... There no more remarkable characteristic of modern times than the immense progress which has been made in the art and science of war. We say that this is a commercial age, and so it i 3 ; that the English are pre-eminently commercial and peace-loving people, and so they are. Our imports and exports have increased enormously ; generally speaking, our trade is in a very flourishing condition. We ...

... It will be observed from the proceedings of the Town Council at a meeting yesterday that the Stipend Case has entered on a new phase, and what we earnestly hope and believe will prove a satisfactory one. Mr Christopher Kerr read the report of the lately-appointed committee, which report, with the accompanying minute, contains a final proposal for compromise. The terras of this proposal, drawn ...

... MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1861 have important intelligence from America this morning. South Carolina has, by a unanimous vote of the State Legislature, separated from the Union—an event which has caused, as it well might, a great sensation Congress. The Pope gave reception on New Year's Day. avoided political allusions relating to his own States, and in his address to General he made no special ...

... WEDNESDAY, JAX VARY 9, 1861 The Sardinian Government stated to have sua pended hostilities against Gaeta in deference to the wishes of the Emperor Napoleon. The armistice with the view of permitting negotiation for the surreuder of the beleagured fortress. If Francis 11., who has maintained his position in Gaeta, with surprising vigour and determination, still resolved to resist, then France ...

... Both in England and Scotland a subject is being talked about which is at first sight not of much interest towns, but is really most interesting, it intimately bound up with the strength and social prosperity of the nation at large. The subject to which we refer is the provision of houses for the country's bone and sinew, its agricultural labouring population. An influential meeting was held in ...

... MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1861 Darker and yet darker becomes the news from the United States. Although still none of its neighbours has followed the example of South Carolina, the Secession movement grows in strength and volume. At Washington everything seems to be at sixes and sevens. The committee the state of the Union, which was lately appointed by the Senate, have been unable to come to a ...

... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1861 According to a telegram from Rome, the reactionary movement, while at an end in the Roman Marches, is on the increase in the Abruzzi. It is even said that to a Neapolitan General has been entrusted the charge of endeavouring to raise the Calabrians against the new Government. The promised departure of the French fleet from Gaeta has caused consternation to the ...

... FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1861 The news from Naples is that Signor Poerio has been entrusted with the formation of a new Ministry—an announcement which has been received with satisfaction. In the Abruzzi the reactionary bands have been beaten, and the prospect of restoration of tranquillity opening up. Perfect tranquillity cannot exist so long as the ex-King remains on Neapolitan soil. There is now ...

... French journalists, who, notwithstanding the recent decrees, can still be made to say anything, are just now writing very hopefully on the prospects of peace. Yet it would not seem that the French Emperor, whose is the inspiration of the journals, is at all sanguine. He is certainly losing no time, and abating no exertion, to confront the opposite contingency, should it arise. More armaments ...

... Willtam the First of Prussia has signalized his accession to the royal dignity by putting all Europe into a state of alarm. There were already causes enough for looking somewhat gloomily into the future, but when a great King proclaims to his people from his newly acquired throne that they may soon have to engage in a contest in which they will either conquer or be annihilated, his words must ...

... The intelligence from the United States is again wavering and uncertain, but from out of the uncertainty stands the brief, telling, undeniable announcement that three other States have seceded from the Union. These are Alabama, Mississipi, and Florida, which, together with Georgia, and South Carolina, make five States which have now put forth the assertion of their independence of the Federal ...

... In the immediate prospect of the reassembling of Parliament, the Reform question is again being stirred, though not to its depths. There is no great chance of its being entered into so very deeply at present, 01 that many people will lose their footing, and drift away they know not where. The experience of the last Session of Parliament has rendered any such tendency as that impossibility for ...