the discussion of Mr. Jones's curious question respecting the French tenure of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, under the treaties of Paris at Vienna of 1814 and 1815. The...

Lombardy and is rolling over what were the territories of Venice until Bona- parte gave them to Austria. The Austrian army has done no- thing to resist it ; and its rear guards...

LORD DERBY has retired into Opposition, with the riband of the Garter, and Lord. Palmerston, who is the Earl's senior in the Order, has resumed the lead Of the Government. It...

after witnessing the outbreak of the war which must violate all the conditions of his faith in the duration of the system established in 1815. There is no reason to believe that...

The tenour of the news all the week has been—" the Austrians are retreating." They have marched away, not only from the Ticino to the Adds, and from the Adda to the Oglio ; but...

The annual festival of the Merchant Taylors Company in honour of the achievements of the scholars in their school and of the visitors from St. John's College, Oxford, who came...

The Queen held a Drawing-room on Saturday at St. James's Palace. It was very well attended. On Sunday and Tuesday Lord Palmerston had audiences of the Queen, and on Monday...

The East India Company held a Court on Wednesday at the India House, Colonel Sykes in the chair. Mr. Crawshay moved that a special Court should be convened to consider whether...

The Dublin morning organ of the late Government thus comments on the alleged alliance between the supporters of Lord Derby in Ireland and the Roman Catholics. " We give full...

,fruat.—The Moniteur of Saturday published a decree appointing General Schramm superior Commander of the Camp at Chalons, where three divisions of infantry and one of cavalry...

Fine weather and good racing have characterized the meeting at Ascot. The sport has been capital every day. For the Hunt Cup, on Wednesday, thirty-five starting, King-at-Arms...

A county gathering, the dinner of the Norfolk Agricultural Society at Swaffham, on Wednesday, brought out the curiously-divergent senti- ments that pervade the country. The...

The formation of a new Ministry has kept the leading Liberal politicians in pretty constant locomotion. The " callers " at Cambridge House have been many, frequent, and...

SAT1TRDAY AFTERNOON. The House of Commons met at four o'clock. Some amusement was caused by the difficulties which Members felt in reference to their seats, not knowing exactly...

Prince Esterhazy's visit to London. It states that, "in consequence of The Colonge Gazette publishes an explanation of the postponement of Prince Esterhazy's visit to London. It...

Attorney-General, Sir R. Bothell ; Solicitor-General, Sir H. Keating; Judge-Advocate-General, Mr. Headlam ; Vice-President of Committee of Council of Education, Mr. R. Lowe ;...

six corps d'armde, says our Paris correspondent, created a slight panic on Wednesday, and Rentes fell as much as 1 per cent.; but towards the close of business it was reported...

A very simple and handy method for hanging pictures has lately been patented by Mr. Adams of the Haymarket. It consists in taking one or two strips of brass, which are made...

Many remedies have been recommended from time to time for that most pertinacious plague, the aphis, which so frequently nips in the bud our favourite rose and many other...

The latest and certainly one of the most successful achievements of Messrs. Copeland in parr= statuettes, is a reduced copy of Gibson's statue in marble, " The Nymph at the...

Mexupecrunnis are now beginning to turn their thoughts to the pro- duction of the various fabrics of a fancy description, that will be needed for the approaching autumn and...

(From our own Correspondent.) Summer is the season for departures and arrivals, and in Paris the streets and shops are full of bustle. Women on the eve of going to com- plete...

&rout Excalama, FRIDAY ArraaxooN. The English Security Market opened on Monday firm and animated, and during the day a considerable amount of business was negotiated at...

perplexed by the existing state of affairs in Italy. If, as I understand, Lombardy was ceded to Austria at the Congress of Vienna, Hassle, Prussia, France, and Great Britain,...

Queen', Speech.—Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on Amendment pro. posed to Question 17th of June], and which amendment was, at the end of the question to add the...

ECONOMY OF BLOODSHED. Belfast, 10th. June 1859. Sot—If we are to reason on any recognized principles of political action, the retreat of the Austrians from Piedmont makes it...

THE NEW MINISTRY. ITS WORK, AND ITS WORKING POWER. THE week has not been too long for the labour of constructing the strongest Ministry which this country has seen for many a...

WE shall not be far wrong in assuming that the Austrian army, finding no defensive position on the Oglio, is now behind the Mincio, on the Western face of the famous quadrangle....

TICE Earl of Malmestnny, in his concluding despatch to Lord Cowley, dated May 5, 1859, takes occasion, in his own peculiarly mild and gentlemanly manner, to disclaim all...

GREAT military preparations, with a view to a more energetic campaign, are going forward in the interior of Austria, if we are to rely upon German letters to that effect. Of...

A. CORRESPONDENT who subscribes himself " Civis " is anxious to show that the statement of the French Finance Minister, re- garding the number of subscribers to the new loan,...

WE heartily agree with the Times , that if the conferring of cer- tain honours on Lord Derby and two of his colleagues has created " a certain amount of discontent amongst the...

Tax discussions this week on the appointment to the highest office in the law have revived, amongst some of our readers, a question which ought not to have slumbered so long—Why...

Tn - m importance of an efficient Civil Service in time of war is felt throughout the whole Army and Navy. The way in which the work at the War Office and Admiralty is done...

Ws have already mentioned, at the time of its a • tment and of its final decision, the proceedings of the French mission on uniform musical pitch. The report has been formally...

A little piece of the comedietta school, entitled If the Cap Fits, has been brought out at the Princess's, as a light dessert to the solid banquet ' Henry V. Three military...

occupations, pursuits, 4-c.—His tales of "Inesilla" and "Altham and his Wife"—His intellectual and domestic character, and last moments, As I knew the late Mr. Oilier during...

Bankruptcy Anntsile1.-MATTnsw WEsToNjun., and FRANK WEaroN, Manchester, cheesefactors. Bankrupts. - WILLIAM DROuir, Fleet Street, hotel keeper - JONATHAN BEckErr, Aylesbury,...

On the :20th of April, at Cuttack, the Wife of R. N. Shore, Esq., her Majesty's Bengal Civil Service, of a daughter. On the 7th of June, at 7, Comely Bank, Edinburgh, the Wife...

CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY, Booxs and Music.

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) SI per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock,...

There have been several revivals of late in the French metropolis. Collin d'Harleville's comedy, Le Vieux Celibataire, has been resuscitated at the Theatre Francais, where it...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the ()Mee of Josern C - volt, 17, Bouverie Street, in the Precinct of Whitefrlarg. in the City of London; and published by the aforeiaid 2 ....

measure as shall be calculated to satisfy t he ex ectations of the g reat body of Liberal politicians, to m ake lar ge :revision for ad- - • • mittmg the better part of the...

containing despatches from our Foreign Office, the answers from countries involved in the present war, and instructions of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs ; the whole forming...

be safer from invasion without any nave, for in that case we should have a large army, inland fortifications, entrenched camps, and all other requisite land defences ; whereas,...

of moral as well as niustimil interest. It was a performunce of choral music, sacred and se- cular, in the new orchestra just completed for the forthcoming Handel Festival. The...

large scale war maps which we have previously noticed, and the second, which covers the ground over which the Austnans have retreated, is in no way inferior in detail to its...

series of cheap republications from his Miscellany, under the title of " Talcs from Bentley." Shakespeare's house is likely to be in Chancery. The reader will re- member the...