... THE ship Her Majesty, the scene of the recent horrible tra- gedy on sea, has arrived at Waterford. LAST week, a number of mechanics and labourers were engaged in making extensive improvements in various parts of the East and West India Docks, Blackwall, under the superintendence of Mr. Henry Daniel Martin, the chief engineer of that mercantile establishment. New slides, or locomotive gates, ...

... REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON. -A meeting, convened by private circular, of some of the most influ- ential gentlemen in the City, and who have for many years taken the most prominent part in the return of its repre- sentatives, was on Fri- day held for the pur- pose of considering the present position of mat- ters in connexion with two of its members. Among the gentlemen present there ...

... We have authentic intelligence that a detachment of British ships bombarded Lovisa, in Finland, on the afternoon of the 5th inst. Lovisa is a small town in the duchy of Finland, on the gulf of the same name, situated at about sixty kilometres from Helsingfors. The town was completely destroyed. It was built in 1745, under the name of Degesby, which name it exchanged for Lovisa in 1752. It ...

... Along the coast between Nystadt and Christian- stadt the squadron has destroyed 53 large ships, amounting to more than 20,000 tons. ...

... THE LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF—Instructions have been given, to make preparations to receive the remains of our late Field Marshal Lord Raglan, at Bristol, preparatory to their removal to Badminton, for interment in the family va ult. His body is on its way to England, in the Caradoc war steamer, in charge of his aides-de-camp, Lord Burg- Lersh, Lieutenant Colonel Somerset, Major Kingscote, and ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. CRUMLIN VIADUCT.-About a month will be suf- ficient time to complete this stupendous undertaking, and we hear, the contractor, Mr. Kennard, intends to form a promenade along the viaduct, so that the fine scenery may be viewed with great effect, for which a small charge will be made, the proceeds to be devot- ed towards the erection of a church in the neigh- bourhood. A ...

... Mark Lane, July 16,—The trade has ruled steady to-day and wheat has advanced from Is. to 2s. per quarter. A very limited supply 01 English wheat was received fresh from the country. The imports of foreign wheat have been on a very moderate scale. The market closed steadily at those prices, and a good clearance of the English stands was effected. Oats with an arrival during the week of upwards ...

... THE band of the 1st Life Guards have commenced playing in the Kensington Gardens selections from the moat favourite com- posers, every Tuesday and Friday, from four to six o'clock, and will continue to do so during the months of July and August, weather permitting. ° MONUMENT TO THE ijATE JUSTICE TALFOURD.—The mural monument subscribed for by the members of the Oxford Circuit and sculptured by ...

... ALFRED HILLS, tidewaiter at Folkestone, was on Saturday brought before the magistrates at Hythe, charged with inciting some of the men of the Foreign Legion to desert. From the evidence given by three of the privates belonging to the Legion it appeared that they entered a public-house on Friday afternoon at Sandgate, and there met the prisoner, who, partly in broken German, French, and English ...

... A BEAUTIFULLY ex- ecuted tablet of white statuary marble, bear- ing the following in- scription, will, in a few days, be placed in the parish church at Loversall, Lincoln- shire In memory of William Fenton, of Underbank, Esq., only son of Samuel and Jessy Fenton, who was bar- barously murdered by robbers at Algeriza, in Spain, April 13th, 1855, aged thirty-five years: his remains are interred ...

... MR. JOHN B: GREENE, son of an American banker, has suc- ceeded, notwithstanding the difficulties attendant on clearing away the palace Medinet Habora, in discovering the celebrated Egyptian calendar of which Champollion could only copy the first lines. A cast of this monument was taken on the spot by means of a peculiar kind of composition, photography not reproducing it properly. Different ...

... KITCHEN GARDEN. When the early potatoes come off, sow turnips in the ground, or plant in trenches, some rows of celery and leeks-plant out savoys, brocole and Italian kale—scarlet runners may still be sown for a late crop-cut pot herbs when in flower, to dry in the shade for winter- prevent weeds from seeding. FRUIT GARDEN. Grub up suckers at the roots of cur- rants, gooseberries and other ...