THE PLAN OF MR. JEFFERSON DAVIS. \,R. Jefferson Davis, the new President of the Southern Ael Confederacy, has delivered what it pleases the Americans to call his "inaugural"...

TOPICS OF THIE DAY. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S SPEECH. T EY are strong men these Napoleons. The son of Jerome has hitherto been regarded as the feeblest of I his race, but there is no...

THE YELVERTON CASE. IN the time of King Brien, say the Irish Melodies, a beautiful girl, richly dressed, could travel alone from Limerick to Belfast without molestation: "Sir...

The Blackburn "lock. out" is supposed to be at an end, as the I greater part of the hands have returned to their work on the masters' terms. At Bath, the masons have struck for...

The name of Sir James Outram is deservedly famous in England as well as in India. Sir James has performed acts which speak to his unquestioned personal valour and his chivalric...

I Vice-Chiancellor Page Wood has granted an injunction to restrain I the Clharing Cross Railway Company from takingu proceedings cornpulsorilv to acquire a portion of the...

Leeds is faithful to the cry of Reform. A meeting to support 'Mr. I Baines was held in that toWii last week; but Leeds is alone in her gtory.

The Yelverton marriage case was terminated on Mrondav. The counsel on both sides haa spoken their last words; the Chie(Justice laboriously summed up the evidence, but with a...

A singular case was tried at the Northampton Assizes. In 1S58, Lieutenant Allle, of the S2nd Foot, killcd his native servant at Shabjehanpore. He was sentenced in India to four...

CHRISTIANITY AND HIIETHENISMI.* Mit. RAWLI;SoN explains in his preface that the above title does not strictly apply to the whole of these Sermons. It in fact applies to only...

ENGLISH PURITANISM AND ITS LEADERS.t THE days are over in which Puritanism can be treated as mere unreasoning and villanous disaffection, or dismissed as a melange of folly and...

I Telezraphic advices from Madrid of March 7 state that the Mi- nistry hiave pronounced themselves in favour of the temporal power of the Pope; and have declared that they...

I The Gazette contains the official announcement that SirJohln Young has been appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New South Wales.

POSTSCRIPT. | BOTH Houses of Parliament sat last night. i The House of Lords only sat half an hour. The trades Marks BIil passed through Committee, and the Statute Law...

,Xj~ Cruurt. - ITHE Queen is still at Osborne, and the Court Newsman records nothing of public interest except a visit which the Prilce Consort paid to Chiehester Cathedral on...

.311 isatt a lam. SoMrE annising scenies have passed in the House of Commons about Sir Baldwin Walker. It wvas obscurely hinted that, hc would be wanted as a witness before the...

I The liberty of speech which was not secured to the French Senate by the Imperial decree, has been obtained by another Napoleon. The Marquis de Larochejaquelein attacked the...

I The prospects of the Austrian Government are still unsettled. The Hungarians refuse to accept their place in the constitution, or to depute members to the Rcichsratb, but the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE event of the week is the 6meute reported from Warsaw. Rumours of French intrigue in Poland have long been current in the German capitals, and stories of...

finlr 3rty. Or the fact that sculpture is at a low ebb in England there can be very little doubt. Our metropolitan monuments -have been objects of ridicule by foreigners from...

THE DRY BONES STIRRING. THE Napoleonic "idea" of nationalities is producing T fruit. Italy is free already, Hungary has long been menacing insurrection, and now, after thirty...

CULTURE FERSUS EFFICIENCY. E NGLISHAMEN are not yet prepared to believe with Yell that kinowledge of Taoli is equivalent to merit, but they arc fast approaching the stage next...

THE INDIAN FAMTINE. THE news received yesterday from India will startle even Ta generation which remembers the Irish famine. There is no longer any doubt that a calamity such...

Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest was brought before the Marlbo-__ -s _v I I v }1 I . I.,.. I. .1 . rou-gn-street magistrate, on Thursday, in a state either of drunkenness or...

bhrotrm nau JSrnrrrhIng5 in Jhrliamrut. HOUSE OF L.oatSs. Jfond~al, March 4. Trade Marks Bill read a second time-Mr Turnbull's case; debate thereon. I Tuesday, March .5....

BOOKS. ANTIQUE GEMS.* IT is very remarkable that ancient art should have been accepted for so many ages as the standard and test of perfect beauty; that art, associated as it...

THE CASE O SCHLESWIG. ONE half the perplexed quarrel between Denmark and the German Confederation must be approaching a termination, if it be true that Austria, England,...

RECENT N-OVELS.* IT would, indeed, be a matter for the sincerest self-congratulation, and a motivc for taking a brighlter and more cheerful view of our future prospects, if we...

The Indian Mail of the 3rd February is full of records of the famine nowv raging in the A orth- West Provinces, and the details of which will be found in a more prominent...

The Italian Parliament is busy with the verification of its nowers. and the onlv intelligence from Italy refers to the fortress of Messina, which has been invested by sea and...

NAVAL GRIEVAANCES. LORD Palmerston is relying a little too strongly upon the momentary indifferencedo the country to domestic questions. le has been pardoned for a programme...

THE DEFENCE OF OUR COLONIES. IT is the accepted way of the British Parliamentary system I to refer every question on which an argument can be raised to a select committee....