... I j! utign GERMANY AND THE BALTIC. (mRolio otr ow-t COErSPOttDENT.) sto .Utm~ztnr, November 2, 1s5S.-The eloquent and to telling crntiens of Mr Bright at Birmingham, now WI] so complet.ly absorb attention as to public affairs, ha' and the ?? elections occupy so much of what mit can be otherwise spared for local matters, thlit it is ha, scarcely to be expected that any thing which is alto- par ...

... DR CHARLES MACKAY AT THE PHILOSO- I PHICAL INSTITUTION. Last night Dr Charles Mackay delivered the first of a course of four lectures on Poetry and Song, in Queen Street Hall, which was crowded by a highly respectalble audience. Dr Mackay commenced by stating that his object wvas to defend poetry, not because it has been attacked by any one of competent judgment to do battle with it, but ...

... 6'S WD4 X i d ; There was no addition to t1aroe'alclinnerpaltyoiaFridaY The Queen and Prince Consort . it Pri cess Alice and Princess hlenebla, vsi:,d the i'u'lo-s of I on Saturday moruing at Fru:ro0rec ai-l -be: kfinst,-,' with her Royal Bighates, itbehogheliutl)1flyof ?? ie~s ot eiilllOg'f'. Prince Arthfiur, 1-rl H Le d. alI Tm lsia :lso paid a Visit to the royal Itucliess. I' 1r 31acsty, ...

... ,ftirif oie tros, - ?? THE MANAGEMENT Og JOINT-STOCK thre BANKS.' wid~ (FROia TXDE ECONOMIST.) a About three years ago we endeavoured to point not 'but the object~ionable and insecure mode in which the or ii mnanagemrent of public companies is Conistituted in ban~ 'this country. We show~ed that the principlC adopted fuits wits opposed to every lesson taught by experience, obje and to the ...

... BYn ELECTRIC TELEGRiPH. FRANCE. The Posts' Paris correspondent thinks that at the Cabinet Council at Compiegne on Sunday next, the question of recruiting labour on the African coast will be brought forward, Hle be- lieves, however, that the Emperor suggests that labour be recruited from China, and the African scheme abandoned. PORTUGAL. The Session of the Portuguese Cortes has been opened at ...

... I FRANCE. Foar thousand bales of wool, chiefly Morocco, sold without difficulty at Marseilles last week. The good effect of the decree suspending the sliding scale in corn is now becoming evident, even to the Protectionists. France is now likely to export a large quantity of grain, and to receive a large amount of the precious metals. Paris corn market dull. Wheat lower. Average price of wheat ...

... SUMIMAlRY. Thle Britidsh and Frcnclh Commissioners ?? at Jeddah on the 12th, on board the Cyclops. NIo intimatiou hat, been received of the arrival of the Turkish Commaissioner. Nt'niiok. Pasha, On receiving informntion. of the envoy's approach, immediately left Mecca, wvhere he was staying, for Jeddah- Tlhe French Commissioner at once took up Eia residence on shore, while Wie col- league ...

... BY ELYECTRICTELEGRiAPH. FERANCE. Trade in Paris and the departments in a state of fluctuation, and not satisfactory. Flour and wheat wvere lowver in price. More business 'Was doing In wines, The stock of sugar was unpre- cedentedly low at Nanltes. AUSTRIA. Thle Hlerald has a letter dated Paris, Saturday night, stating that letters had been received froml Miilan, repeating the telegraphic ...

... t FRANCE. It is said that Prince Napoleon, desirous to devote himself exclusively to the Government of Algeria, is about to resign the Administration of the Colonies to Minister of Marine. It is reported that an Anglo-French fleet will leave on the 19th December for the Gulf of Mexico. The French fleet will have on board a battery of artillery, in order to oppose any enter- prise of the ...

... (FRO31 TIE NORT5TERN WHIGt3 In the North BritiFh Review, a quarterly periodical published in Edinburgh, and conducted, as is gene- rally understood, under clerical influence opposed to sound secular education, there appears an attack on our Irish National Schools. Now, if the writer of this article had, from his own ignorant sectarian point of view, merely charged our National Schools with the ...

... SEUOND :EDIT ON. MERCURY OFFICM, MONDAY, ELEVEN O'CWLOC - FRANCE. Pam,Saturday.-The Pays ?? French Government is by no means prepared to renounce what it calls emigration operations . on the coast of Atrica. THE DISPUTE BETWEENFRANCE A1ND PORTUGAL. The Herald has reason to know that no application was made by Portugal to our Government for pro- tection. Portugal, to her credit, adopted the ...

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