... THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY IN I FRANCE. I 'he correspondent of the Daily Retus says- Having sat out this trial from beginning to end, I feel bound to express my conviction that the common belief that the plot was got up by the police is totally unfounded. Neither do I believe any one of the prisoners to be a mouton or spy. The antecedents of the prisoners negative this conclusion, and show them ...

... Last Friday night's Gaaette officially recog- nises the final and hopeless failure of a line of policy which was from the first condemned in these columns on grounds that subsequent experience has only too fully confirmed. The very questionable experiment of lending British naval and military officers, and disci- plined British skill and courage, to help the Chinese Government against the ...

... (BY TELRgRAPH.) THE WAR IN DENMARK. THE AUSTRIANS AND PRUSSIANS IN JUTLAND. VIENNA, MARCn 4. It is stated here, in well informed quarters, that the advance into Jutland will not be longer delayed, an understanding upon the subject between Prus- sia and Austria having been obtained BERLIN, SATURDAY, MaMh 5. The Spenrsche Zeitun.g of to-day publishes a telegram, dated Vienna, Friday evening, ...

... BI7-ING -HMB - oAI = i A l = BIRYINGHAM BeAR OF GUARDUM The uspal weekly meeting ofthrBoaW was held yester. dayafternoon, at th? Parish Offices, ,Paradie Street. KMr. Jones ?? n) ?? ' te t aeJsie' of ,the; ebabtruan (M~r.1 3%; Lloyd, ?? t , ed , I GarwIan ,~au num~erous. ;aJ Tm1DEFS NOR rss ?? ?? meettn haA neenl made special for the purposoif creeiovig the tnes fort the supply of foed and ...

... RIFLE sHOOTING. 1we liar ilso 1asure in noticing that a now 'Rife Club for the C,'ae1tite~s of -Aberdeen, Baniff, and Kinlcardinei ntecus ho, eil rgonlised. The peculiar object Of this Club is thlea ej. or~genctttof Long Rang1~ecShooting with small bores. - l ,J v ay the itouniuinse su periority at distant objects of off iU c ilt5ovrcononEifed is becoming more amau- an Ly enld lot re is some ...

... plpjiamfloa?g vxpqtdiqs. HOUSE OF LORDS-MoNDAY, FPuB. 29. In reply to the Marquis of WEzSIMEATH, Earl RUssEuLL said there was no doubt that any person conspiring to assassinate the Emperor of the French would be guilty of a detestable crime, but he would not be justified in saying that Signor Mazzini, or any other person living in this country, was guilty of that crime.l Having ao such ...

... COLMMISSIONS OF THE CHURCHES. POMIBSSION OF THlE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. hes the Yesterday was the day appointed for the in mneeting of the Commission of the Established We Church; but no business was transacted, a suffi- cient number of members to form a quorum not Cht baing present.Cl by COMMISSION OF THlE FREE CHURCHI. of 'Tbe Free Church COMmission met yesterday- ter Principal Candlish, ...

... The following remarkable petition has been preseited to the House of Commons by Mr Sew- degate, and ordered to be printed with the votes, and circulated among the members of the House of Commons The humble petition of Alfred Smee, Fellow of the Royal Society, of No. 7 Finsbury Circus, in the city of London, showeth, that on the 16th of July 1863, your petitioner attended the funeral of a ...

... On Tuesday (From the Morning Post.) tt On Tuesday evening the Countess of Fife introduced rather, I a novel. feature into the evening entertainments of London al society by producing a series of tableaux vivafaM, in which d some of the graceful creations of poets and painters were most g I effectively delineated. It will be remembered that at the visit vi of the Prince and Princess of Wales to ...

... SIR P. BRISCO ON SILKS, HATS, AND PAPER COLLARS. i AT the annual soiree of tho Egramont Mechanics' Institution, Sir Robert Brisco, Bart., made a speech in which he referred to some of the cheap but very useful articles manufactured at the present day. Ieo said there were many ladies in that room who would be astonished when he told them that he had seen most beautiful silks-they must excuse ...

... ?71,he jlu.55. , -- L-?L -,,I ?? THE AMERICAN WAR OPERATIONS OF 1864. [1rlOoM TIHE OLOBE,. Tore Federals have opened the Spring campaign by a very strikingt movemelnt. General Sher- man, who has led an army from Vicksbarg, is reported to have crossed not only the Pearl River at Jackson, but tilm railwny which some milos further E.astward runs to Mobile. That is to say, ho has advaneed nearly ...

... I ?tl. yllp - , Ik K O i . I ?? ) V , pi, dfut , 'clause M eV. It (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELF A S T: THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1864. TenE Houso of Commons only sat for a few minutes yesterday morning, and no business of ally iuportanco was transacted; There continue to be skirmishes and move- ments of troops in the neighbourhood of Duppel, but no engagement of any consequence has oc- curred, or ...