in- volves a check to the Emperor of the French. In the most emphatic language the Premier denies that any cession of Italian territory can, or will, be made to France. As he is...

of France is beginning to tell heavily on the finances of the Great Powers. With the exception of England and Prussia, every first-class Power will this year have to face a...

reappearance of projects of compromise, each more unprincipled than the last, and .some decided steps taken towards the creation of a great regular army. The old organization...

T HE second Empire has sustained its first legal defeat. The Due de Broglie had written a pamphlet, which he sent to a printer to lithograph, not for publication, but for his...

army to reorganize, her great neighbour burning with an "idea," which in- cludes the frontier of the Rhine, is occupied mainly with a discussion as to an oath of fealty. The...

sub- jects of greater or less interest. The bill granting the seats forfeited by St. Albans to South Lancashire, Birkenhead ancl the West Riding, has passed through Committee...

of "Viva l] operear !" and the political quiet in France is broken only lb , relorts dr eleations to the Councils-General, nn at which the GoveieVni - .horainees are....

the 2nd of July in the Upper House of the Council of the Empire, and was received with great enthusiasm. Count Clam-Gallas proposed that the House should declare that it...

Government has proposed a loan of 20,000,000/., under circumstances which, as the deficit cannot be examined, make it a vote of confidence. The Opposition took up the ground...

MONDAY, JULY 1ST. THE Prince of Wales arrived on Saturday at Kingstown, -where he was received in state by the Lord-Lieutenant, the Castle officials, and a great crowd of...

among the peasantry ; but it is remarked, that though extremely disinclined to wait two years for their liberation, the people profess perfect willingness to pay all State dues....

St. Domingo. Tuesday, July 2.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer's Charges against the Grand- Duke of Modena; Loki Normanby's Notice of Motion—Union of Benefices Bill...

HER MAJESTY the Queen held on Monday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, Investitures of the Most Ancient Order of the Thistle and of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Prince...

alternations of sunshine and showers, there were crowds of visitors at Wimbledon, the reported proceedings of yesterday having excited much interest in the impending trials. The...

scription to the three hundred thousand bonds, repayable in thirty years, will be opened at the Bank of France on the 11th, and is to be closed on the 16th inst. The bonds will...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Friday. f. e. 161 8 per Cent Consols 891 Bank Stock, 10 per Cent. Ditto for Account 891 India Stock, 104 per Cent 3 per Cents Reduced 881...

THE COMMONS AND rand Wortx.—One of the most remarkable things in the conduct of the business of the House of Commons is the number of bills in- troduced late in the Session. A...

Born Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, The Earl of Smarresultur moved an address to the Queen to assure her Ma- jesty that the House had regarded with...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. IN the early part of the week the preparations to meet the quarterly commercial bills falling due on 4th of the month, caused an- active de-...

our im- pression of last week, we spoke of Mr. Grote, the author'of a pamphlet concernin g a review of Mr. Whewell's Plato in a contemporary newspaper, as "the historian of...

S TILL this strange restlessness in France, this pricking of the ears, and deep inspiration of the breath, as if something of moment were at hand. To all external ap- pearance...

IRELAND UPON POLAND. T HE Irish Brigade, whose eloquence is never more severely felt than in July, when the weather is warm and the House is not half through the most important...

done little this session for them- selves, much for their opponents. All very quiescent periods are favourable to the increase, of the Conservative party, and the Liberals, if...

I N 1848 M. Mires, the eon of a Jew watchmaker of Bar- deaux, who had been by turns a tax-agent, a wine- merchant, and a commissionnaire, failed as a stockbroker in a small way...

A FFAIRS in Austria seem ripening fast. For the second time in twelve years the King of Hungary has cast down the gauntlet to his subjects. Yielding, after a long hesitation, to...

Scott, excellent to enable him to change volunteers into soldiers, seems likely to be attended with other and much less acceptable results. Delay gives Mr. Davis, in the first...

T EE preparations for the Great Exhibition of 1862 are advancing rapidly towards completion. The Commissioners have succeeded in obtaining guarantees for almost all the money...

E VEN the astronomers are still permitted the refreshing . emotions of excitement and surprise. There is one field of unlimited. possibility open to them in which their...

IT is very painful to record the death of one from whom we had hoped so much as from Mrs. Browning, in the fulness of her powers, and too soon, perhaps, for the perfect maturity...

THE performances at both the Italian Operas draw good houses ; but (with the exception of Adelina Patti's first appearance in the Traviata on Thursday), being without novelty,...

Sut—As an operative builder, I beg to thank you for the very able article in last Saturday's Spectator. It will do something to redeem the Press from the charge of partiality...

the Grand Opera; and M. Royer, the manager, requested Hector Berlioz to undertake the superintendence of its production, offering him liberal terms of remuneration. Berlioz...

EXHIBITIONS OF SINGLE PICTURES. MR. DOWLING'S " T.3.7.ADDS''-3YEL. MAGUDIE'S " CROMWELL." ANY person desirous of visiting all the picture exhibitions held in London in the...

HENRY IV. AND MARIE DE MEDICI.* THESE two volumes form only the second instalment of this work, the first part of which was published early last year. Part II. begins with t he...

Namara's criticism on Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" that it re- sembled "a menagerie of tame animals," is more or less true of almost all the remarkable German and Danish novels...

Tam new numbers of this valuable series of tracts are occupied with two of the greatest stumbling-blocks which the revelation of Christ has presented to "modern thought." In the...

of one or two passages in this book, we should imagine that it was written some years ago. Though we kept a pretty good look-out for anything Leigh Hunt might write, and though...

Timicrying evil of our ablest Magazines—want of connexion with the current interests of life—is not so conspicuous this month. Black- wood, for instance, has five...

The Boy's Own Library. Wild Sports of the World, Part 3. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. Vol. III., No. 15. London : S. 0. Beeton.—This number of "Wild Sports of the...

Nut-Brown Maids." (Parker, Son, and Bourn) Historic Certainties respecting the Early History of America, developed in a Cri- tical Examination of the Book of the Chronicles of...

On the 28th inst., at Holly Lodge, Campden-hill, the Countess of Airlie, of a son. On the 27th inst., at Belgrave-square, Lady Octavio, Shaw Stewart, of a son. On the 27th June,...

Bankrupts — John Alexander Mowat, Crawford-street, bootmaker—John Sagden, Charles-terrace, Paxton-park, Sydenham, builder—John Gearns and Frederick Augustus Tarrant,...