... WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1864. The City of Baltimore, which passed Cape Clear yesterday, brings New York dates to the 30'h April. The American news she brings aie, upon the whole, unimportant. The losses sustained by the Federal forces under Geneial Banks in the late campaign are larger than was at first reported. His expedition is represented as a disastrous failure. It is asserted that he lost ...

... WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, Yesterday, there were two American arrivals the Belgian and City of Washington. The former brings New York dates to the 17th, and the latter 20th. General Grant has arrived Washington. Secretary Stanton has ordered the draft to take place on the 19th instant the States which have not as yet furnished their due proportion. Mr Seymour has been nominated for Governor of ...

... FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1864- The Duke of Augustenburg arrived at Kiel yesterday, and was proclaimed Duke of Schleswig-Ilolstein. He is to remain there for three days his private capacity, and will then return to Altona. According to the Times' telegram from New York, intelligence from Mexico had been received by Yera Cruz. Persons from that city, who had arrived at New Orleans, it is said, confirm ...

... TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1864. The House of Lords sat twenty-five minutes last night. After the High Court of Bombay Bill passed through Committee, their Lordships adjourned. In the House of Commons last night, Sir R. Peel, answer to Mr Maguire, stated that the Government did not intend to introduce a bill this session to regulate the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland. The Chancellor of the ...

... MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1864. Important intelligence has been received from the seat of war in Schlevwic. On Friday, three o'clock, afternoon, Prince Frederick Charles threw a pontoon bridge over the Scblei, near Amis, and crossed the river with his division. Roder's brigade crossed boats, posted fot ward, and captured fcur 24-pounders. At two o'clock on Saturday morning, dnring snow-storm, the ...

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... The military intelligence by the Hibernian does not add much to the information we previously had. There are news from Grant, and possibly the next thing we shall hear of him will be that he has been attacked by the Confederate?. Early has been succeeded by General Ewell, and we may infer that the latter has on Sheridan, who has retreated to Winchester. The Confederates in the Shenandoah ...

... The cause of the loss of the Stanley the subject of searching investigation at Newcastle. First the Coroner summons his jury, to enquire how certain persons were deprived of life, and now examination, promoted by the Board of Trade, is going on, and is conducted by the Magistrates, with the assistance of nautical men, in a very strict manner. While all that is being done as regards the loss of ...

... The Mount St Bernard,Refowuaiyry Whitwick, in Leicestei shire, has been mentioned in Parliament ;• it was high time it should be mentioned there, and that the Home Secretary had his eye upon it, and that something should be done to make it what its name imports it should be, and what its history shows is not. present it appears to be a Reformatory on the lucus a non lucendo principle, for ...

... The letter from Dr Arrottto Sir John Ogilvy, w ich we published yesterday, is one which deserves attention, and must receive due consideration. It can hardly be passed over in silence by the authorities of the Infirmary. That Institution is a publicone, and if the matters relating to it should not always be publicly discussed, the deep interest which felt in them ought to ensure that the ...

... When Combe wrote his celebrated works on health, Christopher North sneered at them the productions of fussy old woman. Time, however, which brings in its revenges to the most of us, h;is since done ample justice to Combe in obtaining for his advice as to the proper care of the body a full and frank recognition. If people with good coats to their are not healthier than their fathers, it is not ...

... NEW QUESTION It is refreshing at this period, when the world seems to have got almost old as to render novelty impossible, to find something which gives a flat contradiction to the well-worn adage which says— There is nothing new under the sun. There something which, so far as we kuow, entirely new—utterly without precedent. It is a question which is raised in a case before the Court of ...