... A POPULAR DELUSION. Mr Kinglake, in his history of the Crimean war, insists that the Emperor Nicholas would never have gone into that war if he had not believed that the three Quakers who went to him at St Petersburg, and Mr Bright and Mr Cobden who were talking peace at home, re- presented the feeling of the British people, and that Great Britain would not interfere. This charge has been, and ...

... vCR ¡VN CORRESPONDENT. [The remarks under this head are to be regarded as the ex- pression of independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman in whom we have the greatest confidence, but for which wc nevertheless do not hold ourselves responsible.] Perhaps both great political parties in the two Houses of Parliament are glad that the heat and strife of debate have for a time ceased, and that ...

... A sense of justice and fair play compels us (Weekly Register) to make the following statement respecting the present treatment, to which at any rate a portion of the Fenian prisoners now in custody are subjected. And upon what we now say our readers may depend, as it comes from a most undoubted, although not an official, source. Whatever may have been the case elsewhere, the Fenian prisoners ...

... This association is the chief of several organ. isations established of late years in various con- tinental countries, on a basIs resembling- that of the Loudon Peace Society, the parent of many pacific ageucies. The Paris League, under the leadership of M. Michael Chevalier, M. Frederic Passy, M. Doilfus, M. Leroi-Boaulieu, and other eminent Frenchmen, has been peculiarly suc- cessful in its ...

... The Adelaide Observer says:— In accordance with an arrangement which has session by session been recognised by the House of A8semb:y in pa8f-iug an amount for colonial chaplain, the office will cease with the death of the late Vtlry Rev. Dean Farrell, and the next elitfmates will not con- tain the usual line under the head ecclesiastical. Prior to his departure from the colony, the Dean made ...

... DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF MINERS. On Monday a mass meeting of S uth Yorkshire miners was held at Sheffield. The gathering com- prised from 4,000 to 5,000 miners, many of whom are either locked on or on strike. The president was Mr. Moore, of Sh, ffild, who, as mayor of that town, ha.1 taken an active part in trying to bring about a settle- ment of the disputes in the distiict by means of arbi- ...

... There exists in certain gaols in the country districts of New England a primitive practice of allowing pri- soners to have their liberty temporarily at the gaoler's pleasure. Charming in the abstract as is this idea of convicts treated upon honour, it seems that it does not always work satisfactorily. One John Dorsev, an Irishman, lay lately in the prison of Northampton, a town of ...

... Young ladies will do well to read attentively the pas- toral letter of the Fathers of the Faith Provincial Council of Baltimore in the United States, which they will find in the Tablet of last week (says the Pall Mail 'Gazttte). The Fathers deem it particularly their solemn duty to renew their warning against the modern fashionable dances commonly called German or round dances, which are ...

... The Registrar-General states that of every 1,000 unmarried men of the ages 20 and under 25 living in England and Wales in 1867 there were 118'6 who married during the year; of 1,000 unmarried women of the same ages living 134'8 became wives at the ages 25-30 years 147'6 per 1,000 unmarried men and 1,000'9 unmarried women contracted marriages in the year. After that age the proportions decrease ...

... puhlisherl on Saturday morning, defend the Mayor of Cork in vehement terms. The News affirms that in h's person the last and mnst sacred vestige of popular liberty in Trela,d IS being struck down, and speaks of the Disability Bill as another of those invasions of popular rights which mat kin da > k reo pulsive line the course of British rule ii, Irehnd We -ce in words, It adds, ealbng :01' ...

... [The LitcA-!l Office at which the fortunate ticket, No. 114,079, the icinner of the First Prize, was sold, was the office of the PONTYPOOL FREE PRESS. Tickets for the next drawing, which will talee place on Wednesday, June 30th, are now ready, and may be had at this officei ...

... A letter from 'Rome gives some details of the loss of f-lie steamer AKboturci. between Marseilles and Civita Vecchia. Tl,e wl'itersay. I have just read the report of the captain of the Abbatucci, a oil the logs of his sil P. Atter having been run into by the .Norwegian col ie,, which, thom h it was a fo'-rgy night, had too lightsout, the captain of the Abbatiteci ordet-ed foiir men to man a ...