... INTRIGUE IN ITAL Y. THE circumstances connected with the recent Ministerial crisis in Italy have been very inadequately made known. The correspondents of the ?? press have been either unwilling or unable to throw light on an incident that fell like a thunderbolt out of the summer sky. The whole matter has been shrouded in a mystery, which has had the inevitable effect of stimulating conjecture ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE House of Commons sat for four hours yesterday evening, and was occupied during the greater part of that time in a debate on the question of purchase in the army. The subject was introduced in a terse, vigorous, and exhaustive speech by Mr. Trevelyan. The objections to the system have been summed up by Sir George Trevelyan in a pamphlet which has already been noticed in ...

... I T be; rP D D e l- 1OE., _WM , s J \ e 11 11 . ?? 11 I .mo 'un srsci~a co~sauROMHE 1APt 26. What her commencniient'is:tq lrie;iand her u commemoration to Oxford, .that, on a very large tl scale, is to Rome: the week which we have just tc survived-a week which - is here styled * Holy, IC but which is surely in fact the most unholy week of rZ the Roman year. For is any kinil of religion com ...

... THE SOUTH LANCASHIBE LIBERALS AND MR. GLADSTONE. A public meeting of the liberal county electors in support of the Bight Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, 3L., was held last night at Hengler's circus, Newington, Liyerpl . W. RATHBONE, jUW, in the chair. The building hogls about 3,000 persons; the admission was by ticket, and was chiefly confined in the first instance to county eleotors, of whom ...

... POLITICAL TRIALS UNDER FRENCH AND ENGLISH LA W. IT seems singular that in a country where the hatred of informers has always been intense and universal there has never yet been an Irish out- break in which these persons did not abound, the only difficulty being to choose from among the multitude of those ready and anxious to sell their secrets to the Government. But there are informers and ...

... a d. iFtsP~ ?? i?.'Y ' . ' | CHAP., E OP, 01VXSPYRAe - To DEIo' ,, UD AZ I I ?? .l4YEB. QL0 A case of considerable; commercialinterest wnaa 'roisght yesterday before Mr. RAiffles, the Liverpool stipen- l inagistrate, an information eing Blaid amganstMeosrs,' ':Rahi ,ironfounders of Liverpool, and Mr. 'Hde, manager of the National Bank, Liverpool, acarging isiem with having conspired to' ...

... MfR, GLADsTONZ AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. I Mir. E. Baines, M.P., has addressed a letter of some length to Mr.'Crawford on the general question of Mr. ladstone' relations to the liberal party e appeals to M~r. Crawford for the initiation of some measure cal- culated to bring( back M~r. Gladstoe to the position of leader. Withoutthis the party will be paalysed, and the mighty iierests of the ...

... THE TORNADO CASE.-No. III. To the EDqITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-AS prescribed by prize law, the duty of the captors of the Tornado was to use no violence to her crew, except in case of necessity, and to keep the property on board in safe custody. The Tornado was captured on the 22nd of August, and with Captain Collier and most of her officers on board, was at once sent to Cadiz in ...

... THE PURCHASE SYSTEM. The Timzes says the purchase system in the British army is an institu- tion concerning which young legislators are likely to be indignant and old ones cynical. No one can help admitting that purchase has an ugly look. When we find that this system descends to us from a time when the purchase of place or of promotion was common to other depart- neents of the public service, ...

... AMERICA . I (BY ATLANTIO TELXGER'r.) NEW YORK, ArxL 29, 6 P.M. Closing ?? opened at 134k, but afterwards rallied, closing at 136. Sterhng exchange on London; 109k. 5-20 United States Bonds, 111; Illinois, 114; Erie, 60. Cotton: MiddlingUpland, 30. Petroleum, refined, '26. The Cambria and the City of Cork have arrived out. (RxUTER'S TELEGRAM.) NEW YORK, AFRIL 20. The Mississippi petition for an ...

... TEUCRAPHIIC INTELLIGENCE. I (I1EUTER's TELEGRAMS.) THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION. PARIS, APRII 30. It is stated that the King of Holland took the af inatie ilp proposing the conference which is to ei meet ai L(l don. The Etendaird of this evening B' shet 1l t. stllolgh the negotiations on the Luxem- M bur ques tioli are being carried on without cessa- i at ilerli]il, no point connected with the sol- ...

... (VEOs OUR OWN CORRESrONDN.) 11i LA portion of the following appeared in our Evening do Edition of yesterday :j SE NG. hc . ?? MONDAY EVE hi The terrible weather, relentless, remorseless, t always wet and always cold, put a stop to the first of the alfresco fetes in the Exhibitionpark, which S was announced for yesterday evening. AlU Paris se is now mud and slush, not only on the Mac- w ...