ENGLAND is making her mark on the Continental nations, not- withstanding the quietude of the country, and the indecision which has in recent times prevailed in her councils....

"All the World" is out of town, with the - usual conjugal accompani- ment; public life has gone to devote itself to common objects at the sea- side ' —admirably depicted by...

Once more "the Confessional" is the subject of sharp controversy and painful excitement. In June last a "Protestant" sent to the Windsor .Express the statement of a conversation...

Lord Eglinton has been on a visit to Londonderry, cipropos of the show of the Royal Agricultural Society there. He received an address of the Corporation, in reply to which he...

Reports from the moors and forests form one of the most important items in the Scotch journals. On the whole the sport seems to have been good. In B n hire it is described as...

a55i11.—Queen Victoria is still at Potsdam. On her route thither she was received at Burg, near Herrenhausen, where the Queen was re- ceived by the King and Queen of Hanover,...

Some progress has been made in the selection of the nominees to the Council of India. Sir Frederick Currie and Sir Henry Rawlins= have accepted seats. Mr. John Stuart Mill has...

SATURDAY. The "confessional" continues to attract attention and the daily journals to receive and publish correspondence on the subject. This morning the Reverend William...

STOCK EXCELLNOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has this week exhibited less animation than ever, business is almost entirely suspended, the fluctuations of each...

As we recede from Midsummer we approach nearer and nearer to a perfect blank in theatrical affairs. This week the Olympic closes after a long season of almost uninterrupted...

EUROPE CONFEDERATED. 13th AU§1481 1858. Sue—In you number of Saturday last, the 7th instant, you observe, " Should any such measure "—viz, international police on the...

FOREIGN POLICY. THOUGH the case of the Cagliari has received a partial solution, and the Government of Lord Derby have reaped their full harvest of credit for their proceedings...

NEXT Session will not only be busy ; it is likely to bring some questions to the crucial test, and there are already subjects of de- bate set down on the Notice-paper, each of...

has passed. away like the newest brood of ephemera ; and we are compelled. to contemplate the Canadian question in humiliating ignorance as to the form- ation of the "Cartier...

Tirma is no saying what we may yet hear about the Mormons which may discredit anything we can say of them now. They are so far off, their leaders are so astute, their...

exactly in the same condition as "the country " ; it is "drifting," at the mercy of the system of rou- tine, under managers who employ the general resources for their own...

"FLEAS are not lobsters, damn their souls," as the philoso- pher exclaimed in the agony of disappointment. "Coneys are not royalties" the Honourable and Reverend W. Howard has...

Barnabas has disturbed the parish of Boyne Hill, but with exactly opposite results. The Reverend Mr. West, like the Reverend Mr. Poole, has been in- ducing a poor woman to use...

GIIBBINS'S MIITINIES IN GUDE. THIS volume possesses considerable value ; less, however, for its narrative of the siege of Lucknow, than for the facts and opinions it brings...

PLAYFAIR, a nephew of the celebrated professor, has always felt a strong interest in the United States, from remembering the time when the American Revolution and the characters...

not ill fitted for fiction, is marred in Framleigh kall by a mistaken idea of the .hero. The writer may not have much actual knowledge of life, or that in- stinctive perception...

'Mn. Rimer is happy in the possession of a Mend, who frequently expressed a wish that he would give a methodical exposition of his * Letters on the Philosophy of the Hunan...

Booxs. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain. By Agnes Strickland, Author of "Lives of the Queens of...

ANTIQUARIANISM.—" Except the scanty fragments collected in a s museum, Marseilles contains, I believe, not a vestige of Greek, or eve n Roman, antiquity. Of the walls,...

On the 24th April, at Mahurangi, in the province of Auckland, New Zealand, Mary Charlotte, the wife of Alexander Knowles Cburton, Esq. ; in her 19th year. On the 6th August, on...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 17. Bankruptcy Annulled.-ROBERT Anunsox, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, hosier. .Bankrupts.-SinPnEn POOLE, Windmill Street, Lambeth Walk, timber-dealer-...

On the 5th June, at Nynee Tal, in India, .7. A. Tytler, Esq., 66th Goorka Regi- ment, to Adelaide Anne, youngest daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh BON, E.I.C.S. On...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Pricee.) Seturd. Howley. i usodnp. Wants. Thum Spec Cent Coutols 961 961 961 961 Ditto for Account 961 961 961 961 spec Cents Reduced...

On the 15th May, at Auckland Point, Nelson, New Zealand, Mrs. John Belt, of a son. On the 19th August, at Arlington Vicarage, Sussex, the Wife of the Rev. Charles W. Cass, of a...