... CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 27. There is no political news. Great financial fluctuation has taken place during tDDe week. It is expected that Government will negotiate in Paris a 5 ppr cent, loan of 16' millions sterling, at 53J-. A national forced loan is also; spoken of. The Levant Herald has received a warning for aia article on this subject,, and ea the corruption of Hiizxt Pacha. The Austrian ...

... PERUGIA, Nov. 4. The voting on the question of annexation has com- menced. The concourse of people at the urns is extraordinary. Notwithstanding the French occupation and the pre- sence of Pontifical gendarmes, the inhabitants of several communes in the province of Viterbo are hastening to vote for annexation. ...

... Within the last few days a series of returns, prepared by Mr. Pickering, the accountant at the Lord Mayor's Court, and bearing the signature of Sir E. Carden, have been forwarded to the Home-office, showing the state of crime within the city of London during the year ending the 29th September, 1.860. From these we cull a few ot the more interesting particulars. During the year, 6,151 persons ...

... A Correspondent of the Times writes: A day or two since I had the good fortune to witness the optical phenomenon, known as the Spectre of the Brocken, which is, I think, of sufficiently rare occur- rence in England to warrant its being recorded in your columns. On Monday last, in company with some friends, I had ascended the steep down which shelters the picturesque village of Bonchurch from ...

... G. STOKES. Snow-hill, City, provision dealer. W. W. BAKER, and H. SEN J ALL, Old Bailey, City, mannfac. turlng stationers, C. G. BAIL, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, coal merchant. F, RANDALL, Whitechapel-road, coach builder, W. POWELL, Newport, Monmouthshire, linen draper. G. 1\i, P. DASIEL, Camelford, Cornwall, ironmonger. W. LKE and H. SMITH, Batley Yorkshire, woollen cloth manu- facturers ...

... MEETINO BETWEEN KINO VICTOR EM- MANUEL AND GENERAL GARIBALDI. The Debats contains a Jetter from its correspondent at the head- quarters of King Victor Emmanuel, giving the following account oftho meeting between his Majesty and General Garibaldi;- Garibaldi arrived at an aubarge between Teano and Speranzano and stopped there during the night of the 25th. He ordered his column to advance, and ...

... By this mail we receive full accounts of the capture of the Taku Forts, already announced by telegraph. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were at Tien-tsin according to the latest intelligence, and were shortly to start for Pekin, where the Chinese Government had promised to receive them honourably. Lord Elgin would be escorted, it was believed, by the cavalrj brigade, consisting of 300 men of the ...

... MODERN STATESMEN; OR, SKETCHES FROM THE STRANGERS' GALLERY OF THE HOUSE OF MR. BERNAL OSBORNE. WHY should English gentlemen engage in politics ? As a profession, it does not pay. Lord John Russell is not supposed to be immensely wealthy yet he must have spent, in election contests and for election purposes, quite as much as he has ever received back in the shape of official salary. all know ...

... CITY, WEMTESDAY, NOV. 7, The funds to-day are steady, at yesterday's prices. Business exhibits no revival. Preparations for to-morrow's settlement chiefly engage attention. British railway stocks are slightly better. The principal feature in the Stock Exchange is the con- tinued fall in Canadian railway securities. The shares of the Great Western Railway Company of Canada are marked as low as ...

... A telegram announces the death of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, at his residence, Merchistoun Hall, at 5.40 on Tuesday morning. The deceased admiral was in his 75th year. He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the Blue in 1846 Vice-Admiral of the Blue in 1853 Vice-Admiral of the White in June 1855 and Vice-Admiral of the Red in 1857. Sir Charles Napier has been a great politician in his ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 4. Prince Metternich had an audience of the Emperor yesterday. The Emperor, on receiving the news of the death of the Dowager Empress of Russia, immediately telegraphed his condolences and those of the empress to the Court of St. Petersburg. Yesterday the Court of the Tuileries, without waiting for the official notification of her Majesty's decease, went into mourning for ...

... In my last letter, says the Times' special correspondent, dated from Jennin, reference was made to the destruction of the villages situated in the plain of Bukáa, beyond the limit of action of the Druses, and which was the work of Metawileh and Moslems. Striking tents early on the first morning after our departure from the French camp at Kubb Elyas, we proceeded in the direction of Baalbek, ...