... GAR D ENING. . . . f , .. 1 s5. h CONSOnIATORIY, &c.-Some of the specimens planted out in the borders, and also some of the twiners, will soon be startinginto growth o especially if the weather should be bright ; the soil about their roots [e ought, therefore, to be in a moist healthy state. and if such is not the d case, give two or three liberal soacings with soft water, a few degrees warmer ...

... DOMESTIC-' INTELLIGENCE.- ENDIaND, HEn MAxESTY's Lx'vEVEE.-T'1e QUeen held a 1avee (the fUSt this season) on Wednesday hfterpoon, at St.' James's Palace. The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour, among others, of being presented to her Majeity The Very ev. Di BEir, Moderator of the Genelal Assembly of the Churcb of Scotland, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Lieatenalst Deans Campbell,.bv ...

... MIDLAND, *The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the stto on Friday last. Air. Ellis, the chainuan, iresided. The Secretr read the report, of which the following Is c .an abstract; 191igtels half-year tereceipts hmut ed to 58,4401.. in excess of those for the corresponding period of'1852, The balance available fordividendi1s202,8251., and c' the directors recommend that a dividend ...

... Imperid varhliamento SU] HOUSE OF LORDS-Tuesday, Febriuary 21. H The public business wvas confined to tho reception Of petitions, tIoe OilS of which, from Lord Ebringbon, relative to thle lost election for flarustiplo, Iled to at short discussion, inl which the Earl of Shafteshury and the Marquis of Lansdowne engaged. rob the HOUSE OF COMMONS-Tuesday, Feb. 21. On thle motion of Xr E. El/lies, ...

... The 1st battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards paraded in front of Buckingham Palace at sevono'clock yesterday morn. ing, immediately after leaving thle Wellington Barracks, en route to Portsmouth, for embarkation, Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses, appeared on the balcony of the centre window. The battalion, under the command ...

... TME POOR LAW REMO VAL BILL. Yesterday an adjourned meeting of the guardians of the 98 parishes comprising the City of London Union was held in the Board-room, St. Mary-axe, for the purpose of receiv- ing the report of the committee appointed to take into consideratioa the bill of the President of the Poor-law Board for the abolition of compulsory removals of the poor on the ground of ...

... FROM OUR OWN CO~itPONDrtN*. :, , ' :.,, , . '1 . . One of the moat remiarkable deae that ' have heard since we became entangled in the meshes of the eastern ax difficulty, took place in the Lords on Friday night. The di use made of their lordships on that occasion was to in- el form the country and the world, in terms more direetthian to have hitherto been used, that the time had arrived when, ...

... SCOTLAND, SCOTIIS1T RIGIITS AsSOCIATIoa.-The Central Committee t Msnaog'ment lave filally adjusted the form of petitions to 5th Houses oF Parliament, setting forth the irregularity which eli'ts between Scotloud and Enug-land, both politically and hcally. These petitions will be signed by the chief magistvates Othe ities and burghs of Scotland, and wvill be presented to Parliament by ...

... d - FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 IY TURIN, FEB. 26. e It would be needless to enumerate the fites i which have attended the visit of the royal family to Genoa; suffice it to say that they have been avery brilliant, and, in every way but one, satisfac- e tory. There is no concealing that there has been Idisplayed a decided want of active loyalty by the t great mass of the population of Genoa, ...

... - - ?? Elly I I .?Vmifmot (ESTABLISIHED, AINNO 1737.) _ B ELF A ST: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1854. THE WAR.-PROGRESS OF EVENTS. GRADUALLY the last links are being broken wvhich retained the British and French Governments in re- lation to that of Russia in even the seeming of formal courtesy, and there now remains only the simple act of a declaration of war to precede hostilities. This step, we ...

... Of DzsTnucTsvz FIR sIN Lzens.-Abouta quarter to 7 o'clock he on Tuesday night a destructive fire broke out in a tow waste re- mill in the occupation of Messr. Wilson and Greenwoodc , IWater-lane, Leeds, and was not extinguished until the build- ret ing was entirely gutted. The fire was discovered- by several ed persons at the same time, when the flames were Issuing from ste various parts of ...

... THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT at WIGAN; WIGAN, TuRSDAY.-The inquest oi the bodies of the 87 colliers, who lost their lives by the explosion which took place on Saturday week in the Arley urine, near this tent belonging to the Ince Hall Company, was proceedd with this morning at the Navigation Inn, before Mr. C. E. Drif. field, the coroner for the destrict. The first witnaess examirne I was William ...