The Press of Paris is ordered not to allude to the speech of the Due d'Aumale at the dinner of the Literary Fund, and on the 13th May the Minister of the Interior directs the...

T HREE important documents have been added during the week to the history of the American civil war, and will be found in another column. The first iapoint of interest, though...

long- expeeted speech to the Diet on the 10th inst. His subject was the ad dress to be presented to the Emperor, which he recommended should contain a description of all...

caused by the emancipation of the peasants. The country folk believe that the Czar has freed them absolutely, and refuse to work for the proprietors. Near St. Petersburg the...

Domingo, appointed Santana Captain-General, extended the Cuban laws over the province, and pledged itself not to establish slavery.

holiday pleasures of Whitson week. The streets of the metropolis The Volunteer field-days have added new spirit to the ordinary holiday pleasures of Whitson week. The streets of...

Niksich, still besieged by the insurgents of the Herzegovina, has been cut to pieces. Out of sixty .Albanians only fifteen escaped. The massacre was committed by Montenegrins,...

from the Neapolitan Viceroyalty at his own request. He is weary to death of his semi-regal solitude in Naples, where he has no intimates and no trusty servants, except a...

step in regard to the famous Essays and Reviews as will be seen from the following letter, addressed by him to the Venerable Arch- deacon of Dorset, Mr. Buckle : " The Palace,...

the vacant seat. The candidates are Lord Richard Grosvenor, Liberal, and Mr. Hughes, of Kinmel Park, Conservative. It has been remarked that Sir Stephen Glynn, the...

with much pomp and rejoicing at Newcastle, on Tuesday.

Lord Chancellor against the judgment and the decree of Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, in the cause of the Emperor of Austria, o. Day and Kossuth. The whole question will thus...

the tramways in the Uxbridge-road and Victoria-street, lines have been commenced on the Surrey side, from Kennington-park to Westminster-bridge; in the Southgate-road, Hackney ;...

its annual meeting on Wednesday. From the report, we learn that its funds are in a flourishing state. Lord Feversham stated that the Prince Consort would probably consent to...

THE Qusaw, the Prince Consort, the Princess Alice, and the younger children quitted Buckingham Palace on Saturday, and went to the Isle of Wight, where her Majesty remains. On...

23.—Dockyard Management ; Sir F. Smith's Motion—Supply, Naval Estimates. DOCKYARD MANAGEMENT. The House of Commons met on Thursday after the Whitsuntide recess, and sat late,...

THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MR. DAYTON. (No. 7.) Department of State, Washington, May 4, 1861. SIR,—The despatches of your predecessor, Nos. 117, 119, and 120, have been...

" THE body politic known for seventy years as the United States of America not a Confederacy, not a compact of Sovereign States, not a copartnership; it is a Commonwealth, of...

" DIMON} the war waved against Great Britain by her colonies:on this continent, a common danger impelled them to a close alliance, and to the fonnation of a Confederation by the...

States M. DE MONTALEMBERT has addressed the following letter to the And consulted their own interest by selling their slaves to the South, and prohibiting "Sir — Mr. Gladstone...

THERE was "no House" last night. When the Speaker appeared at four o'clock but few Members were present, and after waiting for a short time, as a quorum, forty, did not arrive,...

new Cern-law Bill has presented its report. The following are the prin- cipal changes introduced into the measure: 1. The suppression of the differential duties, according to...

are g oin g on at the Euston-road, St. Pancras, for the Metropolitan or Under g round Rail- way, by the g ivin g way of a lar g eportion of the earthworks. On Thursday afternoon...

3 per Cent Consols 911 Bank Stock, 10 per Cent. 292 Dino for Account India Stock, 101 Cent per . '228 Exchequer Bills, 2d. per diem 3 per Cents Reduced . 891 6 dis per Cents...

Berairupts.-William Henry Blackmon, Dean-street, Soho-square, plumber James Lynn, Deptford, licensed victualler-Stephen Sams Short, Shoreditch, boot manufacturer-John Stuart,...

On the 13th inst., at Naples, the wife of Aurelio Said, of a son. On the 17th inst, at the Ranger's Lodge, Hyde-park, the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald. et a son. On the 17th inst., at...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Tux Money Market has undergone no change this week, except it be in a trifle less demand, the improved rate of exchange from New York, 106k,...

new men and a new organization almost as much as the more strictly poli- tical parties of the State. They have made blunder after blunder this Session, and seem in danger of...

D'ORLEANS VERSUS BONAPARTE. TT is not difficult to understand why the Bonapartes, as a .1 dynasty, should detest the House of Orleans. It is but an illustration of the old...

M R. Seward's letter to the American Minister in Paris, though telegraphed all over the Union, adds little to our previous information. The policy enunciated by the Secretary of...

T HE Hungarians have presented their ultimatum, and with it the last hope of a peaceful solution to the Austrian problem seems to disappear. M. Desk, the leader of the...

G REAT Indian improvements always look easy—in Eng- land. Because the obstacles to which politicians are accustomed are usually absent, they imagine that none exist. The...

y r: are happy to know that the all-important topic of transporta- tion is receiving the renewed attention of Government in a select committee upon the subject, but our...

I the first agitation produced by the Essays and .Reviews, 1 threats of " legal proceedings," " excommunication," and " disfrocking " were freely uttered by men not often...

ROYAL ACADEMY. Tnnan NOTICE. Mucg of Mr. F. Leighton's work this year is replete with great beauty. In poetic feeling, the refinements of drawing, harmony. of lines in...

MADEINOISELII ADELINA Parr', whose brilliant debut at the Royal Italian Opera last week created so great a sensation in our musical circles; has made her second appearance—a...

POPULAR EDUCATION IN TRANCE.* , • ropaka• Education in France. By Matthew Arnold. Longman and Co. Viz do not know when we have read a work more valuable or more keenly...

with philosophic insight, which distinginshes this volume would make us bear with equanimity much greater inconveniences than those which attend its present form of publication....

the retribution that waits on those who trifle with the " grande passion." The story opens in Paris, where we find a noble Italian exile, Giuliani, who earns his bread by...

Tars book is not unlike an orange, which has passed into the con- dition generally known as " sleepy." There is the colour, and the pips, and the inside, and the rind, in an...

MR. FITZPATRICK, whose previous biographical works have been favourably received, has published a life of Dr. Doyle, the famous Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin,...

WHEN the histories of our colonies shall be written, that of this, the youngest of the sisterhood, will not be the least interesting in the series. There will be seen a very...

fif`GRIGOR. SIR JAMES WGRIGOR, Bart., late Director-General of the Army Medical Department, in addition to his valuable professional labours, practical and literary, has done...