... the ministerial explanations respecting the late crisis. Upwards of four hundred deputies were present in the chamber, with a large number of peers, and the tribunes and galleries were completely filled. It was understood to have the intention of M. Guizot to take the sense of the chamber in the form of a vote to the order of the day, and all the supporters of the cabinet had been summoned for ...

... ■ rt. 8^ uria y first fete of the Horticultural Sogardens, Chiswick, and nothing 'if our hours' fine weather to make it one of rn f' oWcr shows. The gardens were M, ' ne : ,>le lawns freshly rolled and trimmed, . 'P* ol ™' l * of choice flowers arranged in competij r '^ e marquees were more than usually •tufw'i M numer ous. Each first show of the season ■id r ...

... . RUTLANDSHIRE. The importance of this county, in the agricultural distribution and analysis of the kingdom, is in the inverse ratio of it. size and dimensions. It takes rank as the third the English agricultural counties, though but as the thirty-fifth in point of density of papulation, and as the last—or the least, —in point of size. The statistics a county whicb, with an area little more ...

... NEW ZEALAND.—By the Ralph Bernal we have papers from Wellington to the 21st of December. The Ralph Bernal is the first vessel of the season direct from that port to London. Her cargo is valuable, consisting of about 265 tons of oil and 20of bone, with wool, and other produce of the southern settlements. Its value, estimated in the c ilony, about 9,000/. There are on board about tons of (New ...

... WORCESTERSHIRE. The area of this county occupies about 718 square miles, or 519,520 acres. It inland county, bounded on the north by Staffordshire and Shropshire; on the east, by Warwickshire ; on the south, by Gloucestershire ; and on ths west, by Herefordshire. Of this county there are several detached or outlying portions : the most important of which contains the town of Dudley, and is ...

... WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—From this colony we have received complete files of news-papers from the 16th of September to the 30th of December, and letters to the '2nd of January, 1847. Their news is the most satisfactory have received from it. It is with regret that we announce the intimation contained the latter: Our governor is dangerously ill; in fact, it is ecuerally believed that cannot last ...

... un£riw?uishing system of employment, and substitute tfiteleemosynary aid, given of course with considerscrutiny as to the real indigence which craved, aJd have been small task to undertake with any, a Saxon population. The Celtic have r themselves amenable, and if there be recalciin Ireland, it has not been amongst the very Celts, B ramongst the landlords and managing folk, who f on d of ...

... Daniel O'Connell was the eldest son of Morgan O'Connell, of Carhen, Esq., and of Catherine, sister of the O'Mullane, of Whitechurch, in the county of Cork, a most respectable and ancient Irish family. He was born at Carhen, about a mile from the present post town Cahircireen, the county of Kerry. His birth occurred on the 6th of August, 1775—a year rendered memorable by the commencement of the ...

... LANCASHIRE. Representation Bolton. —We (Manchester Guardian) hear that last week a few persons convened circular met tbe News Room to deliberate upon th ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk yesterday in the pleasure grounds and plantations of Osborne. 11. K.H. the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. 11.11. H. the Duchess of Kent left town yesterday morning for her residence, Fr. gmore House, near Windsor. H.U.Hi returned the afternoon, at six o'clock, to Clarence House, St. James's ...

... Royal Italian Opera.—The ballet department, at Covent-garden, has received great accession of strength, the person of Mdlle. Fanny Elssler, who made her lirst appearance oil Saturday evening, after the'performaace of the Puritani. The piece which she appealed was brief and slight; and, having no pretensions to the title of a ballet, was very properly denominated divertissement. It was called ...

... LEICESTERSHIRE. This is an inland county, bounded on the north Nottinghamshire, on the north-east by Lincolnshire, on the cast by Rutlandshire, on the north-west by Derbyshire; on the south Warwickshire. Its greatest length, measured in a line from north by cast to south by west (that is, from the conterminous point at which the three counties of Nottinghamshire. Leicestershire, and ...