... RETROSPECTIONS-OF LIVERPOOL, BY TOUCHSTONE. ^ : By the time this reaches our sporting readers, the Liverpool July Meeting will have terminated. Ac- cording to our -usual custom we proceed to offer' a few. comments on out. anticipations, the results, and the general character of the meeting, Premising, thiat',the distance from town, and hour at which ve go-to press,- will preclude our including ...

... the Queen Victoria, belonging to the port of Rochester Sir,—l have the honour of informing you, that by a decision, dated the 28th May, his Excellency, the Minister of the Navy and Ctlonies, having given his Majesty the King of the French an account of the devotedness and humanity which you evinced in taking on board your vaacl, in the beginning of last December, the ...

... with the continued session, and oppressed by the weather, are hurrying their labours to a conclusion, and passing bills wholesale without either discussion or opposition. M. Pellapra would, it was said, surrender himself a prisoner on Friday. At the time our correspondent closed his despatches the decision of the Court of Peers had not been announced. It was, however, affirmed that General ...

... Caliph Omar to burn the sessional papers of the Lords and Commons. The load of voluminous nothings which the press, at the bidding of our two legislative houses, annually sends forth, sits like an incubus on the nightmare-ridden imagination. The endless details, diffuseness, and repetitions contained in these documents can only be paralleled by the frequent unimportance of their contents. Our ...

... COLLIBRY EXPLOSION AN LOSS OF LIPE. O n Tuesday, aboutorano o'clock, _ tesos~eii oI &.damp, eital ?? its consequences to a number of persons, took place 'at the. colliery, known sometimes as tbe Hfgher Patrieroft'Colliery, but more properly as the Ktrkleis Hall Colliery, near the boundary line oa the townships of Inca on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, about two miles fronm Wigan. ...

... BAETTE.-In the parish of Crowburst the poles are in most places well clothed with bine, and apparently inclined to branch very thickly, which gives to the grower a hope of success yet the bile looks something more dried and the leaves less expanded than they were a fortnight back; a warm shower would probably do them good. Amongst some young pieces, being the first year poling, there were ...

... Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Princes and Princesses, attended by a numerous suite, arrived by special train at the Nine Elms terminus of the South Western Railway on Thursday afternoon, at five minutes past one o'clock; the royal party immediately pro- ceeded in five carriages, each drawn by four horses, to BI:ckingbam Palace, where her Majesty arrived at twenty minutes after one ...

... FRANCE. Ds'LO-xccTIC CsIsoNGEs.-A considerable movement is about to take place in the corps diploniatique. Count Bresson is to proceed to Naples in September, taking with him, as chief secretary of embassy, Count de Montessuy. d. de Lutroth, who at present occupies that situation, is to proceed to Cassel as Minister Plenipotentiary, in place of the Marquis de Lalavette, who gives up his ...

... repealers, the ridiculous shares with the fearful in Irish affairs. A ludicreus controversy on the subject of begging places from the muchabused Saxons is at present raging between the Old and Young Irelanders. The dispute was commenced by the latter. At the meeting of their monthly club, which they have pompously called the Irish Confederation, they proposed to enact a species of self ...

... development of social and economical progress. Let not the active and intelligent amongst the electors be satisfied with securine sound politicians members for the trading and populous districts, but let them also do what they can to rescue the counties from aristocratic domination. With his characteristic sagacity, Mr. Cobden has pointed out the hazard to which the prospective measure of free ...

... MONDAY, July 5. ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Committees Supply and Ways and Means.—Second Readings—Joint Stock Companies (No. 2): Copyright (Colonies); Bills. Commitments. —Incumbered Estates (Ireland); Prisons; Polling at Elections (Ireland); Recovery of Public Moneys (Ireland); Bankruptcy and Insolvency; Masters in Chancery Affidavit Office; Navigation (N0.2); Stock in Trade Exemption ; Health of ...

... HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—THIS Evzxino, ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO. Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Isabella, Mad. Castellan; Roberto, Sig. Fiaschini; Rambaldo, Sig. Gardoni; Bertram, Herr Staudigl. DIVERTISSEMENT.—And LES KLEMENS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, CO VENT-GARDEN.—This Evknrao, ANNA BOLENA. Anna Bolcna, Mad. Grisi; Lady Seymour, Mdlle. Corbari; Smeeton, Mdlle. Alboni; Henry VIII., Sig. Tamburini.—And a New ...