... PARIS, SEPT. 4. The Patrie of this evening publishes the following telegram:— NAPLES, SEPT. 3. The annexationist committee assembled this morning and received communication of a letter from Garibaldi, stating that, as the state of the country requires a de- finitive solution, he will arrive at Naples about the 8th instant, and will in the name of Victor Emmanuel assume the dictatorship of ...

... EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT FRAUD. Whilst hay was fetching X5 a-ton, a well-to-do farmer in the Isle of Man hid himself in a load, and his weight of course was added to that of the hay. Before the hay was shipped the trick was detected, and after another weighing 7s. 9d. was deducted from the price. ...

... VIENNA, SEPT. 23. In yesterday's sitting of the Reichsratb, Count Clam Martinetz declared that the laws concerning the public press are not satisfactory, and proposed the insertion of a demand for their revisal in the reports of the coin* mittee. The majority of the committee agreed to this pro- position. The reports of the majority and the minority of the committee were then read by the ...

... A petition has, it is said, been lodged against the recent return of Francis Macdonogh, Q.C., for Sligo. ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, SEPT. 10 There are still ready sellers of Engiisli WHEAT, and the reduc- tion since Monday last has been 4s to Gs per quarter, new selling at 44s to 61s atid old 50s to 60s, at which not much business done. Heavy supplies of foreign, few buyers, and prices much lower, ruling at;526 to 56s: and Russian 4bs to 5.4s. The FLOUR trade also ruled heavy, and a reduction: sellers ot ...

... DISTURBING A CONGREGATION.-A parrot belonging to some friends of mine was generally taken out of the room when the family assembled for prayers for fear lest he might take it into his head to join irreverently in the responses. One evening, however his presence happened to be unnoticed, and he was forgotten. For some time he maintained a decorous silence, but at length, instead of Amen, out ...

... An English lady writes as follows from Naples: I have seen to-day the face of Garibaldi, and now all the devotion of his friends is made as clear as day to me. You have only to look into his face, and you feel that there is, perhaps, the one man in the world in whose service you would take your heart in your hand and follow him blindfold to death. I never altogether understood that feeling ...

... (For the ensuing Week). FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.—Where cuttings of verbenas and such like things have yet to be put in, they should be inserted rather thinly in deep pans or shallow pots in which they can be wintered, as they will be got established sooner in this way than would be the case if they were to be potted off before winter, and we have frequently found late cuttings managed in ...

... NAPLES. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 15. ,Letters from Naples, to the 11th inst. state that very ardent popular demonstrations were taking place in that city. Many priests and monks were fraternising with. the people. A police regulation prohibited the compelling of the inhabitants to shout Long live Garibaldi! Numerous desertions were taking place from Gaeta, laat, the greater part of the soldiers and ...

... THE OIVIL. WAR IN SYRIA. LETTER FROM SYRIA. A Beyrout letter of the 23rd ult., in the Semaphore of Mar selfles, contains the following passages:- The news from the Mountain is not satisfactory to- day, a general feeling of uneasiness having succeeded the tranquillity of the last few days. Tha cause of this change is, that the day before yesterday some Druse merchants, who were bringing goods ...

... On Wednesday night a public meeting, in conned ion with th London Cabmen's Sunday Hest Association, the oujcct of which, as expressed in the programme, is to secure to thu metropolitan cabmen their natural and Scriptural right to the rest of the Lord's-day, was held in the large reading-room of the Work- men's Institute, York-road, Lambeth, Mr. J. Gurney Hoare, who takes an active part in ...

... MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM DROWNING.-As a Mr. Gay, commercial traveller, of Bristol, was fishing in the river Usk, near this town, on Saturday last, he slipped into a deep hole, atilt, before a-sistance could arrive, was drowned. The unfortunate gentleman had been married only a few days previously, and was spending the honey- moon at the time he met with his untimely fate. ...