I Mr. Lindsay has obtained a Select Committee to inquire into the best mode of conducting the Transport Service. This is directed against one of the blots on our system of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. MmNrsTERS, after dallying with the question of Reform and per- I mitting others to dally with it from March to June, have suddenly become courageous enough...

The Sicilians have made great progress. Garibaldi is not only master of Palermo, but he has treated with the ro al generals. It is, therefore, no longer an insurrection but a...

IRELAND. It is announced that Mr. Davison will shortly retire from the representation of Belfast; and that the vacant seat will be offered to the present Mayor, Mr. S. G....

SCOTLAND. A meeting was held at Edinburgh on Tuesday, "to consider the propriety of commencing a subscription in aid of Garibaldi and the Italians." Mr. Mossrman, Dean of...

,f4rPigu oIut uluninl. if r a ut rr.-The Emperor and Empress have visited the Empress Dowager of Russia at Lyons, have returned to Paris, and gone thence to Fontainebleau. It...

Irttrr tu tyr ftitDr. | 3I.. J101HN Bl:N-NEll ON " WA'TCIIHLS AND WATCHIMAKING." 6, (Ceap)sidc, 31st Miay, 1860. Sm'i t It ust be very satisfactory to nit, wvho have been...

,f inr Arts. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. The portraits cannot justly be said to have given up any of their long possessed space, if the academicians have so nobly retired from their...

Musir. Grisi's engagement at the Royal Italian Opera this season was limited to0j %ights, and, each time she performed, the public, for awhile, w 4i lly reminded by the bills...

94t Tirfl3trrB. M. Octave Feuillet's new comedy, la _ intatetio, produced at the Vaudevillc in March, has been so recently noticed under the head " Parisian Theatricals," that...

We observe with great pleasure that certain friends of the ,, I I -1 I X " - t--D r - -Volunteer Movement are endeavouring to promote the early closing of shops at the West...

Urhntto anU vrncrrtingo iii 4rlimfut. lTP AT EtUSIXNESS OF THE WEEK. IousE OF LoaDs. Monday, June 4. Public Improvements BiU read a third time and passed-Ecclesiastical Courts...

Some anxiety is felt lest a clause in the Census Bill should be maintained providing for the collection of statistics of religious I belie. We do not sympathize with...

vruuiurial. Mr. Sidney Herbert attended the anniversary festival of tho Wilton and Salisbury branches of the Wilts Friendly Society at Wilton last week, and Mr. Estcourt...

"IrIf Ortrupulig. Both Houses of Convocation met on Thursday to transact business, but nothing of general interest occurred. The National Rifle Association held a meeting on...

.'W'vbt Cuurt. Tira QUE-EN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Prince Jules and Prince John of Scbleswig-Holstein-Glucksbourg, and Lord John Russell, had an audience...

l - I, C'OLONAl. DEEN'AC'E AN-D IMPEPl'IAL REPUDIATION. iStvN-l-,( " is sometimes waste. A proposal has been submitted to the Lxeeutive, and to Parliament, for saving...

THE ECCLESIASTICAL ('OMM ISSION. Tit: House of Commons was occupied last Aednesday morning, with the discussion of a grave question, which affects materially the interests of...

MEN AiNLD MASTERS. PROB3.BLY out of the very many complex problems with which the journalist is called upon to deal, few present so many difficulties as those which continually...

.The Queen, the Prince Consort, the younger members of the Royal family, the King of the Belgians, and the aunt of Flanders, returned yesterday from Windsor Castle to...

POSTSC RI PT. SATURDAY AFTERX-OON. I In the House of Commons the motion for the adjournment until I Monday gave occasion for much questioning of Ministers; only a few...

A telegram from Paris, dated yesterday, and published by the Morn- I ing Post, gives the latest news of the statW of the-Sicilian question:- I " A despatch, received here this...

Towards the end of June there bill he a most agreeable French inva- sion. No fewer tban 3000 mnenibers of the "()ipllhson '' an a'wateur choral association, m-ill arrive, and...

LITERARY NEWS. " The Glaciers of the Alps," a work comprising the results of three i years' personal observation, by Professor Tyndale, is announced as forth; coming by Mr....

34Isrt Un II arn ug. The llunlclrablc and Reverend S. Waldegrave has been appointed Bishop of Carlisle in the room of l)r. Villiers. Ile graduate(d at Oxford, taking double...

ROYAL rNSTITUTION. On Friday, the Ist of Junc, Professor Tyndal described his visit to Chamouni in December last, for the purpose of investigating glacier motion in winter. The...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE HO)USE 01' COMMONS AND THE REFORM WILLS. ~Wir ENthe responsible Ministe's of the Crown advised the Queen to ntcommend Parliament to amend the...

9 T HE AUSTRIAN AND RUSSIAN REFORMS. . IF hope were not something indestructible in human nature, we f should have ceased to put the slightest faith in Austrian promises. Their...

DR. HAYES S ARii IC BOAT JOURNEY.' yfht, KEANE sailed in the Advance from New York, May 30th, t83, on his second arctic expedition, and on the 9th of the following September,...

'FIllA WA-lM IN SICITX. We are still without any definite intelligen(e of tl e actual state of things at Palermo; but the drift of all th( tlegranms nid the fuller despatches...

THE IHMBOLDT CORRESPONDENCE., AF2'TEr a careful reading of M1iss Ludmilla Assing's preface to the third edition of Iiint7boldt's Letters, we have nothing to change in the...

BOOKS. EASTERN AFRICA. * ArFtrcA with its half-historical, half-mythical antiquity, and its imperfectly known present, has about it a perennial romance. It is a perpetual...