Thu decision of the House of Lords on Sir John Trelawny's Church Rates Abolition Bill was anticipated, but the majority of 97 was not. The Peers seem determined, in the absence...

The conference at Baden Baden appeenf to 111419e , 101114it triangular duel of courtesies. No account heart lyielphikkoill which gives us any clear idea of the meeting,...

a striking incident, bringing out the Prince Consort in his military' character, and showing a privileged corps to the best advantage. The Guards have done good service in their...

poleon in person his peaceful assurances ; and he has publicly declared those assurances to have had the effect of convincing the German sovereigns that warlike objects on his...

PRINCIPAL BUS/NESS OF THE WEEK. House OF Loans. Monday, June 18. Ecclesiastical Courts and Registers (Ire- land) Bill committed—Church Temporalities (Ireland) Acts Amendment...

can scarcely be exaggerated—is the adhesion of Na- tive artthorities to Mr. Wilson's plan of taxation. The Maha- rajah orDnrdwan was one of the first, not only to accept the new...

cated, their general tendency and ultimate result look clearer lily, even Garibaldi is organizing his new Government in and all the Communes have declared in favour of the an-...

The meeting of the Four Kings, the Prince Regent of Prussia and the Emperor of the French at Baden, has been duly recorded by the news- papers, but the report reads very much...

Tao QUEEN held a Levee at St. James's Palace on Wednesday. It was very amplr attended. Her Majesty bestowed the dignity of knighthood upon Colonel Lockyer Freestun. On Tuesday,...

" The regiments of the Foot Guards have been keeping their two hun- dredth anniversary. The Grenadier Guards dined together on Saturday, in the banquet-hall of St. James's...

fraarf.—The Emperor returned to the Tuileries from Baden on Monday morning, and immediately held a Council of Ministers. After this, he visited Prince Jerome, who seems to be...

Mr. Getty, several times Mayor of Belfast, has been elected Member for that borough in the room of Mr. Davison, who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The agents of the Pope still...

The Lord Advocate's bill for the settlement of the vexed question of the Edinburgh Annuity-tax meets with strong opposition from the domi- nant party in the Town-Council. A...

The Oxford Commemoration festivities have gone on this week with- out intermission ; the show:on Sunday, the boating, the balls and concerts, and as a climax, the display in the...

A set of papers illustrating the circumstances that led to the recall of Sir Charles Trevelyan have been presented to Parliament. They comprise minutes, despatches, statistical...

Palace, to which nearly 2000 distinguished persons were invited. The annual dinner of the Society of Arts took place yesterday evening in St. James's Hall. Mr. Disraeli was the...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The House of Commons sat yesterday morning and evening, to dis- pose of pressing business. The morning Flitting was occupied by a debate in Committee on...

extraordinary ease, an action for slander, brought by a Mr. Stone, formerly in the army, against Lord Llanover. It arose out of imputations on the character of Mr. Stone, of a...

Bombay Presidency, 2 1 1d May 1860, Sin — A disposition to look to our land force as a chief element a national defence, may have sprung from the public interest excited, in the...

THE AT MANUFACTO]tY. Sin back, the artist world was startled by the announcement that D -of France, had delivered the sun of a picture—in plain phrase, * s atin had started...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAT AFTERNOON. British Securities have shown remarkable firmness all the week, despite an increased and heavy demand for money in and out of the "House," and...

Paris, 20th of June 1860. Sin—Paris has just raised a cry of indignation ; _for after months of un- certainty, it sees newly put in its place, in the Salon Carre of the Louvre,...

Bankruptcy Annulied.—WAtres. NOAH and Jona Non, Droitwicb, Worcester- shire, salt-manufacturers. Hankrupts.—Cnsatate MAIDLow, Alma Square, St. John's Wood, builder—As- THEE...

On the 3d of May, at Rome, the Viscountess Kynnaird (Marchioness Hamlin! Giustiniani), of a son and heir. On the 15th of June, at 61, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, the Lady Carew,...

Kennington Park, Wednesday. Sin—I have been perusing with much interest your nicely-written and very argumentative article on "Combinations, Strikes, and Conspiracies." 3. he...

14th June, 1860. SIR—I read Mr. Bennett's letter in your journal of the 9th instant on the above subject with great satisfaction. That letter was called forth by your kind...

HARBO1JRS OF REFUGE. As we write, the sun shines gloriously, encouraging the hope that, at last, the winter is gone. The melancholy Jacques, had he lived in the year 1859-60,...

EVERYBODY knew that the House of Lords would reject the Bill for the Abolition of Church-rates, that the majority would be con- siderable, and that no efforts would be required...

THERE must be something very wrung, and on both sides when two great countries like France and England not only express reciprocal apprehensions, but act upon such feelings—not...

THE Government persists in its intention to abolish the local army of India. Sir Charles Wood, after two nights' debate, has obtained leave to bring in his bill which blots it...

F3102/ the first it has appeared to us that the complaints levelled against the Census Bill far 1861, with reference to the various re- ligious denominations, might be met in a...

IN an article of last week's Spectator, " Two Systems of Treating Con- victs," we alluded to a traveller's account of the public prison of Valencia as not sufficiently affording...

Palace, will arrive from France during the afternoon of the 24th. The two greet new hotels in the Islington Cattle Market are being fitted up throughout with beds for a large...

DOMESTIC MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THE COURT OF ENGLAND. * WHEN the best portion of Britain had become Roman, "among the stations which diffused over the land the...

pleasant narrative started from Meerut for Musseorie in the march of a year not specified, but presumably an- tecedent to 1857, for he makes no allusion to the Mutiny, and...

of his first and last campaign in the spirit of Jacques, marvelling how it should "Come to pass That any man turns, ass, Leaving his wealth and ease A stubborn will to...

Mr. Ruskin's magnum opus, Monznic PAINTERS, begun seventeen years ago, is now completed, the fifth and last volume having been pub- lished this week. Typographically, it is a...

The Italian theatres furnish no food for remark this week. Both houses are sufficiently busy, giving performances almost every night ; but, excepting the appearance at her...

has brought to an end the semi-serious condition of M. Talexy's company, which now performs broad farce under the chieftainship of M. Leclerc, the veteran comedian of the...

M. Alexander Dumas the elder, has converted into dramatic shape a scarcely remembered romance which he published some six years ago, with the title :Le Salteador, and calling it...

Mr. Murray has in the press, and will shortly publish, "Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England," by Hepworth Dixon, being an in-i quiry into his life and cha.acter based on...

The central school of art for women, when first established, occupied rooms in Somerset House. and was superintended by Mrs. Mon, a lady who has since distinguished herself in...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Cloalng Prices.) 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1860 Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101 per...

THE SALTMA.RSIIE GALLERY. This collection, the property of Mr. Edmund Higginson, and formed by him at his seat near Bromyard in Herefordshire ' from which the gallery takes its...