" IT this late period of the session," Members of Parliament are apt to grow slack in their attention to business ; but they have not always accustomed a vigilant minority to...

the disgraceful trials a la Jeffreys at Naples ; a report which throws consider- able light upon the character of these proceedings. Among those who have been brought forward,...

inunda- tions in France is reported in a letter by M. Yerdier, the able colleague of M. De Metz. It recounts how the boys of Mettray, sent to assist in maintaining the main dike...

for even public bodies established to combat the &onion of routine find themselves falling into submission to his sway. Mr. Roebuck has inaugurated the new xra of the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF TAR WEEK. IIOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, June 23. . Royal Assent to Sir William 'Williams's Annuity Bill, Reformatory Schools (Scotland) Bill, Public Health...

authorized to settle " the Central American question, has been the instru- ment for originating the Black Neck-tie question ! At the levee on Wednesday, the American Minister...

The Lord Mayor entertained the leaders and notables of the Derby party at the Mansionhouse on Wednesday. The Parliamentary guests were all of one colour. It may be remarked,...

QUEEN Vicrros.u. held an Investiture of the Bath, at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday. General Sir George Brown, Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon, and Sir Charles Wood, were...

Thursday was " Speech-day " at Harrow. Dr. Vaughan, the Head -Master, invited General Williams to be present. Ile also invited the -General to lay the foundation-stone of the...

The Court of Session gave judgment on the 20th in the case of the Aber- deen Bank, which has been before it for some years. Miss Leslie, .as exe- cutrix of Mr. John Leslie, a...

itself felt la the Legislative Body and the middle classes, has induced the Govern- ment to withdraw the bill for the abolition of prohibitive duties, and to substitute a bill...

The Gazette of Tuesday contained an announcement of the elevation of Sir Edmund Lyons to the Peerage, under the title of " Baron Lyons of Christchurch, in the county of...

SATURDAY. Parliament went through a good deal of business last night, and a good deal of talk. Many bills were forwarded; and the annual " massacre of the innocents " may be...

mean ? The Mae. Opposition. The result is a " compromise," under the conditions of which Pahnerston is to receive the support- for the Appellate Jurisdiction - Bill in the...

the Princess Royal. The following reply was given- " The Princess Royal's arm s which was severely burnt a few days ago by her dress having caught fire, is much easier, and her...

prints this para- graph— "We are requested to state, that the American gentleman to whom ad- mission was refused to her Majesty's levee on Wednesday last is a Professor in the...

The split among Members of the Derby ex-Ministry on the Irish Educe-. Lion question, as practically exemplified .at the division of Monday last, Mends as follows. For Mr....

and Bristol will be the Reverend Charles Baring of All Souls, Langham Place. The journals now state that the new Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol will be the Reverend Charles...

Although the play Pia dei Tolomei is as paltry an affair as could be expected from a dramatist who had set himself the task of concocting something out,of nothing for the sake...

STOCK .EXCHANGE, Feiner AFTERNOON. The English Funds continue on the ascendant : the operations of the pub- lic are at present based upon a feeling of progressive ease in - the...

THE FRENCH INUNDATIONS. 24th Tune 1856. Sra—Is Mr. Bridges Adams right about the causes of the inundations in France ? He argues upon a narrow basis of facts. I know the...

a series of weekly concerts at the Crystal Palace. They were set on foot to furnish him with the - means of keeping his great establishment together : for which purpose he...

artists, which artists them- selves are-so apt to overlook, Roneoni, who last week appeared at the Lyoeum in the character of Bon 'Giovanni - and failed egregiously, has this...

vocalist ydept Jules Lefort, reappeared yesterday at the Hanover Square Rooms, with a bundle of oddities after his usual fashion. His chief novelty is a scene between two...

A new comedy entitled Le Pied d'Argile has failed at the Theatre Francais ; and a new piece entitled Un .Enfant du Sieete has been pro- dubed with success at the Vaudeville. The...

Monday evening, was wholly devoted to a single work, Schumann's cantata, Paradise and the Peri. Its production was connected with Madame Lind Goldschmidt's generous consent to...

even- ing was Madame Goldschmidt's last appearance but one in England. There was a vast assemblage ; and the general excitement was greater, if possible, than ever. Jenny Lind...

and full houses may be drawn by very different amounts of attraction. But a succession of full houses night after night, the last as full as the first, have testified to...

_London, 19th June 1856. Sia—At this moment, when so much of public attention is directed to the subject of Reformatory Schools for young offenders, it seems to me that in-...

PROTESTANT A TJJF.S. OF ULTRAMONTANISM. TICE persons in the United Kingdom who would least have re- retted the practical success of Mr. Walpole's motion on Irish Education are,...

Dunreo the late war two cavalry regiments were withdrawn from British India to reinforce the shattered cavalry force in the Crimea. They were not missed in India. Now that the...

EVERYBODY remembers the story of Davidson and Gordon ' those general merchants whose failure disclosed such a wonderful series of frauds in which one Joseph Windle Cole was...

IT does not become the West' to tevile the City ; for if eager trading engenders vices which result in crimes against commercial law, luxury engenders vices which -result in...

ltiss Rriumrr Corrrrs has followed up the example of Lord A,shburton hi the endeavour to promote what may be called direct instruction in the proper business of life, the...

striking quality with that of Benja.min Frankhn—it is conspicuous for a, rigid econo- my, whichwill• never throw anything away, will not waste the smallest shred.. The present...

BAIRIE'S EXPLORING VOYAGE UP THE BITERS WoR A AND DI NUE. * THE African discoveries of the last thirty years have shown that the Niger is a nonexistent river, either according...

Cold Bath Fields to be the largest prison in the world. Except in gaols with long historidi asso- ciations, it is also one of the most famous. There "the Devil," in his...

seems to have been derived from. The Admiral's Daughter. " - tench philosophy and a vague feeling of mysticism or Pantheism on the part of Stephen. Harley, with the unsettled...

On the 22d January, at Turanga, New Zealand, the Wife of Herbert S. Wardell, Esq., resident magistrate, of a son. On the 16th June, at. Spain's Hall, Essex, the Wife...

BOOKS. Tan publishers continue to send forth fictions ' though not to the same extent as in the two preceding weeks. Of the two latest arrivals, " Diana • Wynyard" seems a...

PartnershipsDissolred.—Stockton and Co. Birmingham, ewellers ; as far as regards E. Stockton—Fowkes and Co. Litchurch, Derbyshire, iron-founders—Lewis, Bro- thers, Chester,...

WAR DEPARTMENT, Pall Mall, June 24.—Cavalry—lst Regt. Drags.—Cornet M. Hall to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Fitzgerald, promoted. 7th Light Drags.—Lieut. J. Aytoun to be Capt....

Friday. BRITISH FUNDS (Closing Prices) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Lon g An n uities Annuities...