21 MARCH 1857, page 15

Topics Of The Day.

ELECT10.7.1 NOTES. Gun last week's diagnosis of the political condition of the country has not thus far been contradicted by the symptoms that have manifested themselves. The......

• The Persian Treaty.

THE treaty with Persia recently concluded at Paris seems to have been greatly misconceived in some quarters ; a fact by no means remarkable, since the whole subject is so remote......

The "fighting Line" Ev Asia.

A CORRESPONDENT who is not uninformed strikes out a suggestion 'which probably accounts for the obstinate preference given to the Euphrates Valley line for railway and......

Manchester Art Entertainments.

DETERMINED not to be beaten by any failure of the original arrangement, the managers of the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester have adopted some schemes not originally......