Ger- many and Denmark. The Danish Government it will be remem- bered; offered to submit the budget of the Duchy to the Holstein Diet. This offer was rejected by the Holsteiners,...

The emancipation has teen well received in Poland, where, how- ever, there still reigns considerable discontent. The state of affairs has not altered since last week, but a...

ended in a majority of 213 to 131n favour of the Government. It must not be forgotten, however, that on the subsidiary question of the mainte- nance of the temporal power in...

spreads rapidly, and it is calculated that seven millions of persons are affected, two and a half millions or whom are in actual want of food. Mr. Edmonstone, Lieut.-Governor of...

March, and it is more conflicting even than usual. Public interest is almost concentred on Fort Sumter. The Carolinians, directed by General Beauregard, have erected batteries...

but that war is probably near at hand. Not to mention the risk at- tending the Schleswig Holstein dispute, there are signs abroad that the summer may not pass without a serious...

laisser alter system now carried out by the British diplomatist is, on the whole, mischievous. The power of Turkey, he says, has rapidly diminished. The other representatives...

at the Standard Theatre. All the "great guns" invited were absent. Mr. Newton was in the chair. Ile asked : "What did Lord John Russell want? Did he wish to see the seditious,...

the famine- stricken provinces of British India, and England, at first, refused! On Saturday the Lord Mayor, on taking his seat, made a statement. He said he had been appealed...

of course, but not without an amusing scene. The Pre- mier is popular in the borough, and has it all his own way. In addition to the usual crowd olunteers paraded, and were...

friars-bridge, and to erect a new one. At a meeting on Tuesday, Mr. The Court of Common Council has determined to demolish Black. friars-bridge, and to erect a new one. At a...

existence is officially notified to the Times by the workmen through one of their secretaries, who thus puts the case : "The present position of the masons of London at this...

Chatham.. The convicts had formed a plan to seize the warders, secure the keys, fire the building, and escape. This was to have been done on Saturday. But one of the convicts...

of a peculiar character. Mr. Smith Bannerman petitioned for a divorce on the ground of the adultery of his wife with the Reverend Augustus. reen, a curate, who lived at Hunton,...

pur- suits also have their perils, and commerce, trade, and manufactures take a pretty heavy toll of human life. This is exemplified by col- lieries on a large scale, and it was...

been perpe- trated in the Militia Barracks at Kingston. A young girl, 'Diana Wickens, was residing in the barrack with her step-sister, the wife of Sergeant-Major Bradish. On...

Tan Queen has passed the week in retirement. On Sunday Divine service was performed at Frogmore House before her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family. On Monday the...

police court for having broken up the Ilibridge.road—in other 'words, with the assent of the commissioners of the said road, for having laid down a street railway thereon. Mr....

"MANIFESTO OF HIS MAJESTY TRH EMPEROR. "By the grace of God, we, Alexander II., Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russia*, King of Poland, Grand-Duke of Finland, &e., to all our...

Hit. COBDEN has written another letter from Algiers praising his own work in France. It is addressed to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. It is not so violent as. the...

A BEMARKABLE telegram, dated yesterday, has been received from Paris. it states that "the Paris papers publish a telegram, dated Constantinople, March 27, asserting that in...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THERE has been a tolerably active demand for money during the week, but with little fluctuation in rates. Money continues to be sent out to...

On the 12th Feb., at Malabar-hill, Bombay, the wife of Sir A. Grant, Bart, Of a son and heir. - On the 20th inst, at 32, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, the wife of Sir Reresby...

Bankruptcy Annulled—Thomas Ellison, Liverpool, baker. Bankrupts.--John King, New Alreaford, Hampshire, saddler—James Harden Gates, Clapham, Surrey, builder—Philip Raphael,...

BRITISH FUNDS. Friday. (Closing Prices.) Friday. per Cent Console 911 Bank Stock, 10 per Cent Ditto for Account India Stock, 101 per Cent 220 3 per Cents Reduced...

not been advantageous to the Whigs. The Premier committed a blunder at the be- ginning of the session, by leaving Parliament no work on which to employ its superabundant...

THE INDIAN FAMINE it CALAMITY has fallen upon our Indian possessions which seems in its awful depth and magnitude to frighten English philanthropy out of its accustomed energy....

Kingdom should go down, the Pope regain his ascendancy, and the shadow of Austrian supremacy once more settle down on Central Europe, the year 1861 will still be illustrated by...

A NOTHER of these melancholy strikes in the building trade appears to be at hand. No new question has arisen since 1859; there has been no fall in wages ; no diminution has...

I T is a common boast of Englishmen, that with all their real and alleged defects, while lagging behind in science, and but entering the domain of art, they retain the imperial...

TT is only in Italy that we find the powers of the Admi- nistrator, the mtriguant, and the debater, each displayed in the highest degree, all united in one man. The Count Cavour...

11 only outbreak in the Chatham Prison has been only prevented by means which meal theworst eras of prison discipline. A few days ago it will be remembered, the prisoners rose,...

F OB some time past M. Louis Kossuth has been striking notes in London intended to circulate in Hungary as money. They are promissory notes, bearing the royal arms of Hungary,...

"T HE tendency of the day," wrote Mr. Disraeli, in 1844, "which seems to be towards democracy, may be really towards a new development of monarchy ;" and the events which...

INSTITUTION OF FINE ARTS. TRE Portland Gallery is one of the most convenient in London; its situation is good and easy of access; the rooms are spacious and well lighted, and...

AMERICAN FACTS AND PROSPECTS.* j2.1 the present critical condition of affairs on the other side of the Atlantic, no one who has had any real experience of America and the...

precision of reasoning and soundness of thought upon some of the most momentous subjects that can engage any man's attention, the republication of this volume will be a welcome...

Is the Notes of travel, edited by Mr. Galion, we have a kind of literary pie-silo. Thirteen gentlemen have sent in their several con- tributions, the editor being one of the...

WHEN, on a certain day in the spring of 1816 the late Hugh Miller wrote to ask Dr. John Brown to contribute to the Witness newspaper a notice of the Exhibition of the Scottish...

Ma traveller, even in these degenerate days, when nearly every region has been ransacked, and the most remote countries are dis- enchanted by the scientific annihilation of that...