far more than a local interest. The immediate object was, to beg for a separation of Cornwall from the Bishopric of Exeter, with the appointment of a separate Bishop "of...

OPPOSITION, having no longer the Reform Bill as a basis of operations, has turned all its force against the Budget measures, selecting the Paper-duty Abolition Bill as the main...

to each other and to Europe, some doubts appear to be clearing away, as we anticipated. The agreement upon the Conference becomes daily more simple. If our Government has...

PRINCIPAL BrSINESS OF THE WEEK. _ HOUSE OP LORDS. Monday, May 7. Sunday Trading; Lord Chelmsford's Bil committed. neaday, May 8. Bankrupt Law (Scotland) Amendment Bill read a...

official mind in India, an outbreak of a far more astounding character has given just cause for alarm and indignation, al- though it is the ad simply of an individual. The ease...

A deputation waited on Lord Palmerston on Tuesday to set forth reasons for the creation of a diocese of Cornwall, by dividing the large see of Exeter in two, as soon as there is...

A correspondence has been published which passed between Lord John Russell and Lord Grey, in reference to a recent statement by Lord Grey and its apparent contradiction by Lord...

THE QUEMI held a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, on Thursday. At the Court Lord Palmerston and Earl Granville had audi- ence. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort...

In compliance with a suggestion contained in a letter from the Lord Chief Baron, a committee is in course of formation for the purpose of collecting a fund for the erection, in...

There seems to be some truth in the report that the Pope is recruiting in Ireland. The _Dublin Mail has the following intelligence in reference to a new phase in the emigration...

frantr.—The Swiss question still occupies diplomacy. Little that i new on that head has been published. It is said that in reply to the pro- posals of France, England consents...

The firm of John and Anthony Blaikie, of Aberdeen, land factors and ad- vocates, has failed for 300,000/. As usual, all dames, the wealthy as well as the poor, the young and the...

Sir Charles Trevelyan, in his official capacity as Governor of Madras, has thought fit to publish a thoroughgoing denunciation of the financial policy of Mr. Wilson. Sir Charles...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. In the House of Commons, last night, a multitude of questions, em- bracing all sorts of subjects, were discussed, on the motion that the House...

Belfast, Hay 9, 1880. Bra—It is stated—with what truth I do not yet know—that a thousand Irishmen have gone to Ancona in order to enter the Pope's army. Ireland is, no doubt,...

If the story which lies at the foundation of the new piece, brought out at the Haymarket on Wednesday last, had been told with ordinary skill and becoming brevity, we should...

called on Mr. Cobden in Paris, to confer respecting the duties on iron. It is stated that if the proposed duty on wrought iron is maintained, it will be prohibitive. It is...

of Dur- ham, will succeed the late Dr. Musgrave as Archbishop of York.—Globe. We understand that St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, will be opened tomorrow morning, and that the...

the news of Garibaldi's venture :— " Turin, Hay 9. " We are as yet without news of the Garibaldi expedition of the 5th instant, which was to rebuild and revive the Sicilian...

STOCK EICHAKOK. FRIDAY APTIIHNOON. The English Stock Markets have experienced considerable fluctuation this week, consequent chiefly upon the liquidation of the Consol Account...

THE RUSSELL AND GREY CORRESPONDENCE. THERE can be little doubt as to the judgment which the public of this country will give upon the appeal made to it by Lord John Russell and...

itankrupts. — Erounto Jonas, Woodbine Villas, Bridge Road West, Battersea, hosier—Jenxs Slam, Fareham, Hants, grocer—Jon:4 Wilson, Sunderland, ship- Owner—Census Ditearn,...

On the 4th instant, Dr. Lankester gave a lecture "On Breadmaking and Baking." Bread, the lecturer stated, might be divided into two kinds—vesciculated or spongy, and...

DEATHS. At Broach, in the Bombay Presidency, on the let of April, of cholera, taken while conducting the works on the Bombay and Baroda Central India Railway, in the 26th year...

Mr. Itoasmax is an honourable man ; "they are all honourable we"" in the assembly where he appears ; but the honourable men were not inclined to follow in his proposal for the...

Ix all the measures of any larger scope for reforming the repre- sentation of the people some attempt has been made to include that portion of the working class which is most...

Pilortiscr ranks high among spiritual gifts ; but the power of fulfilling some prophecies should carry with it due consideration and honour from the community. Women of the...

IT will be a fortunate thing for the Established Church, if that portion of the clergy who have been most active in their resistance to the Liberation Society would consider...

ROBERT OWEN. * Mx. SA.RGLET, a man of safe traditional opinions endowed with a fair share of common sense and literary ability, has written a Life of Robert ;Owen, believing...

A little volume of one hundred and forty pages onIthe most brilliant of literary Irishwomen appeared, in September last, under the title of 27e Friends, Foes, and Adventures of...

reminded us of a story told of the late Baron Dupuytren, the Napoleon of French surgery, as it pleased him to be styled. How i much truth or falsehood there is n the story, we...

The Reverend Dr. Guthrie, whose first and second "Pleas for Ragged Schools" excited so much attention as to make national that which was at first only a local movement, has now...

There have been, in the past week, two interesting novelties at our Italian theatres—a new Don Giovanni at Her Majesty's, and a now Regina (in the Barbiere di Siviglia) at...

Mr. Murray has in the press "The Five Great Monarchies of the An- cient World : Chaldtea Assyria, Babylonia Media, and Persia," by the Reverend George Rawlinson, editor of...

At the time of the private view of the works executed by-the students of this school, we accidentally omitted the notice which was due ; which we regret the more since...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Although the exhibition is ,not distinguished by any new reaches of genius in art, it shows in some minor matters of economy and policy, a spirit of...

BRITISH 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for AccOont 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 104 per Cent Exchequer Bills,...