... THlb REV. MR RGOBERTS AND PHE- TAEPINGS. It will be remembered that the origin of the Taeping movement was said to have occurred in the teaching of all American missionary, who in- structed the Heavenly Ruler in the rudiments of Christianity. Mr Roberts has now left the rebels, and publishes in a Hong Kong newspaper the following account of his experience when among his disciples. His ...

... A NEW BAT'TEIIY CANNON FOR DEFENDING TOW-NS. Mr Walcott, C. E, c-mimunicates the follow- ing to the A/i h-norn :-Besieged towns have often to surrenler on account of the explo- sions which have oceurred at their powdler maga- zincs and battery stores: for instance, St Jean d'Acre, by Napior, and last year atGabta, where- bv the inatcrirul a(eunliilateil for defence proved to b. the reatest ...

... ClIAEDON[AN MERCURY. SBOOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICE, TUESDAY, Eleven o'clock. FRANCE. Ths accounts racsived of the appearance of the growing crops throughout Franca continua. to ba more favourable, with a few exceptions. Ac. counts from Malio3e state thit the low prices at which manufacturers are offering their goois in order to give employment to some of their hands have induced some orders. ...

... London : John Murray. BUT a few months ago, when THE CORNIHILL Wag in the first flush of its popularity, when ONCE A WEEK, MACMILLAN, end ALL THE YEARn ROUND i came to occupy a distinguished position in our cs serial literature, not a few croakers were to be iost heard predicting that the days of our Quarterlies Dal were numbered-that they would, in fact, beho e extingnished by these dashing ...

... TILE LATE, NAVAL DA-TTLE. We have before us mlany addlitional parbiculars ba of the late naval eugagement in Hampton. Iloalds. th The following letter from Dr Shippen, who was th oin board the frigate Congress, vill be found to possecs mueh interest ?? 'There comes the Mcr- ge rhimac at last,' said one of our officers, who gr hastened diown to miy room. I vas reading a 5Pi lately received ...

... 6. Mba StA flut- . .BoYrs CLOSE Velivred MAria. Ioen'raii Reev'g ! . O. Edinr Y.O. tilousta, Leito 'Aboree}i h 'o b 10 l ?? 10 oJ 7 2,0A ' D.uOntnod '5*t4P*M) 7 iior 7 lOP. 7 Pi, 7 4() DtAb deen . . . . A ' I I 11 0Os 1 Up 1 9 Do f vsiaon 0s 1 Enp 7d. ISOA .3 0 p P3 U 7 20A Daikeilh, Peebles, ?? 5 1St iII O.10 I O'7?, DFb!in & S. ot Ireland 4P . i 5Opi 5 0j,' 7 40P Do. ?? ?? 1A 7Ur 07 OF7' ' ...

... NICOLSON SQUARE BITHS. The extensive bathing establishment at Nicol- son Square has for many years enjoyed the sup- port of all classes of the public to au extent which its importance andl usefulness as. a sanitary agent has fully dle.verved. Notwithstanding the fact that of late years a variety of new rivals have sprung up in different quarters of the city, this, the oldest institution, has ...

... CALENDAR OF GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR - THR ENSUING WEEK. (WRITrasN EXPassSer so Tif50 OiURNAL.) Vlinesxs;-In all wellni Bnaged 4thneries, the tyikg- up of the shoulders of the bunches. and thinning out. see the berries is not deferred until the fruit is stoning fol and crushing'each other, but is begun (as we rcom- . .sended before) wh`en' the- berries are no larger than no small pease, and ...

... The Turin correspondent of the Pimes says:- Unless I strangely misread the signs of the times, I believe I have good reasons to prepare you for important events in Italy. Garibaldi, it would seem, has scared the Emperor of the French out of his deeply-laid calculations, and I should not wonder if those who summoned the modern Cin- ciunatus from the solitude of his thriving farm at Caprera have ...

... ?? fell , Ot': dbitor., gal 11 HOUSES FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.. Sia,-It is heartrending to witness the, almostat frantic efforts of the working classes to obtain house di accommodation. The. time has passed for further fruitless talk: Something decisive and inimellate p( must be done on the part of the authorities to procure pi at least temporary lodgement for the labouring poor. ti I would ...

... -V MOUSE OF LORDS, Thursd: y. THE ABERDEEN ARCTIC COMPANY V. Stab AM D ANOTHER. 'n This was an appeal from a decision of the Court e- of Session in Scotland. The question involved )f was whether at Cumberland Sound, near D)avis's i- Straits, the general custom of ' fast and loose, )r prevalent over the whole of the Greenland fishe- ries, was applicable, or whether a peculiar mode rs of ...

... THE EFFECT OF LORD PALMERSTON'S SPEECHT IN TURIN.' The Thnes' correspondent ?? English House of Commons has poured ve~y balmpn the wounds inflicter on Italian feelings by the, oar- row-nlin(led, bigoted, jealous, uprighteous Uiia. tribes' tind invetives ?? 'in the French Senate nild Hottse of Rlepresentatives against all tndoffellaiug'peoiple, into whose teeth the blood shed at Magenta and ...