is gradually affecting the popular manifestations ; although they continue, as in the case of the Limerick meeting, to support the Pope, the language employed is decidedly...

THE week records decided progress towards the Italian settle- ment. The recent semi-official manifestoes in Paris have had a brilliant effect over the whole_ field of Europe....

more popular ; and the uniforms of the gallant volunteers are, more or less under cover, gradually becoming rather frequent, improving the aspect of our streets and homes with a...

the people of Worcestershire in their acknowledgment of Sir John Pakington's pablie services, which have not been limited to the county, but belong to Ins country. And even oii...

The following important correspondence between the Foreign Secre- tary and the Glasgow memorialists has been made public, and will be read with interest by all who are...

THE QUEEN has kept Christmas at Windsor Castle very quietly. Among her Majesty's guests have been the Prince of Wales, the Count de La- vradio, Lord John Russell, Mr. H. F....

general holiday. There was very little remarkable in the day except the ve bad weather. All the institutions were open and were tolerably well attended in spite of the rain ;...

There was - a public dinner in the Worcester Guildhall on Wednesday, to present a testimonial to Sir John Pakington, for his services to the county. It is very honourable to...

Kilkenny and Limerick have held their pro-Papal meetings, each with a good show of laymen. At Limerick, Lord Dunraven, a convert to Bornanism, Mr. Monsen, M.P., Mr. Hawley,...

The " Cardross case," which has attracted so much attention in Scotland, came before the Court of Session for judgment on the 23d. Some of our readers may remember the...

lraurf.—The Emperor has paid a visit to Fontainebleau to hunt. He invited a large party, including Prince Metternich. M. de Persigny has been for some time in Paris in close...

formed. Its President is the Earl of Shaftesbury ; the Bishops of Oxford and London, Mr. Gladstone, and Vice-Chancellor Page Wood are its Vice- Presidents. The Committee...

THE MOON'S ROTATION. December 27. Sin—I do not wonder at Mr. Jelinger Symons not having accepted the challenge of Mr. Hill, as mentioned in your last number. I ventured three...

SATERDAY MORNING. The pamphlet of M. de la Gueronniare, it is clear, has put the official as well as non-official world in deep commotion. Rumours arrive from Paris, the gossip...

copies have gone off, a feat which no British brochure (unless it be the (Yorralaill Magazine) can now-a-days accomplish. All over Germany the views it puts forward have met...

succeed to the Coloneley of the Eighty-second Regiment, vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General Hamilton. The Colonelcy of the Sixty-sixth Regiment has also become vacant by...

E. B. Denison, came yesterday to a conclusion in the Sheri ff's Court, which was called upon to assess damages for the libel uttered by Mr. Denison in the matter of the...

STOCE EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. There has been more business in the English Market during the last few days, the fluctuations, although really small, having been in excess of...

moon's motion has been reopened in your columns, and Mr. Jelinger Symons repeats his plausible and fallacious appeal to common sense comparing the motion of the moon round the...

PERFORMANCES OF 1859—PROMISES OF 1860. \‘' No year has unfolded a more instructive history to peoples aid. princes than 1859; and, although its great events have mostly — taken...

LEIGH HunT—A REmoNsTRANez.—Four or five years ago, the writer of these lines was much pained by accidentally encountering a printed state- ment, "that Mr. Leigh Hunt was the...

of this journal we drew attention to the religious epidemic then raging in Ireland.* So remarkable a phenomenon as that of a conspicuous, immediate, and extensive conversion, in...

THE perusal of the official papers relating to the new settlement in Oude has satisfied us that it is calculated to work very benefi- cially, and has removed some misconceptions...

THE cause of the Italians is advanced almost as remarkably by the character of the opposition to it as by the character of its ad- vocates. We see attempts made to represent the...

THE hundred seamen imprisoned for riot and mutiny on board the war-steamer Princess Royal have now been set at liberty, and coincidently with their liberation a correspondence...

gravely debated whether the publication of such cases as come before the Divorce Court does more harm or good ; and we are somewhat surprised to observe the high class of intel-...

AiincrPVIING a fuller report, Admiral Fitzroy gives some particulars of the storm of October 25-6, which identify it as "a complete horizontal cyclone," and trace its movement—...

THE A.ECTIC VOYAGE OF THE FOX.' ' GREAT as were the expectations with which the public awaited the appearance of Captain M'Clintock's narrative, we feel assured that the event...

present biogra- pher, "during which Thomas of Canterbury was revered as the most glorious of English Saints were followed by an almost equally long period of disrepute." With...

the con- queror of Odoacer and 2Egidius, has been undertaken by the Abbe Coehet, an author whose previous antiquarian researches specially qualify him for the task. The...

dictionaries partly because their compilers have known little or nothing of the Ger- and Scandinavian tongues most nearly allied to our own, and have been wholly ignorant of...

Mr. Gleig's reconstruction of BRIALMONT'S LIFE OF WELLINGTON is completed. The two concluding volumes comprise the period between the capitulation of Paris and the Duke's death....

The Christmas pantomimes of the present Year have two points in com- mon: they are all distinguished by the splendour of their ." trans- formation scenes," and likewise by...

The collected works and a memoir of the late Dr. George Wilson, pro- fessor of technology at the University , of Edinburgh, are preparing for publication by Messrs. Constable...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 27. Bankrupts.-EDwAnD and Wituan Tames, Southampton, upholsterers-JOHN .11..Evux, Great Portland Street, sadler-Erara PINKESS, Liverpool,...

On the 20th of December, at Chevet Park, Lady M. Swinnerton Pilkington, of a daughter. - On the 20th, at the Old Park House, Derbyshire, the Lady Anna Chandos role, of a son....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 3 per CentOonsola Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101...