... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... A return of the working of each railway company shows the total expenditure last year in England and Wales wa,s £ 11,258,104. The net receipts were £ 12,196,706. Daring the year £162,921 was paid as compensation for accidents and losse s. Congregational Union of iiiiigland and yv ales.- The proceedings of the great, autumnal gather- ing of the Congregational Union commenced on Tuesday m irning ...

... OTHER INDORSEMENTS AND OPINIONS. That there is some foundation for this rumour is more than probable. The Mrtnckestrw Examiner, thus quoting the city article of Daily News, says: Some of the accounts from trustworthy quarters in Paris express a confident belief that the Emperor of the French contem- plates jecognising the Confederate States of the SOUl h. His object, it is affirme l, will be ...

... THE CONFESSION OF A MURDER TEN' YEARS AGK). FROME, TUESDAY. At noon to-day, Joseph Seer, the self-accused mur- derer of Sarah Watts, at the Woodlands, near this town, in September, 1851, was brought up for re-examination. Long before the arrival of the prisoner groups lined the road to the station, and the court-room was filled quite an hour before noon. The prisoner was brought from Shepton ...

... TUESDAY, OCTOBV.II 1.5. W. Hirst, Golcsr, Huddersfield. Yorkshire, woofleii manufac- turer.—F Ormond, Leicester, cattle jobber.—G- F. Raifleh, Hog- gin-lane, Wood-street, City warehouseman.—E. Nicholson, Corn- hill, stock and share broker.—G. Hadlev, Birmingham, whole- sale and retail fruiterer.—W. Lar^e, Tunstall, Staffordshfae, grocer and tea dealer.—F. B. ParUidgo and H. E Iwards, KVig'-i ...

... REPTILE VORACITY. The boa constrictor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, resolving at last to follow the example of its English brother, has swallowed its blanket. It appears that the boa, which is a very fine specimen, nearly lift, long, had eaten a large rabbit on the 22nd of August, and that a similar meal generally is sufficient for several days; on this occasion, however, we ...

... 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. ...

... ANOTHER ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. The law courts of Edingburgh are likely soon to dis- close the facts of a case in many respects most peculiar. The principal party or hero in the storv is a gentleman of much wealth, and moving in the highest circles of society. About 30 years ago this gentleman contracted an intimacy with a girl of humble but respectable parents, and the result was, as alleged, ...

... CHEMICAL DISCOVERIES AND THEIR APPLI- CATION. In a period of trial and of crisis for the agriculture of this country, chemical science has been one of the main agents'which has brought the agriculture of this country through that period of trial and of crisis-not only without damage, but with an immense augmenta- tion of confidence, of strength, and of utility, both to those who practise it, ...

... EXECUTION OF WILLIAM COGAN. The execution of William Cogan, for the murder of his wife, took place on Monday morning at Newgate. The circumstances under which the crime was com- mitted will be fresh in the recollection of the public. The prisoner and his wife were in the habit of getting drunk, and while in that state fearful quarrels took place be- tween them. They had been to a funeral on ...