Tee session was brought to a close, on Monday, with ceremonies which typified the whole of the past six months. Her Majesty was absent, and Parliament had the business to...

Tun principal event recorded by the court newsman and the newspapers is the visit of the Queen to Cherbourg. Early on Wednesday morning the two line-of-battle-ships and four...

CLOSE or THE SEssiox. The session of 1858 was closed, and Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission, on Monday. The Peers met a little before two o'clock the Commons...

A deputation of Members of Parliament and persons interested in the pr osperity of Galway, waited upon Lord Derby, on Wednesday, to present a mem orial from the Town and Harbour...

Two brigades of infantry, with a complement of artillery, were paraded to witness the Queen confer the Victoria Cross on nine officers and men. The fleet, under Lord Lyons, lay...

The country was startled on Thursday afternoon by the intelligence that the Agamemnon and Niagara had actually submerged the electric wire, and that the communication between...

The annual meeting of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, was held last week, in one of the rooms of the University of Edinburgh. In his...

r It .—At present we have only brief intimations conveyed by the telegraph of the Imperial progress to Cherbourg and the domgs there. The Emperor, the Empress, nd their suite...

The Commissioners appointed by her Majesty on the 12th of April last, to inquire into the effect of the system recommended in the report of the Royal Commission dated the. 17th...

43TOCIC EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Transactions in the English Stock Market have been considerably more numerous this week, although the chief business has been in connexion...

SATITADAY. Queen Victoria's share in the Cherbourg ceremonies terminated yester- day. In the morning the Emperor paid her a farewell visit. She sailed from the harbour about...

The experiment of transferring a French opera from the Paris Opera Comique to the London Italian stage, which has proved so successful at the Royal Italian Opera in the case of...

The sojourn of Mr. Ira Aldridge at the Lyceum did not extend beyond a week, and the theatre has lately worn a comedy aspect, the Love- Chase being revived with Mrs. Charles...

I. MINISTERIAL. LAW. Customs Duties, No. 2. Financial. Stamp Duty on Drafts. Bank Issues Indemnity.* Consolidated Fund: 11,000,0001. East India Loan.* Portumna Bridge,...

THE SESSION OF 1858 AND ITS LESSONS. IT is impossible to deny to the session of 1858, whatever may h e its defects, the praise of a strong dramatic interest. Whatever else it...

TirEnE has been another week of what is called "no particular news" from America ; the mail bringing, nevertheless, indica- tions of a march of opinion, and a profusion of signs...

the collision at the Willesden Junction on Monday was "only an engine-driver " ; a passenger was injured, but he was "only a second-class passenger," and he is "going on...

PERHAPS the estimates may be "kept down" by reducing the gross expenditure of some of our public departments, though we are inclined to think that much more may be done by...

AT the instance of Lord Redesdale, the Peers have adopted an address to the Crown praying for a new restriction on the forma- tion of their own body. The address was carried...

WHIT an advantage it would be for this country if we could always possess a man like Lord Lyndhurst ! He is endowed with a keen mind of an irresistibly practical turn, and great...

"I CANNOT build a public institution," said Punch, in the cha- racter of " John Ball"; "I cannot make a statue," he remarked in one of the wittiest little poems ever published,...

Da Registrar-General is a strange power amongst us. He pre- sides admirably over a modern but most useful institution, which e nables us to cast up the grand account of life and...

THE MILITIA. SIR — Having observed lately some notice in your columns of the militia, I would wish the attention of the public to be called to the following facts. There are...

Belfast, 27th Tuly 1858. Sin—There is no doubt that Ministers have taken the only course that was open to them, in providing New Caledonia with a despotic provisional...

THE ARUNDEL SOCIETY. The publications of the Arundel Society for the eighth year of its enistence (1856), only recently issued, commence the series of engravings after the...

Sra—We appeal to your sense of justice to allow us to correct a misappre- hension under which you evidently laboured in writing the article which appeared in the Spectator of...

On 16th June, whilst leading his men into action at Gwalior, Wyndham Neave, Lieutenant of list Highlanders; in his 234 year • and on the 1st July, at Malli- gaum, Edward Digby...

On the 25th July, at Gibraltar, the Wife of Major Chapman, 48th Regiment, of a son. On the 29th, at Hotham Villa, Putney, Mrs. Levinge-Swift, Wife of Her Bri- tannic Majesty's...

On the 17th June, at St. Bartholomew's Church, Barracpore, George O'Brien Carew, Indian Navy, to. Harriett Hearsey, eldest daughter of Major-General Sir John Ilearsey, K C.B.....

FROM TILE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 3. Bankruptcy Annulkd.-Satrum. TROUNCE, Bristol, provision-merchant. Bankrupts.-WILLIAJS ELLERDY WnaxEr and WILLLUI JOHN ErmsTEen, Wood Street,...

WAR Orsics, Pall Mall, August 6.-Cavalry-lst Regiment of Drag. Guards- Lieut. W. C. Wingfield to be Capt. by purchase, vice Bridge, who retires ; Cornet B. 11. Crewe to be...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Satan!. Monday. Tuesday. Wednea. -- 5 per Cent Consols 965 96 96 96i Ditto for Account 961 961 961 90 3 per Cents Reduced 961 961 961 961 New...

AuGusT 7, 1858. BOOKS. B. BARTH'S TRAVELS Xi CENTRAL AFRICA. * kr length the great contemporary African explorer has completed the record of his labours and discoveries, in...

To the task of supplying a lacuna in literature by the collection of a number of really ancient Scottish ballads, unmingled with productions of a comparatively recent date,...

REBELLION. * Tun interest attached to the Indian mutiny still continues to pro- duce works upon the subject, and promises more. The two books at the head of this notice have...

This work professes to be written by a Greek Princess of the house of Ghika, who publishes under the nom de plume of the Countess Dora D'Istria. According to the translator, her...

THE present number of Fraser contains much variety. In the opening paper, Mr. Fronde has drawn attention to a remarkable manuscript existing in Balliol College, Oxford, which he...

Boons. Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Dodo of Wellington, K.G. India 1797-1805. Edited by his son, the Duke of Wel- Th li e ngto pop n w . a...