... IMPERJAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF L.ORDS-ThVeDAY. Their Lordships met to.day for the first time after the re- cess. A considerable number of peers were in attendance, although,judginsg from the sounds which constantly pro, ceeded from the body of the house, most of them oere suffering, more or less, from the prevailing epidemic. The new Lord Chancellor, Lord Crauworth, however, looked *ehl, and ...

... On Thursday, the 3d inst., Dr. W. B. Bexileld (Mus. Bao. Ox(,, Mus. Dr. Camb.) gave the first lecture of his course On the present state of Music in England. The subject was church music, the different classes of which were treated under the denominations subjoined-chants, psalm tunea, chorales, services, anthems, sanctuses, responses, masses, voluntaries. Various examples of these were per ...

... RA IL WA Y3. WARRINGTON AND ALTRINCHAM. LIVElPoOL, TUESDAY.-The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Warrington and Altrincham Railway Company was held to-day On the ClArendon Rooms. Is the absence of Mr. Gilbert Greenill, M.P., chairman of the board, Mr. Charles Holland, one of the directors, presided. The report, which was read by the Secretary, stated that the line would be ...

... WYINDSOR, Frm. 9. h1ir had the honour of dining with ler Majesty fte f° ler R Highness the Duchess of Kent, her ei§ ile - the Prince-is Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the !- JighlII11 tilop 1i canterbury, the Duke and Duchess of Wel- Arb t ?? iu ?? to the Duchess of Bent, the de Speth, Lady Caroline Barrington, Viscount Fl e, ard Sir James Graham. 2^tijd -of the 2d Life Guards attended in the Castle ...

... To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-My attention has lately been drawn to the contro- versy and conflicting opinions now going on in reference to the cleaning of the pictures in the National Gallery. I have spent upwards of forty years in close study and active prac- tice on the restoration of old paintings, during the last few of which I have had entrusted under ray hands the nume- ...

... THE INCO4E TAX. To ?? EDITOR OF Tile MORNINO CHRONICLE. SIR-I was not aware, until I saw your paper on b Saturday morning, that Mr. Hubbard had honoured t by his notice the two pamphlets which I have pub- h lished on the above-mentioned subject. I shall not; I trust, offer an indelicate compliment if I say t that, fortified by the perusal of your comments, I l have sustained Mr. Hubbard's ...

... LORD JOHN RU.SSELL AND LORD LONDONDERRY The following additional correspondence between Lord Johin Russell and Lord Londonderry has been published:- Chesham-place, May 21, 1858. My Lord-I am deeply conoerned that the passage to phich your lordship alludes should have been published by isis. My first impulse on reading it was to strike it out, both as extremely improbable ib itself and as ...

... MIR. COBDEN'S VISIT TO HOLMFIRTB. HO1JMFIRTH, THURSDAY., Last night a large number of the inhabitants of Holmfirth and the neighbourhood assembled inhthe Town-hall, to hear addresses from Mr. Cobden, M.P., and other gentlemen. The occasion was the annual soirge of the Mechanics' Insti- tutiou, when upwards of 600 persons took tea together in the Wesleyan Scbool-room, and afterwards adjourned ...

... PROGRESS OFIMPRO VErMEZVT IN TiE WEST OF IRELAND. The following observations, tending to show the benefits conferred upon Ireland by the Encumbered Estates Com- mission, are extracted from a letter of Mr, J. Locke to the Earl of Lucan The occasion seems opportune in all its eircuinmstancei and I shall select, in illustration, the Western EHighlands, and especially the union of Newpolt-a ...

... The authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin arrived in Glas- gow on Wednesday night, accompanied by her husband, Professor Stowe, the Rev. Charles Beecher (her brother), and Miss Beecier (her sister). Being rather in' a delicate state of health, Mrs. Stowe kept herself pretty much within doors for the two days after her arrival; but on Friday night a grand soirde was held in the City Hall, in lier ...

... At the last meeting of this society, Joseph Locke, Esq., M.P., vice-president, in the chair, The first paper read was On the Caloric Engine, by Mr. C. Manby, Mi. Inst. C.E. (secretary). At meetings of the Soci&t6 ?? pour ?? Nationale on the 26th January, 1852, and of the Acaderie des Sciences, on the 2d February of the same year, M. Galy-Cazalat entered upon an examination of the principles ...

... THE DOMESTIC MEDICAL AND SUR- GICAL GUIDB.* This is a book of a class which has been long needed and long called for, and a book excellently adapted to the purpose which it is designed to serve. There is more common sense, sound advice, and plain practical suggestion and instruction in Mr. Hogg's book, than in half the technical and pretentious tomes since Galen. Not that Mr. Hogg entertains ...