... CORRESPONDENTCE. WHAT IS A WHITEBAIT? To bie EDITOR of fie PALL MALL GAzETTE. SIR,-The interesting letter which Mr. Francis has published in your paper of Tuesday opens up a 'question of much scientific and of considerable national importance. The subject of the zoological relations of the whitebait is one to which I have from time to time given some attention, and I am glad therefore to find ...

... 11 A Cbibelline writes to the Time's to propose that, as Lord Denbij7s is gettinga 1' a fund for the Papal volunteers, a counter subscription should be opendc for the sick and wounded among the Italians in arms against the ?? power. He offers Jrioo to start the subscription. The United States is showing considerable alacrity in paying respect to e wishes of Msiexico. Soon after Mr. ...

... THE ROMAN CRISIS. The Times approves the advance of the Italian army into Papal territory as a just and wise no less than a bold step; a necessary step, which may also turn out a fortunate one. Probably the movement has been arranged with France through the agency of the Marquis Pepoli, who combines not a little of the Bonaparte tact together with the drop of family blood in his veins. Had the ...

... THE R1 OAI N DIFFICULTY. TI1E newS bearing upon the Roman difficulty which reached u's from various quarters yesterday, and again this morning, leaves olpinioon in almost as much confusion as before; and the confusion is a little more alarming. It is by no means unimportant as:- ldc~lopiijg the scope of the difficulty for one of the parties at least that a feeling of discontent with the ...

... Fridays 2 o'clock. I Otid obeninald VeWd.. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ITALY AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. FLORENCE, Nov. ?? Nazione of to-day says'that according to the latest advices received here the French troops were still at Civita Vecchia. General Cialdini has been appointed to the command of the Italian arary of occupation. The Italian troops have occupied several points in the Papal territory. A ...

... TgE BRITISH MUSEUM AS. A SC5OOL OF ART AND HISTOR Y. . [FIRST ARTICLE.] VRaC M eight to ten thousand persons stroll weekly through the lon(f galleries cld coluidors of the British Museum. It is impossible to watch them- in 'all their endless varieties of rank, age, dress, and individualities of character, and not ask oneself what they think of all that they see, and float impression it all ...

... No news appears in the telegrams published to-day about Garibaldi. The latest known of his movements is that on Wednesday his head-quarters were between Monte Mario and Marciglina. Up to last night it was not known at Florence that the French troops had left Civita Vecchia, and the Paris evenio,. papers contain no information on the subject. It appears-that the Papal troopuS have evacuated ...

... OCCASIOAL NOTES. Since the departure of the French fleet for Civita Vecchia unusul. acti-ity as been obseryed in the arsenals of Venice. The commandant Jf the aryillery there has received instructions to arm all the forts and other oulfs in the town and its vicinity as speedily as possible, and the gan- .toxder factories are busy day and night preparing ammunition. The naval rseral ais also ...

... THE ROMAN QUESTION. The &Tv;Vay/aw RPt'7izA' points out that, although Napoleon for dynastic reascups has resolved to put down the revolution, he gives a sort of pledge to democratic France that afterwards the turn of the Pope is to come. Ald a change for the Pope obviously means a change for the worse. As the Pope wil not assent to a Congress, none can well be held ; anl the entire ...

... I EPITOME OF OP;NION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS OUTRAGES ON THE POLICE. The Post holds that it is unreasonable to consider all the recent outrages which have been committed on policemen as different formd of Fenianism. They are in reality a development of violent criminality a disregard of the ordinary fear and respect for the law, a disappearance of the wholesome respect we are accustomed to see ...

... Saturday, 2 O' c Ick. Thid Obeffingld otwd. RE UTER'S TELEGRAMS. ITALY AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. FLORENCE, Nlov. i, 9 P.M-General Menabrea has addressed the following circular to the Italian diplomatic agents abroad, dated Oct. 30 The September Convention, in stipulating on the one hand the evacuation of the 'Pontifical territory by the French troops, imposed at the same time upon Italy ...

... THE MANCHESA T ER FENIANS. TJFF. nees of the day for us is that the jury impannelled to try the Imen charged with the murder of Sergeant BRETT at Man- cbcqtr have found them all guilty; and that they have been condemned to death for that crime in such form as leaves tlemn IO hope of reprieve. The crime itself was proved so clcrly that we suppose no protest will be made anywhere against the ...