O'CUHRY ON ANCIENT IRISUI IIISTORY.* TiiE early historv of Ireland is perhaps less known in England than that of any otlier civilized countrv. D Uring th1e last century the...

Lord Broughain has announced in an address to the general I neeting of tlc supporters of the Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools, which took placC on Friday week, that the Social...

51alij.- -It is still reported that the Ricasoli Ministry is weak, and I thatt AL Ratazzi \will be tile new Prenier. The facts of the case, according, to the most reliable...

Mr. J. Lockle, the -Member for Southwark, has made the only political speech of the week, and a very sensible speech it wvas. Ile asserted the freedomn of a parliamientary...

frafnrr.- -Flrench troops have occupied Dappes, a valley of Switzer- land, which has beell the subject of dispute since 1815, when the picnipotentiaries at Vienna wished but...

IAGO. THIERE are few of Shakspeare's characters which have enlisted so little intellectual power on the stage, in proportion to that which Shakspeare had spent on their...

Snsfria.- -The following supersedes all other information from Austria: "VIENNA, Nov. 7. "'An autograph letter addressed bv the Emnperor to Count Forg'ach, Aulic Chancellor...

q-nhia.- -The official returns of fhe tradc of Bomblhav have bcee published, and show an increase of about two millions sterling>, the exports amounting to 19,4S0,000/., and...

1155ia.- -The student-disaffection at St. Petersburg and Mloscow ^ had been repeatcd, and ouyv crushed, just betore the arrival of the Emperor, by the mIost brutal conduct of...

lll,?Illllr. %IOINDAiY, I D E MI i 1"1. TiLm Tii-.O, o OI) L CIf, lI tiI1 e C' ()I I i , Rievised Cmle. 'ile fi.,t ; tin tfr d l\. (Nw tiet (Cio l lih'ftww', \who eXpresCss...

Ourh4.- -We hear from Turkey only complaints of the disorder of the fina~ces, and wishes for the reportof the English Comnmission on 0 the state of their exchegquer. The...

J,)mnsia.- -The King has issued the followingl proclamation : BERLIN, NoV. 1, 1. ! Tle solemnity wvlhiei I accomplished on thle ISth inust. has ive a sacred consecration to mv...

mTnrf ri.- -The particulars oft he Federal defeat at Leesbure con- tribute the princidaI item ot Xmerican tuewvs hielich hais ar1rive this m-eek. lt appears, from an account...

LIFE OF ADMIRAL SIR CIIARLES NAPIER.'k TIIE licroic acihievetnents of tlie Napier family are the best answer to the Ronmi.n sat irist's cynical ilnquiry as to th[e value of a...

THE POSITION AND FETTERS OF THE ENGLISL CHURCH. A RE the avowed friends of the Church of England, or its A avowed enemies, the more likely to cripple its influonce and waste...

Lord Shaftesbury has made a sensation speech on the I " bad book" of the age-" Says and Views," as it is generally termed by the perplexed rural population. Speaking on the day...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ljyll ILE the rumbling of a rising storm. becomes more T v and more audible from the Continent, the Home po- litics of Great Britain continue to present...

The greatest political event of the week has been the military . . . . . , . I I I occupation of Hungary by Austria, the first prelude to open war,-an event which appears to...

The Lord MaiNyor re-elect has been in his state robes to Belgrave-square to learn officially froin the Lord Chancellor that her Majesty has beenl pleased to sanction the City's...

Mfr. Terence Bellew AM'IMaiius, an enthusiast of the lparty of y oung Ireland, concerned with M1r. Smith O'Brien in the famous Ballingarry scuffle, found guilty of high...

The convention determining the conditions of' the inter- vention in Mexico by Francee, Spain, and Englanjd, was signed on Thursday week, and the American Government is to be...

B OOKS. STEELE'S PAPERS IN THE "TATLER."* rlTj5s selection of papers fronm the i'ltler-almost butirelY by Svc'e. with two or three of Addison's intermixed-lias but little pre...

HO1W TO AVOID A COTTON FAMINE. ITU the cotton-trade of the world within her grasp, lW V V India appears to hesitate whether to seize the prize. The cotton, though coining, is...

LORD LYONS AND 311R. SEAVARD. R. Seward has for once made a hit. In hiis recent cor1A1 respondece with Lord Ly ons lhe has developed, possibly froin a novel consciousness of...

'1 H VLIS." Mr. STEI'IIEN ]IIS C0o1 huied wm-tlilNv a Itsk whichi Ollught lo recomlnteld hlnl lo all true lovx s c of cImiitire. Iillne Aitillm atoo Sbeellery is eon non enoiwn...

1POSTSCRIPT. .-- --4 (By telegram through -If. Rezter's O(ffce.) ITALY. TURiX, Nov. 7. THlIE 3fonarcAa Nazionale of to-day says: "General Turr has announced to the Central...

(nB Gulrt. WINDSOR CASTLE, NOV. 5.-The Roval dinner party included the Princess Alice, the Princess of Hohenilohe, the Prince of Hohenlohe, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Dean of...

THE FIGHTING STRENGTH OF ITALY. IT is lawful, as we all know from our school-days, to receive lessons from an enemy. It is questionable, however, whether such a source of...

3I!Vuir. 11-: have now-withini these two or three vears-Dot two ninsical SaLson1s: the great fashionable seasaon, in suIIer, whIn. " everybod"y' i- in town; a'nd the snall,...

ntd 3rtf. AN- ARTIST AT PLAY. IT is not every one that can play the fool with becomingi discretion. l~eiM~htfUl as that occupation is as a relaxation from more serious...

IIO1IEOPATHIIC ANN-EXATION-. THE French soldiers are by this time accustomed to encamp, even in tines of peace, on soil which does not belong, to them. It is hardly anv use for...

MAITIIIA BROWN THtE IIEIRESS.* 1 vFRY pleasant evening's readling-elever, sensible, brief, lively, and refined ; not too exciting, an( verv far fromt dull not. of t he class w...

THE IMPROVEMENTS OF PARIS. THERE is one, and but one, of the triumplhs of the second Empire upon which opinion is nearly unanimous. Thle reconstruction of Paris is the theme of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE STATE OF SIEGE IN HUNGARY. THE Emperor of Austria pulls hard at the rope which is tolling the knell of the House of Hapsburg. Raised to the throne in...