• Calanounn _is deserted by its hordes of visitors ; our Queen has been back to her own country, and is now in Germany, visiting her married daughter. The Imperial festival has...

The Court of Directors of the East India Company met on Monday to carry out that provision of the new India Act which directed them to select seven of their colleagues to fill...

Tam QtrErm, after her return from Cherbourg, remained at Osborne until Monday, when she departed for London, and arrived at Bucking- ham Palace the same evening. The Marquis of...

Mr. Wilbraham Egerton was elected without opposition on Saturday, Member for North Cheshire, in the room of his father Mr. Tatton Eger- ton, who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds....

Sir Roderick Murchison, Director-General of the Geological Survey, has been actively employed up to the commencement of this week in examining the rocks between Dunnet Head and...

The new Judges of the Landed Estates Court, vice Encumbered Es- tates Court superseded, are Mr. Henry Martley, Q.C., Mr. Mountiford Longfield, LL.D., Q.C., and Mr. Charles James...

$f 111111.—The ceremonies at Cherbourg terminated on Sunday, and full accounts of the last did not arrive until the middle of the week. Nothing indeed, but telegraphic...

The elevation of Mr. Pemberton Leigh to the Peerage, by the title of Lord Kingsdown, of Kingsdovrn in Kent, has been officially announced. Mr. Leigh sat in Parliament for Rye in...

On the 17th June, on board the Hydaspes, off Galle, in Ceylon, Thomas Davies Lushington, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, third son of the late Edmund Henry Lushing,ton, Esq.,...

Waller Platt, Esq., to Mary, only child of Lieutenant-Colonel Butler, of Liphook, Hants, formerly of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers. On the 0th, at the Church of St. Mary...

On the 9th May, in Eden Crescent, Auckland, New Zealand, the Wife of Henry Ce.Burgh Adams, Esq., Military Purveyor's Staff, of a daughter. On the 4th August, in Regint's Park,...

SATURDAY. The Atlantic telegraph has been throughout the week making a slow progress towards the acquisition of the faculty of transmitti ng messages, but it seems now to be...

STOCK EXCTIANOR, FRIDAY AMItNOON. The market for English Securities opened on Monday morning with increased firmness, and a good deal of business was transacted during the day...

We have now reached that point in the year at which theatrical ac- tivity usually languishes, but in no season that we can recollect has there been so close an approximation to...

THE CHERBOURG FETES. Boum) and healthy political criticism is becoming very difficult under the present circumstances of Europe. Not indeed, th a t the broad distinction in...

REFORM OF PARLIAMENT. 6th August 1858. Sin—We are led to presume that some measure of Parliamentary Reform will be brought forward next session : a change may then be probably...

Tin inquiry of Mr. Monckton Milnes's Select Committee on the Consular Service and Appointments has resulted in the sketch of a new organization, which would effect a very...

A niesn distinction has been won by a member of the Bonaparte family. While he introduces a novelty in the practice of duelling, —which, considering the immense variety that...

AT the banquet on board La Bretagne the Emperor of the French took the unusual course of alluding to political discords, and to events which Courts usually affe-et not to...

IT is to be regretted that such cases as that of the Reverend Charles Yansittart ever come before the public, and there are more ways than one to prevent their doing so. One is...

THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME OP THE wELLINGTON DESPATCHES. • IF anybody wishes additional evidence as to the wonderful indus- try and enormous power of work possessed by the...

IN advancing the ignorance of the public as one reason for the publication of his bock, our Parsee author falls into the common error of confounding what the public does not...

We cannot prevent our neighbour from arming himself, either by threats or blandishments. There is but one method by which France, if not shamed, may be fatigued—canny:1e, as she...

Jones's publication is very similar to that of many other books which have appeared on the subject of the aquarium but he deals more with the principles of the scientific tank...

triconaretbrry or ALPINE WEATEER. — " The evening closed upon a scene of such transcendent beauty as we had rarely witnessed, even among the Alps. The sun set without a cloud ;...

Booxs. An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh, and of the Siege of the lucknow Resi- dency: with some Observations on the Condition of the Province of Oudh, and on the Causes of...

THE CRYSTAL PALACE PICTCRE-GALLERY, We have before expressed our opinion of the high value of which the picture-gallery at Sydenham might be made as representing the several...

WAR Or - new. Pall Mall, August 13.-Carairy-2d Regiment of Drag.-Guards- Capt. and Breret-Major W. H. Seymour to be Major, without purchase, vice Price, dec.; Lieut. P. A. W....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 10. Bankrup1s.-Ep1VARD BENJAMIN COLLINS, Hereford Place, Queen's Road, New Peckham, market-gardencrldsmi ELIZADETN CARTWRIGHT, Sheniliornc, Nor-...

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