... ?er?eznb?t?4 FROM CARDINAL ANTONELLI TO THE MARQUIS DE LAVALETTE. Monsieur Le Marquis,-I am requested by his Holiness to ask ou, in all earnestness and sincerity, whether the advice ''ered by you in these two solemn documents, from the Eands of the Emperor and M. Thouvenel, are genuine State papers, issuing from those high authorities. His Holiness and myself could not help conceiving doubts, ...

... At early dawn on Monday morning notice was received that a ship was on the most dangerous part of the Horse Bank, near Lytham, on the Lancashire coast. It was blowing a very strong gale at the time from the west, with a heavy sea. As soon as practicable. the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was launched and towed to wind- ward by the Loch Lomond steamer. After having been cast off ...

... [A mark () is attached to the Events discussed or more fully nar- rated in this week's EXA11I-AS.] AMRRICA: FOREIGN. Sept. 14.-Commencement of the battles in Maryland which end in the evacuation of that State by the Confederates.' The Federal Colonel Miles, with 6,000 mea, surrenders at Harper's Ferry to General Jackson. The Federals paroled.* 15.-Battle near Sbarpsburg between General ...

... The last moments of Catherine Wilson, who was executed on Monday for poisoning Mrs Soanies, are reported as follows: . Dziri her stay in Newgate the culprit appeared to pay the most respectfil attention to the exhortations of the ordinary, but there appears to be very considerable doubt whether she was sincere in her religious Mani. festations, and the chaplain, seeing the apparent state of ...

... THE POLITICAL EX IR. f I might give a short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. I~ hsbe resoived to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed troth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells ter crimhes ef great mene they foil upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have ...

... Offical Reports of the late E ngagemeset at Corsistk. The following despatches have been addressed by Geuergl Grant to the General-in-Chief of the United States' army: Jackson, Tennessee, 8 a.mn., Ott. 5.-Yesterday the rebels, under Generals Price, Van Dorn, and Lovell, were repulsed from their attack on Curinth, with great slaughter. The enemy are in full retreat, leaving their dead and ...

... llDiabiIia. How HEERINGS ArtE CUIRED-The curing of herrings in Scotland is overlooked by an officer of the Board of Fisheries, in order that a mark may be branded on the barrels of gutted fish, to signify that they have been properly cured. The herrings are measured out from the boats in wicker-baskets by the crew, and poured as fist as they can be carried into the gutting-trough, where they ...

... Official Report of the Battle of Ass tietast. The following report of the victory of Antietam has been forwarded to the head-quarters of the army by General M'Clellan: Near Sbarpsbrg, Sept. 8X.-To Major-Gefleral H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chiefof the United States' Army.-General,-I have the honour to report the following as some of the resnlts of the battles ofl South Mountain and Antietam. ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell himahie fate. Iheresolved to venture upon the dongereus precilieo eln nise truth let him proclaim war rith ?? either to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them Of virtuhe n the s the man r tyrdom on both him with slander. 'But if he ...

... Serious disturbances have taken place this week at Birkenhead, between Irish Roman Catholics and Garibaldi sympatbisers. The local excitement was much increased by a letter appearing in the Liverpool papers on Wednesday morning from the Rev. Mr Braudrit, of St Wer- burg's Roman Catholic Church, in which lie owned that in addressing the mob at the late riot he had disparaged Garibaldi in the ...

... Carrespubtuff. GENERAL PEEL ON GREAT GUNS. Sir,-With much interest I have read General Peers speech on returning thanks for the Army and Navy at the late dinner of the Huntingdonshire Agricultural Society. If I desired confirmation of the comments I have made on General Peel's mistake as regards the Armstrong gun, I find that confirma- tion in all General Peel said, and more so in that which ...

... President Lincoln'a Proclamation. The President's proclamation states that the war will be continued to restore the constitutional relation between the States, and that he shall again recommend the next Congress to adopt a practical measure, tendering pecuniary aid for the free acceptance or rejection of those States now in rebellion which may adopt an immediate or gradual abo- lition of ...