THE news from Tien-tsin will be received with mixed feelings of satisfaction and distrust. It is gratifying to know that the Allies have captured the Taku forts and occupied...

the de- cisive vote in favour of annexation given by the people of the Two Sicilies, and by the equally decisive movements of Victor Emmanuel. But it is not without its...

who had gone before him. How fast the links between that time and this break asunder. Yesterday it was a Napier who died ; today it is a Harry Smith, a Duke of Richmond, a...

NAPLES. The latest information from Naples tells us that Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel were in direct communication, and that the investment of Capua was nearly complete. This...

new inquiry into the Road murder by means of a second Coroner's Inquest, precedents for which, it is asserted, have been found. We hope it will be more discreetly carried on...

to a sudden ending. Lady Palmerston caught cold, just before Lord Palmerston was on his way to Wakefield, and they both returned to town. The characteristic of this happy inroad...

great inte- rest. Bath have now embarked fur home—Prince Alfred from Cape Town, the Prince of Wales from Portland. The value of these journeys politically—and that value is...

The Prince of Wales has finished his tour in America and is now on his way home, having embarked on board the Hero at Portland on the 20th October. Prince Alfred had embarked...

Lord Palmerston's progress in Yorkshire has been triumphant. On Friday week, the Leeds Corporation presented an address, to which Lord Palmerston replied, claiming a connexion...

The Boston Election terminated in the return of Mr. Malcolm, the Conservative who polled 633 votes, whilst his opponent, Mr. Tuxford, had only 313. The Conservatives worked with...

Tim QUEEN, who is still at Windsor Castle, has taken daily exercise either on foot or horseback, or in her carriage. The Prince Consort has paid a visit to Aldershot. He has...

Excited debates in the Marylebone vestry have terminated in a reso- lution to adjourn the consideration of the street tramways for three months. Mr. Train was before the City...

Mr. Bouverie, M.P., addressed his constituents at Kilmarnock on Tuesday ; he reviewed the last session at length. Be thought a Tory Government now impossible ; "they dare not...

It was rumoured in Tralee on Monday that Captain O'Connell had been appointed a commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police Force. This would cause a vacancy in the...

f T RUM—The Emperor reviewed the Imperial Guard on the race- course at Longchamps on Tuesday. The Prince Imperial and a crowd of Marshals were present. The review was so...

The Royal Commission on Dockyards has again lost its bead—by the appointment of Mr. Frederick Peel to the Treasury. Mr. Ricardo, the first chairman, resigned very shortly after...

SATURDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of yesterday published the French version of the capture of the Taku forts, in the form of a despatch from General de Montauban to the Minister...

has been given there to the statement that the squadron of Admiral Person° had commenced and suspended firing on the Royalists near Gaeta. The news of a mysterious expedition...

with the results or no results of the Warsaw meeting. The Vienna oor- respondent of the Times, October 30, gives the view current in that Capital- " The Vienna Telegraphic...

Lord Chan- cellor yesterday. Mr. Cubitt is a Norfolk man, and in early life he served in the Royal Navy, but at the age of nineteen he turned to trade, and has realized an ample...

a Quarterly Journal of Biological Science, is to be published in 1861, the first number in January. The list of editors is strong in good names. The publishers are Williams and...

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON ON POLITICS AND PARTIES. Sin Ram . PaxxxotoN has favoured the Worcester people with his views on politics and parties. Perhaps he has been as candid as it is...

M`Gall. His examination was adjourned again, for the prepara- tion of a more perfect list of voters who had received money from him. Michaelmas Term was opened yesterday, at...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, Only a limited amount of business has been passing this week in Home Securities, Consols again closing as at the opening, 92i 93, for both...

? MERE is a singular question abroad. Who made the Army of Volunteers in which we all rejoice ? We are asked to believe that the great man must be somewhere, and could we only...

ONE of the strongest arguments in favour of iron-clad ships, is the fact that they have been adopted as part of his immense arma- ments by so sagacious a man as the Emperor...

IT is, indeed, a most serious thing, if it should prove true, that the new Houses of Parliament are in a state of rapid, decay, even before they can be said to be out of the...

THIS year has been remarkable for the high price of provisions, a fact which has always led us to expect an increase in crime and in the numerical contents of our gaols. But...

Kirkwall, 26th October, 1860. Brit - In the last number of your admirable paper, October 20th, the ascent of the interior of the statue of San Carlo Borromeo, at Arena, on the...

Ova colonies have taken to the collection of statistics and the compila- tion of Blue Books, and with something like pride, they report their pro- gress to the mother country....

THE CAPITAL OF ITALY-ROME OR VENICE? October 24, 1860. Sm,-Each passing week places before us, more and more clearly, as an accepted fact, the dissolution of what we have long...

Tins selection of humourous and instructive sentences from the writings of a very admirable man, is a fair compendium of his wise as well as of his witty sayings. We doubt,...

BREE'S STRICITRES ON DARWIN'S "ORIGIN AND VARIATION OP SPECEES." HAVING carefully read Dr. Bree's book, and gone over ninny por- tions of it again and again, we remain under...

WORK to be done by ladies, and how they are to learn to do it, are the subjects of this book ; subjects now much mooted in society, in books, newspapers and public meetings. In...

IN his brief preface, Mr. White informs us that "the design of this book is to give more prominence to some of the events which were merely adverted to in ' his' Landmarks of...

WE welcome with much satisfaction a new and valuable accession to the ranks of the fiction writers, in the person of Mr. Colin Kennaquhom, author of the clever novel, Money. His...

Tie Wits and Beaux of Society is a collection of biographical sketches formig a sequel to The Queens of Society, a work by the same authors which was published a few months ago,...

Imprisonmentin Rurmah," by Henry Gouger, is preparing for publication by Mr. Murray. . Messrs. Longman and Co. announce' as forthcoming "The Life and Professional Services of...

17ve North British Review appears to have passed into more vigorous hands; certainly its pages bear witness to increased power. The present number opens with a masterly and...

Musa. There is more music in London Just now than is usual at this time of the year, but there is.litlle to be said about it, because there is "nothing fresS.7, At Majestfi l...

the pianoforte was known in England about 1767, as it was introduced that year on the stage of Covent Garden Theatre, as "a new instrument." An old play-bill, in the possession...

The new comedy by Mr. Tom Taylor, with which Mr. Alfred .Wigan inaugurated his management of the St. James's Theatre on Monday last , has proved - highly and deservedly...

A drama, - by M.. A. Belot, entitled .La Vengeance de Hari, has been brought out at the Orlfien. It turns'en- the jealousy of an elderly bus- band, rlintrliserwers that -his....

New Dorset Place, Clapham Road, photographic artist. Bankrupts.W.It..t.rAx limouit; Emmett Street, POplar, euttitter—Josteir HOL- LINGS, Charles Street,Hampstead Road,...

On the 21st of October, the Lady Charles Pelham Clinton, of a son. On the 22d, at 48, Rutland Gate, the Viscountess Bury, of a daughter, stillborn. On the 25th, at Windsor, the...

BRITISH FUN DS. (Closing Prices.) &third. Monday. Tweeds* Wedno. lkurs. Friday. Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account . per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880...