... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL ITALY. I The Voil News' cotkespondent at Florence writes on the 18th :-The present long-winded political discussions, and the situation of parties in Parliament, have made it evident that Italy is in the midst of au important crisis, without susfcient stamina to carry her triumphantly through it. She has the difficulties of a worn-out organi- sation to contend with, ...

... :1LATERST NEwSOj ~- . l- I I ?? TanBTiWX. . AMERICA. ' (BY ATLATIO TRLaanlStE. Nxw Yonir, July 25,6 p.m. w The body of the Emperor Maximilian has been em- balmed, and has been brought to Vera Cruz. F QuminsiowmN, Jrly 26. The National Steam Navigation Company's bteam- ship Erin, from New York, arrived here at 2 a m to- tV day, with 250,000 dole, in specie. She landed pageen. gers and ...

... I FOREIGN AND C AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND The Royal Mail Company's Steamship 0.Js~r7 a Bevis, with the above mails, arrived this eac ?? brings 225 passengers, specie 1,160,899 dgll 91 She £2OO, pearls £120: also the following cargo. P - cehineal, 144 serene bark, 217 cases cigars, 666 bas B 33 cases preserved meat, and 170 packages'sunilries o ' The B.M.S. Rusahine arrived at ,ual e 1(4 Pmre ) ...

... PARLAMENT. (BiY Telegraph.) fIOUSE OF COMMONS. YESTERDAY. Vhe 3ra.. took the chair at twelve o'clock. EASTERN RAITLAVAY.-CANCELLATION 6REAT OF BONDS. the m1otion of Mr. C. FOBSTEB, it was agreed that Oa should to-morrow resolve itself into a committee lb' ll5er the propriety of authorising the cancelling of tnv ebea date respectively the 12th day of th 2S ay of February, 1851, and yg the ...

... SUBAQUEOUS PROJECTILES, (1Frim the £nyinecr,) Since the era of armour-plated ships of war it is plain that more has been thought of subaqueous explosions than heretofore. Torpedoes and other dovices whereby gunpowder and other explosive bodies, enclosed in water- proof cases and fired by electrical or percussive expedients, have come to be regarded as of great availin modern naval 'warfare. ...

... TH}IE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. (Erom tase Hsark-awe zpressaJ The weather up to the 13th of this month was dry, fine, and favourable to growing crops of all kinds, but especially the wheat, fast approaching as it was to maturity. Since that pesiiod a change has taken place, and much rain has falen, which, however, would have been beneficial rather than otherwise, had it not been accompanied in ...

... MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AND SOUTH- WESTERN AMALGAMATION BILL. (Fnom oun LowNON REPORTn.) LoNDoN, Tuesday. The Select Committee of the House of L;ords on this bill resumed the cousideration of it this morning, Lord PzsaitIyN in the Ohbir. The case for the petitioners against was resumed. MTr. Graham Somerville, of Sorn Castle, was the first Vitness examined. ifE evidence was generally in support of ...

... ROME. Roma, June 29. I have just returned from witnessing the magnificent ceremony of the canonisation of 25 martyrs of the Roman Catholi° Church, and anything so gorgeous, anything so unique and out of harmony with that world in which we live and move, and think, it has never been my lot to wit- D My h58 reasoning powers for the present slumber, while ieginatson is wide awake and active; and ...

... LEEDS, JULY 2, 1867. TM LIMITATION or TrpHus.-Dr. T. Clifford Allbutt's paper, read before the Epidemiological Society at its recent meeting, told the story of a social experiment remarkable for boldnesO of conception and vigour of exe- cution. This experiment has (for it is at the present mement in progress of being carried out) for its object the limitation of typhus and other diseases in ...

... LEEDS, JULY 23, 1867. It is stated that the new call to be made on the shareholders of the Leods Banking Company, referred to in the Ahreary of Saturday last, will amount to £50 per share. THE STABBInG CASE IN LEEDs.-Additional evi- dence was yesterday given before the sitting magistrates at the Leeds Town Hall, in support of the charge pref erred a week ago against a young woman, named Sarah ...

... REPRiESENT'ATION OF BIRMINGHAM- . The nomination of candidates for the.seat Ieft| vacant in the representation of Birmingham by the lamented death of the late Mr. Schalefield, took place in the Town Hall yesterday. AlId, -Wimcw nominated Mr.' George Dixon, Mr. J. S. WmqnT seconded the nomination. Mr.J. DOoo1ewe,3.P., nominated Mr. 'Sampson S. floyd. 2Mr. JOeN GnAnmR seconded the nomination. ...

... DBPARTURE OF THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS. Edi ore ten t'olock yesterday-morning the Bel- gians bqgan to muster in the quadrangle, Somerset.House, previous to marching to take their departure from this country; and by balf-past ten the whole of -the corps were ready to move. In the interim the Belgians met with quite an- ovation from the occupants of the windows in the surrounding buildings. The ...