iurkrq.- No announcement has yet been received of the actual| evacuatibn of Syria on the 5th inst., and rumours are prevalent of the intention of the French Government to...

The Bombay mail of 12th May brings Mr. Laing's budget, the substance of vwhich will be found 'i our article headed i'Iudian IFinance."

l6usoia.- The Government has published an official account of the disturbances in iKasan. The peasants it appears considered that the Emperor's decree involved their immediate...

-qmrrira.- -The intelligence of the week from America is not of ex- I Citing interest. General Butler, in command at AUnapolis, has been ordered to Fort Monroe in Virginia,...

fniut.- WI. de Lesseps has succeeded in inducing the V iceroy of I IE ft'to employ forcedilabour for the Suez Canal. Only one thou-. sand labourers have yet been impressed....

HOAE. The new gardens of the Horticultural Society at Kensington have come into existence with great rapidity, having been brought forward during the wvinter, and hastened...

filu 3rtg. ROYAL ACADEMY. CONCLUDING NOTICE. THE portraits are as numerous as usual, and display, with few exceptions, the usual characteristics. Much complaint is often...

311a5gi. TBARE is little that calls for notice in the musical occurrences of the past week. Adelina Patti goes on repeating to immense houses and with undiminished 6clat, the...

The Musical Society of London gave their last orchestral concert

YOUNG AMERICAk AT PARIS. W E have earned our right to a candid hearing, when we W remonstrate with the foreign representatives of the American Government on the perverse and...

I Mr. Cobden has been presented with the freedom of the City of London as an acknowledgment of his exertions in promoting the Commercial Treaty with France. In accepting the...

The third reading of the Church Rate Bill was set downi for Wednesday night; but it was postponed to enable the Church party to consent to terms of compromise. The large...

The Horticultural Society have added a iiew enijoymeint to London life by their new garden at South Kensington. It was opcned oln the 5th instant, and is one of which any...

In the United States the Federal Government has completed its preparations for defence. All commanding points along the entire line of the South, from Fort Monroe to Kansas,...

This calamity is the only event which has broken the lull in Euro- I pean political action. The rumours of war are dying away daily, till the Charivari publishes a picture of...

The only Parliamentary incident of the slightest importance has | been the introduction of a new constitution for India, which has been I for some time upon the anvil. Its...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE death of Count Cavour has spread grief through Italy, and ldismay in the Liberal party throughout Europe. In his own country the Parliament has adjourned...

THE NEW SENSATION. THE Directors of the Crystal Palace must, we suppose, be held excusable for follies. They are traders as well as virtuosi, look to dividends as well as the...

THE NEW INDIAN CONSTITUTION. | ON Thursday night Sir Charles Wood introduced into the House of Commons three bills, which revolutionize the existing constitution of India. The...

IRISH POLITICIANS. JUST as in domestic life the true Irislh patriot cannot be comfortable or happy wvithoLut his pig,- political life would be impossible to the genuine son of...

POSTSCRIPT. I.~h Houses of Parliament sat last nIht IBOTII Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, Earl GRANVILLE moved the second reading of the Customs...

I At the openings of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, on Thursday evening, tile President announced the death of Count Cavour amid espressions of profound grief on the part of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. DEATH OF COUNT CAVOUR. NOT in this generation have the hearts of Englishmen been so deeply stirred as by the death of Count Cavour. The bitterness of a...

SOUTHERN OBJECTS BY A SOUTHERNER. ENGLISHMEN, while smiling at -Mr. Burlingame, must not forget that Northern Americans have no monopoly of nonsense. We have before us a...

LITTLE NOVELS.* WE do not know a stranger phenomenon, in a small way, than the class of novels to which both these books belong. They are all written by young ladies who have...

TEUTON.* l TTE thoughts, the sentiments, and the convictions, which are gracefully and often eloquently expressed in this little volume are valuable, laudable, and often noble,...

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. NINE years and a half have elapsed since the day of the N coup d'Etat, and during that period Louis Napoleon has been absolute sovereign of France....

I &rnuang.- The Hungarian Diet has passed the address proposed by Al. Deak by a majority of three, the vote being 155 to 152. Tile division was taken upon the point of form,...

I ,ftaume-' The singular inaction in France which has lasted for nearly a month continued throughout the week, and there is literally nothing of political consequence to...

StSIH.-' The death of Count Cavour overshadows all ordinary in- telligeiiec from the peninsula. He had been ailing for some days, when his complaint was pronounced a mild form...

THE PEDANTRY OF EDUCATION. T is related of mirs. Jefferson Brick that she attended regularly a MIonday lecture on the Philosophy of Crime, a Tuesday lecture on the Philosoplhv...

The City has furnished two spectacles of that kind which it loves I to cherish. Trhe Grocers' Company has made Lord Elgin a " Brother Grocer," and tile Civic Corporation has...

I The annual meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Education was held on Thursday, and, notwitistanding a confident prediction of troubles and storms, the...

PRISON BOOKS.* WE are sorry that we cannot conscientiously award to this book any very considerable amount of praise. The idea of giving the history of the principal literary...

,car, LE uurt. THE Queen, the Prince Consort, the Roval children, save Prince Leopold, thle King of the Belgians, the Count of Flanders, and Prince Louis of Hesse returned to...

Rhliatro anl 1rurrrhingp in 1nflrtiaurut. 1OUsE OF LOI:DS. .llonday, June '. Galway Packet Contract; Lord Clanricarde's Motiou-Marriage Law Amendment Bill reported-New...

Francis Atkini, a person who has been carryii, on business at I Mlanchester as Frank Atkin and Co., and who has just been made a bankrupt, is also in custody on a charge of...

Th7be Judge Ordinary gave judgment on Tuesday in a case of con- siderable importance. It may be remembered that one ving, a publican, petitioned for a divorce from his wife, to...

The coroner's jury, sitting to inquire into the causes of the death I Ot a workman during the late explosion at the Government gulnpowder works near W'althatu Cross, have...

31imllfaunu5. IT is understood that the volunteer field-day at Wimbledon will take place on the 13th July, and that the movements will commence immediately after the...

INDIAN FINANCE. IR Charles Wood's incompetence in speech is a posiU tive misfortune for the Empire. His thoughts are generally accurate, and his acts as moderate as the...

TIIE MAGAZINES. Temiple Bar. No. VII. June, 1S61.-Teiple Bar remains at pretty much thle same level at which it began, or, rather, at which it arrived in its second number....

OUR SOCIAL BEES.* THE world is getting as tired of these republications as of badly printed novels sold for a shilling, and wvorth just the value of the wMretched p)aper...

B OOKS. MR. BUCKLE'S SECOND VOLUME ON CIVILIZATION.* FIRST NOTICE. WVE should be sorrv indeed to be thought guilty of the cheap impertinence of a sneer at a writer of a book...