... 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 ...

... MURDER LY HOP-PICKERS. Four Irishmen, nav; d Timothy Sullivan, Charles M'Carthy, John M O rthy, and Patrick White, have been brought before the county magistrates at Maidstone, charged with having caused the death of a young man, named George Bennett, alias Reynolds, a labourer, living at Coxheath, near that town. The two last-named prisoners, however, were admitted as witnesses against the ...

... COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. On the 4th inst., about five o'clock, a.m., a very serious collision took place in the Irish Channel between the screw steamer Semaphore, Captain Campbell, belonging to the Belfast Steam Ship Company, and the brig Nereid, )f Whitehaven, and resulted in the loss of the latter vessel, and the serious injury of the steamer. The Semaphore was on her way from Liverpool for ...

... When these classes were opened there were, as there still are, evening lectures given by the Young Men's Christian Association; but these do not attempt systematic instruction, or the formation of classes in which there can be established any close personal relations between those who teach and those whom they are teaching. There were also at Crosby Hall excellent evening classes open at very ...

... THE RUGBY ROMANCE. The prisoner was on Wednesday again brought up to the custody of the police. His demeanour was, if any- thing, quieter and more subdued than it was on Satur- day. He was accommodated with a seat near his counsel, with whom, he frequently communicated during the day. The first witness was Mr. John Collis, record keeper in the Bishop of London's Registry, who stated that the ...

... At the Glasgow Circuit Court a few days ago, before the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lachlan M'Lean, a spirit-dealer, Greenock, was tried for attempting to murder his wife in June last. It appeared from the evidence that the pri- soner had been indulging in drink for some days, and that while in a state of excitement he had fired a pistol at his wife, inflicting serious injuries on her face and head. ...

... IT will be seen by advertisement, that the Bishop of Llandaff will be present in Usk, on Tuesday next, when a service on behalf of the Societies for the Pro- motion of Christian Knowledge, and the Propagation of the Gospel, will be held in Usk Church, after which His Lordship will preside at the meeting in the Town Hall. ...

... A Roman Catholic nunnery was establisbed -tast week at Abbotsleigh, Devonshire. Their numbers are 38, and they had emigrated from Spetisbury, Dorset, but .originally came from Belgium at the time of the French Revolution. The late Mr. Sharman Crawford. Mr. William Sharman Crawford died on the 17th inst., at his residence, Crawfordsburn, near Bangor, county Down. He was long known to the ...

... NEWS BUDGET. The Australian Colonies. The Emigration Commissioners will dispatch the Jesse Munn for Queens- land with emigrants on the 21st of the present month, being the last ship they are likely to send out to any of the Australian colonies for some time to come, having no further funds in hand; consequently a further reduction of the extra clerks is anticipated at the end of the year. Gold ...

... MARKETS. LONDON, OCT. 7.—In consequence of commercial and politica intelligence from the Continent having become somewhat un- satisfactory, with a diminished demand for laoour in the manu- facturing- localities, more especially as regards Cotton produc- tions, there is in consequence less briskness in the market f r Colonial Produce, but supplies scarcely larger, and firm quota- tions current, ...

... From the miscellaneous commercial advices from New York it appears that the hope which was entertained by a large class of respectable traders in that, city that a sudden caprice of the majority might before 1 ng lead to a compromise and termination of the war, has been greatly damped by the total disavowal, on the part of the Federal Cabinet, of the procepdings of General Fre riont. When that ...