FACTS NOT EVIDENCE. FACTS are not " evidence," although they may be made evidence by the assimilation of logic. Mr. Cobden is a man of business, and he labours underithe usual...

TIHE LIMITED PARTNERSHIIP BILLS. THE principle of limited liability in partnerships has been brought before the House of Commons for enactment in the form of two bills. One of...

Idbr cnnrt. THE QuEEN held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday; and subsequently gave audience to Lord Palmerston, Lord Panmure, the Earl of Clarendon, and Earl...

I REL A N 1). The Corporation of I)ublini have tuken a step in the Tenant-Right movement. On Saturday last they waitud upon the Lord-Lieutenant with an address, beggii.g him to...

ITIr Vrtrnpntio. The Lord Mayor entertained the Judges, with several members of the i bar and others, at the Mansionhouse, on Saturday. Lord Campbell was the most conspieuous...

,ct:l)r J?rouhtrrg. At the nomination for Bath, on iaturdlav, Colonel Llatbwaitc proposed and Mr. J. S. Graves seconded MrI Whateley; Alderman Normnan proposed and Mr. Gill...

The following telegraphic despatch hints Russian alarms- "Ber ln, 7th.-Prince Pask6witsch has left Warsaw in great haste to proceed to Luck, the central strategical point in...

The long debates in the House of Commons on the various amendments springing out of Mr. Disraeli's motion were last night brought to a peaceful issue, in a crowded House; and...

A summary of the last protocol of June 4 is published by the Vienna 11Jalerleir, and reprinted in the Constitutionuel today. The signataries of the treaty of December 2 record...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY. News from Sebastopol '- -The 3Marelon and the Malakoff have been captured ! Lord Panmure transmits to the newspapers the following brief annouucement...

SFUMM ER. THE Sun is ascending his Midsummer heights, and looking down upon us with a fervid power that oppresses with excess of life. I Summer has come at last; even in...

"VILLETTE "-A SUPPLEMENTAliY CHAPTER. Lucy SOENVE, in Currer Bell's Villette, is a portrait. She is a girl who has been respectably brought up, is in intimate relations with...

HARRISON'S NOTES OF NINE YEARS IN RUSSIA.* MR. HARRISON'S " Notes " is a more valuable and interesting book than might have been expected from its appearance. If little of the...

TILE CRYSTAL PALACE. This is the anniversary of the opening of the Crystal Palace. Its second season, reckoning from the commneneement of' the reduced seasontick3ts, began with...

JOIIN AND ALIFRED CHlALON. The exhibition, which has been for somc tinmc announced, of pii;turcs, drawings, sketches, &c., by the late ilr. J. J. Chalon, wi lh a selection from...

SCOTLAND. * The General Assemblies of the two Churches, the Established and the Free, concluded their labours on Monday. In both the question of education occupied a prominent...

,fnrrigunn (flu clnuial. FRA.icE.-The news from France is usually of the briefest. There are no reported "debates," no public meetings, little public life. This week two...

I The reopening of the bombardment of Sebastopol on the 6th in- I 8tant is perhaps less important in itself than it is as a sign of the I extent with which the Allies are...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ON the same day, Monday, the formal close of the Conferences at Vienna was effected, andi the House of Commons debate on the prosecution of the war,...

The actual worling, of the penal law substituted for the punish- ment of' transportation seems to be, in one respect at least, very unsatisfactory. Ticket-of-leave men are...

By an unusual anomaly in public movements, "administrative reform" shows signs of greater progress in office than out of it. In yesterday' s Times, immediately above an...

Strhatus nut Jrrrttiiug in hartinmrut. PlilNCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Hlotsy. OF l 3OIS. onday, hJue 4. Roman Catholic Clarities; the Lord Chan- I cellor's lill read a...

BOOKS. LIDY IIOLLAND'S MEMOIR OF SYDNEY SMITH.t NOTWITHSTANDING the great abilities of Sydney Smith, and their telliny quality, his universal celebrity in his own day was in a...

3Abrllan urn. In reply to a communication from Mr. Sidney Smith, respecting the intentions of the Government on the Jew Bill question, Lord John Russell writes as follows....

ASCOT RACES. I Somewhat shorn of their glories by the war, yet the Ascot Heath races have lost nothing of their character for sharp and spirited contests. The races opened on...

PAIisiS -, TnEATRICALS. The Op6ra Comique is rich in the possession of a new work written by M. Scribe and composed by TN. Auber, with the title Jenny Bell. The heroine, played...

It is now said, and we believe truly, that Grisi's " ten " farewell per- I formances will be extended to the end of the season. If so, the public will be very glad to hear it,...

A NEW GAME. Whenever a topic is really popular there is no end to the variety of its exponents. The war has inspired some inventive genius with the idea of a new game, in w...

The entertainment given by Al. Levassor at the St. James's Thcatre I turns out to be less theatrical in its character than might have been anti- I cipated from the original...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE STRENGTH OF RUSSIA. IN declaring war against Russia, the English Government, with its nearest ally, announced that it did not intend to appropriate any...

?Yiur -',Irt5. THE ROYAL ACADEMIY EXHIBITION: PORTRAITS. The fatal facility of our existing school (if it can so bc called) of portraiture, the number of' its practitioners,...

Am1r Trntrm. 'Mr. Henry Smart's opera, lierta, or tiC (thiewae of/the lartzberg, pro- duced at the HIaymarket last Siturdav, is wvorthy of h better fortune than it is likely...