... (FROMa OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) THE mission of Prince Napoleon to Ferrara has been far more successful than had been expected either at Florence or Paris. We hear that the Prince has given highly satisfactory assurances to King Victor Emmanuel in regard to the conduct of France, both in the Venetian and Roman questions, and that his Majesty has consequently agreed to waive his claim for the ...

... DEAN RAMSAY'S calculation that four millions of sermons are preached annually in these islands has produced a little controversy which we have watched not without a pleasing though melancholy interest. The Dean did a great service to humanity by his statistics for the attention of philanthropists was directed to the subject by them in a way that nothing else could have done. Benevolent men ...

... MR. DISRAELI is steadily losing ground with the party which he leads. Last session his unpopularity was so marked, that, on one occasion, at least, Lord ROBERT CECIL had to intercede with a noisy house to gain him even a hearing. During the vacation he effected a junction with the clerical clamourers for a Spiritual Court of Appeal, or, as Mr. DISRAELI would call it, with the advocates of the ...

... IN the turmoil of a continental war, and in the midst of territorial changes and dynastic revolutions, absorption of monarchies and depositions of monarchs, which in their range and rapidity seem to bring back again the days of the first NAPOLEON, Ireland has nearly dropped out of sight. In comparison, it would appear to have been almost quiet, and an optimist or inexperienced politician might ...

... During the last few weeks we have received several letters describing the scrapes into which British tourists have been thrusting themselves at different points of the seat of war. The artists everywhere seem to have had a hard time of it. To be convicted of the possession of pencils and drawing-paper subjected the owner to suspicious surveillance even in places at a considerable distance ...

... ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. To the EDITOR of Sie PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I have read with much attention Mr. Conway's very lucid remarks in the last number of the Fortnightly Review on the relations, as they exist and as they may probably exist, between the United States and France, and the United States and England; and agreeing with him, as I do very generally, in his view of the existing ...

... Mr. J. J. Lake, in the A4lzeneaun, gives a curious account of a superstition Prevalent in the Ionian Islands. The natives of these islands believe that every house has its haunting spectre, which they call the Ombra delta casa, and Which they say has the peculiarity of never appearing to English people. The fol- lowing instances are cited in which, according to the stories related to Mr. ...

... The City of London steamer brings news from America to the 2ist of October. It is stated that fears of a negro insurrection continue to prevail throughout the Southern States. Mr. Seward is reported to have made a speech, in which he stated that the President would conduct the settlement of national claims between the Government and foreign nations without compro- mising the national dignity ...

... Wednesday, 2 o'clock. chiq Obtninqld otwd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. I FRANCE. PARIS, Se/i. 26.-Yesterday the rivers Allier, Loire, and Yonne, and other streams continued to rise. The waters of the Lot and Dordogne appear to be decreasing. The river Are in Savoy has overflowed its banks. The telegraphic communication between the centre and south of France is difficult. ITALY. FLORENCE, SepI. 25.-The ...

... The vital statistics of the Punjaub, collected by Dr. Dallas, Inspector-General of Dispensaries, and given in the Homeward Mail, are one more instance of the futility of mere figures. They have been got up quite en rogle by the district officers, through the village police. The people gave information very readily. And yet the death rate through the whole country figures as only 1.71 per ...

... The news from America by the Asia, which is up to the ist of the present month, is not of special interest. The correspondence between Generals Weitrel and ?? the capture ?? has been ptrblished, but the telegraphic summary doesnot add much to our information. The ,1-,u I hi- AL i-tIE savs that at a ?? given by the Captain-(;encral of Havana, Mr. Seward made a speech stating that, in his ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) OuR letters from Cracow and Lemberg of the 5th inst. say that all the military preparations which had been pushed on with such vigour a week before in those towns are suspended. The troops which had been quartered in Cracow during the Easter holidays show no signs of moving, and the Officers have even taken lodgings in the town for long periods. 'lhe works on the ...