Born Houses of Parliament have been engaged in pursuing the process of winding-up with a view to a release for the season, and they have promoted that object in the main by...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. House OP Loans. Monday, July 19. Massacre at Jeddah ; Lord. Stratford's Questions—State Services - T h e Duke of Marlborough's Motion —...

THE QUEEN continues those outdoor exercises by laud and sea, which characterize her stay at Osborne in fine weather. She has, accompanied by the Prince Consort, cruised in...

The seat vacated by Lord Glencorse has not been filled up by the elec- tion of Mr. Bernie as was anticipated. Stamford has not been requested to elect another Lord Advocate. On...

At a meeting of the Scottish bar on Saturday morning, Mr. James Moncrieff, Lord Advocate of Scotland under the Aberdeen and Palmer- i on Governments, and Member for the Leith...

The Great Northern Hospital held its first annual dinner on Wednes- day. This institution has expended 792/. more than it has received, and now its friends appeal to the public...

it The Lord-Lieutenant returned last week from his visit to the South. On Tuesday he was gratified by the arrival of a large deputation of his Scotch tenants to present an...

The House of Commons, or rather-certain members thereof, mindful of the horrors they endured at the naval review at Spithead in 1856; have chartered a steamer of their own to...

,fratre.—The fetes at Cherbourg still furnish the topic which absorbs attention. On the 3d August the Emperor and Empress of the French are to he at Evreux, Whence, alighting at...

On the 30th April, at Beaulieu, Hobart Town, Tasmania, John Swan, Esq. ; in his 63d year. On the 8th May. at Banda, whilst serving with General Whitelock's column, from the...

On the 2d June, at Mhow, Bombay Presidency, Lady (Lionel) Smith, of a daugh- ter. On the 15th July, at Morden Lodge, Surrey, the Wife of Colonel D. Lysons C - •, of twin...

On the 16th March, 1858, at Lyttelton, New Zealand, Robert Heaton Rhodes, Esq., of Puran, to Sophia Circuit, youngest daughter of Robert Latter, Esq., of Lyttelton. • On the 4th...

SATURDAY. A great deal of business was transacted yesterday in both Houses, but the larger part was formal in its character. In the House of Peers Lord GAGE moved the second...

circumstances of no great promise. A version of La .Dame aux Cantinas, rendered dreary Pertly by a very indifferent ensemble, partly by the staleness of the subject, partly by...

" The season" at Her Majesty's Theatre terminated last Saturday night, with the usual formality of singing our loyal song, absurdly called the National Anthem. The "cheap nights...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTER.NOON. There has been a great deal more activity in the market for public se- curities during the past week, although the real amount of legitimate...

" IT is always presumptuous to decide hastily between man and nature," says the Colonial Minister, in vindicating the right of our race to colonize any lands within the range of...

OUR RELATIONS WITH FRANCE. THE French alliance is becoming one of the most remarkable of practical paradoxes. It is an alliance in which there is to be de- tected the maximum...

MR. CRAWFORD'S motion calling for compensation in the name of certain British subjects, whose property was destroyed during the Russian war in the Gulf of Bothnia, has had the...

LORD ELLENBOROUGII descanted, the other night, on the import- ance of having the gentleman in the highest official and political position. He asserted this proposition...

WREN any article is more often adulterated than genuine, the commerce in that article is almost sure to decline ; and when once the traffic has decayed, it can seldom be revived...

THE question of the Thames is in a position more discredit- able to the governing class and the public of this country than ever, and it will land us in a slough worse than that...

POPULAR EDUCATION. 15th July 1858. Sin—In a former letter, I addressed to you some remarks on the means by which the education of the working classes might be continued after...

COOPER'S CRISIS TILE PUNJAUB--RAIIES'S REVOLT IN TILE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. THE two books before us differ from the other publications on the Indian mutiny, not only by the...

forth its views on the meaning of Cherbourg. The Moniteur de Armee has now followed suit. " We have not hitherto noticed the inconceivable attitude assumed with regard to France...

BEYOND all question words are the province j- of Richard Chevenix Trench. He has written some good poetry; but rather from that " turn " which is experienced by most men of...

Festus, whose reputation rests upon the darkly mystical, should never emerge from it into plain day- light. " Omne ignotuna pro magnifica ' When we do not catch the drift of a...

we cannot get art. No doubt zeal has its evils in fiction as well as in diplomacy. It leads to exaggeration and onesidedness—often very gross. The Evangelical romaneist combines...

Boo's. The Private Journal of the Marquis of Hastings, KG., Governor-General and Commander-in-chief in India. Edited by his Daughter the Marchioness of Bute. In two volumes....

Military Train--To have the rank of Lieutenants—Ensign and Adjt. J. Sweeny; Ensign and Adjt. W. Shackleton ; Ensign and Adjt. W. Thompson ; Ensign J. Briggs to be Lieut. without...

3 per Cent Cons o l s Ditto for Account 3 Per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Ling Ann ui Annui ties 18 ti 85 es Bank Stock, 11 per Cent India Stock, 10k per Cent Es...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 20. Bankrupts. - JOnx FurrOCE. Upper Marsh, Lambeth, timber-merchant-Josaen Cox, William Street, Camden Road, Holloway, berlin-wool-dealer-Semura....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 20. ADMIRALTY, July 14.-Cbrps of Royal Marines-Capt. and Brevet-Major W. H. March to be Lieut.-Col. vice Elliot, retired on full-pay ; First Lieut....