London, Friday.—Bethell took the oaths yesterday and assumes the title of Westbury. The Sultan is dead, and is succeeded by his brother, w...

Yesterday the Emperor Napoleon opened his Parliament with one of those fine harangues we are now become accustomed to, and which may mean an...

There was an interesting debate last night in the House of Lords, brought on by Lord Ellenborough, on the Roman question, in which Clarendon...

Bright and beautiful, but quite cold; skating in the basin, etc. The departure of the commissioners has produced much speculation. The e...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . To the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Council of N...

NEW ORLEANS, May 16 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of the Gulf, at New Orleans: SIR: Your offici...

We have an unintelligible dispatch from Gen. Bragg, saying he had, yesterday, a prolonged contest with the enemy for the possession of Look...

(Private) New Orleans , November 29th, 1862. Dear Sir : — I thank you for your kind letter of the 14th inst. Whenever it is deemed ex...

New York , March 23, 1864. . . . If you will pardon a purely conversational letter, I would take the liberty of asking you whether ther...

Willard's Hotel, Washington, February 13, 1862. Mr. Gray has gone home not very well and rather discouraged. I gave him your mess...

Hon. Robert Barnwell says, “The Mercury's influence began this opposition to Jeff Davis before he had time to do wrong. They were offen...

. . . says the Journal de Havre, have arrived at that port which were purchased for the imperial stables.   Prince Napoleon has selected fi...

. . . as Napoleon truly observed in his New Year’s day speech.   Prussia buried a King, the effete Sultan of Turkey sank into the grave, th...

From the foreign papers it appears that the condition of affairs throughout the great Germanic Confederation, is, in many respects similar...

The liberal and even democratic tendencies of the Prince Napoleon are well known, but never has he given his views so unmistakably as in a...

(CONCLUDED.) The smith laborers in Liverpool were making demonstrations but had been promptly dispersed by the police. The Opinion...

If all the ages of the times do not fail, there is a crisis approaching in European affairs, that will require the whole attention of the ...

. . . diabetes or perhaps indigestion, has snubbed Queen Victoria, and to balance the account, Lord Palmerston has given Napoleon a pretty s...