... Forty-six designs have been sent in to the committee for the com- petition for the Memorial Chureh at Constantinople; several of them have great merits, ...

... On Saturday parliament was dissolved. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH) which was read by the Lord Chancellor, was as follows: — My Lords and Gentlemen, We are commanded by her Majesty to inform you that, in re- leasing you at this early period from your attendance in parliament, jt is her Majesty's intention immediately to dissolve the present parliament, in order to ascertain in the most constitutional ...

... Thomas Charlesworth, now in the 29th year of his age, owns and occupies a farm of forty acres in the county of Stafford, and pursues the ordinary business of his calling in those parts. In April last year he found that something ailed the milk, that things went wrong in the dairy, that the cheese wouldn't come, and that the dairy- maid was ill. For these facts he seems to have been at a loss ...

... DR. wil!, says the Leeds Mercury, probably reach this country in a fortnight Our government sent a ship of war to wait off the coast of Africa for him till he made his appearance from the interior. It waited off the coast for two months, when the com- mander, giving up all hope, returned to the Cape for further orders; but the commodore at once ordered him back, and the ship had scarcc reached ...

... Thursday-before C. H. Williams, and John Thompson, Esqrs. PONTYPOOL.—COAL STIRALING --Ellen M'Carty was charged with stealing 801bs. of coal, the property of the Pontypool Iron Company, en the 20th inst.—;Fined £ 1 including costs, or, in default, to be committed to the house of correction for one month. Sattirday-before C. H. Williams, and Fred. Levick, Esqrs. LLANHILLETH.—ASSAULT.—Thomas ...

... With the votes of Friday were printed the following election petitions,-viz., one from Maldon, against the return of Mr. J. Bram- ley-Moore, on the ground of bribery and treating; one from Lanark- shire, against the return of Sir E. Colebrooke, on the ground of bribery, bad votes, and undue influence; one from Weymouth, against the' return of Mr. Freestun and Mr. Campbell, on the ground of ...

... A Cabinet Cot-sort, was held 011 Saturday. HER MAJESTY and the Royal Family will arrrive at Windsor Castle from Buckingham Palace on the 9th of June. HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—Tuesday being appointed for the cele- bration of her Majesty's birthday, business was wholly suspended in the Customs, Excise, the various docks and boifcled warehouses, the East India-house, Bank, Stock Exchange, the ...

... DOWRY TO THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—The report of the resolution respecting the annuity to the Princess Royal having been brought up, on the question that the resolution be agreed to, Mr. Coningham moved as an amendment that the amount should be reduced from £8,000 to £6,000 a-year; that sum, with the £40,000 granted for dower, being, as he believed, sufficiently liberal.-Lord PALMERSTON regretted ...

... The police of New Yoik, for some time past, have been on the alert for a reported Hungarian, named Maximilian Benedict, alias Baron Baumgartner, who stands charged with the seduction of the wife of Mi. G. H. Taylor, a wealthy merchant residing in London, who charges this Hungarian refugee, not only with 'he seduction of his wife, but ioducine her to elope with him to this country, taking with ...

... GOING TO AUSTRALIA; OR, WAITING AT THE STATION. WE are amongst a number of people waiting for the Black- wall train, at the Fenchurch station. Some of us are going a little farther than Blackwall-as far as Gravesend; some of us are going farther than Gravesend-to Port Philip in South Australia, leaving behind the patrice fines, and the pleasant fields of Old England. It is rather a queer sensa ...

... We find the following in the Moniteur FRANKFORT, Nov. 20. The letters received here by Russian or Polish families from the interior of Russia all agree in affirming the existence in Poland and Russia of a profound discontent, provoked by the war, and the endless miseries which it has caused through- out the length and breadth of the empire. The militia were assembled under the promise that ...

... ACCIDENT.-James Wight, an Irishman, was acci- denta!ly killed whilst proceeding with a horse and cart, near Llanfoist bridge. The horse became restive, and attempted to gallop off, and the deceased in en- deavouring to arrest him, was knocked down by the shaft, and the wheel passed over him. Mr. Hansby was soon in attendance, but his efforts to restore the poor man were unavailing. THE FAIR ...