... SECOND MON. V. R. C.—SHAM FIGHT.-On Saturday last a sham fight took place in what are known as the Farm fields between the members of the above corps, under the command of Captain Roden. The point se. lected for the attack was the Railway bridge, across which a party of skirmishers was advancing, apparently uncon- cerned wehn the enemy was discovered in the immediate vicinity. Some sharp ...

... A letter from Warsaw, dated Oct. 25, says :— It is impossible to send any news of the Conferences, for the very good reason that there have not been any Conferences at all, in the meaning usually attached to the word. Doubtless, interviews have taken place between the different statesmen and ministers who accompany their sovereigns. There have been visits and conversa- tions but no diplomatic ...

... ITALY. NAPLES, OCT. 27. King Victor Emmanuel has arrived at Teano. An engagement took plica yesterday, half way between Teano and Sessa, between the troops of the 4th Corps d'Armee and the Neapolitan royalists. After a combat of two hours the latler fdl back by way of Sessa upon Garigliano, leaving a great number of prisoners in tho hands of the Piedmontese. To-morrow the Court of Cassation ...

... For some time past there has been little or no news r') Im the Livingstone expedition, but by the arrival of ;bc Athens (steamer) we are enabled to give some par- ticulars as to the progress of the great traveller. The Rev. J. Moffat, one of the Zambezi missionaries, in a .etter, dated Nyati, Matebele country, April 1, 1860, ;ays:We are promised an opportunity to tne Bam- mgwate early to ...

... ROME, OCT. 27. General Lamorlciere has been created a Rouian noble. A decree orders a medal to be struck in his honour. Mgr. Sacconi, the Papal nuncio at Paris, has arrived at Rome, on unlUiited leave of absence. Mgr. Berardi has resigned the secretaryship of state. His brother has been dismissed from his post in the ministry of the interior. The Duke do Grammont has addressed to Cardinal ...

... Several cases of poisoning, happily not accompanied with fatal results, took place in the city on Saturday night. On that evening information was received at the Central Police Office that several parties residing in Prince-street and Salt-market had been taken seriously ill, the supposition being that they had been poisoned. Dr. M4 Gill and Dr. Chalmers at once visited the indi- viduals, and ...

... The Vienna journals announce that Mr. Roe- buck, M.P. is now in that city, and that the object of his yisit is to treat of commercial affaire, ...

... MINCING-LANE, MONDAY, OCT. 29. SUGAR.—T? at cs fully as high, and many parcels sold to-day: Manilla clayed at 38s to 39s; Havannah brown 3Ss Gd to 40s and yellow 40s 61 to 46s. Already ten sales of sugar announced' for the week. There is a larger trade in REFINED Sue AT., and an advance: common lumps not to be bought under 503. MOLASSES and TREACLE a ready sale at 18s to 20s. COFFEE in large ...

... THE success of the volunteer movement has brought into the field many who claim to have bad the honour of originating it. In truth, we believe no one originated it—it is but the revival at an opportune period of an old idea. Mr. Hans Busk, a gentleman as much connected with the movement as any one, says:— As far back as 1837 (when an undergraduate at Cambridge) I had strongly urged upon the ...

... THE LATE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT ROAD. There has probably never been a crime perpetrated in this country by which the public mind has been so deeply stirred as it has been by the assassination of the innocent child at Road-house. Other murders may have produced as marked and as lasting an impression in particular dis- tricts, but there are circumstances connected with this appalling tragedy which ...

... Forty thousand poor homeless children foam the streets of Now York to beg, to starve, or to steal. ...

... SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE, feeling his inability, from his recent impairment of sight, to perform all the duties of President of the Royal Society, forwarded his resignation of that office to the counoil of that body. At a special meeting held last week the council unanimously resolved to request Sir Benjamin to allow himself to be again nominated as president, with an understanding that he should ...