... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

... ON THE ADAPTATION OF DIFFERENT MA- NURES TO DJWFERENT CRops.-The records of nearly 20 years of experiments at Rothamsted have not afforded a single instance in which the application of ammoniacal salts to a cereal crop has failed to give a greater or less increase of produce. This is the case even where there has been a very unusual exhaustion of mineral consti- tuents; and this effect of ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE RIFLE VOL UNTEJfRS,- We under- stand the Second Battalion of Rifle Volunteers in this county, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bird and Major Butler, and composed of the following corps— 6th (Hanbury), Captain.Commandant Steel; 6th (Mon- mouth), Captain King; 7th (Newport Borough), Captain. Commandant Cathcart; 8th (Usk), Captain Relph; 9th (Abergavenny), Captain Hill, are ...

... PESTH, APRIL 1. Count Apponyi, Jndex Curiae of Hungary, will return to Vienna to-morrow. The opening of the Diet will most probably take place on Saturday next. ...

... HAUGHTON-LE-SICERNE RECTORY.—The Rev. E. Cheese, the new rcctor of Haughton-le-Skerne, read iiimsctfin on Sunday, in presence of a crowded congre- gallon. He took the entire duty, both morning and evening, the ordinary services being varied by the read- ing of the Thirty-nine Articles, and a declaration on his part of his unfeigned assent and consent thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer ...

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... Written on hearing a Sermon, in which Mortifying the Body was inculcated as a duty, and Pleasure denounced as Sinful. L'Abstinence des plaisirs me paroit une grand* peche.—Montaigne. -:c, y Puritan Saints! say whatever ycwi may. Your precepts tor me no attraction possess; Tne dictates of x' -u.i 1 r ust never run to a vicious excess. This world seems to me made of pleasure and pain,. T ie ...

... MORMONITE EMIGRATION.—Another body of Mormonites, 37 in number, of whom no less than 25 were women, left London for Utah, on the Salt Lake, via Liverpool, to join the brethren who preceded them a few days since. They were collected chiefly from Hert- fordshire, in which county converts to the doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints are said to have been very numerous of late. WATCHES AS A BRANCH OF ...

... THE TIMES ON THE BUDGET DEBATE. There never was a debate in which the facts of the case were clearer than on Monday night. Mr. T. Baring could only refer the House to figures which by this time have become household words. Indeed, we doubt if there is any balance-sheet in the kingdom so plainly made out and so indisputable as Mr; Gladstone's. But herein, is the very difficulty of the ...