... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... In 1851 the London Exhibition was supported by 13,938 exhibitors, of whom 7,382 were British, and 6,556 were foreign. That was a year of peace; but in May, 1855, there was war with Russia, and the siege of Sebastopol was in progress, yet there were seventeen or eighteen thousand exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition, of whom—the French being about equal in number to the British in 1851—the ...

... EATING THE ARTICHOKE. The Federals are working out the old metaphor, and eating up the South leaf by leaf, as a man would eat an artichoke (remarks the Times). It is a pleasant occupation to one, not too hungry, leisurely inclined, and with plenty of time on his hands; but the artichoke is not a vegetable exactly adapted to a passenger who has but ten minutes for his dinner, and who has to ...

... This is a very serious Saturday for many an honest and peace-loving country gentleman (says the London Review). Next week the Great Exhibition opens, and Mr. Briggs, farmer and yeoman, will be obliged to think of visiting the metropolis, and, what is worse, he may have to carry a bevy of blushing domestic beauties under his fatherly wing. The horrors of his arrival in the metropolis may well ...

... Fairs—Cowbridge, Mon; Castletown, TliCS,o Monmouth, Wed Petty Sessions, Caerleon [alehouse licenses,$c.) Tuesday County Court—Abergavenny, Thursday; Chepstow, Friday ...

... INDIA, «.•-»- CALOTTEA, April 16. Mr. Latag has made bis nnanciai statement. He antici- s a surplus of 1,550,000J. ...

... A splendid collection of butterflies and moths from British Guiana has been sent, including some specimens which re- semble more nearly birds than insects, as gome of them have wings which measure, when expanded, more than eight inches across. The International Association of Decimal Coinage have succeeded in making a very perfect collection of the coins, weights, and measures of all countries ...