of joy at the prospect of finding income too little for expen- diture. The Tory papers of the week have derived quite a plea- surable excitement from the apparent deficiency in...

Code, and we note many signs of reaction upon the subject. The educated class seem determined that reading and writing shall be made indis- pensable to aid from the State, and...

order on Mexico, is not yet signed, but its details are all arranged. The strong objections which exist to imposing any form of govern- ment on a free population have been met,...

T HE political speeches of the week have been few and compara- tively unimportant. Lord John Manners, at Leicester, has made a strong Tory speech, pointing with exultation to...

the reactionary party in Russia, that M. Herzen, the editor of the proscribed Russian paper published in London, called the Kolokol (or Bell) — which is circulated privately far...

17th instant.

has solved the question of the electric light. He has made it regular, and reduced its production below the cost of gas. Abbaye Grace has already been lighted with it, and...

to rage. It is said to be too delicate a machine for the rough work of a campaign. If the vent pegs are left loose they blow out, and if fixed they shatter in pieces. At some...

Roman ques- tion is once again postponed. M. Benedetti, French Minister at Turin, has returned to that capital without instructions, and the Pope has another lease. There is...

of flour in France are to some extent illusory. The annual consump- tion of wheat in France is about 80,000,000 hectolitres, and the har- vest is not estimated at less than...

the churches, has ordered all the churches to be closed, and announced this decree to the Governor in the following bold letter : " The insult, which was offered yesterday to...

the 17th instant, amidst a stately ceremonial, the account of which it is impossible to condense. The King placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned the Queen. At the...

of in- terest. The West is evidently determined not to abandon Fremont, and the Government has given up the idea of removing him until defeat has destroyed his popularity, or...

office. M. Benedetti, the French Minister, has arrived at Turin, and brings with him the reply of the Emperor Napoleon. His Majesty does not reject or even disapprove the...

distress for money. A proposal for a loan of three millions made by the British Ambassador has been rejected, and exchange has risen to 200 piastres the pound sterling, or about...

graph vie Cape Race, has arrived, from which it appears that another week has elapsed without the long-expected battle on the Potomac Laving taken place, the most important...

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21sT. THE vexed question of Agricultural Statistics was discussed by another bench of magistrates last week. At the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for the county...

FRANCE. (By Telegram through Mr. Reuler's Office). Pews, Oct 25. THE Monitestr of to-day contains the following : "A judicial investiga- tion has established the fact that the...

Baunoitsi., Oct 17.—The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and Helena, and Prince Louis of Hesse, drove yesterday to Loch Calater, and then rode on...

Subscriptions to the "FRIEND OF INDIA," and "OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. S. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per Annum,...

for e circumscriptions remain as they were. The Kingdom of Italy has at present fifty-nine provinces. The functionaries who were at the head of them were called—in Piedmont and...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. THE Money Market this week has shown greater ease, and the general rate for the best paper has fallen to 2* to 21 per cent. At the Bank, where...

Bankrupts-Robert Cowan, Lyon-street, Caledonian-road, grocer-Louisa Jenks, Lewisham-hill, Kent, widow-Richard Watson, Gravesend, Kent, licensed victualler -John Miller,...

per Cent Console Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 8 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday...

THE NEXT TORY CRY. S OME of our contemporaries in the dearth of more in- teresting matter, amuse themselves with endeavours to account for the silence of the Tory leaders. May...

On the 19th inst., at Warnbam Court, Horsham, the wife of Sir J. Henry Pally, Bart., of a son. On the 19th inst., in Dublin, the Lady Lurgan, of a daughter. On the 20th inst.,...

TiT King of Prussia, in a speech made during the cere- nonies just transacted at Konigsberg, declares that he reigns by the grace of God, and the expression has brought on his...

in the vague. He antici- pates with rapture the speedy return of the Conserva- tives to power because the "time-honoured institutions or our'native country" are safe in no other...

F EW things which have happened during the American war have so disheartened the friends of the North as the action of the Government in the " Fremont affair." Regard it from...

T "public scarcely understand even yet the true difficulty in the way of an Indian contract law. They are told, justly enough, that without it Europeans cannot grow cotton on...

O NE of the many paternal mercies which characterize the Papal "regime," consists in keeping a condemned pri- soner in ignorance of his sentence. ;Weeks, months, years may pass...

THE weeks as they pass bring us no nearer to the close of 1 this awful struggle. The military movements are as inde- cisive as ever, the temper of both sides is just as...

L TJTILER used to assign a very characteristic and unique cause for the effectiveness of his sermons and writings. " I have no better `work,'" he said, " than:anger (torn) and...

W E noticed last week the impetus given to the production of village papers. They present an entirely new feature in English life, and one which may ere long have most important...

account of the late disturbances at St. Petersburg from the private correspondence of the Kolokol, a Russian newspaper edited in London by M. Herzen, and circulated by him....

AN INDIAN CIVILIAN. [The following valuable letter, addressed to an authority in Madras, has been kindly placed at our disposal, in confirmation of our remarks on the relative...

English Opera House," opened on Thursday, with Mr. Howard Glover's new opera Ray Bias, the opening having been postponed for some days in order to complete the preparations for...

THE reappearance of Jenny Lind is an occurrence which will be memorable in our musical annals. She has again come before the public after an interval of almost seven years, and...

Thin must be few who have not had, in their boyish days, a passion for the purchase and illumination of those singular theatrical prints still occasionally to be seen in...

M. GUIZOT AND THE PAPACY.* Tnz same year that has seen the most learned theologians of Italy disclaim the necessity of temporal power for Catholicism, is destined, by a strange...

Tit= sketches, being Mr. Sala's, are of course striking and realistic. Yet, though the public are in some sense gainers, we doubt if Mr. Sala's literary reputation will be...

peculiar one. Mr. Jesse was ambitious of writing an historical tragedy on the last War of the Roses, and, as a preparation, studied the characters of the time from original...

BurrEnsinx served up at dinner—that is the only comparison we can find to do precise justice to the flavour of this book upon the critical palate. It reads like a novel from the...