... !. S _ATE _Y Po.. XIC 2FBEZXG ZN PARZS. A. letter, from Paris. lays iut little, good, it is, now acknowledged, has been ?? b the gagging of thie press. Never, perhaps, at any epoch in our history has rumour been sO busy. or so Inventive. It would seem as if, conscious of having the whole of the wrok to do, she sought to employ her 'thousand tongues all at once, each one upon a different matter ...

... . passenger and Goods Traffic on Railways in the United Kingdom. It appears from a return of the Railway department of the Beoard of Trade that the receipts for 39,249,6051 passengers conveyed on railways in the United Kinldom amounted to 3,403,826, and for goods, cattle, parcels, mails, &c., 3,791,726; total, from all sources of traffic, 7,195,551 *for the half year ending 30th June, 1852, on ...

... COMMISSION OF LUNACY OF MR. [ - - -Feargus O'Connor, late Mj?. . On Tuesday a commissions was opened before Mr. Commnis- sioner Barlow and a jury of freeholders of the county of Middle- sex, at the Roebuck Tavern, Chiswick, for the purpose of investigating the state of mind of Mr. Feargus O'Conuor, formerly M.P., for Nottingham, and a leading Chartist agitator, but who since June last has been ...

... V: EDITION FOR EARLY MORNING I TRAINS ON SATURDAY. SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1853. THE PARLIAXENT OF. THE WEEK. I A discussion upon a Parliamentary form said to have been violated by the House of Commons in sending a bill to the Upper Chamber with reference to a commission to inquire into the late malpractices at the Chatham election, occupied the rouse of Lords for the three hours duoing which they ...

... THE MINIBSTREAL DEFEAT AND ITS CAUSE. The Times thus treats the subject on which the ministry experlenogd. a defeat on Tuesday night:- Kilmainbam Hospital, in the matter of which the go. vernment has suffered a defeat, is, in an Irish way, the Chelsea of Ireland. It Is an establishment of reyai foundation, originating in a design of King Charles 1R, wheidedioateil it to -the use of the Irish ...

... CAPTURE OF AN EXTERSIVE SWZNIDLER. A young man of respectable ooanexiones whose name is John Steeple Kitchen, is in Custody In Sheffield en a ohsrge of having obtained 3001. from Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and Co., of that town, merchants, by means of a forged letter. The prisoner is only 19 years old, but he is an adept at fraud. Some time age he was a clerk in the respectable house of W. B. Duncan ...

... TnE IREVIATIIAN STEAX WAR-SOHP.-PORTsMOrTIE, TumssAT..-Yesterday, about noon, the screw three- decker Duke of Wellington, 131, was taken out of harbour for her first trial in steaming. We remember no event since we have resided at this port that created more gene- ral and intense interest. The walls of the garrison were thronged with spectators of all ranks, and the line of beach extending ...

... ?? o ALE SENTENCES TRANSSORTATIOr- _Fourteen Years.-Villiarn Rich. ard Grindell, Sarah Wel , q Badoski, hn Ell is, Joseph Briggs, Johl, Seven Years -HnyHrioep Brg, o Hossey, Eleanor Warder, Emmna Goodall, George Ciar,- John Baker, Charles alias Jamies Dale, Charles Clare David Alexander5 Joseph Alexander, Richard Alorgal, George Bates, John Ellis, Joseph CriPPsEwrdB s James Dimmock, Edwin ...

... MIsCELLANEOUs. TuE EMIGCANT SEp, ConoAYDELa, which has beef lying at Spithead for, some days, has sprng. a leak several times in esnooth water, and it is probable that she will be condemned by the governmrent ersigration' sonmisssoners. Sbe is a very old ship, having been many years sinoe in the East India. tea trade. She Ifull of p~assenrgers, and ha a very heavy mail on board. She wee boud ...

... I . Hints for Emigrants. MELBOURNE, ?? Nov. 5,1852. Having experienced the difficulties in the way of an intending emigrant in getting usefnl information, prior to leaving England, touching the necessary outfit, and having witnessed the serious loos and inconvenience the ignorance on these matters has caused many, I beg, through you, to cay a few words to such as intend to emigrate to this ...

... PARTY SPIRIT ON TRH BENCE. The following extract from the Blacaburn Standard illustrates the temrier in which the proceedings arising out of the late election are dealt with by some of the ma. gistrates. It ?? oll Sunday and Monday two of the workmen of Mr. Horrby, the defeated candidate, were apprehended by the police for taking part in the riotous proceedings at the election, and the ...

... A royal duke, an earl, and viscount have dur- ing the past week done somewhat as a set-off to the miserable doings of the merchant, banker, and trader who-in their self-satisfied smallness .-represented London merchandise, banking, and trading at the Tuileries. Nobility has made some amends for the meanness of the counting-house, the copper shovel, and the shop. The nobility on Tuesday last ...