... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... NOTE the first having been sounded by the Rate- payers' Committee, a sudden commotion has been got up in the North Ward. Three candidates are in the field already. Mr. James Pride asks to be re-elected, and Mr. W. Nell and Mr. John Bird declare their intention to test the feelings of the burgesses. Mr. Bradley, whose term of office expires this year, does not intend coming forward again; and ...

... Steam-Tug for Sale. TO be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, Litfht Sixty j-1,. A fourths of and in the well-known powerful Steat*-tng, STORM KING, now plying in the Port of Cardiff. The Siorm King was built about fifteen months ago by a celebrated sti am- boat builder at North Shields, and is now in most excel- lent working trim. Her engines are 54-horse pewgr, and notwithstanding the late scarcity of ...

... On Wednesday evening the mournful intelli- gence was received, in Cardiff, by telegraph, that this most noble lady had died suddenly at Edin- burgh. Those who remember that the late Marquis died suddenly, and also that Lord James Stuart, his Lordship's brother, was in an equally unexpected manner visited by death, will feel how painful must these visitations be to the distin- guished family ...

... A correspondent of the Bombay Gazette, April 18th, writes:— I have now given you all I can at present glean concerning the celebrated rebel chief, Tantia Topee, whose military skill and ability were worthy of better troops in a better cause. I suppose his charge, proceedings at his trial, and statement will ultimately be given to the public for their information. The execu- tion was announced ...

... ltl WILLETT'S SPEECH AT THE INQUIRY. ^ilW?r Edition we gave an epitome of Mr. s addressed before the Inspector, but as there Plbl]0^ P°*pts in it which will bear extending, we ^is week in an enlarged form. fose t a(- the close of the case for the defence, ,° and spoke for upwards of an hour. He 0f „ e1.ad been most unfairly placed by the board Stan/I'lllans a ^se position. He had no right to ...

... At the Mansion-house on Thursday, Lieutenant Francis Higginson, who lately made several applications to the sitting magistrate at Guildhall with reference to some money which he said was wrongfully withheld from him by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, appeared before Sir R. W. Carden, in discharge of his bail, for having com- mitted an assault upon Mr. Alderman Salomons, the magistrate who ...

... PARLIAMENTARY RECORD. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. In the House of Lords, after several petitions had been presented, and the Royal consent given by com- mission to various public and private bills, the Queen's Speech was read by the Lord Chancellor, as follows My Lords and Gentlemen, We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from your further attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to ...

... THE RELICS OF THE FRANKLIN EXPE- DITION. The romance and mystery that so long surrounded the fate of Franklin and his brave companions in the cause of discovery and in the service of their country. being now satisfactorily disclosed, it has been thought right that all fitting steps should be taken to commemorate them in the admiration of their countrymen. While in other quarters it is being ...

... The following appeared in our SECOND EDITION of last Saturday.] FATAl. ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held at the Town-hall this forenoon, before R. L. Reece, Esq., coroner, upon the body of Mary Quin, who acciden- tally w ou rnaay rorenoon, under the following circumstances. The child was left in charge of her grandmother,, who lives in Stanley- street, and, in company with two other children, made ...