... li:ElCTIO N OF CITY OFFiCERS. Saturday (this day) being Midsummer day, the Livery of the several companies of London will, according to ancient custom, meet in Common Hall, at the Guildhall, to elect their officers for the ensuing year. These officers are, first, the Sheriffs, for which office all thejumior Aldermen who have not hitherto served are eligible, together with such other gentlemen ...

... UAIV7ERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, JUrsE 24. Tli COMMiEMR0ZATION. The proceedings connected With thle comwieiorl it year, although unmarked by any peculiar featur, ?? sess oil the whole considerable interest. The most attractive feature in the proceeodifl'5 Of will most probably be the bazaar, which will be hell ir bhelm-park, in aid of the Woodstock Natiolml)inl heii Palace will also be open to ...

... CANADA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] QUEBEC, MAY 6. On the 3d inst., at night, the church and other buildings of the Sisters of Charity, which had been taken for the accommodation of Parliament, were discovered to be on fire, and by midnight (the 1 flames having been first seen at nine p.m.) the whole was a heap of ruins. The usual speculations are afloat, of course, as to whether the ...

... I LETTERS' FROM T HE SEAT OF WAR. I . No. XXVIII. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) -SE ENGLISH ARMY AT VARNA, VA A, JuaN 9. The attacks on the outworks at Silistria are the topics of universal interest here. On the 19th, 20th, 21 st, and 24th ult., a series of desperate assaults were made upon several of the forts, and in each case repulsed after murderous fighting. On the evening of the 28th ...

... The Eco Aispano-Americano gives some particu- lars respecting the movements of the Russian squadron in the Pacific, which throw light on the projects of Russia in those distant regions. In March last the squadron, com- manded by A:miral Paniutine, suddenly made its appear. ance in the Bay of Manilla. Their arrival caused the more L aatonishment, as the Czar has always refused to recognise the ...

... I THE RO YAL SOCIETY. i iks, meeting of the society, the Barl of Roesse, pre- . Itee chair, the following distiuguished foreigners tc-eed foreigii members, viz., 21. Von Baer, M. ' eid M. Wobler. Y bretster conmnsunicated a very interesting iad valuable Osl the Vine Disease in tbe Port Wine Districts of - earo. The author, who has had mnany years ex- it, thre port wine districts, states that ...

... I PROGRESS OF THE WAft DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AND RAISING OF THE SIEGE OF SILISTRIA. The latest accounts from the Danube convey the gratifying intelli- gence of the triumphant termination of the first great encounter of this camnpaign by the raising of the siege of Silistria. Swift aud terrible has been the retribution which has fallen on the Russian army engaged in this shameful and ...

... LONDON AND NORTHf IVESTERY RAILIVAY COMPANY. Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of the t proprietors of the above company was held at the I uston- t sqeuare Terminuus, for the purpose of having copies of several bills submitted fbr their consideration and approval. The I Marquis of CHANDO3 was in the chair. The advertisement by which the meeting had been con- vened having been read, t ...

... f The following appeared in our Sceond Edition of yester- day:-] F Rl.ANCE. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 PARIS, TauJRSDAY EVF:2NnG. I have just seen letters from Vienna, which give some important information as to the'at- titade Prussia is beginning to assume, in con- sequence of the determination of Austria to make common cause with the Western Powers in preventing the Russian army advancing ...

... I TOWNl AD TALK. The bassar for. the consumption hospital, in the grounds of Gore and Grove houses, will be confined to the 27th and 28th instant. Sir, G. Grey has appointed Lord Hobart and Mr. S. Whitbread to be his private colonial secretaries. Two gun-boats ar? to be built at Deptford-yard.c ?Teerly all the gar 4 are now without military guards, the duty being pzriormed by extra gaolers, ...

... RENOLD;S'RS NEWS ER. ?? ?? SPNp~4.Y,;JSUNvE SAlt-X 88.,, FRID&Y- -ATERXOOWS- EDITION. THSLZ&RT* ,QV AfDEEN, THE FAVOURITE 'Or THE COURT, AND THE FRIEND OF: THE UnJ.uessttonably the jmostk- upipopular man in the kingdodi is the Earl OfAERDEEN., . In the house of pqers, ehae s has?dlr a 'a s6nder-,-none wh o has. tbe courage to',defend his opions. In the- louse. of Comom'ons, with;'thei sole, ...

... THE 1REMDEN RLATT.- In the 22nd number of Dick 's HIousehozld Words there appeared a lively add Famcurate description of b the great source on which the Times depeuts for its foreign intelligence. We juotc the passage to show t the.profound reliance which its own subscribers must: ;r heae in the importance and authoritativene sof ck' i pblitieeL informatib'inas the 'litte -Str-anger Leaf ...