in Italy is making active preparations for a final contest ; and if so, the peninsula will be again deluged in blood ; though, under present circumstances, there can be little...

3o far as indications of a first night can be trusted, Government appears to have a clear stage and no disfavour ; the Opposition attempting no more than criticism, and that...

PRINCIPAL nrstwEss OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF Loans. Tuesday, January 24. Opening of the Session ; the Queen's Speech ; Address agreed to. Thursday, January 26. Chancery Procedure...

op- position to the new commercial policy in France, the murmurs seem to have died in their birth ; and the explicit declarations, particularly from the commercial towns, are...

THE QUEEN arrived at Buckingham Palace on Monday from Windsor Castle ; and held a Court and Privy Council. At the Court, M. Tri- conpi, the Greek Ambassador, and Mr. Howard,...

The two Houses of Convocation met at Westminster on 'Wednesday and held a short sitting. Little was done in either House. In the Lower House Archdeacon Halo drew attention to...

A deputation headed by Colonel Sykes, Mr. Caird, Mr. Roupell, Mr. Samuel Morley and other gentlemen, waited upon Lord John Russell on Thursday and presented a petition signed by...

fraurt.—The Treaty of Commerce between England and France was signed on Monday. The Patrie of Wednesday published the fol- lowing as a summary of its contents :— " The import...

The hop planters of Kent and Sussex are again in the field for the pur- pose of obtaining the removal of the war tax on hops. They met at Maplehurat on Wednesday, and adopted...

A Dublin journal has published a curious letter from the Pope to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, in reply to an address of sym- pathy. The Pope says that all the recent...

One Martin Escalante, a British subject, has been sentenced by a Spanish Court to nine years' penal servitude for the crime of distri- buting copies of the Bible in Spain. A...

When Mr. James Wilson arrived in India he received addresses from the Chamber of Commerce, the Indigo Planters' Association, and the Native British Indian Association. Both...

SATURDAY Moffifnm. Both Houses of Parliament held short sittings last night. In the House of Peers, Lord BROUGHAM, in moving for returns in re- ference to the importation of...

demand, where it might least of all be expected, as where the two, supply and demand, spring from different causes. We have a case before us. The new policy of Napoleon,...

him, writes to confirm his statements of last week—statements that have been called in question. He especially points to the paragraphs in his letter touching shipping, and...

Bankruptcy Annulled.—WILLLAM BOGARD junior, Birmingham, coach-furniture- maker. Bankrupts.—Tnoxso Simoss, Hurst, Berkshire, cattle-salesman—JAY= WILLIAM SUMNER, Wray Park,....

STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The demand for Money is unabated, and sales of Consols continue for the i purpose of purchasing in Rupee Stock ; the English market has conse-...

DOUBLE GOVERNMENT IS HALF GOVERNMENT. WE have sueeeeded in calling attention to the double government in the Army. We doubt whether it is advantageous to the Army. We are sure...

ideas are generally fixed upon the announcement of commercial reforms, and an early alteration is anticipated in the regulations which have for twenty-five years governed the...

IF the Parliament sincerely desires to render bribery impossible by penal compulsion, Sir Fits-Roy Kelly has shown the most likely way of effecting that object. He has addressed...

IN his speech at Manchester, Mr. Bright, alluding to the aristo- cratic influences which prevail in this country, made this re- mark :--- " It is a very old trick with the...

Tux Blue-book containing the " Reports by her Majesty's Secre- taries of Embassy and Legation, on the effect of the Vine disease on the commerce of the countries in which they...

to have been an old woman, who was busily employed in cleaning the house when the three kings were journeying to carry the treasures to be offered to the infant Saviour. On...

THE 'WEST INDIAN COMILTITEE, North Brixton, ,Tanuary 26, 1860. Sea—I take it for granted that these gentlemen have the interests of the people of the West Indies of all...

THE LIFE OF SOHLEIERHACHER. * THE work now before us is not in our opinion, quite adequately characterized by the title which it bears. • It certainly contains an...

have chosen a better season for introducing his book to the public. His story relates to the period which immediately led to the present position in Italy ; its personal...

A volume of " Poems and Essays," by the late William Caldwell Roscoe, edited by his brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton, is announced as immediately forthcoming by Messrs....

From Montreal comes a noteworthy book, entitled AEcuAIA ; on, STUDIES OF THE COSMOGONY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HE- BREW Bearer:rims. Its purpose is indicated by the...

Though the " run " of the pantomimes is not yet over, yet it is so much slackened that it has become necessary to give greater attraction to the other portions of the theatrical...

Mr. Tom Taylor's dramatized version of The Tale of Two Cities, with which Mr. Charles Dickens inaugurated his periodical All the Year Round, was to have been produced at the...

Highgate Cemetery occupied by the remains of the late Mrs. Warner, one of the most esteemed of modern actresses, is not indicated by so much as a com- mon tombstone. It is...

The 15th instant, being the 240th anniversary of Moliere's birthday, was celebrated with the traditional honours at the two "legitimate" houses, the Theatre Francais and the...

LONDON ART-UNION PRINTS. The prints issued by the Art-Union are a handsome engraving in line and stipple after Joseph J. Jenkins's " Come Along," and a quarto volume of thirty...

this country, and is now the keeper of the prints in the Dresden Musuem, has most em- phatically added his attestation to the authorship of the Moore Raphael. Mr. Morris Moore...

Mr. Masters has published the first part in a series of " Photographs from original sketches in the Holy Land and Syria, by Conway Shipley, Esq. ; " this fasciculus giving us...

On the 26th of December. at Mobile, U.S., the Wife of Charles Tulin, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul, of a daughter. On the 19th of January, at 10, New Burlington Street, the Wife of the...

Burns's ballad has been rendered in five illustrations by George Harvey, and they have been engraved in line by Lumb Stocks, and issued to sub- scribers of the Royal Association...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &Word. Moraday.1Tmeaday. Wedues. Thum Friday, I per Cent Consols 95 1 94/ 941 941 941 941 Ditto foe Account 5 per Cents Reduced 95 95 1...