... GRRMAN VOTARIES OF TOBACCO.—Every man without ex- ception, is smoking each little table has its lamp (though it is broad day-light) for the sole purpo3e of lighting the pipes and cigars and so unremitting are the votaries of tobacco that yonder is an old gentleman actually eating at the same time, the long pipe being pushed into the corner of his mouth, so as to leave an entrance in front for ...

... THE CROWNED HEAD. — Her Majesty the Queen is the twenty-seventh in regular descent from the Conqueror, and at the same time thirty- sixth sovereign in succession from the conquest. This ffives nearly twenty-nine years to a generation and twenty-two years to a reign, in I-espect of the seven hundred and seventy-one years which have elapsed siuce that period. The commonly received average is ...

... DIIKAOIUL EXPLOSION OF A OUNPOW- DKR-P.OVT. AND DESTRUCTION OF A FOREIGN HIIIP. (From the Times.) Thursday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock. a most serious calamity occurred on the lhaincs, ofl Hlackwnll, in the explosion of a boat laden with gunpowder, aud the sinking of n. brig lying alollgside. The explosion was plainly heard in all parts of Lon- don, and excited the greatest alarm, ...

... Our English modistes, though perforce, fannhar with French words, raiely know how to pronounce them. A country gen- tlewoman asked one such '• What I.ice is this V•— Shan't tell ee, ma'am, seemed the n plv, and, till explained, much affronted the customer. Upon the request of the Queen the boys at the Charter-house are to enjoy an additional week's holidays to celebrate her Ma- jesty's ...

... IRRUPTION THE SEA INTO A MINE, AND 1\1E- LANCHOLY LOSS G'F MFfl AND PROPERTY. Most distressing accidents are of ffe ...

... We have authority to state that it is the intention of the Conservatives in Hereford t proceed against thirty.one indivi. duals, who not only voted at the last election without having the qualifications in respect of which they were registered, but also stated at the hustings that they stili possessed them. It is said many of them are individuals in a respectable station in life, and upon ...

... It was usually employed by his Majesty to express hiS dissent or incredulity with regatd to any subject nnder discussion, Mary Fox, the eldest of his Majesty's surviving daugh- ters, h:td chiefly devolved the painful yet consolatory duty of assisting the Queen in her attendance on the King. The extreme caution of his Majesty, and his anxiety to avoid causing any pain or alarm to the Queen, ...

... A deputation lately arrived in Paris from the United States to be initiated in the process of fpannfaolnrirtg beet-root sugar. Should thw soil of America be fotind sfJiable for tl planl, a blo\y wiU lie dealt at slavery in the south which will hasten ...

... SCRIPTURE HIJ'STfiA MOiVS.—No. 205. Exo Dug, I. 13, 14- Thi- Eg*otians made the* children of IsriAel tft oerve vtitii rigotir and they, made their lives bitter with ijard bondage, in inortar, anii in brick, and in all manner of service, in the field all iheir servjee wherein they made them serve was with rigour. Few travellers have visited Egypt without commiserating the conclition of jhe ...

... A Jew butcher, of Lille, has just been brought before the correctional police, ou a charge of having in his posses- sion an unlawful weapon. The prohibited aitic e in ques- tion is a long and very sharp Damascus knife, with which he slaughtered the beasts for the use of his Israelitish breth- ren, their religion preventing them eating any meat not killed by a person authorised by the grand ...

... The Nouvelle Xlinerve states that a treaty of peace has been concluded between the French Government and the Bey of Constantina, without the participation of Generals Damremont and Bujjeaud. The Bey is to acknowledge the Sovereignty of France, and has agreed to testify his vassalage by hoisting twice a-year the tricolotired flag on the ramparts of his capital. The same journal, after stating ...

... Now that the first tumultous throbbings of our joy have died within us while the ear still echoes with the rapturous shouts bf thousands, and the eye yet aches with the blaze of pageantry passed on; now that our hearts' devotion burns with a flame, less ardent perhaps, but more intense and pure while yet is dependmg the grand issue on which some at least of our young sovereign's course must ...