21 SEPTEMBER 1861, page 1

The Act Making The Post-offices Savings Banks Has Come Into

operation with general approval.......

The King Of Holland Has Met His Parliament, And...

them on the state of their irrigation and foreign relations, regretted the condition of the dykes and the colonies, reported a reduction in the national debt, and generally made......

News Of The Week.

HE partridges have still precedence of politics, and lovers of sermons have this week been given up to the guidance of Mr. Newdegate. His theory is that the greatness of England......

The Great Eastern Has Met Her Usual Ill Fortune. On

her voyage to America she encountered a terrific gale, lost both paddles, broke her rudder-post, and lay for three days at the mercy of the waves. Everything on board was......

The New Zealand Colonial Government Has Fallen Beneath...

unpopularity of those counsels in which it had no hand—the military and the imperial. A majority of one, nearly accidental— for a supporter of Government was steaming into the......

The American Intelligence Of The Week Is Decidedly...

Federal Government has reduced two forts which protected Hatteras Inlet, and closed that gate of the internal navigation of the South, taking at the same time six hundred......

Mr. Lowe Has Insisted That Teachers, If Paid By The

State, shall teach reading, writing, antharithmetic, and the teachers are wild with wounded vanity. He has also cut down their allowances, and, as they were too low before, the......

The Lancashire Manufacturers, Startled By An Export Of...

Liverpool to America, have begun to work half time. It is calculated that should this movement become general, the stock may hold out over the spring, or longer, but the Indian......

Fires Have Been Excessively Frequent During The Week,...

apparent cause. The fall of rain has been little below the average, the heat has not been excessive, and the notion of incendiarism has not been started. It might be well to......

The Rebellion In Montenegro Is Assuming Serious...

is about to enter the Black Mountain with 32,000 troops, but the Montenegrins are brave, determined, and favoured in an unusual degree by position. They have the sympathy of the......

The Spanish Fleet Which Is To Proceed To Mexico, Will

consist of six men-of-war, with smaller vessels and transports.......

The Correspondents Of Tory Papers Continue To Assert That...

King of Sweden is anxious, on the principle of nationalities, to re- annex Finland, and that the Emperor Napoleon, in return for a maritime alliance, has promised him the aid of......