... FOREIGN NOTES TURIN AND THE KING OF ITALY.-Notwitbstanding the endeavours of the Municipality of Turin to induce the King to return, His Majesty continues firm in his determination to remain at Florence. Signor Natoli, the Minister of Public Instruction, has arrived in the latter city to ascertain whether the various departments of the public administration can be removed immediately to the ...

... FRANCE, MIEXICO, AND THE UNITED STATES. OF the many subjects of speculation which the war in America has produced, none certainly has been so singular as that which relates to the arrangements said to have been made between France and Mexico. A certain number of Americans seem to think that by reason of the cession to France of a Mexican province, the Confederate States are to be put in the ...

... CORRESPONDENCE A SECOND LETTER FROM OXFORD. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-The independence of the colleges leads to other abuses besides the multiplication of indifferent tutors, which you permitted me to discuss - amongst other things-in your columns yesterday. To entrust the control over large revenues which are shared between two classes to one of those classes would not be ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-TleSdaY, Febro ary i4t11. Last night (Tuesday) the LORD CHANCELLOR reported the results of his Act for augmenting church livings. The plan is to sell the Crown patronage of small livings, and to apply the proceeds to increasing the incomes of poor incumbents, building parsonages, and so on. As much as ;I613,129 has been obtained for these purposes by the sale of sixty-three ...

... Wednesday, 2 oC'dCA I .. rflid C-bmiliald oeb)d. I MR. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THrE EMPEROR'S SPEECH.-ParLs: Tuesday Niglit.-The following is believed to be the substance of the Speech with which the Emperor will open the Chambers:- It is thought the Speech will not contain any of those important revelations in which the personal initiative of the Emperor has more than once been shown, without ...

... WE tried to show the other day, that whatever might be thought of the results of the extension of the suffrage, such an extension must take place, and that it is far better to accept the necessity cheerfully and make the best of it, than to keep playing with the subject in a manner at once feeble and disingenuous. Nor is it possible for any one to dissent from this conclusion who is not pre- ...

... AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.-A singular assertion has been made by certain continental journals to the effect that the Prussian Government had offered to pay the expenses incurred by Austria in the prosecution of the war against Denmark, in return for concessions to be made by the Austrian Government to Prussia. This statement, however, obtains little credit, as it is generally believed that advances ...

... i a , ?? - * X tovement has begun in the Roman Catholic body which throws a singular light on the true nature of the authority claimed by the Pope. Several Elinglishl 'and Irish noblemen and others have signed a letter to the Congregation of the Propaganda, earnestly requesting that body not to expressany opinion on the duty of Roman Catholics as to sending their sone to EIgli-sh uniyersities ...

... It is hardly possible to over-estimate the importance of the American news by the Canada. The pacific movement, which has been growing for some timne both in the Federal and Confederate States, has shaped itself into the definite form of an embassy, unofficial it is true, but not the less worthy of attention, from the Southern Government to the representatives of the Washing- ton authorities, ...

... THE- MANCHESTER MIND. I NOT the least interesting of social phenomena is the tendency of different employments and centres of activity to produce each its proper and peculiar type of character and intellect. In humble life, this tendency gives us the loquacity of barbers, the superstition of fishermen, the political keenness of weavers, and so forth. In middle-class life, it is responsible for ...

... - THE FRENCH OPPOSITION.-Our information from Paris states that a second meeting of the members of the Opposition has just taken place at the residence of M. Marie: MM. Berryer, Glais-Bizoin, Thiers, and M. Jules Simon were the principal speakers. M. Thiers defended the temporal power of the Pope, which was violently attacked by M. Gudroult. THE DUKE OF AUGUSTENBURG.-An important meeting, ...

... SEA-SICK NESS.P AMONGST the minor human miseries, none can seriously compete with sea-sickness. It may not be so acute for the time as a vigorous toothache. It usually does not last so long as a bad cold in the head. But for a delicate combination of all the qualities that go to produce thorough arretchedness, it is unrivalled. It varies in intensity to any degree, but even when it fails ...