... STATE AND CHIRCH. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.-Ier Majesty will, according to present arrangements, open Parliament in person on the 24th inst. TREATY oF COMMERcE WITH FRANCE.-The Morning Post says: When the increased and daily increasing mercantile transactions between England and France and the liberal tendencies of both Go- vernments are considered it cannot fail to give the liveliest ...

... THE REJECTfION OF THE ULTIMATUM. The following important correspondence was laid on the table of the House of Commons on Thursday: MR BRUCE TO THE SENIOR SECRETARY OF STATE, PANO-WAN-CRANG. Shanghai, March 8th. The undersigned, &c. has the honour to address a communication to his Excellency Pang-Wan-chang, a Senior Secretary of State, and their Excellencies the Members of the Great Council of ...

... ?nrr?pnnb?E?. SMALL ARMS. Payonets, pikes, and halberds too, From out their scabbards broad swords flew. Pure Warlike Song, 1746. TO TrE EDtTOt OF THE 21Adz. Sir,-Wo have heard a good deal of blkam talked, and we have read it too of the cut and thrust bayonet exercise of the French, and a supposed improvement which that nation has made in that weapon. Now I utterly disbelieve in any advan- ...

... MP, COBDEN AND THE FRENCH TREATY. The following letter, addressed by Mr Cobden to an intimate friend in Manchester, has been published: I Paris, 82, Rue De l'Universit6, May 12. My dear Sir,-I will answer your inquiries as briefly as possible. I am as strongly in favour of the principle of ad valorem duties as any one in Manchester. But nearly all the countries of Europe have, from motives ...

... ,I ALTERATION IN TILE PRIcn OF CAVALRY COMMISSIONS.-The oi lowing General Order, dated Horse Guards, Feb. 23, was isaed yesterday: His Royal Highness the General Commanding-C having had under consideration the present expenses necessarily in- curred by officers of cavalry, and anxious to reduce them as far ar practicable, has the satisfaction of announcing to the army that her Majesty the ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartialwriteritwould be to tell him his fate If lie resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed 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 him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him ...

... ITALY. AFFAIRS OF NAPLES. The correspondence from Naples reaches to the 18th inst. We make the following extracts from letters up to that date. The first, which is of the 16th, refers to the late governmental crisis. Yesterday evening Garibaldi summoned the mayor of Naples to Caserta. He made the demand upon S. Colonna to propose to him to become his Pro-Dictator, and to draw up a new list ...

... ,. ?7 ?? I :Kaffst SAIURDAY, JuNE 30. The following telegrams have Been received: BERNE, June 27.-The report of the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on the Savoy question concludes by requesting the renewal of the powers conferred upon the Council on the 4th of April last to follow up the affair. ZURICH, June 28.-The Federal Council has received the official notification that England ...

... IRELANI). A ROmI,INcE IN THE LAw COuRTS.-The Irish pa'rs ) I X which was tried last week in the Queen's Bench, ani I r a ' m to light some incidents of a singularly strange cnarac cr. t h! Iai t r are thus briefly stated: 1 In the year 1811 Terence Burns, the son ci a widow in Enniskillen, ran away from a person in that town to whom be had been apprenticed to learn the business of a carpenter ...

... Saturday EFenidy. The following despatcb, dated Turin, June 9, 9.30 a.m., has been received this afternoon: Garibaldi has appointed a Provisional Government: Baron Pisano ?? Foreign Affairs. Crispi ?? Home Office and Finances. Orsini (a Sicilian) War. Abbe Coligno ?? Religious Worship. It is positively asserted that Garibaldi found 960,000 pounds ster- ling in the coffers of the treasury. ...

... F R A N C E. THE CoNwERENCE.-A telegram from Vienna of Monday says In reply to the proposal of France, England consents to adopt, as the basis of the Conference, Article 92 of the final act of Vienna, which refers to the neutralisation of the districts of Chablais and Faucigny. England reserves, however, the right of making, at the said Conference, proposals relative to the modus of this ...

... N atut ?l nitilignte. SATUnDAY, APRIL 7. The following telegrams have been received at Mr Reuter's office: SAVOY AND NICE. TuRnI, Friday, April 6. The Opinione of to-day states that in eight or ten days the inhabitants of Savoy and Nice will vote by universal suffrage on the question of annexation to France. THE CARLIST MOVEMENT IN SPAIN, MADRID, Thursday Evening. The official Gazette ...