which it is not very easy to calculate, but which evidently alarms the representatives of the political status quo. We have already explained the stages by which the German...

THE week has been full of startling manifestoes, disastrous events, and strange disclosures. We have the grave-looking THE week has been full of startling manifestoes,...

of a request from the Duchies of Modena and Parma to be united to the kingdom of Piedmont ; the address being presented jointly as from a province already united. It was frankly...

a topic valuable to public writers in this dead season, and it is there- fore hunted down over and over again, like the veteran deer of Windsor. The inquest on the bodies is...

uneasiness created by the last. On the contrary, the measure which Lord Clyde had taken to arrest the efflux of the disbanded Anglo-Indian soldiers appears to have had very...

the East. The story of our Chinese misfortune may be briefly told. When Plenipotentiary Brace appeared on the 25th of June, at the entrance of Pei-ho, with his escort, to exact...

Science is distinguished this year by the presidency of the Prince Consort. There has been, we believe, scarcely a single occasion in which the Prince has appeared before the...

tween Spain and Morocco, provoked, it is supposed, by Spanish encroachment, or by Moorish apprehensions of such encroach- ment. From this account, the main facts appear to be...

The telegraph brought the sad news early in tle week that 464 officers and seamen had been killed and wounded in an engagement at the mouth of the Pei-ho river. Treachery was by...

The Great Eastern has made her way to Portland and now lies snugly behind the breakwater. She did not reach that harbour without an accident. Her course down Channel was all...

The vacant scat for South Shropshire was filled on Wednesday by the election of Sir Baldwin Leighton, without opposition. He was proposed by Mr. R. Burton, and seconded by Sir...

On Monday the shops of the master builders were opened to the men. The latter arrived in considerable numbers at the building establish- ments, but at the sight of the "...

The riots at St. Gearge's-in-the-East were continued on Sunday. During the period when Mr. Allen was officiating all were well- behaved ; but they disregarded his advice to...

The Queen and Prince Consort have been actively taking out-door exercises. The Queen has driven out to Strathdon, returning to Balmoral by Bander. She has twice ridden out, and...

The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held this year at Aberdeen. The session began on Wednesday. A large number of...

The g reat northern equestrian festival, that harbinger of autumn as the sou thern festival is the herald of summer, has been held this week. It has been well attended. In...

A tenant of Lord Derby in Tipperary, one Crow, was recently mur- dered. As usual the murderer escaped, aided by the peasants. Lord Derby, it is said, as a measure of...

/MIL—The Emperor and Empress have quitted St. Sauveur and have gone to Biarritz. The King of the Belgians, preceded by the Prince de Chimay, has gone to Biarritz on a visit to...

The following letters have been published in the daily papers. They will be read with interest by all who have at heart the success of the Italian movement towards independence...

SATURDAY MORNING.

out of date, but it may be as well to record the impression made by it on the Parisian public. The effect was bewildering and stunning, so much so that most of the great...

THE GERMAN MOVEMENT FOR UNITY. TAE short Napoleonic campaign in Upper Italy has had the curious double result, of rousing two races at the same time to a feeling of their...

peror for his exertions in Italy, regretting that Venice was not liberated, and hinting that Mantua and Peschiera are a standing menace to Lom- bardy. " Sire, we firmly believe...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The disastrous news from China, published on Monday morning, had a much less effect upon the stock Exchange than might have been expected. The...

Tim treachery of the Chinese proves them to be incapable of being brought within the pale of our civil law. It is a final refutation of the " philanthropy " policy. The late...

Tai Established Church of Scotland is in very hot water at this moment, in consequence of the wrong-headed policy which has Maintained the Annuity-tax, and which now logically...

Oun brief note on the causes of alarm in India has been referred to as tending unduly to create alarm without any foundation. We have only to say that we had no intention of...

Charles XII. of Sweden, has just been settled at Stockholm. On the solicitation of Professor Fry.xell, the celebrated Swedish historian, the tomb of the great warrior-king was...

for the identification of the person whose neglect of duty caused the accident on board the -Great Eastern, a species of outcry for " the satisfaction of justice ," which...

a mystery ; Mr. W. Mattieu Wil- liams has caught the father of all the sea-serpents, and not only caught but anatomized it. In June last, some hours before sun- set on a long...

THE HOUSE OF HABSBURG. * THE Austrian concordat was to have crowned and consolidated the work which has been in progress since 1849 for establishing the despotic power of the...

THE " realities" discussed in the three bulky volumes before us are chiefly those which concern the poor and the criminal classes of Paris. The book has at least this merit,...

The neap tide of publication is nearly at its lowest. The first book in OW brief list for this week, THE FRIFXDS, FOES, AND ADTENTERES OF LADY Monaes, is a biographical memoir...

It is stated that the Duke of Devonshire has permitted four eminent Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries to make a careful investigation of the Collier folio of Shakespeart in...

An old favourite of the French stage, Louis XI., is now shown at the Porte Saint Martin, under an entirely new aspect, that is to say, in his youth. The action of the play in...

We are now within sight of the winter theatrical season ; the re- opening, in quick succession, of no less than three houses, besides the English Opera under Miss Pyne and Mr....

The "Tonic Sol-fa Association" seems to grow and flourish. Nothing can show more clearly the great and increasing interest excited by the proceedings of this body, than the...

PHOTOGRAPHIC ENGRAVDM. Sous time since we borrowed from the Photographic News the account of a new process, invented by Mr. Fox Talbot, for developing the photograph on a metal...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &third. Monday. Tuesday. Weds.. flues. Friday. per Cent Consols 931 931 901 954 934 951 Ditto for Account 955 954 951 911 951 951 3 per...

On the 31st of August, at Malta, the Lady Frederic Kerr, of a daughter. On the 4th of September, at Woolwich, the Wife of Captain W. F. Walker, Royal Artillery, of a son. On the...

Bankrupts. - J AMES ROUTH° Gamin and RICHARD VEALE, London Wall, mantle- manufacturers-Rieman NICHOINON, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, agricultural merchant-Fain:maim Bosimm.,...