13 APRIL 1861, page 14

The Last Phase In America.

T HE tendency of the last intelligence from America is 4 reassure commercial men, and disgust politicians. The probability that the dismemberment of the Union will be peacefully......

Roman Diplomacy. T He Papal Court, For So Many Centuries The

school of all diplomatists, appears to have lost its cunning. The "unchangeable policy" seems to-day devoid of one of its essential features. Formerly the Popes struck at the......