from 41- to 5 per cent. The rise was expected as a matter of course after the raising of the rate in Paris to 6 per cent. The causes which have led to this defensive measure on...

-THE first European act of the Czar Alexander the Second, after formally donning the Russian crown, is the issue of a manifesto against the Western Pawers and their policy in...

Western Powers are still granting a respite to King Ferdinand, and speculation is busier than ever as to the sincerity of the French Government. The Austrian Gazette publishes a...

clearness, and grace with which he enabled them to un- derstand their awn purpose and course of action. The meetings were convened by the local branches of the Society for the...

On Monday, Michaelmas-day, the citizens of London assembled in tb a Guildhall and elected a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. The choke fell upon the first on the list of...

a manner that must have effect. It has prepared a com- plete registry of the votes of every Member of the present Parlia- ment, and an instalment has been issued this week in a...

on - which its members are offered a free passage and a settlement in our colony of South Africa have been published ; and the period approaches when the force should volunteer...

Mr. Gladstone has been doing missionary work in the West, with great applause and success ; speaking in behalf of the Society for the Propaga- tion of the Gospel in Foreign...

The Earl of Carlisle on his return from Lisraore Castle, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, passed through the town of Tipperary. The authorities seized the occasion to present...

The Highlands have been visited by storms of wind and rain ; and the Queen, like her subjects, has been put to some inconvenience. In spite of the rough weather at the close of...

Fr/CUM—The Emperor and Empress departed from Biarritz on Tues- day for St. Cloud. The day before he set out, the Emperor reviewed two Crimean regiments stationed at Bayonne. On...

The Commander-in-chief, through his Adjutant-General, has issued the following general order on the death of Lord Hardinge- " The Queen desires to make known to the Army her...

week to hold a convivial meeting in honour of their new landlord, which they had resolved on soon after his succession. On the evening of Thurs- day, two hundred farmers met...

dates are Hongkong, August 10; Bombay, August 29. It is reported that Herat has been stormed by the Persians, with a loss of 1500 men : but the in- telligence was looked on with...

SATURDAY. While the French squadron said to be destined for the Bay of Naples remains at anchor in the roadstead of Toulon, the telegraph from Ajaccio in Corsica, the...

Thursday week, the Helen Heilgers, from Calcutta, ran into the Yeoman, from Liver- Intelligence has just been received at Liverpool, that, early on Thursday week, the Helen...

STOCK EECRANole, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Since the measure adopted by the Bank of France last week of raising their rate of discount, great preparations have been made against a...

Hale to he Alderman. At the meeting, the Lord Mayor mentioned with regret the death of an old inhabitant of the Ward, and one who had for many years devoted himself to City...

A one-act vaudeville of more than common interest is now performing at the Gymnase. A wealthy man, played by M. Geoffroy, has been ruined by an unforeseen accident ; but the...

The week just past will not make a great figure in the dramatic re- cords of London. Had not Mrs. Emma Waller achieved her first essay in comedy, by playing Lady Gay Spanker at...

16,719,703 Totals £1,114,288 1,185,013' 48,572 £1,689,071 79,524 3,391,232 £3,211,708 Net Increase. II. Increase and Decrease in the Quarter, Half-year, and Year ended...

On the 8th September, at Oldmixon-super-Valley, Chester County, U.S.. the Wife of Commander G. H. Oldmixon, R.N., of a son. On the 14th, at Malta, the Hon. Mrs. Augustus Lane...

MONEY-MARKET PROSPECTS. DIE City is less made uneasy by the actual approach of the mo- ne tary storm than it was a few weeks back by the dead tranquil- lity which usually...

" SOVEREIGNS are equal among themselves," says the Russian circular, without reference to extent of territory." To carry advice beyond exhortation, to press it by threats or a...

THE judgment on the best mode of carrying out the improvement of Official Westminster, the judgment also upon the 'question as to the best site of bridges across the Thames at...

the brief career of Republi- can institutions in the United States of America, the extension of slavery is not the least, nor the least wonderful. While America consented to...

Oun esteemed correspondent Dr. Gray, of the British Museum ' at once deprecates and invites the interference of Government in science ; and since there is aground. of truth for...

operation of the Act 16 and 17 Viet. c. 99, intituled An Act to substitute in certain cases other punishment in lieu of trans- portation' " ; and the Committee was "empowered to...

Macclesfield, 25th September 1856. Sin—One cannot but feel deep interest in the discussion about the state of the Established Church, or rather the alarming and increasing...

PARLIAMENTARY SA.ECTION OF TREATIES. Belfast, 29th September 1856. But—In your note appended to my letter on Secret Diplomacy published in your last number, you say . that...

5 Great Brier Street, St. James's, 29th September 1856. Sin—In order to equalize the burden of taxation upon the community generally, and to render trade free and unshackled, it...

[At the last meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a resolution was passed, that " copies of the two last Reports of the Parlia- mentary Committee...

_Paris, 16th September 1856. The healthy appreciation of g eneral events which characterizes your weekly view induces me to brin g the present actual and correlative positions...

Sept. 30.—Cara/ry—lst Regt. of Life Guards— Cornet and Sub-Lieut. AL W. Viscount Powerscourt to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires. Royal Horse Guards—Cornet H....

FROM THE LONDON GAzErrE, SEPTEMBER 30. Partnerships Dissolved.—Burls and Son, Manuden ' Essex, grocers—Thorn and Beale, Harrow Road, surgeons—Kaye and Monks, Durham, dealers in...

8 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 104 per Cent Exchequer Bills, 244. per...

List of Persons who have taken out GENERAL GAME CERTIFICATES at 4/. Os. 10d. each, including the additional duty of 10 per cent under the Act of the 3 Viet. cap. 17. (Schedule...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JOMPII Cur - TON, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City. of London; and Published by the...

SIMS'S MANUAL FOR THE HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN INQUIRER.' IF DO great English historian has been nipped in the bud by want of the dry preliminary knowledge to enable him to...

Mr. Hamilton's expectations about the reception of his " Thoughts " by the strictly orthodox of all churches will not be disappointed. It is probable that many, as anxious as...

voluntary Russian exile, whose property has been confiscated and himself condemned to Siberia par contumace. He has published various works in various lan- guages, on politics,...

Writings con- tains his Dissertation on the Eloquence of the Ancients, with a translation of the Chersonese Oration of Demosthenes ; the Inau- gural Discourse at Glasgow; a...

Two large blots and one lesser blot destroy the effect of Old Me- mories. The writer has quite a genius as a depicter of daily life in a quiet country family, with its genial...

not contain a single political article. This is remarkable considering the pre- sent state of the Conservative party ; and while the pages of the daily and weekly oracles of the...

Boons. TEE slackness which during this autumn has pervaded news and politics has also extended to the book trade. It is some years since there has been so dull a September,...

The most important export of the American Union is its cotton-the mainstay of the Slave States. Statistics supplied by Mr. W. P. Wright, a cotton-broker of New York, show what...

Apropos to the consideration of the probable amount of the &Kiwis of wheat, flour, and Indian corn, for the present year, the New York Jour. nal of Commerce recently supplied...

TRADE AND NAVIGATION ACCOUNTS POE TILE MONTH AND EIGHT MONTHS ENDED 318T ATOM 1856 AND 1855. Month ended August 31, nu.oars. 1856. 1855. Declared value of British £ £ Eight...