... TRE PLUCKING OF A FRENCH PIGEON. I After reading the account of the trial for embezzlement o that has just taken place at the Paris Assizes, one feels tV almost inclined to exclaim, with Colonel Daman, Oh d woman, woman, you will not only have to answer foryour t own sins, but for half the follies and absurdities committed n by men. The defendants in this cause cgfbri were Mons. ti Berthomd, ...

... FINANCIAL PANIC IN MONTREAL, Oltawa, Sept. 1,8 The BaDnk of Upper Canada has failed, as wae pre. dicted in my letter of yesterdar. The failnre oi this InstituoLion wil, probably be foilowed by the s3rgen- sion of other establishments in Canada. Money cannot be obtained in Montreal to-day for lees than 3 5 per cent. by the safest merchants, There is much excitement and quite a little panic to ...

... LORD CARNARNTON ON LABOURERS' COTTAGES._ At the annual meeting of the Highelere Agricul. tural Association, held at Burgholere on Friday, the Earl of Carnarvon, who presided, delivered a long address. Having, as a matter of course, made some observations on the weather, the noble lord pro. ceeded to speak Ia complimentary terms of the late Lord Palsnerston, and of the tact with which he ...

... VOLUNTEER INTELLI GENCE. GOLD MEDAL COMPEfITION-4nrn ADOIt.1IXST9&TiV BATTALION LENV. The competition for the gold medal presented in 1861 by the lte Thomas Jackson, of C0otes, ?? place on Thursday at the Espieside rifie range, Tie conuitions in regard to the medal were, that it mnut be won twice by the same Individual before he can claim It as his property. It has passed on year aftor S eer, ...

... THE LANCASTER ELECTION I COMMISSION. I 4ive ADJOURNMENT OF THE INQUIRY. ,,to 2nd The inquiry was resumed on Saturday, at ten v be o'clock. Mr. James Grant, olerk to the guardians of the rby Lancaster union, superintendent registrar of births ral| and deaths, and clerk to the assessment committee this of the Lancaster union, produced a number of the statistics relative to the borough. From ...

... (rRO5I OUJR SPECIAL COOrRESPONDBIMn) NEW YORK, SE. 19. m Mr. Johnson has got back to Washington, to the ws. great relief of everybody, both his friends and se enemies. It is impossible to give you an idea of 'Ce n- the consternation and dismay which his speeches ed and those of Mr. Seward have spread amongst his .e. friends. If they could have known what was n-coming.I do not think, headstrong ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) IN a recent letter from a Vienna correspondent we read -A very ,important change has taken place: in the views of ?? with regard to the Hungarian question. Instead of at once appointing a Hungarian Ministry and convoking the Diet at Pesth for the discussion of the Imperial proposals in regard to the share to be taken by the Hunga- rians in the government of the ...

... [S ROBBERY PRnOM ADWVELLING HOUanE.-On Satur- day nieht, between eleven and twelve o'clock, an extensive robbery took place from a. house in tCecil-streot. The property stolen consisted of a gold Gevonawatch and guard, a locket, a £100 d c of England note, and four other notes of d£10 each, besides £7 in gold. d Mr. William Morris has been presented with a handsome bible containing the ...

... I -~J7 1-RERFND, GURNEY, AND CO. l (From the solicitors's' .ronral.) ?? recent Case of the GlIusnorganshire Coal and TrolCmay -. Irvine (on which we have recently corn- I nst id, 'llss, I05d4), addeied to the effect already produced be the proccediligs of the Russian Ironworks Company's sorsobl crS, 14 W. R. 943, appears to have thoroughly r the shareholders in Overond,Gurney, and Co. 2 ...

... ' ti .I t [BY TELLEUlAP*] I ?? NVE iS-LETTER OFFICE, M1ondy Moing. THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. CoiNsryNTioPLaE (via TxIEsrE), SEPT. 29.-News received here from Candia confirms the re-capture by the insurgents of the position near Malaya. At the same time, they attacked the heights of Keruza, which command Canea, but were repulsed by Ali Liza Pacha. On the 222nd instant, repeated en- counters ...

... ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON THE TEMPORAL | POWjER. t The following pastoral letter was read yesterdayI in the churches and chapels of the Archiepiscopal diocese 1 of Westminster:t Henry Edward, by the grace of Godl and the favour ofr the Apostolio See, Archbishop of Weetnminster, to the clergy, secular and regular, and the faithful of the said diocese, health and benediction in the Lord. Reverend ...

... Io THE PUBLIC BEVEENUE. (From the Sunday Gazette.) The revenue returns completed last night more than justify the favourable anticipations which we were enabled to place before our readers last week. The in. crease on the quarter, which we said would considerably exceed half a million, is in fact 733,0001., and that en the half-year amounts to 645,0001. An examination of the causes which ...