

* " Da. LEE was appointed Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History in St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, in the year 1812 ; and it was while he held this office that, in...

much in the habit of letting their business transactions be governed by sentimental motives, we should not be so entirely unable, as we confess ourselves to be, to assign any...

A " Handbook of the Constitution : being a summary of the Rise, Pro- gress, and Present State of the Laws of England," by Alfred P. Hens- man, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, is...

The two volumes of Loan MACAULAY'S 3ID•C'ELLANEOUS Wierrix6s, just published by Messrs. Longman, comprise ten papers, imaginative and critical, contributed to Knight's Quarterly...

M. Brindeau's engagement at the St. James's terminated on Monday last ; and light pieces, in which the principal parts are sustained by M. Paul Devaux and Mademoiselle Duverger,...

M. Alexandre Dumas the elder is again before the public as, a dra- matic author, having written a piece in five 'acts, called L' Ewen 'd' tote Conspiration, which is performed...

- Within our memory the Italian Opera nights were only two in the week, Tuesday and Saturday. Then Thursday was added, as an " extra - Within our memory the Italian Opera nights...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. The Directors of this Society for promoting the fine arta require to be reminded occasionally of the importance of their duty. With their avowed...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Moiling Prima.) Soloed. Monday. Tossotass Wanes. S per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Bank...