... CITY, WEDKESDAT, APRIL 3. The funds remain heavy. A fresh fall of to l per cent, has taken place to-day. There is a vague feeling of uneasiness with regard to the course of affairs on the Continent. The continued heaviness of the Paris Bourse has a bad eftect, that market being very anxiously watched. British railway stocks are again weaker. Lombardo Venetian Railway shares have fallen to 2 ...

... The horses, theatrical appointments, and other pro- perties belonging to this celebrated place of amusement, were last week submitted to the public for sale by Mr. Gower, the proprietor of the Horse Repository, Barbican. Air. Batty, who, it will be remembered, rebuilt the theatre after its destruction by fire, has for a considerable time been suffering from ill-health, and after catering fi r ...

... ITALY. NAPLES, JAN. 24. Libono Itomano, Minister of the Interior, has appointed a commission for the publication of historical documents concerning the Bourbon dynasty taken from the archives at Naples, and dating from 1790 until 1860. ROME, JAN. 24. One thousand Sardinians have attacked the convent of Caaamali in the Roman States. They dispersed the reactionary band, set fire to the convent ...

... COTTON FROM: JAMAICA.—A late resident in Jamaica writes to the Times As the Lancashire manufacturers, and indeed the public at large, have at length awakened to the great danger of depending al- most exclusively for our supply of cotton upon the Slave States of America, we need not go so far as tho East Indies, or Australia, or other remote corners; that wa have within a month's sail of this ...

... VIf}e Court, THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE HUNTING FIELD.— His Royal Highness the Prince of Whiles joined the field of the Cambridgeshire Hunt on Monday, attended by his equerry, Captain Grey. The meet was at Chrlderley, in the vicinity of Madingley., and in consequence of a rumour having got abroad that the Prince was likely to be pre- sent, the field was a very numerous one. The lord-heu- ...

... A general meeting of the beneficed clergy of the City and Archdeaconry of London was held last week in the great hall of Sion College, London-wall, in consequence of the following requisition, addressed to the President: Dear Mr. President,-We, the undersigned Fellows of Sion College, alarmed at the public profession of infidel doctrines by ministers of the Church of England, request a meeting ...

... The funniest of all these marks of respect, or, as I suppose I should call it, etiquette, is the bale mari which is, that if a master makes a false step and tumbles down, the servants must do so also. I once saw a verv amusing example of this, and certainly a strong proof of the tenacity with which these extraordinary people cling to their ideas of right and wrong. The great men were ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS. f Mr. Francis Cavendish, of the Foreign-office, Son of General the Hon. Henry Cavendish, who met with such a severe accident recently, is recovering. The improvement, though slow, is satisfactory, consider- ing the serious nature of the injuries he sustained. The Right Rev. Dr. James Chapman, Bishop of Colombo, has resigned that see, and will return to England as soon as his ...

... FRIDAY. MAY 10. THE WAR IN AMERICA.—The Earl of DERBY said he had given notice in writing to the noble earl opposite to ask a question relative to the state of affairs in a distant part of the world. Their Lordships were aware of the unfortunate outbreak which had taken place in the United States. He knew that the question of belligerent rights was now under the consideration of the officers ...

... Under this heading some very curious events may be recorded, chiefly taken from the amusing work of Francis on the subject. He gives the subjoined as traditionary notices, but we offer them in a greatly abridged form. The chief clerk of a banking firm having robbed his house of £20,000 in bank notes, escaped to Holland, and sold them to a Jew broker. No trace of the property was obtained for ...

... FTATRVR-V. THE DAGGER-WEAIIING DOCTOR.—- lit; po, ...

... -TNEFT.—Joshua Evans, charged with stealing a quan- tify ot scrap leather, nine files, a driil, brass and copper piping, &e., the property ofThos. Brown, Esq.-Not guilty. STEALING A COAT—Lewis Davies, blacksmith, was found guilty of stealing a coat, the property of John Crane. The prisoner pleaded guilty to a previous conviction.- Seven years penal servitude. STEALING FILEs.-Matthpw Davies, ...