... , MANATTAN, in his lest letter to the ?? Herald, observes:- , I From the time the Irish began to arrive in this country after the war of 1776 up to this time, all parties, especially the political, have considered that they were fair subjects for gammon, and to be used as the monkey used the cat's paw. When the rebels threatened Washington, 'the 69th Regiment, Irish mostly, was among the ...

... CAVOUR AND THE PEACE OF VILLA- FRANCA. About twelve o'clock next morning, says the Count Charles Arrivabene in his ' Italy under Victor Emmanuel, Cavour and his secretary walked up again to Casa Melchiori with Count Nigra, the steward of the Royal household, and General Della Rocca. Cavour knew by that time that the great sacrifice had been constuulnated. He was exceedingly excited. His face ...

... THE PRESS OS tTHE CAKTURE OF GARIBALrDI. (PROM THE TIMES.) *While we feel it our duty to record in terms so decided our want of sympathy in the frantic en- terprise which has thus so signally miscarried, we cannot avoid feeling for the fallen fortunes of a man who has just, by an act of suicidal folly, precipitated himself from a position among the most enviable which it is possible foe human ...

... ., nexra! ?? . - Til Blondin carried Mr Rogers, the comedian of the Strand, on his back at his Crystal Palace per. formance on Tuesday. I I A violent storm broke over Cannes and neigh- bourhood two days ago; The hail fell in great quantities, and caused much injury to the olive you groves. The vines also suffered considerably. I Advices from Turin mention the existenee of a circular which is ...

... CAlEDONIAN MERCURY. SIGOND EDITION. MERCURY O0[14 TnuiRSuAY, Eleven o'olook. AMERICA. The ie-in' New York correspondent writes on Aug. 21 that there werefearsthat Jackson had been auccessful in bearing down upon Pope before he could be reinforced by Burnside or McClellan. The news from Kentucky and Tennessee is even more calculated to excite alarm than that from Vir- ginia. The Federal General ...

... [A mark (4) is attached to the Events discussed or more fully nar- rated in this week's Ex>sixEe.z AMERICA: F OREIGN. Sept. 4.-A Richmond despatch calls on the Confederate Congress to jextend the most vigorous measures for executing the Conscription Act, so as to call in the field immediately all able-bodied men between eighteen and forty-five years of age, to enable them to at once push their ...

... I SCINDE BAILVA Y. I The following is the report which is to be sub. nlitted to the proprietors at the thirteenth half-yearly gene- ral meeting of the company, to beheld on Thursday next: In March last it was reported that every exertion had been made for accommodating traffic, by providing addi- tional rolling stock aud adequate stations-that the em- bankment of the line had been breached ...

... THE ACCIDENT AT MONKWEABMOUTH I COLLIERY.I The following additional particulars of this mne- lancholy accident are from yesterday's A'oerastle C'hrnicile: The well-known Pemberton's Pit-as it was once called-st Monkwvealimouth, Suederland, is now the sceee of another serious calamity, involving, unhappily the sacri- flie of five lives, and the present loss of emlymn to hundreds of Survivors. ...

... TI1jE DIST-REZ'ES INLANCASHIRE. T're e..xecutive coni'ttee of the Manchester Central PRslief Committee assembled at the Town-lhall yes. trday, Sir J. ?? KAY SHUITLEIWORT11, tihe tleputy Chair- liCUjiE, the hon. secretary, read a letter from the Earl of Ellesmero, regretting that lie could not bo preoeut in conselluetco of inldisposition. A letter was also read ironl the yjayor of Liveirool, ...

... I mt,: - - - _ , , .. I . . .. . . _ This ancient Festival has continued the whole week. On the first day (MoNDrAY) the proceedings commenced with the opening of the Guild Court, in the Grammar School, Cross-street, where the Mayor, Corporation, and Guild Officers attended. The Guild books were opened, and the formal legal business of the Guild duly and solemnly transacted. This important ...

... THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. I ?? ?? . ?? It will be recollected that aome minths since, at the in. etanee of the Atlandc Telegraph Company, the Lords of tibe Admiraity oidered rhe paddlevlfeel steam sarveying-vessel Porcupine, 3, to be prepared for sounding tha: portion of the bed of the ocean, near Ireland, on which the elrctric cable, laid by Sir Ohae, Bright, is supposed to have broker. ...

... CROS-ED OBEQUE& (By Mr. Davha Dickbon, in the Journal of Trade.) C lhis sy-tevm is ?? itti-e kuowt- in Scotland. Toe few y ,who Use fivd it 63 t.-r the safest aad most convenient of all modes ot revihrtivg or paying money. It had iti orlgin in London, wheje ?? plcan *t paying by chequo iusatsd of N; aonoey bad loag lentu pr-fetred. Tbese chequts beiog py. Ei able to the beawer. mctI rf-,k ...