... SUMMARY. The Queen left her Highland home on Thurs- day morning, and journeyed to Edinburgh that night. Her Majesty intends staying at Holyrood till this (Saturday) morning, at nine o'clock, when the Royal family will take their departure for Bangor, North Wales, via the Carlisle and Lon- don and North Western railways. The Royal party are expected to accomplish the distance (206 miles) in ...

... HO-USE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 24. IONIAN ISLANDS.—Earl GREY having inquired when a copy of the commission under which Mr. Gladstone had undertaken his mission to the Ionian Islands would be laid .before Parliament, the Earl of Derby objected to the promulgation of a document which might, he remarked, provoke a premature debate upon the whole question, which was not yet ripe for discussion. ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, rjlHAT HENRY GEORGE ALLEN &, TIIOMAS | ALLEN, Esquires, the Barristers appointed to Re- vise the Lists of Voters for the County of Glamorgan, will make a Circuit, and hold Courts for such Revision, at the several Tirnes and Places hereinafter and every Overseer of the Prior is to attend the Court io be li.dden for Revising the Lists relating to the Parish or Place of w ...

... It is gratifying to state that an attack has been made npon tbis Russian stronghold, and that up to the present time tbe allied armies and fleet have been comparatively successful, tbe loss of life, we are happy to say, being but small. Tbe following despatches will be read with interest: PORTMAN-SQUARE, Midnight, Nov. 6. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle ha« this evening received despatches, of ...

... \IE^H. B UND °R GUIDBS — ''he Court Circular states A If H P } TY THE Queen has been pleased, through Lord Alfred Paget, to transmit to the Barou de Verdiere, Captain LU the Imperial Regiment of Guides, the sum of 1U0 guineas for the band, as a mark of L{0>AL satisfaction at their brilliant per- formance at W indsor. Fhamfton's Pill OF HEALTH is a medicine of long- tried efficacy, and its ...

... THE BATTLE OF MONTEBELLO. r THE first account of the engagement atMonte- bello, having any pretentions to completeness, is now before ùs; It is from the pen of one of'the Paris journalists selected by the Emperor to accompany the army, and records for the glory of France and the delectation of tife French people the brilliant feats of arms which it is part of the Imperial programme to per form ...

... imeral ptoi The select committee appointed to prepare estimates of the charge of the disembodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 1st of April, 1859, to the 31st of March, 1860, have estimated the number of men for 1859-60 at 103,644, and the cost at £462,860, as against 91,003 men, and £ 432,900. The second and last concert of the artistes of the Drury-lane Opera was given on ...

... same at Newport; and even at Brecon, where local prejudice is aristocratically in- timed, a clerk has been equally successful. The time is now at hand when a beginning must be made. A curse, said a German writer, is attached to standing still; be it manor mankind, an association or an Empire. If we prefer the motto of supineness, with us the penalty, the misfortune of such a resolve but do ...

... EMGLTSTC BAPTIST CHAPEL.—The re-opening of this place of worship i& announced for cLy and Monday next, when special services wiu be held, which wlÍl be conducted by the R v. T. Thomas, D.D., Pontypool, assisted by several eminent ministers of the baptist and other de- nominations, in the neighbourhood. Collection* are announced to ...

... (Continued from our 6th page.) THE BATTLE OF THE GUAGHS. -The question what is an efficient gu^ge'1 for a steam boiler, according to the recent Act of Parliament for the better management of mines and collieries, was again brought forward at the Merthyr Police-court on Wednesday, but without any definite result. The magistrates on (he bench were J. C. Fowler, William Thomas, and David Evans, ...

... The arrival of cittle and sheep into the port 01 London fr >m the continent during the pilot week has bren i-fnjl!. The Cu«rom-'iouse return gives an entiyof 435 oxeu and cow, 19 I calves, 32 pi^ and 1,610 >iieep, miking a titil of 2,271. There was a very si 1* trade to- I ty for evervthm^, not- the supply was f^iurilly short, but prices were higher by 2 I. to 4 per stone. Of beef the supply ...

... we learn that the harvest, should this weather con- tinue, will be nearly equal to that of last year, which was said to be one of the finest on record; but when it is remembered, that a larger breadth of land was sown with wheat this year than last, we may infer that the yield will be equal. THE WR AR. —Elsewhere we publish an account of the fall of Sweaborg, which was considered as a link in ...