... EmIGRANT3S AND TLEIR bVRIjNDS. l [The friends of emligrants will be doing a great ser. vice to persons iitending to seek their fortune in the southern colonies, by transmitting copies or extracts ol letters from Australia. Considerable weight is attached to epistolary evidence of the state of Australian affairs, and much useful information is eften conveyed by such means. Every care will be ...

... . CURRENT' EVENTS. TPE Royal Anstralasian Mail Steam Company have received notice from the Government of the withdrawal of their contract. IT appears that the declared value of steam engine and other mill work exported from the United Kingdom in the month ended the 5th ultimo, was 99,932. PROPOSED ERECTION oP FIiTY-EIGIMT NEW CHURCHES IN LONDON DiocEsr.-Her Majesty's Commissioners have ...

... MECRANICS & T sIR INS ITUTIS, No. XV1. SIe,-I have received a letter this week-amongst a glass of interesting correspondence-from an individual who signs himself Fair-play; and having adopted this rather hackneyed signature, proceeds to Elefend Odd-fel- lows and other secret orders; and to affirm that I have exhibited a certain partiality in my communications. He hopes I will insert his ...

... T12GARDEUM.By Mr. Ganny7. SEASONABLE GABDENING. Now we may safely sow everything that is not sown already, both fowers and vegetables. Tree-planting time has gone by, except in extreme eases. Plant out cabbages, calillovers, and lettuces. Earth up beans, peas, and other crops. Sow all your annuals in the open ground; or, if you want to hasten them. SOW in hotbeds or pots in stoves. Pot off the ...

... THEI SCRAP-BOOK COLUX1N. A MIaISTEBING ANGEL IN TUB BUSH-Oar con. versation was interrupted by the appearance of tea, or rather supper; for although it is served up at six o'clock, it is the third and last meal of the day, and like the other two, there is always animal food with it. Late suppers are scarcely ever indulged in, not even in the towns, Excepting the dish of hot savoury mutton ...

... I T9Z LUNACY OF MR. CICONNOR. On Tuesday, the. mental condition of Mi. O'Connor w investigated by- a jury of Miiddeser freeholders, un- er the presiden~cy of Commissioner Barlowv, at the Roe. luacicktavern, Chiewick. Sergeant Shea stated the ease, and after reviewing Mir. O'Connor's career until the peeled when he was entrusted to the care of Dr. Tuke, which he now enjoys, said that there was ...

... THEI SUNDAY OPENZNG OP THE CRYSTAL PALACE. A -no -4i - - - - .. . A very quiet, insidious, but nevertheless active, movement is met on foot by the 6airits of the metropolis, with the ob- ject of inducinglgentlemen of the medical profession to sign a petition against the Sunday opening of the Cryetal Palace. A Dr. Maclean, of X ogtugue.pluve, ie exceeding busy in can- vassing signatures. In ...

... .ROTAL HAWES AND PLUMEXAN _PZGMONS. The toadyism displayed by the public press to royalty is frequently of. the most disgusting and re- volting description. On. Tuesday, the Duke of Csie- ainRoE laid ;the first stone of a new 'mieadel lodging- house for working mea ; and the performance of this very simple, and. by no means troublesome ceremony, is maguined I by. same, of our contemporaries ...

... CRUDLTV TO CHILREN., _ , I Two cases of ill-treatment of children came before the police-magistrates on Thursday, of a most painful charac. ter. The first was heard at Clerkenwell, imi which the accused, a man named John Taylor, a repulsive, profli- gate-looking fellow, was discharged with desertiag and cruelly ill treating his children, James Taylor, aged ten, and Jane Taylor, aged ?? ...

... EXTENSIVE FORGERY AND CLEVER CAPTURM . Oa Thursday, at the M1ansion-house, a respeotably-dressed man, named Robert Renton, aged 25s a clerk in the house of Messrs. Whitecombe and Barton, metakbrokers, ef- 75, Old Broad-street, was brought up this. forenoon by Mlehael May- don, the City deteotive officer, before Mr. Alderman. Hunter, upaen a eharge of forging and uttering a cheque for 1,300L on ...

... VISHNUI; OR iTHE MOIDERN , MESSIAH, AND TKE -WSE NE MNOF E iQNOIRTH. ; but-.Nifte fiames ?? Vishnus the Preserver, Olothed him. oeel in flesh. His tenth avatar is to come ; or is it not ttow la oourseofffalflmaent? Are we eure that his godshiP is not . at the presut meoment undergoing his tenth and final incar- I nation? Let us see that this is net the case. Woe untO us if the savieur god ...

... TO COREspoNDE1 . , . - ? ?? 1 Correspondents who do not find their ?? noiemyinfer that we cannot answer them, or decline to doe so. We ftrther cannot, nuder AiH CICux- 5T~l~C11, ~ 0gpSuiLVE8 WIThI A ?? MS J. CABy.-The answer was given last week without the knowledge that of late an alteration tad been made in the regulationsa. Thefollowingwill be found to be ?? age at which persons are ...