THE Emperor's pamphlet, La France, Rome, et ?Italie, signed as usual by M. de la Guerronniere, has appeared, and apparently disap- pointed anticipation. It was expected to...

Monday, a deputation, headed by the Marquis of Normanby, waited on the Premier, to beg him not to accept Mr. Turnbull's re- signation. Professor Pearson presented a memorial to...

the Conservatives. The two candidates were Mr. Leslie, and the honour- able Arthur Gordon. The latter was nominated in his absence, and thus contended at a disadvantage. The...

nence. It deserves support, and ample support can only be obtained by ample publicity. At the general meeting on the 15th, Lord Her- bert of Lea presided, and made a speech, in...

great per- tinacity, has been discovered in the Commercial Bank of London. John Darden, a ledger-keeper, has robbed the bank of nearly 70,000/. He has been arrested, and,...

mortis, a gift good in law? The question has been raised on a trial in the Court of Queen's Bench. One John Amiss was about to be married to a Miss Floyd, with whom he had been...

were lowered ten per cent. in East Lancashire. Since that time the ope- ratives have struck more than once to recover the deduction, and so far succeeded that in 1858-60 a...

his admirers, to Colonel Sir Arthur Cotton, so renowned by his successful exertions in India to promote irrigation and canals. Among the company were Lord Lyvedon, Lord Harris,...

convicts has improved, under the influence of "severe restrictive discipline." They are said to be "fully sensible to the position in which they have placed themselves." They...

season at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. Baronuess Brunnow, the wife of the Russian Ambassador, was presented to the Queen, at an audience on Saturday. Her Majesty and the...

It occurred on Thursday. Near London the force of the wind broke down the north wing of the Crystal Palace, and tore up trees in the parks. At Chichester it shook down the whole...

- HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, February 12. Constructive Notice Amendment Bill read a second time. Tuesday, February 19. Policy in China; Lord Grey's Motion—Mr. l'urnbull's Case,...

Tam journals have published the following extraordinary document, entitled "A Reply received by the Reverend W. R. Fremantle, of Haydon Rectory, to an A,ddress—[not...

Born Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Commons there were the usual variety and num- ber of questions put on the motion to adjourn till Monday. Mr. T. G....

2nd of April. in order to make arrangements for the coronation of the Emperor as king of Hungary, to receive communication of the inaugural diploma, and to elect the .Palatine...

Major-General Michel, of a daughter. On the 14th, at Bray, the Lady Harriet Lynch Meese, of a son. On the 16th, at 61, Cado g an-place, the Lady Mary Reade, of a son. On the...

STOOK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A FALL of 1 per cent, has occurred this week in English Securities, and the market assumes a very heavy aspect at the close of business this...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 (Last Official Quotation Austrian. 5p....

Bankrupts—Arthur Smith, Para g on-buildbi g s, New Kent-mad, engineer—Richard Paddy, Amelia-place, Brompton, draper—Bartholomew Frederick DunkJey, Ket- tering, Northamptonshire,...

THE NEW KINGDOM. Tun present generation scarcely need Mr. Kingsley's poetry to tell them that "the world is young." If boiling life and activity, incessant change and...

-ON the 3rd March, says the Independance Beige, the Em- peror Alexander will decree the final emancipation of the serfs. The statement reads simple enough, but for ages no event...

Mu. HUBBARD has done the public a great service. He has compelled the Ministry to reconsider the whole subject of the income tax, with reference, not to its amount, but to its...

Two months ago we said the iron interest would not wil- lingly give up its demand that the British navy should be reconstructed of iron. The fact that the Admiralty had...

Trim daily press has, we think, erred in attributing so slight an importance to the last Imperial brochure. M. de la Guer- ronniere, it is true, tells us less than in the...

THE recent occurrence at Chatham will once more attract attention to the subject of prison discipline. An entire regiment of convicts, well fed, stimulated to good order by...

Wz are all pretty well agreed that it is desirable to make the Volunteer Reserve Army a permanent institution, and that it is desirable to make the Volunteers themselves...

THE Naval Estimates for the year must be very satisfactory to Mr. Williams, but the nation will yield them at best a cold approval. The gross expenditure has diminished from...

The Song of' Hiawatha, which we lately mentioned as a forthcoming novelty at the Covent Garden English Opera, was produced on Monday week, and had several repetitions. It gained...

THE only gift of civilization, it is said, which has yet reached the masses, is the lucifer match. The remark, like most epigrams, is untrue, for the artisan shares with the...

BRITISH balm:mow (Second Notice). —Mr. F. Goodall's small reproduction of his picture of " Felice l3allarin reciting Tasso to the People of Chioggia" (111), is a decided...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL TITSTORY OF ENGLAND.* THE POWER OF THE CROWN. Puniac opinion for the moment has agreed to consider democracy the one danger of the British Constitution. Less...

Ili spite of the vast number of travellers, both English and foreign, who within the last few years have undertaken the task of enlighten- ing us on the subject of Russia and...

the Poetical Works of Gerald Massey, the son of the canal boatman in Herts, and himself successively silk-mill worker, errand-boy, and journalist, will , be welcomed by the less...

THOSE who cultivate the lighter literature of the day will not require to be told that this volume is the second series of a collection of essays by a writer signing himself "A....

all history should be conceived as "a gradually unfolding web, in which every fresh part that comes to view is a prolongation of the part previously unrolled," if, to continue...