... COSMOPOLITANISM. MOVEMENTS everywhere indicate the wide- spread interest which mankind are taking in each other. True, we have to lament over Riany things which operate prejudicially to the interests of nations, and the complete triumph Of human liberty; but that only tends to in- tensify the yearnings which men feel for the Universal well-being of their species. Time and space are being, in ...

... CITY, APRIL 29.-The funds to-day are firm, at the advance of | per cent. which took place yesterday afternoon. At one period of the morning a fresh improvement of was temporarily quoted. In the share and foreign stock markets, in which this is settling day. there is not much business, but general firmness prevails. English and Belgian railway shares are in request and better. The scrip of-the ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Lord-Lieutenant of the County (Lord Leigh) has contributed 51. towards the fund for reviving the Godiva procession at Coventry this year. The subscriptions now raised amount to about 2001. There is no doubt whatever (says the Birmingham Post) that the. procession committee will now carry out their object. During the examination in London of a bankrupt, before ...

... PIG KILLING IN PARIS. We have certamly much to leam. Even the New Zealander knocks his pigs on the he, d before he cuts them up. Perhaps we may attain to that step before long, as a preliminary to adopting the method pursued by our French neighbours. Every one who has visited Paris -must be favourably im- pressed with the perfect organisation of everything round him. This order extends even to ...

... ABERDARE. A correspondent find that the Gadlys Iron Company are likely to lease their minerals at Llwydcoed to the Aberdare Iron Company only for the sake of a few pence haulage. I trust Mr. Wayne will not allow his name to be mixed with truck''for the sake of such a trifle. TRADE OF THE VALLEY.—We notice with much pleasure that, notwithstanding the depressed con. dition of trade, there was ...

... .p ROME. Nuncfo XTth/pope'™'totldTs?'S only through the Minister of Public Worshin tlL p ^sred 101 to ...

... The inauguration of an exhibition of works of art and industry took place at Romsey on the 23rd inst., under the auspices of I.ord Palmerston, who has been staying at Broadlands during the Easter recess. The ceremony took place in the Town Hall. The noble lord, who was accompanied by Lady Palmerston, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, and a numerous party of visitors from .• Broadlands, was ...

... ^oetr BRITAIN'S BROTHERHOOD. YE Muses inspire with minstrel fire, Great—grander—higher, this tivrn lo:rs lyre And let the burden of my song be Patriots—Brothers British Scions Here your kin for ages flourished, Here you lived—may still be living, Have been, are, and will be nourished Here your sires lived before you, Here their bones in quiet lie, Here you, too, at life's sure finis, May be ...

... [From The Critic.] The History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion, by the Rev. Adam T. Farrar, being the Bampton Lectures for 1862, will be pub- lished shortly by Mr. Murray. Mrs. Newton Crossland has a novel in the press entitled Mrs. Blake, which will be published by Messrs. Hurst and Blaokett, in three volumes. Mr. Buckle, according to last accounts, was about to ...

... ST. HILARY. CHURCH RESTORATION.—The old church at this place, which was in a very delapidated condition, has been restored at the sole cost of Mrs. Mont- gomery Treherne, as a memorial of her late husband, the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne. George Gilbert Scott, Esq., of London, is the architect who has superintended the restoration, and Messrs. James and Price, of Cardiff, have executed the ...

... On going into committee of supply, General PEEL asked if any decision had been arrived at m regard to the reserved fund raised by the sale of commissions, to which the attention of Parliament was especially called on the report of the committee on military organisation. He did not object to the existence of the fund or its legitimate application, but to the mode in which it was raised, and its ...

... On Thursday Mr. Payne, the coroner for the City of London, resumed and concluded an inquest at St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Thomas David Coade, a reader employed at the Morning Chronicle office, who came to his death under very mysterious and unex- plained circumstances. It appeared that the deceased and a number 01 other persons employed at the Morning Chronicle office, held a ...