nated by an agricultural show. The whole Southern basin Of France, speaking generally, has been laid under water ; involving some loss of life, severe and widespread hardship'...

THE American question has arrived at a crisis which has long been foreseen—the dismissal of Mr. - Crampt,on. _ Whether that event has actually faken place, according to one...

arrived at the full harvest of abortive bills, yet it is giving signs of a desire to avoid unprofitable talk and to wind up its affairs for the session. Even the Tenant-Right...

of those useful public services which they so gracefully perform. The noble memorial which the nation is erecting to the memory of Wellington—the commemoration of a great man by...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Hot= OF LORDS. Monday. June 2. Reformatory Schools (Scotland) BM read a second time — Fire - Insurance Bill read a third time and passed....

Tint QUEM began the week by laying the foundation-stone of the Wel- lington College, and ended it by attending a public ball. In the middle of the week she held a Court, and...

Queen Victoria was the conspicuous figure on Monday in one of those scenes where she delights to identify herself with national movements-- the ceremony of laying the...

The Lord Mayor gave a feast on Wednesday night in honour of the great dignitaries of the Church of England. Eesides the Archbishop of Can- terbiny and ten Bishops, there were...

Three of the rebels of 1848 returned to Ireland last week in virtue of the pardon recently granted to all political exiles. They are Mr. John Dillon, barrister, Mr. John Martin,...

a great and devasta- ting inundation, and an agricultural show. The inundation is a national calamity. Nothing like it has been seen since 1840. Rain fell in almost incessant...

We understand that the Reverend H. J. C. Harper, M.A., Vicar of Mortimer, Berks, has, on the nomination of the clergy and laity in public meeting assembled, accepted the...

SATURDAY, A good deal of business was done last night in both Houses of Parke- ment. 'In the House of Commons, soon after the Speaker took the chair, Sir EDWARD Lyrrozr...

On the 6th May, at Barbados, Mrs. G. Carrington, of Missenden Abbey, Bucks, of a son and heir. On the 29th, the Lady Mary Windsor Clive, of a daughter. On the 30th, at Annat...

rank of General) commanded in chief her Majesty's Army in the Crimea during a period of war, and entirely to her Majesty's satisfaction, her Majesty has been pleased to command...

Hanover Square Rooms. She arrived there, with Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and the Prussian Prince, about half-past ten, and looked on, but did not take part in the...

been suffering from partial blindness and physical prostration, died yesterday, at the Epis- copal Palace, Stapleton ; aged seventy-two. He was the son of Mr. Charles Monk, an...

the Valley of the Loire, and reached Orleans the same day. "Numerous succours were afforded by his Majesty; who always had some heartfelt words with which to acknowledge the...

Brom EXCIIANOE, FRTDAY AFTERNOON. The intelligence from the United States on Monday, confirming the re- cognition of General Walker's Government in Nicaragua, caused the Funds...

The performance of Madame Ristori who Made her debut at the Ly- ceum on Wednesday, has even surpassed expectation. She was no sooner seen, we may almost say, than her supremacy...

William Tell and produced at the Lyceum on Monday, served, like the first, to display the burlesque and gymnastic talents of Messrs. Albert and Arthur Smith, Mr. Holmes, Mr. J....

' Many of our readers will recollect the charming little proverbe, written in honour of domestic felicity by M. Octave Feuillet, with the title The Village, inasmuch as it was...

the horizon of the Haymarket. Piccolomini has been followed by Albertini. The third is yet to appear—Johanna Wagner. Madame Albertini made her debut on Monday, in the character...

at the Adelphi, with new scenery, and with as powerful a cast as times will afford, though still the list of dramatis persona:, must awaken melan- choly reminiscences in those...

Juvenile prodigies are so common in music, that in truth they are no prodigies at all. For one Mozart, there are a hundred others, forced by hotbed culture into immature...

Loan Paraimarow has sometimes been eminently successful in packing the common sense of a subject into one of those terse and striking phrases that stamp themselves upon the...

RFIATIONS WITH TILE UNITED STATES. /a history diLl not teach, beyond contradiction, that nations are as subject as individuals to the prejudices that mislead and the = m ons...

