... I THE FRENCH EMPIRE. PARIS, APRIL 14.-It has been for some time in contem- plation to transfer the remains of the Emperor NaDoleon I. from their resting place in the Invalides to the vaults of St. Denis; and though I belive no decision has been come to on the subject, it is yet very doubtful that they will be allowed to remain where they are. At all events, the ceremony of inauguration of the ...

... (From the Examiner.) It is astonishing what may be done by a phrase, especially if it carries with it the awe of a vague warning. Thus any proposal for improving the public safety in railway travelling is resisted and routed at once by the magic words, Beware how you diminish the responsibilities of companies. This warning is ti decisive; no one asks of what practical avail are P these ...

... TEE NsW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLO URS. It is always a satisfaction to see the results of labour, whether artistic orimechanical, proportioned to the means employed. Hence it is that the exhi- bitions of the old and new Societies of Painters in Water Colours are less disappointing than the ex- hibitions of the Royal Academy; not that the actual result istreater, but that, considering ...

... LOOSE MIETIORANDA ON GLASGOW SUBJECTS. d -s mf NO. XIII. By SicEscX. REM INIS CBNCES. - In my lent commuinication to yeni I mecntioined that, eighty years ago, nor place of residence woo in thc Catidleriggsi, 01111- site the Bacoar, and that our immediate neighbotir upon die north wais then D~r. Baird further ,that our property woos bouinded onl tile west by the~ long garden of Mr. Baird of ...

... AMERWCA. Liverpool, Thursday. 1 By the United States nmil steam-ship Baltic, Comstock, commalldoor we have aduices froam New York to the 2t iDst. She has ,brought 181 passengers, and a small amiount (about $6000) of specie oil freight. TIhe 1altic Whell two days out broke thc crank pin of he engiics, and lad to lie-to for 26 lmnors in conseqsllence. At 1 o'clock this morning she got foul of ...

... M . PERI .PIi A ?? . . t 71.,I RIAZ. ?? . I - HOUSE OF LORDS-F4neW , APRIs 15. The Duke of PR1HICHMOND. preieeted a petition from a place in Aberdeenbire praying for more stigent provisioOB in the ecclesiastical titles act, ADMISSION OF JEWS' TO PARLIAMENT. The Bishop of ROCHESTER, in presenting to their lord- ships a petition from the county of Kent against tbe admissloll of the Jews to take ...

... The portentous announcement With which a con- ;temporary frightened the towan from its propriety on Friday morning last, bids fair to occupy fromn henceforth a promi- nent place in the history of remarkable Canards. On how emall a basis of probabilities the Timnes built up its story is soon told. On 13 ossuth's arrival in this country a Mr. Hale was introduced to him as the inventor of a newd ...

... FORx1', SA CORRlESPONDENCE. PAIE~lS, S~trAflAU.DY ICEvNIOtO. I send you, as a document destined to a bad cele- britv, thec teet of thc judffgment; pronounced yester- day bv ?? 1cgonidee, the presiding judge lin the afl'isr oft the foreign correspondents, &e.f 'Thi ?? as f2 as * rrcspects the preliminary objections of] de Plaonhol, de CtauteleOZe, Alfred. de Coetlogon, anu Xir-. ...

... SIR JAMES IHOGG AND INDIAN PA TRWNA GE. At a Quarterly General Meeting of Proprietori of East India Stock, held but a few weeks since Sir James Hogg, the Chairman of the Board ol Directors, found himself in the disagreeable positior of having to answer certain strictures, passee by Mr. Lewvin, upon the description of met usually selected by the proprietary body to fill us vacancies in the ...

... IETHfNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFLONDON. The sixth ordinary meeting of the Ethnological Society of the present session was held on Wednesday evening last, the 13th instant, at 71, Mortimer-street, Caveudish sqttare; George B. Greenough, Esq., F. R.S., &c., vice-president of the society, in the chair. After the announcement of numerous donations of books to the library of the soolety, the following ...

... ECCLESIAS7TICAL. The Bishop of Oxford has instituted tile Rcv. Thonrae Benfield ,Ludlow, BA., chaplain of Cisristchurchl, Oxford, to the rectory of Slapton, near Leighton Buzzard, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Phitlirnore, M.A.; on the nomination of the dean and chapter of Christ Church. * The Bishop of Rochester has instituted the Rev. William John Deape, ?? rector of South ...

... Tnu report of tihe annual meeting of tile patrons of this institution, -which will be found in our first page, is calculated to afford tile highest satisfaction to tho3ee wvho look forward to its further progress as a direct means of utilising the artistic genius of this community. It is quite manifest that the seminary is flourishing- that it is gradually opening tile moeans of honourable, ...