... FORBIGlf INTBLLIGENOE, By the arrival of the Etirapa. at Queenstown on Sun- I- day we have intelligence from New Yo* £ to tne i ...

... JUSTICE IN ROME. tinder the present regime, in the Eternal City, it is a matter of child's play for the rich offender to escape panish- ment by bribery, and for the Government to wreak its ven- geance on all suspected of disloyalty, and to make a show of justice by unmitigated severity towards the poor and friend- less criminal. The stories current here illustrating these assertions are quite ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. In the House of Lords, February 20, no public business of any importance was transacted, and their lordships adjourned after a number of private bills had been read second time. In the House of Commons business commenced by a dis- cussion on the St. Giles's-in-the-Fiekis Burial Ground Bill, which, after some discussion among the metropolitan mem- bers, was read a second ...

... TtraiN, Sunday. It is asserted that Menotti Garibaldi has resigned the of the Genoese Volunteers. It is believed that this corps will be disbanded. TurIn, May 5. »T*he subscriptions to the great canal irrigation scheme in ,PPer Italy has been two and a-half times covered in days. This has produced a very favourable effect. NAPLBS, May 4, Evening. WoLus, Nlay 4, Evening. The French fleet in ...

... RAGS FOR THE RAGGED. It is a curious phenomenon to find society at a loss for rags, yet such is actually the case. At this moment the shreds and tatters which compose the fluttering livery, the looped and windowed raggedness of beggary, constitute one of our chief national wants. The rags which have grown too old and rotten any longer to cover the nakedness of Lazarus, are coveted for the ...

... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. GRIEVANCES OF THE MALTING TRADE.—A meet- ing of maltsters was held on Monday, in the Corn Ex- change Coffee-house, Mark-lane, London, to represen t to the Government the grievances under which they lie under the new system of short credit, by which six weeks only is allowed between the assessment of the tax and the time for its payment. There was a general ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The CalSinal Archbishop of Paris, who is about to leave for Rome, has declared (says the France Centrale), ft if the Holy rather should leave his capital, he would o w him wherever went. ^British Guinea fears were entertained of rising fit the Creole population against the Portuguese. C The 70th anniversary of the birth of Pope Pius IX. .was celebrated at Rome on the 13th. ...

... THE JURORS or THE INTERNATIONAL EXHl BITION. It is not very generally known that the majority of the jurors of the various departments, both British and foreign, are composed necessarily of men eminent in the walks of commerce or trade-upon the several contributions from which they have to exercise a judicial and impartial verdict. As a juror may ba likewise an exhibitor, he is very properly ...

... MURDER BY A FATHER. At Gloucester, James Roberts has been arraigned for the murder of his child Clara Eoberts, aged fourteen months, at Bristol, on the 8th of May last. This waa a melancholy case, as the following particulars will show:— The prisoner was only twenty-five years of age, and was one of the heroes of the Redan. He enlisted at eighteen, and went to the Crimea, where, fn the taking ...

... A very curious cae has been tried at the Paris Assizes, which illustrates a section of a clety which, a M Assohnt assures us, has always existed in Paris, and congratulate* the British barbarians in attempting to get up, as a kind cut. to French civilisation. Toe prisoners were on- Dexheimer, the cashier of a stockbroker, who stood ctiarg»d with embezzling the modest sum of 44,00CM. a young ...

... M. Amedee Achard, a litterateur of a different stamp from M. Assolant, has given, in the Journal des Debate, an inte- resting account of the Epsom races. In his reflections on the fact of a vast assemblage of people where gendarmes, troops, and sgens d6 ville were not required to keep order, he says:— If a savage were told that 100,000, 300,000, or 500,000 persons consented, without being ...

... To the Editor of the Pontypool Free Press, Sir,—As I could not attend the meeting of the rate- payers on the 25th ult., I must beg of you to allow me a small space in your paper for a few observations which I trust will not be considered misplaced. First, with regard to the double salary. I am in- formed by some friends who were present that there was but one opinion at the meeting as to its ...