... STATE OF AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT. ALLEGED TREATY OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE BETWEEN FRANCE AND RUSSIA. A telegram from Vienna of Tuesday's date announced the follow' ing startling intelligence: The Russians here state that an alliance offensive and defensive has been concluded between Russia and France. The evening's edition of the Berlin National Zeitung of the same date states that a treaty ...

... The Earl of Shaftesbury received several of the Neapolitan exiles on Monday evening, at his house in Grosvenor square, in order to introduce them to the members of the committee organized to collect funds for their relief. The-exiles were fifteen in number. On Sunday morning, the tower of the parish church of Basford, near Nottingham, fell with a fearful crash, burying with it a portion of the ...

... { At the annual dinner given at the Mansion House, on Easter Mon- day, the Earl of Derby and several other members of the Cabinet were present, and, in returning thanks for the health of the Ministry, the Premier took occasion to explain the views of the Government in the present troubled aspect of European affairs. His speech was di- vided into three heads, having reference to what the ...

... F R A N C E. FISENCHE POLICY IN ITALIAN AFTArns..The Moniteur of Sunday contained the following article: The French Government, as much as any other, comprehends and respects national susceptibilities. If in its intentions or conduct it had given cause of alarm to Germany for her independence, far from disdaining the excitement and alarms of German patriotism, it would deem them noble and ...

... AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT. The following most important telegram was received by the Times, on Thursday, from Turin: 4 Gyulai has been ordered to present an ultimatum for disarmament, and the sending away of volunteers. If refused, war is to be declared in three days. Two more divisions of the Austrian army of 80,000 men have been ordered to the Ticino. The English proposal for a Congress upon the ...

... THE COURT.-The Queen held a Privy Council on Monday at Buckingham Palace, at which Parliament was ordered to be pro- rogued from Tuesday until the 5th of May. At the Court Mr Jus- tice Hill was presented to her Majesty, and received the honour of knighthood. The Queen and Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle the same afternoon, accompanied by the Royal family. The ...

... in an address at a Liberal meeting in the City on Saturday Lord John Russell said:- There were at that moment serious matters for the consideration of the electors of London. Not only had they the great question of reform to occupy their minds, as well as improvements in the internal economy of the country, but they had to look to the ominous words which had lately fallen from Lord Derby in ...

... TEcE PENbING AND PAST DISSOLUTIONS.-(From the Eeonomist.) - Great interest exists as to the period when the dissolution of parliament will take place. Ministers have declared that it is their intention to dissolve as soon as the necessary money bills can be passed through both houses of parliament. If wev refer to past dis- solutions under similar circumstances, we may find an approximate ...

... CamspaIrtuff. ROME. TO THE EDITOR OF THR EXAMINER. The Prince of Wales is said to have expressed great indigna- tion that he, like the rest of us, was prevented by the Roman post-office receiving his Galiqnani two days ago. Not that the Government feared lest his Royal Highness should head an in- surrection of the English residents here, incited by anything we should see ill the Messenger, for ...

... IfI might give a short hint to an Impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to ventureupon the dangerous precipice of telling anbiassed truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon htm with the iron hands of the law; If he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... TbE Nxw BOARD or ADMiRAsTY.-Rear-Admiral of the lied Sir H. J. Leeke is the new Lord of the Admiralty, vice Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie. Admiral Leeke is a son of the late Ir Leeke, a magis- trate for the county of Hants. He was born in 1789, and entered the royal navy in 1S03. He saw active service during the French war, and also on the coast of Africa, for which latter he was knighted. ...

... STATE AND CHURCH, Tun CoUsRT.-Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the youthful members of the Royal family and the Court, left Osborne for Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Nrw AUSTALIAN Bissxnaics.-Her Majesty's Government have givenL their consent to the erection of two new bishoprics, namely, the Bishopric of Brisbane (Moreton Bay) and the Bishopric of Goul- burn (New South Wales ...