... OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON SUNDA YS. Ans adjourned meeting of the working classes in favour of the above object was held yesterday evening at Drury-lane Theatre, when a gnod, but not overflowing, audience was in attendance. Mr. Mayhew, who was to have taken the chair, being absent, Mr. Prideaux, a cabinet-maker, was delegated to tite presidency. Representatives of various classes of ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ,OLCICAL SOCIETY. ; let on tho 2d inst., Mr. W. Hopkins, presi. rice taons~ were read 'ir° liOl' on t tpa pt of the iinmalayas, near Suhba- 1 0 t gjor Vcry. Communicated by Sir R. I. Msur- jbs5is ' erC MajOr Yicary gave a. geological sectin'n across Iaik ?? and tne southera.slopes of the Himalayas, 0C blr Sabat°°, and pointed.out the general geolo- tsoo, l of tile country, from near Aimballs ...

... E GREA T NORTHERN RAIL WA Y 0hAND THE SOUTH YORKSHIRB CO.AL 1'ROPJIETORS Its stated in this journal a few weeks ago that in con- ene of the increased demand for coal from the South seorhshire pita, analng from the opening of the Great uerthren and South Yorkshire Railways, the operative iriersofthatdistrict had demanded and obtained an in. cressed rate of wages, and that the coal proprietors ...

... CONFLAGRATION ON THE BRISTOL AVD EXETER R1AILTVAY AT BRIDGWATER. -4- Oa Saturday morning a fire of a very extensive and alarm. Lig character broke out at Somerset-bridge on the above lines icibe extensive works of Messrs. Henderson and Ritson, the raatracors tothe Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter liner, and oho occupy a space of about four acres close by thesideof the railway, with ...

... .Last evening a meeting of the friends and supporters of the movement in favour of what is denominated Wesleyan Reform was held at the Freemasons'Tavern, Great Queen- street; Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M. P., in the chair. The meeting was numerously attended, and several of the expelled mi- nisters and other prominent leaders of the agitation occu- pied the platform. The proceedings having been ...

... ECCLESIAS7ICAL. The Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. T. Cornish Pratt, MA., assistant chaplain of St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital, late master of the Grammar School and curate of Midhurst, to the readership of Christ Church, Newgate- street. Tbe Bishop of Exeter has licensed the Rev. T. Inglis Stewart, M.A., late of Paisley, to the incumbency of Landscove, near Ashburton, on the nomination ...

... PRIVY COVNCIL. WINDSOR, FEn, 7. The Queen held a Privy Council at three I this afternoon. it was attended by his f I Highness Prince Albert ; Earl Granvill ILl sident; the Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy d p.. Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of theTra;I! Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of &sate ftr Home Department; Lord John Russell of State for Foreign Affairs; tle Dulef ttf castle, Secretary of State ...

... ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIE7 The fourth ordinary meeting of the Ethnolo i for the present session was held on Wednesday g Sociey 9th instant, at 71, Mortimer-street, Cvedi (M in Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., president of tie sro ir chair. The Rev. William Arthur and Mr r i the admitted as fellows of the society. Th * iasesere made to the society on that evening were :- nicatian 1. A paper On the form of ...

... The following is the despatoh from Earl Grey to the Earl of Elgin, to which we elsewhere allude:- Downing-street, Jan. 27,1851. My Lord-I have hitherto deferred answering your lord- ship's despatch, No. 198, of the 19th of July last, in which you transmitted to me an address to her Majesty from the House of Assembly, on the subject of the clergy reserves, be- cause when this despatch reached ...