-nom China we have only a report of progress—for the fighting had become chronic ; but there is an American episode in the story. The Chinese continued to resist the British,...

BEsnms the usual open-air exercise which the Queen so diligently and regularly takes, there have been gay doings at Windsor Castle. On Thursday, the first of a series of...

The inhabitants of Droitwich held an Anti-Income-tax meeting on Monday, in their Town-hall ; the Mayor in the chair. This meeting was noticeable for the part Sir John Pakington,...

Lord Pammire presided over a meeting of the Edinburgh Bible Society last week. In his opening speech, he not only pointed out that in addition to an undisguised attack from the...

The Irish Peers have elected two of their number—Lord De Vesci and the Earl of Belmore—to sit in the House of Lords in the room of Lord Hawanlen and the Earl of Bandon.

"THUM—No political events of the first class have occurred in France this week. In default of more exciting topics, the Paris journals have been discounting the advent of the...

The East India and China Association have, through their Chairman, Mr. Gregson M.P., addressed the Earl of Clarendon, stating their views of what, in the interests of commerce,...

Though we have brought up some arrears in our present number, several. Letters to the Editor still lie over, for insertion or for consideration.. Mr. Finlay's, from Athens, on...

SATURDAY; The propositions which the Federal Council of Switzerland submitted' to the Federal Assembly for the settlement of the Neuchatel dispute were yesterday finally...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, The decline which took place on Saturday last was followed on Monday by a still further depression in English Securities. Consols opened at...

Though pantomime, considered as a genus of drama, has certainly not improved, its value as an investment for managerial capital was never greater than at the present day....

of your readers who feel surprised at your omitting to notice Sir Robert Peel's account of Russia under the head of good taste and good manners. The amusing vivacity and the...

Athens, 6th January 1857. • Sin—Those of your readers who know anything of the East will be surprised by an announcement in the Constantinople Gazette of the 1st, that the Porte...

London, 13th January 1857. San—A period appears to be approaching when Europe may be divided into two hostile camps ; one under the banner of Absolutism, presumptuously...

Sin — In the newspapers, a few days ago, there was a report of certain proceedings in one of the provincial County Courts which deserves the notice of all law-reformers. The...

London, 9th January 1857. Sin—I read with pleasure the article in your last impression on the subject of words. Permit me to offer my contribution. The word " gentlemanly " is...

THE PRUSSIAN MARRIAGE. ENGLAND, it seems, is about to form a connexion with Prussia by marriage. If the union between a Princess of our Royal Family and a Prince of the. House...

IT is not impossible that our interference in China may end in furthering the progress of civilization ; but it has begun in a way to place us in a false position before the...

HERE we have a man who knows something about "the convict question." In a pamphlet of 19 , pages,' Captain Walter Crofton gives us the results of his experience in the...

Two points of joint-stock morals are brought out with much force in the Great Northern trial. Mr. Baron Martin, and after him Mr. Justice Wiles, noticed the absence of personal...

DIRECT legislation may be applicable enough for some cases, but we doubt it in the case of fashion. Our active contemporary the Doi& News makes a bold and virtuous protest...

KEMPLE'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE STATE OP EITROPE FROM 1688 TO 1 7 1 4.* Mn. KEMBLE'S object in this volume is to illustrate the courtly and political condition of Europe, more...

German preacher of the fourteenth century, about the middle of which he may be said to have flourished. He formed one of a numerous class of persons, both lay and clerical, whom...

of Wildflower bythe author of "The House of Elmore." The things or persons delineated, or the ideas expressed, may vary in their nature or quality : sometimes they may be of...

MOORS, Patrick Hamilton, the 17rst Preacher and Martyr of the Scottish Reformation: an Historical Biography, collected from original sources ; including a view of Hamilton's...

Messrs. Cocks, who have done so much, by means of cheap editions, to popularize the works of Handel and the other great oratorio-composers, have taken a further step in the...

ROSA BONREUR. If ever picture excited a genuine sensation in England—and England is not over apt to sensations in such things—it was the Horse Fair of Mademoiselle Rosa...

This promises to be a good book of its kind. The plates, evidently of German origin, engraved by the antistatic process, and coloured, are of large size, each plate containing...

On the 2d January, at Hampton Court Palace, the Hon. Mrs. Bradshaw, of a daughter. On the Id, at Gibraltar, the Wife of Captain F. Madman, Ninety-second (Gordon) Highlanders,...

On the lot November, at Calcutta, John Dunbar, Esq., one of the Sadder Judges, second son of the late the Hon. Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart., of Northfield, Elgin, N.B. On the...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANLARY 9. WAR DEPARTMENT, Pall Mall, Jan. 9.—Cavalry-2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards —Surg. H. H. Massy, from the 17th Light Dratp, to be Surgeon, vice...

WAR DEPARTMENT, Pall Mall, Jan. 16.—Infantry—Scots Fusilier GuardsLieut. and Capt. the lion. R. Mostyn to be Instructor of Musketry. 3d Beet of Foot—Ensign the lion. .1, W....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 13. ADMIRALTY.—Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieut. H. B. Roberts to be First Lieut. and Quartennaster, vice Mawbey, promoted.

Partnerships Bissell:ed.—Swallow and Co. Manchester, cotton-dealers—SPRae and Evans, Ludgate Hill, stationers; as far as regards J. APRae—Jackson and Paget, Keighley, Yorkshire;...