... An accident, which might have been attended with serious consequenoes, befell the mail steam packet Bre, z?, on her rival at Dover on Saturday. Through some incomprehensible misunderstanding between ?? captain and the engineer the vessel was allowed to run into the hatbour with full steam up, and struck with great violence agrinst the stone breakwater, woere she remained fixed. The passengers ...

... The Empress of the French arrived at Osborne on her visit to OQeen Victoria yesterday afternoon. In yesterday's sitting of the French Legislative Body the whole of the ordinary Budget for ?? was voted by 240 against I5. The debate on the extraordinary budget comes on to-day. Loid Vane and his family have arrived at Berlin on their journey to SFt Petersburg, where his lordship is going to ...

... THE brief telegram from Darmstadt the other day, announcing that the Emperor of Russia had signed an ukase abolishing the Administrative Council of the kingdom of Poland, brought a piece of news which has hardly received in England the attention it deserves. The news is simply that of the complete incorporation of the kingdom with the Russian empire. The last of the few institutions which ...

... Friday, 2 o'clock. C laid ebtlyinald vewd. REUTER 'S TELEGRAMS. I FRANCE. PAIUIS, 7uolj 5.-The Mffon0 eai r of to-day says:- The assassination of the Empeior Maximilian will arouse a feeling of universal horror. The act of infamy ordered by Juarez stamps on the heads of those who call themselves the representatives of the Mexican Republic an ineffaceable stigma. The reprobation of all ...

... . In reply to inquiries made by Mr. Bass on Thursday night as to certaii- alleged cruelties exercised in the punishment of the cadets on board the b'ri/lamia training ship, the First Lord of the Admiralty replied that the accuracy of the details submitted to the House by Mr. Bass had been denied by the parties implicated, but that there was no necessity to go further into the case, as the ...

... TRADE UNIONS. To ytre EDITOR of /e PALL MALL GAZETTE. Sri,-A violent recrudescence of the old sophisnis is tie uatural result of the recent discovery' of a Carbonaro element among tha Slhefield artisans. Just as the attempts to assassinate the Emperor of the Frenc1 by Pianori, Orsini, and others supplied new arguments against Italian unity in the mouths of European reactionists, so the ...

... SUPPOSE THE REFORM BILL HAD BEEN REYECTED ? WE have expressed our opinion of the eloquent protests made by Mr. LOWE against the Reform Bill, which he, like the rest of the world, has at last recognized as inevitable, and we have owned that it is far easier to laugh at his prophecies of evil than to deny the reality of the dangers against which he warns us so strenuously. We ought, however, to ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords last evening, on the motion to go into Committee on the Reform Bill, Lord Halifax in a long speech criticised the redistri- bution scheme of the Government, pointing out its anomalies and short- comings, and proposing a resolution declaring the inadequacy of the scheme. A'ithout undertaking to propound a definite alternative ...

... DEPARTtJRE OF THE BELGAINS. ?? a' r ee _. The belgians have i gore out in honore.s Their de- parture on Monday was the occasion Of a grand and ex- traordinary scene, the like of which probably never has been witnessed on the Thames. The ?? people and the Belgian may both be congratulated on the dnmonstra. tion, which was not marred by a single drawback. For the visitors themselves it must ...

... 7M PERIEAL PARLJAIWFET I5OTUSE OF LORDS.-BlOvAbi ?? esreeatison of CChirohyards (- 21 passed thrroth cormmittee. :pased- PACLIAMENtT ~ID CONVOCATIP' 1ord SHABTESBURY, referring to a P5. 'iNishd Iciter inquired of the Archlbiebop of Cauterouuy s w he lete id allyauthority for stating whta COUVe O i hduld be con- sulted upon questions referred totl'-. commission on ritual before any ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords last evening Lord Derby stated in reply to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe that the execution of Maximilian was no longer a matter of doubt. He added that it was a most unnecessary, cruel, and barbarous murder, but he declined at present to say whether the Govern- muent would take any notice of the matter. The Railway (Guards and ...

... ITALIAN EMBARRASSMIENTS. IT has become impossible any longer to disguise the very serious embarrassments of the Italian Government, both in politics and in finance. We may look upon these as representing a question purely Italian, as if there were no menace of war elsewhere in Europe, and no general combinations in course of formation into which the Government could be dragged. In spite of the ...