... TrHE MIDNIGHT MYSTERY. Benevolence is no doubt one of tho highest qualities which per- taia to human character. It is one of those essential characteristics which distinguish man from the brute creation. Yet this quality, so invaluable in itself, is firequently rendered nugatory by an im- practicability ofjndgrnent or a false sentiment of enthusiasm. There are, ns doubt, scores-aye, ...

... THE IETTER WRITER. THE FMPERORI'S BDAING' ACTS. To Tar ?? mly last letter in your esti- mable paper, two events, pregnant with much to come, have caused great emotion in Eflland, acd have been, as asual, differently appreciated by the English press. I mean the letter to the pope, and the one announcing the coming freedom of trade. I need not just new discuss points that have been most ably ...

... nOusE or LORDS-lZonday. THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCE.- Lord DERBY, on inquiring what steps the Government intended to take to carry into effect the 20th article of the treaty of commerce with France, said he should not dis. cuss whether this treaty was or was not in accordance with the principles of free trade; it decidedly was at variance with'the principles laid down by her Majesty's ...

... REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPEX SUNDAY, VEBDUARy 26, 2860. SUNDAY'S EDITION. INJUSTWCE TO Adz DIZLZTLL-Z.EI WAR. x5x :lSTZR, Mr. Sidney Herbert is a sentimental Mars. The hard matter-of-fact grievances of the soldier he endeavours to cure by means of pious tracts, nice religious romance, and kind-hearted, neat-handed, mellifluent-voiced young, and old, and middle-aged ladies. It will be remembered that, ...

... A COOL FOUR DOZEN. To THEl EDrron.-Sir,-Knowing your kind regard for the well-being of seamen and soldiers in respect to the total abolition of that cursed thing, the cat-o'. nine-tails, I beg to add my mite to the rest; and so to the point at once. One cold morning of the pro. sent month, at eight a.m., the pipe All hands sounded dismally uver the lower deck of HMSS Algiers (then lying at ...

... F1REE TRADE PAPER. We are told, by a few grumblers, that the total abolition of the paper duties is a part of Mr. Gladstone's budget which should be em- phatically condemned. It is just to tax paper, because paper is a luxury, the friends of the tax assert-and these friends are Conserva- tives, as a rule. Is paper a luxury? If it be a luxury, education is a luxury. Therefore, tax every primer; ...

... NOTES OF THE wB A POPISH QUESTION AND ANSWRp PIsj TEV NINTH, in the angry acolding ltt has written to the Emperor, pats the fOUel1 question:- i, A'Who can count up the revolutions that ha plac1 in Fiance within the last seventy years I es This question, strangely enough, is aswered by correspondents letter that appears in the same d s copy of the Tinmes in another part of the paper. Y3 a mood, ...

... THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUbX TiE WALtUiS-The chase of the walrus is of ge antiquity. Oether, the Norwegian, about the seaz 890, gave an account of it to Alfred the yea Having, he says, made a voyage ?? for the more coemmoditie of fishing ?? which have in their teeth bones of great price se, excellencie, whereof he brought some at his0 d to the king. In the present day the sea horss rtua the ...

... BW3H CHINA WAR We have received advices in advance of the overland mail from Bombay to the 25th January. The only matters of any interest (says the Bombay Times) in India to-day are the progress of the Viceroy, the preparation of the force for China, and the subruer- gence of the telegraphic wire between Kurrachee and Aden, of which, perhaps, the last is the most important. The China ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALK, The Irish bar consists of about seventy-six protest- ants in every hundred of the practisinglawyers. They common law bench shows seven Roman Catholics to five protestants. The widow of the late Rev. Robert Hall, so well known and so much beloved in Leicester, died at her residence, near Bristol, on the 15th inst., at the ad- vanced age of ?? Miercsury. Six young ...

... NAYpOLEON WARNS THE PRESBTS. The oanitecuc publishes a circular, addressed by M. iRouland, the minister for public instruction, to the archbishops and bishops of France, enumerating the customs, laws, and principles which, since a distant period, have established i France the incontestable authority of the church over religious society in inde. pendence of state, which is the regulator of ...

... LATEST IN LENO LATEST TELEG IC INTELLI. GENCE.: Reynolds's Newspaper Office, Sunday, 2 a.m. BY TELEIG RAM THROUGH MR. REUTnR'S OFFICE. - . Madrid, February 22. The Correspondencia Autografa states, in a correspond- ence from Tetnan, dated the 16th, that Marshal O'Donnell has remitted to the Moors the fallowing basis for the conclusion of peace:- The possession of all territory conquered, ...