An Emperor of Russia has spoken the true word respecting Poland. Addressing a Polish deputation at Warsaw, he is reported to have said that he came among them oblivious of the...

NOT one murderer in twenty is or could be 'convicted on other than simply circumatantial evidence. The only likely exceptions' to this general statement are cases in which an...

WE are not without hopes that the recent incidents at Malta—a _licit in the streets, and an assault by a mob upon officers wearing the Queen's uniform—may call attention to the...

ENGLAND WITH FRANCE. 1, Adam Street, Adelphi, May 26, 1856. Siai—I am of the number of those who wished that the war should be pro- secuted to the extant of wholly destroying...

THE GUARDS AND THE LINE. The readers of the Spectator may remember that the officers of the Guards, with Prince Albert at their head, presented a memorial to the Queen pray-...

views of Sebastopol, which are to be published in large-sized coloured lithography by Messrs. Day and Sons ; the original water-colours being at present in the hands of Messrs....

A new instalment of the wood-engravings from Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua has been published by the Arundel Society, num- bering from the twenty-third to the...

works of a national or memorial character, has produced a picture of the Allied Generals, with their Staffs, before Sebastopol, which is, for an English- man, immense, and would...

Sin—The saddest thought connected with the withholding of education is this, that the subject-matter in question is not metal that can be kept safe in storehouses until leisure...

THE SYDENHAM PICTURE-GALLERY. • The plan which has been some months in preparation of getting up a gallery of pictures in the Crystal Palace has now assumed visible shape...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 3. WAR DEPARTITENT, Pall Mall, June 8.—Carafry--6th Drag. Guards—Limit. U. R. Johnston has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale...

[From the Official Return.) Tea Weeks of 1846-55. Week 0( 1836. Zymotic Diseases 211.6 .... 220 Dropsy, Cancer, and other Diseases of uncertain or variable seat 40.3 .......

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, :twit 3. Partnerships Dissolved. — J. A. and J. Forbes, Sloane Square,"toymen—Tyne Bot- tle Company, South Shields ; as far as regards M. Arthur—Barnet...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices ) Solara. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Mars. Friday. per Cent Consols 941 941 941 941 941 Ditto for Account 941 94 941 911 95 951 951...

County of Middlesex, Printei, at the office of Siisein Ct-tv- vos, No. 10, Crane Court, la the Parish of St. Dunstan's is the West, in ttie City of London; and Published by the...

Cockburn, of the Scottish Bench, was born at Edinburgh in 1779, and died in 1854. His family was connected both with the land and the law ; his father was a Laird of Cock- pen...

JUNE 7, 1856.

volume contains Lady Sheil's reminiscences of Persia during a residence of some time as lady-head of the English mission to- gether with an account of her overland journey...

at present seems to have infected the monthly periodical press : those who look for inspiration in the leading magazines will certainly not find it in their lucubrations on...

of this work has served a quarter of a century in India, in very various places and positions, ending at last in the Principalship of the Grant Medical College, and several high...

Boons. Errunn the biblioples have not recovered from the fatigues of last week's varied excitements, or a premature lull has come over the publishing world. Except in the class...

HENRY BROUGHAM AT SCHOOL.—Brougham was not in the class with me. Before getting to the B.ectoes class he had been under Luke Fraser ; who in his two immediately-preceding...

iiecent Patiiameutary returns, and some statistics compiled by Mr. J. S. Yeats, of Warnford Court, furnish the means for throwing together some interesting facts regarding th.e...

TRADE AND NAVIGATION ACCOUNTS FOR THE MONTH AND FOUR monTas ENDED 30TH APRIL 1856 AND 1855. 9.424,926 2,224,455 245,191 297,190 338,850 .. 109,703 .. 56,433 .. 145,313 .....

In a bill providing for "the Government of India," which was con- sidered by the House of - Commons in the session. of 1853, a clause was inserted on the motion of Sir John...

The Report of the Poor-law Board for 1855 shows an increase of pau- perism and an augmentation of expenditure, to be ascribed to the high prices of food and the severity of the...

I Parliamentary paper, moved for by Mr. Seymour, gives a very elaborate account of the revenues and expenditure of British India for the year ended the 30th April 1864. Some...