5 FEBRUARY 1859, page 6

Li 311rtropu1io.

The annual meeting of the Association for effecting the repeal of Taxes upon Knowledge, Mr. Milner Gibson in the chair, was held on Wednesday at Exeter Hall, There were present......

Egt Court.

THE QUEtN returned from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace on 1Vednesday, and in the afternoon held a Privy Council there ; when the Sheriffs for the English and Welsh counties......

Vraniurial.

Queen Victoria opened the Wellington College on Saturday. This institution stands on a wild heath in Hampshire ' about three miles from Sandhurst, and commands an immense......

The Reform Movement.

A special meeting of the Law Amendment Society was held on Satur- day, Sir James Stephen in the chair, to hear a paper read by Mr. Edwin Chadwick on the best mode of preparation......