14 MAY 1859, page 13

Volunteers!

SOME actual measures have been taken since we last noticed this subject to provide the backbone of our system of national defence. The presence of war on the continent, the......

Topics Of The Day.

TER WAR AUCTION. NAPoinosr is on the ground. Every day's delay in the beginning of the contest only proves the magnitude of the labour which Austria has drawn upon herself and......

Oddities Of Finance.

SOMETIME since the Russian Government put forward a loan of 12,000,0001. at 3 per cent; but since the commencement of the war tumult in Europe, the same Government has notified......