the Sicilian leader were watched with anxiety ; two days passed without any intelligence of what he is doing ; the only thing known was that he had disappeared into space, and...

THE great event in Parliament this week has been Lord Palmer- ston's speech on the National Defences. The Premier spoke to an audience fully prepared to adopt a foregone...

public manifestations in the United States, are substantial earnest that our expectation of the welcome given to the Prince of Wales will be more than carried out. Every spot on...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. ROUSE on Loans. Monday, July 23. Newspapers, &c., Bill; second reading lost —Mines Regulation and Inspection Bill passed Committee with...

THE QUEEN and Prince Consort, still at Osborne, drove out on Saturday afternoon. The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of her Ma- jesty. Prince and Princess Leiningen...

A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce at Hull had an inter- view with the Right Honourable T. Milner Gibson, on Tuesday, at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject...

At Southport, on Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. Whitworth's guns were again tried. Two parties of gunners were the practitioners ; one from the North Fort at Liverpool, commanded...

fraurt.—The sittings of the Corps Legislatif terminated on Friday week. The Emperor will go shortly to Chalons. Prince Napoleon is at Cherbourg. Orders have been given for the...

nounces that Lord John Russell has authorized Lord Cowley to come to some understanding with France respecting the expedition to Syria. The same paper says :—" As all the Powers...

On Thursday week General F. J. Weymss died at Bath, one of the oldest of our veterans, for he had nearly completed his sixtieth year of service in the army, his commission as...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. In the House of Commons last night, in reply to Mr. D. Guterrrns, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he would explain a misrepresentation, which he had made with...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Funds have shown considerable steadiness, and towards the close of - the week there has even been firmness, although the advance in...

record of a very extensive and elaborate compromise. The readers of the Spectator are well aware of the manner in which duties have been divided between the Civil War Department...

SYRIA. THE papers recently laid before Parliament with respect to the disturbances in Syria, do not furnish us with any information as to the origin of the outbreak, but the...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 24. Bankrupts.—Witt.unx Coos, King Street, Regent Street, coachbuilder—Wmmem GOODALL GIBSON, GOdahllillg, Surrey, tanner—Jong GREEN, Philpot Lane,...

LORD PALMERSTON'S motion that, on and after the 7th of August, Government business should have precedence, is the preliminary to a wind-up of the Session,—of a Session less...

WE are now obtaining the materials for judgment upon the recent failures in the leather trade, upon which no very safe opinion could previously be pronounced, the data being...

• TUE tragic story which has just been placed before the Criminal Court at Lewes ought to be a lesson to parents and schoolmasters; for it is in truth a thorough anatomy of the...

TUE report of the Committee on Military Organization was issued to Members of the House of Commons on Saturday last. The Committee sat at intervals, for some months. It was...

THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS. * FROM the beginning of the last century to the present time, gla- cier-motion has been one of the scientific puzzles which have en- gaged the...

Ix preparing the present volume of his history, Mr. Massey has been aided by information derived from private sources. Mr. Frederic Locker, in particular, has placed at his...

THE Edinburgh Review opens with a criticism on M. Chevalier's essay on "The Probable Fall in the Value of Gold" written so as to exhaust the subject in all its bearings. The...

Dr. Draper, Professor of Chemistry and Physiology, and President of the Medical Department of the University of New York, read a highly inte- resting and ingenious paper at the...

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS, transcribed from the editio septima of Tischendorf has been arranged by J. R. Craw- ford, M.A., Master of Berkhampstead School, in...

The print room of the British Museum contains the collection of en- gravings, wood-cuts, and original drawings by the great masters, which belong to the nation ; yet very few...

Mr. Murray has in the press "The Census and the Church-rate : a charge," by the Archdeacon of Barnstaple; and a new " Life of William Pitt," by Earl Stanhope. " Political...

works ap- pears the sum of 40001. for decoration of the Houses of Parliament, paid for the year to Messrs. Mediae, Ward, and Cope. The Royal Academy and most of the other...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Priem.) Retard. Monday. Tuesday. Widnes. flues. Friday . I per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Ceuta Annuities 1880...

On the 18th of July, at 36, Hertford Street, Mayfair, the Wife of Lieutenant- Colonel Cooper, Grenadier Guards, of a son. On the 18th, at Kelso, N.B. Lady Cuningliam Fairlie, of...