PArmA WENT has now finally disappeared, and its Members are scattered all over Europe, from the fiords of Norway to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. The first session...

are in course of preparation. At Devonport, the Tories contested the seat vacated by Mr. James Wilson, and although they made a choice of a blustering candidate, Mr. Busfield...

TEE CLOSE or ran SEssiox. The House of Commons met on Saturday at twenty minutes to one 'o'clock, having a little unpleasant business to transact, touching the Pontefract...

foreign affairs. The splendid scene in Paris on Sunday showed forth the French people as they best love to regard themselves. An Emperor who mounts his horse and rides forth to...

strike or "look out." There has been immeasurable controversy on the subject, interesting chiefly to those concerned. The broad facts—the declaration on one side and the...

The great soirée given at Rochdale in honour of Mr. Cobden took place on Wednesday, in a marquee decorated with the flags of all nations and floral devices. Upwards of _2000...

THE QUEEN has again returned to Osborne after her trip to the Channel Islands. Her Majesty and Prince Consort, with Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princess Alice, and Princess...

A deputation of architects waited on Lord Palmerston on Wednesday. It included Mr. Cockerell, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barry, Mr. Smirke, and Pro- fessor Donaldson. Mr. Tite, himself an...

A sharp contest has again taken place at Devonport, this time for the seat vacated by Mr. James Wilson. The two candidates were Sir Arthur Buller, selected by the Liberals, and...

Intim—The fetes to celebrate " the return of the legions," and the name-day of the Emperor Napoleon, absorbed the attention of all Paris on Sunday and Monday. The troops...

Monday was a great fair day in Ireland. The priests of Navan, however, determined to stop it in that city, and told the people from the altar that Monday being a high holiday...

What is known as "the Cardross case" is causing much excitement in Scotland. Last year the Rev. Mr. Macmillan of Cardross was ar- raigned before the General Assembly of the Free...

The Gazette of Tuesday officially notified the elevation of Mr. La- bouchere to the peerage, by the name, style, and title of Baron Taunton of Taunton, in the county of...

of " Guilty " and a sentence of death. The Jury deliberated forty minutes. After he was found guilty he made a long statement, declaring his in- nocence, and mentioning matters...

THE NORTHUMBERLAND BURR. Newcastle, 10th August 1859. SIR—Ill your review of Mr. Walter White's work, Northumberland and tlw Border, you quote his observations on the burr...

a few of our con- temporaries respecting the fulness of the French amnesty. The Paris correspondent of the Times, however, shows that none exists at Paris. He says- " No doubt...

SATTTB,DAY MORNING. The position in which Mr. Baron Bramwell found himself when he opened the Assizes at Bristol this week, reveals to the public gaze a chronic legal...

srocx Excuasecie, FRIDAY AFTERNOON . The announcement of the New Indian and Russian Loans caused a slight depression in Consols in the early part of the week ; but the renewal...

THE TWO SESSIONS OF 1859. a;" *Um Parliamentary annals of 1839 have been more remarkable for party conflict than for legislative efforts and legislative suc- cesses. For many...

THE amnesty will not surprise those who have watched the career of Napoleon with care. After the Orsini attempt, heated and frightened partisans buried him into a policy of...

Jr is no doubt better to prevent than punish ; but if we were to refrain from punishing until we have succeeded in preventing offences, we fear that the day of punishment would...

ALTHOUGH the excitement derived from the war and its splendid accompaniments is gone ; although the greater part of the legions who lost and won have gone home, the interest and...

A VERY lively discussion has arisen clarion the last fortnight respecting the future of the Serpentine. T hat sheet of water, so handsomely set in its green sloping banks and...

CHAPPELL'S POPULAR MUSIC OF THE OLDEN TIME.' MR. CHAPPELL'S Collection of English National Airs was pub- lished nearly twenty years ago, and fourteen years have elapsed since...

need of them, and its incompleteness—Opinions respecting madness and wickedness—Danger of confounding the occasional morbid impressions of ill health on great minds with...

been translated by Mr. Dwight, were begun by the illustrious General during his long convalescence after the events of 1849, and were continued in 1850 during his residence in...

purports to be the history of a working clergyman, told by himself. The Reverend Henry Austin is a figment, but the book which relates his experiences, his reflections, and his...

curiously misshapen skulls just dug up at Wroxeter, charter a phioton at the Raven Hotel, Shrews- bury, and give yourself on:e of the pleasantest five-mile drives imaginable. Go...

Several new books from our leading authors, especially in Fiction, are announced in Boston, for which we kear, on reference to the authors, there is no authority, and they hear...

The Wife's Secret, celebrated as the drama in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean first appeared in London, after their 'return from America, was revived on Monday at the...

M. Alfred Michiels, the well-known historian of the fine arts and lite- rature, descending, as he says, like the Florentine, to commune with the Inferno, has written the SECRET...

A vaudeville in one act, by M. About, called Bisette, has been pro- duced at the Gymnase and has caused some sensation, principally through the name of the author Risette is a...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Retard. Monday. Tuesday. Wedues. Thurs. Friday, per Cent Consols 951 931 951 951 951 951 Ditto for Account 951 951 951 931 951 951 3 per...

On the 11th of June, at Head Quarter House, Hongkong, the Wife of Captain Bowen van Straubenzee, A.D.L., of a daughter. On the 5th of July, at Corfu, the Him. Mrs. Edward Gage,...

Bankrupts.-Cnmstrs Thomas Nutria', Fenchurch Street, oil-merehant-Crx- xxxr EDWARD DAMS, Gainsborough, chemist and druggist-WILLIAM LINDOP, lieweastle-under-Lyne, Staffordshire....

Bankruptcies Annulleel.-SaSruEL FARRAR, Mincing Lane, indigo broker- SAMUEL LONGDEN, Chesterfield, grocer. Bankrupts.-BAEn ADOLPH MANHEIM, Fore Street, Cripplegate,...