... YOUNG MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SO- CIETY IN EBANCE.—We have been gratified in perusing a small pamphlet which has been sent to us, containing a report of an acldresswhich was delivered to a young men's mutual improvement society at St. Pierres-les- Calais, in France, by Mr. John Robert Taylor, Hon. Sec. of the London Mechanics' Institution. The subject of the address was, The Rise and ...

... Wljt ejoitrt, &t. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, and Major Teesdale, arrived, on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Ilardwicke, at Wimpole-hall, near Royston, from Cambridge. A small circle were invited to meet his Royal Highness, including the Duke of St. Albans, Mr. Adeane, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE AMERICAN QUARREL AS AFFECTING ENGLAND, —Both the American Confederations profess a strong desire for the sympathy, if not for tbe alliance, of England. Some leading politicians iu the North think that their object will be secured by the bluster which is so inseparable from all their political and diplomatic traditions, Mysterious vengeance is threatened against any ...

... Recent letters from Florence and Rome represent a very hostile feeling in the Italian populations towards the priests, or rather towards the clerical hierarchy, oil account of the injunctions of some of the bishops forbid- ding any' notice t& be taken in the churches of the grand national festival of June 2. Thursday last was one of the great festivals of the church—Corpus Domini day. The ...

... TOWN TAL K. BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. ON; readers Mill understand that we do not hold ourselves reo sponsible for our able correspondent's opinions. MR. GLADSTONE deserves the credit of having kept his secret perfectly this time. Although there is nothing startling in the Budget, it came on the commercial public completely by surprise. A deficiency, and an addition of a penny to the income ...

... The following communication from Naples of the 6th gives an account of the late conspiracy:— Arf extensive reactionist movement was discovered last night in the capital and its environs. The frustra- tion of this attempt will be attended with happy conse- quences. The recruiting committee, sitting at Domenico Luciano's, in the Strada San Giovanni, was last night surprised by the police agent ...

... ssouth. Lancashire Election.-Mr. Gladstone handed his reply to an influential deputation which waited upon him a few days ago requesting him to stand for buuth Lancashire. His letter is couched in terms which must be highly gratifying to those from whom the invitation emanated. He declines the honour, basing his refusal entirely upon a consideration of the duty which he owes .to his present ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THE EAST INDIA. HIGH COURT OF JUDI- CATURE BILL.—Earl DE GREY moved the second reading of this bill.-The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH objected that the bill went far beyond the necessity of the case, and likened its provisions to a proposition to unite the Scotch and English judges, chairmen of quarter sessions and petty sessions, into one tribunal. He also objected to the measure ...

... The Pope's Illness.-A letter from Rome of the 16th inst. savs: On Tuesday next the Pope will probably be conveyed to his country house at Castel Gondo fo. At court and elsewhere alarming rumours about his health continue. What is most dwelt on is the gradual weakening of his mental faculties. As to that I am able to assure you that the Pope's illness is in fact rather morl than physical, and ...

... A NAPOLEONIC IDEA. The Money Market Review affords a glimpse of what may be the solution of these anticipated embarrassments. The writer states that it is confidently though privately reported in ministerial circles in Paris that the Emperor of the French has taken the momentous resolution shortly to recognise the independence of the Confederate States of America, with a view to put an end to ...

... THE N-ATION-AI. DEBT (From the Gazette of Ost. 11.')'. The Lords Commissioners ot Her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt that there was no surplus of actual revenue over the actual expenditure of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland for the year eaded the 30th of June, 18S1■ The Commissioners for the Reduction of the ...

... RAGLAN INSTITUTE.-Held over until next week. ...