... | HER MAJESTY'S BIRTIWAY DRAWING Roolit.-The Queen held a Drawing Room on Thsurpday afternoon week, in k St. James'i Palace, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, The reception was the mont brilliant this season. .The doors Of the I palace were openediat One' o'clock, and the cormpany continued fe setting down without the 'slighitest intermission for about two hours, and filled the suite ...

... Leeds. There has been very little business done at the clothhalls since this day week, a few low-priced goods for the American market being nearly all that were sold. l ine and middle cloths calculated for the home trade being scarcely all del' the prudence of the manufacturers curtailing the production has prevented any material fail prices the stocks continuing to be less than usual this ...

... ?? ~SYNO PSI-S. ?? -, I !. i ;DEN DEATH OF TEE DEWA or, CllsIcEsTJza.-We SAIo record the unexpected demise of the :Ron. and bave an the of Maheser, which'took plice lre~q ly. ~ the afternoon 'of, last, Friday~ebiee, 'at his ,,;a0 vin Hereford-street, Park-lane, irn his sixtyninth 'lThe hon. and reverend gentleman bad been ailing rear- last two yearn and lattsrly had been attended on ofrthe ...

... THE CRops.-I have. in the early part of this week, taken a ride through the extensive parish of Bedwelty, and minutely noticed the progress of vegetation on the best as well as the poorest land. Never, perhaps, has fine weather done so much in so short a time every description of crop shows health and luxuriance, particularly wheat, where there has been any thing like good farming; the ridges ...

... 'TSI-E I CIVIL WAR 1N PoRlruG AL. By the irqdr, which erred tlott TUTlIdRY nig t we have reived letters to tlte 30Mil fron Oporto. The Polypheinus steamer arrived u ,: the bust Siist. 6rm isbn,) benri, g letters fron the ministerts of Snmle ed, France, anti Sp1ain, calling on he dt m to 7ee to ?? armtisttice to the 10l1h of June. ?? the 21d, a tmeti ng Wits he i at the 13rinte' Consul's ol ...

... O:MFOr-D UZZMM-IRSITY ELECTION. M1r. CARDWELL'S lon0din Committee having observed an ndvertisenient, issued by Mr. Gladstone's Commnittee, in re- ference to a charge affecting both Committces, desire distinctly to state- That they have not entered into, nor contemplated, any coali- tion, direct or indirect, with the Committee or friends of Mr. Gladstone. That they pursue this contest for the ...

... LORD LINCoLN'S COLONISATION SCHEME. Em( 1'iol til/c Thimesi.) VWe would fain hope that the interest awalkened' iy Lord antI Lincoln's mnotion on Tttesdsiv evening XVill not l- e I- in hegon and endedl in a mere legislative co. frezsiXoie. tt isam tile unhappy characteristic ti' an iinbe'ile age that the mlvi most intp ?? ?? run into talk. Ti .dl; ?? i ngg there is in this instance. WVhat 1i0 ...

... EDUCATION IN WALES an Argument for State Inter- ference, in reply to John Bright, Esq., M.P. By a Welsh Incumbent. Reprinted from the John Bull newspaper. A copy of this well-timed and forcibly-written parn- phlet has been received by us. It is addressed to the Premier; and is in reply to imputations made by Mr. Bright: first -That the Church has neglected the educa- tion of the people of ...

... MURDER.-On Friday a most atrocious murder was committed in open day near Rotherbam. A man named Linley, a joiner, was walking along the turnpike road, when he met a woman, 60 years of age, named Susannah Jaggers, when he turned from the footpath and seized her by the arm. She struggled to escape his grasp, got loose from him, and ran along the road. He followed and struck her on the back of ...

... Tfje Eaourt. Thle Qucen held a court on Saturday at Bucking- nlo l'alace. IL.11. Prince Oscar of Sweden was pre- se'-tel to Ir Majesty at an audience, by Viset. Palmerston, t t.C.d, her Molcst3 's principal Secretary of State for I Ore en Affhirs, 'lld conducted by Col. the Hon. Sir E. Coot, It'CH., her Mulljesty's Master of the Ceremonies. 11H as attenlded I) Baron de Rehanlsen, Swedish ...

... DUBLINf, JTuni. The alarm for the present safety of the potato crop has subsided. The appearances on which the fears of failure were founded, differed altogether from the phenomena which heralded destraction in the last and preceding years. There is this peculiarity also in the disease of 1845-6, which has not yet appeared. Tho whole crop was blighted in one week through the whole island, and ...

... y, -- MANCHESTER JUVENILE REFUGE AND L SCIOO.L OF INDUSTRY. r I'll, With a view to making the subscribers to this institution. dI cnd the public, nequuinted wvith its progress and effects, Mr. ita Bryan, whose unwearied exertions as master merit the highest n p raise, was requested to draw up a short statement of its ti history since its opening, in January last. We have plea. s sure in laying ...