... THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AN~D THE PRESS. After the manner in which the Times' correspondent, Mr. Russell, has been pre- vented by -the Washington Government from availing himself of the hospitality and protection which its own general was will- ing to extend to him, it will be more diffi- cult than ever for European spectators of the struggle to place any reliance on accounts received from a ...

... I MODERN GUNS & RON-CASED I VESSELS. The DCboat contains a very remarkable article on Iron-cased ships and naval gunner. It Is signed by M. Xaviler Raymond, hut It 1s salo to proceed from a tar higher quarter. If what the writer says of the Anastronjg guns and ot the breech-loading ordnanoe ?? be correct, thereclan be no doubt of the future superiority of Frantc on cur own ele- ment. The ...

... LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEws. PARIS BOURSE, FRIDAY.-[Reuten r's Telegram.] - The bourse was steady. Rentes orened at 70 12 and closed at 7010, or N, higher thv., yesterday. COLONIAL PRODUCE.-SUPY',leS of colonial pro- duce are larger, and, as itr.porters have accepted rather lower prices, aores sed purchases have been made both by exporters ' nd by home dealers; but there Is an absence of sp' ...

... AMERICA& I The City of Was Igeete arrived Iin the g yeeterday, with New York,~ papers of Mairch y' During (he firat part of the voyage h eprned a- severe snow storm., 90 miles eat ?? oo9~ ahe eo od ight signals with ttotemhi Glasgow. hewas in company seea dys wtte C steamship HuAmmonla. The following is from the summary of the New h4) York Heroldf ?? 29 : The news from, the Union army at au ...

... IRON-PLATED SHiPS verse's FORTIFICATIONS. The pedantry, perversity, and spaper- cilionsness of offlicialism-all those quali- ties, in short, which are summed up in the convenient term red-tapismi-were never more strikingly exemplified than in the House of Commons last Monday evening, on the occasion of the discussion on iron- plated ships, so usefully originated by Sir Frederick Smith. The ...

... TEHE IRON-CASED SHIP QUESTION. Captin Cowper Coles's letter to the Times, giving an .account of the reception . which his inventions experienced at the b hands of the Government, will have been read with painful feelings by Englishmen ' who care tor the security and honour of their country. The idea embodied with so 1 signal a success in Mr. Ericsson's Monitor . is, in truth, an English idea; ...

... In Saturday's paper w e ( aZsgou' Herahld noticed h the ?? of a young man named James Coats Fleming, commission agent, on a charge ofh forgery. Fleming, it appears, had been In London, and on his way home he had got a glimpse of a gen ; tleman In the train 'whom be had no pa~rticular t anulety to see. In fact, so averse was he to meet him, that he left the train at Motherwe Station, forgetting ...

... The ship Emily St. Pierre, whose recent recapture i has created so much interest, is now in the Quecn's Doeck. The mearines belonging to the James Adger, r who were confined on board the Emily St. Pierre, e have been given Into the charge of the American Y consul at this port, and to-day w'll be sent back in a C steamer to the United States. y AIthough the agents of the vessel here refused to ...

... :THE LIGET OF BICENTENARY I : STARS. I MESSRS. MACFADZEN AND MELLO&R CEA'TER I. Bebbld, ye fast for strife and debate, ad to smite with the fat Of wickedness. The recent meeting of the Lancashire Congre- gational Union was reported in your oolarnins. With its general objects I do not interfere: it is right to support weak congregations, and It is praiseworthy to erect new chapels If they be ...

... LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE, MOUNT-STREET. - A b lecture on elocution, with illustrative readings, will n be delivered at this institute to-night at eight o'clook cl by Frederick Kempster, Esq., M.A., Oxon. The n chair will be taken by J. T. Danson, Esq., the tI president of the institute. THE ARTILLERY AcCIDENT NE.B PRESTON.- j' Bombardier Ashley, who was blown from a gun at b Warton barracks, on ...

... TI E SWNFEN IA~CE 13) I Great wits to madness are allied, is an 3 old maxim, and it never received a better _ illustration than in the trial which has just roccupied Chief Justice Cockburn and a ape. , cial jury at Warwick during three days The Swinfen case is not only a cuase eiiure' , but, like some of those monster melodr tan, of Dumas the elder, the representation of 3 which used to ...

... The efficacy of such a powerful gun as forts alone can carry has been proved incontestably upon plates that correspond wit the sides of the strongest ship yet construted;* and It has become once more evi dent that guns of this calibre must be mounted upon forts capable of removing them, and placed in the best position for the defence of our most valuable national wealth-that Is to say, our ...