... THE SMITHIEpL IUISANCE. I A _ _, .. ?? A crowded city is like a crowded ship. Vhen the houses of narrow streets are densely packed with inhabitants they become stifling in their atmosphere as the hold of a slaver, and disease and death soon work their way. In the slave-ship, however, you have an easy remedy for the evil consequences of such close stowage. The port-holes can be opened-the dead ...

... RAILWAY IThMLLIGaEXC. SOUT3-xASTEREI RAILWAY.-We ale glad to learn that convenient refreshment rooms are to be provided at the London- bridge Station, where thev were very much wanted. ENORmOuS TRAFIC RETun Ns.-The returns of the past week are really astonishing, and exceed' all anticipation. We find, upon adding up the returns of the week, that the receipts of the metropolitan lines alone ...

... GUESSES A3OUT THE AZTECS. We Spent two or three hours very agreeably during the week with the NUipjtians at the Hanover-square-rooms, and were muraelm used by the speculations of the visitors concerning their or-anization it's all very well to try and impose on people in this w.ay, declared avenerable dame to our left, but there's no flesh and blood in those things not but what they are very ...

... THE NATIONAL GALLERY. On Friday, in this contunittee, consisting of Lord Seyrmour (chairman in the absence of Cclouel Moiure), Lord Elelho, Lord Broolc, Mr. Labouchere, INtr. Currie, Lord Graham, Mr. Ewaort, Mr. Miles, Mr. Stirling, lr.A'ernon, I Mr. B. WVall, Mr. Hamilton, anti Mr. Hlardinge, the first i tness examined ?? ir. H tmilson, one of the trustees of the British Museum. ?? stated ...

... INLAND REVENUE TRoSECUTIONS.-ADA1x- TURE, OF CHICORY WiTH COFFER. I BmIIxGIrAM, JULY 16.-This morning, at the police court in this town, informations laid at the instance of the Board of Inland Ilevenue, against thirty persons carrying on the grocery trade here, were heard Vefore Wil- liam Wills and William Lucy, Esqrs. Mr. Dwelly, of London, conducted the cases for the Board of Excise; and Mr ...

... Yesterday, a special mneeting of the scripholders in this company was held tit the London Ta;cra. Lord g ToCELYN, lMi.P., in the chair. Mr. Bunow (the secretary) read the following report: This company was provisionally registered in Septem- ber last, with a capital of 1,OOOL,001., in 50,000 shares of 201. each, for the purpose of introducing railways into Upper India, from Aliahabad iia Agra, ...

... ?? HOUSE OF LORDS-Tbis DAY. ,. ORDERS -OF THE DAY.-Rushbrooke'e Divorce e Bill-report of amendments; Summary Jurisdiction (Ire- e land) Bill, Petffy Sessions (Ireland) Bill-committee; Suc- cession Duty Bill-committee, and the Lords summoned; Colouial; Church Regulatioa Bill-tbird reading; Mis- sionary Bishops Bill-second reading. . . IHOUSE OF COMMONS-Teis DAY. .ORDERS OF THE 'DAY.-Entry of ...

... PARLIAMENTARY COMMrITTEES. MANAGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL GALLE RY. ef. The parliamentary 'committee on the pictures in the the National Gallery sat again on Friday. It consisted of OW Colonel Mare (the chairman), Lord Seymour, Lord Elcho, Lord Graham, Mr. Vernon Harcourt, and Mr. Baring Wall.' The principal witness examined was Mr. Morris Moore, who stated that he had -paid great attention to the ...

... IF FRWI l;:'TD6Y A0iMETTE.-LTies ay,' J'.ly 5. I ~.1 1 i ~I . ~ .: -- -- . .: . L Tbe Qneei has b'en -pleased to 'approve of Mr. James M. Tarletol - Id. FOIire ~fiGN.I'?Ili, u 2 ?? t Melboirna forhp Usuted:States of America. ?? ,..KADOiIRAL ; Jetsse30. Corpsos Royal Martines.-GentlemnaneCudet Cbarles James. Dandas, . ?? to eond licutenanf; Getlctnana Cadet' Vingro-e ?? Lharne Tinuui to-he ...

... WRECIK OF TEE ARGYLE, AATD LOSS OF : 7 ~ FIFTEEN LIVES.: yesterday it ..ai.e kriowi ini London that the a, t 'barque Argyle,. Captain. Young, master, and the greater wI 'part of the' crew,- had been lost off the eastern shore of ar Newfoundland, while on a passage 'to Quebec. The ship sa sprang ,a leak on the 19th of May,. in terrible weather, and tb the exertions of the crew of nineteen men ...

... I sl I 5 The strike of the cab-owners is, it appears, at an end. The cemmittee of the Metropolitan Hackney Car- riage Trade last night passed a resolution earnestly trecommendingtheir fellow-tradesmen to return immediately tto their usual avocations. The amendments in the Hack- I ney Carriage Act passed on Thursday night in the House of Commons were found by the proprietors on Friday ...

... THE NEW TMEXICAN TARIFF. (From thle Newr ?? Pica isle.) By the kindness of Mr. Dabelsteen, vice-consul for Mexico, we are enabled to present to our readers the following synopsis of the new Mexican tariflf a copy o which he received in advance from the Mexican govern- ment, by the steamer Texas. The following are the ports declared open to foreign com- merce: On the Gulf Mexico: Sisal, ...