SIGNS that the end of the session is drawing near have long been visible, but now they rapidly thicken around us. There is a slackness in the tissue of debates ; a disposition...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS. OF THE WEEK. HOUSE or Loans. Monday, July 5. Indian War Medals ; Lord Derby's State- ment—Oaths ; Lord Lucan's Bill recommitted—County Management Bill read...

THE QUEEN, the Prince Consort, and the Princesses Alice and Helena, left Buckingham Palace for Aldershot camp on Monday, and remained there until Wednesday morning, when they...

The members of the Law Amendment Society dined together on Sa- t u rday, to celebrate the termination of their labours for the season and ta k e stock. The state of the Thames...

There was a great review or sham fight at Aldershott on Tuesday, when the Duke of Cambridge explained the tactics of the commanders to Queen Victoria, and the Duke of Malakoff,...

The Lord-Lieutenant left Dublin on Wednesday on a tour to the Lakes of Killarney. Dr. " Archbishop of Tuam," has published a long letter to Lord Derby denouncing the...

A public meeting, composed of men of all parties, was held in Edin- burgh on Monday to petition against the clause in the Universities (Scot- land) Bill which deprives the...

fraurt.—The Emperor is at Plombieres, "enjoying excellent health," and fortifying it by taking long walks twice a day, whatever may be the state of the weather. It is stated...

Cher- bourg. It has " good reason to believe that her Majesty and the Prince Consort will go to Cherbourg early next month, to pay a visit to the Emperor Napoleon. Her Majesty...

SATURDAY. The proceedings in Parliament last night were more than usually varied, but not equally interesting. In the House of Lords the Government of India Bill (No. 3) was...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Business in the English Stock Market has ext.ibited a decided improve- ment during the past week, a rise of more than per cent having been es-...

THE UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Edinburgh, 7 lh july 1858. Siu—The Scottish Universities Bill has now passed the House of Com- mons, thanks very much to the assistance of...

In the theatrical world there is every indication of a closing season. Novelties are scanty, benefits abundant, western managers and actors are starling in the northern and...

The " season" draws near its end. The Italian Opera-houses are an- nouncing their " last nights" ; the Philharmonic and other Societies have terminated their performances ; and...

THE PARIS CONFERENCE AND EUROPE. IT is a little unfortunate for European nations that their destinies are as yet subject to a species of Eleusinian mystery. When the mind...

past, those most intimately acquainted with the condition of our - Indian Empire have repeatedly urged upon public attention the increasing importance of two great dangers to...

WE have long been accustomed to look to Madrid for surprising illustrations of the uncertain and the unforeseen. Chance and Change deserve to be canonized by the Spanish Church....

So Jung Bahadoor of Nepaul is a G.C.B. ; a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Mephistopheles can surely be no merely ideal daemon ; for no inspiration but his can have...

IT has been sometimes said that Downing Street and Whitehall Place are not England ; and that foreign nations and even our own Colonies must not judge us as a nation by the acts...

TILE REVEREND J. ROTTON'S SIEGE OF DELIII. • ALTHOUGH the Chaplain of the Delhi " field force " and " num- bers" belonging to it questioned " the wisdom of so small an army...

a Gallic invasion, the Gauls are not so indifferent to a British inva- sion, as a " deluded excursionist " has shown in a letter to the Times. "The Weymouth and Channel Islands...

Mezzofanti's life centres in his wonderful power of acquiring languages, and a knack of using his acquisitions for purposes of self-display. Though living as a public character...

Mr. White's usual summer vacation walks, strikes us as superior in variety and interest to either the " Land's End " or " On Foot through Tyrol." As re- gards the mere personal...

Boom. The Chaplain's Narrative of the Siege of Delhi. From the Outbreak at Mee.. rut to the Capture of Delhi. By John Edward Wharton Rotton, MA., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge...

The taste for stereoscopic pictures has become almost a rage by this time ; a healthy rage in itself, though continually confusing the delight in nature and art with the delight...

THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM: ART-MANUFACTURE. The Department of Science and Art continues faithful to those two Feat motive principles of British national life—publicity, and "...

On the 22d June, in West Street, Boston, Thomas Fricker, Esq., Alderman, many years proprietor of the Lincolnshire Herald, and one of her Majesty's Coroners for the county of...

To the Editor. .Lirerpool, 5th July 1858. Sin-Have you not misunderstood the intentions of Government respecting the Wellington Monument, as expressed by Lord John Manners ?...

Mr. Richmond's crayon portrait of Mr. Ruskin, exhibited lately at the Royal Academy, has found an engraver in Mr. Ho11. It ought to find a public too ; as our distinguished...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Rained. Monday. Tuesday Wedries. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 Per Cents Reduced New 3 Per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1863 Bank...

On the 13th May, at Bangalore, Madras, the Wife of Captain Alfred Torrena, H.M.'s 66th Regiment, A.D.C. to the General Commanding Division, of a daughter. On the 30th June, at...

On the 30th June, at St. John's Church, Pendlebury, Edward, youngest son of William Sharp, Esq., of Linden Hall, near Lancaster, to Sarah Catherine, only sur- viving daughter of...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 6. Bankrupts. - JAmas HOME GREENFIELD, High Street, Hampstead, shipowner- WiLLIAM OWEN TUCKER, Lea Bridge Road, Essex, builder-EnwAnn Cm, Bir-...