... AG[RICULTURS.i REVIEW OF THE BRITISH AN) FOREIGN CORhN TADEDURiNlGT'HBE PAST WEEl. 8e (From the Mark' Lne Express.) A more genial temperituro iii part, and.some acceptable showeri,' together with better arrivals, chccked the uplyard tendency of last s week, and produlced a little rocation in ?? of consnmers. As' Y might have been expected, tho hetter prices haive brought out more d frores' ...

... BANQUET TO IIER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS. (From the Times.) On Wednesday evening the Right lion. tlie Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, according to timc-honoured custom, enter- tained her Majesty's Ministers and a numerous and highly dis- tinguishd party of ladies and gentlemen at a sumptuous ban- quet at the Mansion 1-louse. The guests began to assemble in the reception room at six o'clock, and ...

... - ..v (Frout the Morning Herald.) Through the activity of our Alexandria and Malta corre- spoudents we are enabled to lay before our readers extracts from the Indian papers, which reached Suez on the Ist of Mlay by the Ganges. They-were despatehed from Alexandria on the 5th e by the Melita screw-steatner, and from Malta on the 10th by the Thaemise to Marseilles. U to the 5th the Oriental had ...

... AUST II ALI A. ?? .A .. At.1A- 'A4A- We (li7neoq) have received complete files of papers from Melbourne to the 15th of February inclusive. They dd not contain any news of interest in addition to the telegraphic durm- wary previously published. Wo take the following from thie felboutrne leraldof the l0th of February;- OOVERN'MENT ESCOIITS. The escorts from Mount Alexander and Ballarat-arrivdd ...

... L LONDON, MAY116, l Tue Dik!'e and Duchess of Hamilton and the Princess Marie de Baden, and suite, have arrived in Paris. Ai.. PerSigny.-4t is not true, as has been stated in some of the journals, that M Persignaccompanied the Count and Countess Walewki to London on Sun- d'ay. M; Persigny is not expected until the beginning of tile ensuing month in consequence of the delicate i health of Mine. ...

... ,RfNFREWSHIRE ELECTION., Trinerctio f at 'b Hi'pb~torepreseni the&Countiyofllenfrew. 1 ?? Commntius, in roomi' of ~ oloniel Milre resigned,, tcok~plaee on-Mon~day, in front of the County Hall. There was.r ala in. a verylaurneromie pitendene of geirtl'eent amt~ongst whom. we obiierved Sir John Max~we~ll f Polloii,~Sir Rob'ert Al.'Napier,t' L ?? Colonel M'Dowhll of~Garthliml,' Duncan Darroeh,' ...

... S i8 1 V (Fronm'the Ekamifipr.) j. ; Theproceedings of the Conferences ?? cannot d be read by Englishmen without some feelings both of e regret (and satisfaction. Of regret ahat niegotiations o on so unwortly a basisj and in conjunction with an 1. ally so-insincere as Austria, should everhave; beei entered:into; -Of satisfaction atithe mauly. tone, S though in support of 'doubtful ...

... jr _ __ ni New Members Parliamaent.-On Friday night Sir ?? Shaw Stewart took his seat in the House of Commons for the County of Renfrew; and Sir James at Ferguson also took his sent for the County of Ayr. re Thwe Scottish Temperance League.-The annual ser- a- mons (twenty in number) in connection with this 0. association were delivered in various places of worship 8I yesterday. At the soiree ...

... ' FOR~EQGN INTELLIGBNfCiE.0 THlE SI1EGE OF'SEISASTOIOL. War Departmetit, May 1-1, 12.50. AS.M Lord Pnnimure presents Isis ?? thle Editor ofthte (io Tithes, anti las great pleasure ius transmitting the encklosed ~b intciliigenide, which hits th~is day reaehed him:- S 1The emymade a sortie last. night (Uriday) on thle la advanced wok of the left attack. They moved forward in II two oolumns,~but ...

... I DINNER IN HONOUR OF MR. SHERiFF STEELE. I jf On Friday last a complimentary entertainment was given by the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow to Wm. Steele, Esq., on the occasion of his appointment as Sheriff-Substitute of i, Lariarkehire. The dinner took place in Carrick's Royal Hotel, > George Square. :e Alexander Morrison, Esq. of Balinakil, Dean of Faculty, in v, the chair; supported ...

... LORD DUNDON-AUD'S 1?-UAN. . To tie ditor'ofthe inmes., l Sir,-The liberal article, advocathig an investigation or trial of my plans, which you inserted on the 12th, has greatly re- RI lieved my mind from anxiety, lest total neglect should compel Is me, in self-justification, to lay them before the public, wh'ereby e, the euem¶ mnight be the first to avail himself of their irregisistible )f ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TunRSDAY, MAY 17. This being Ascension Day their Lordships did not meet . evi DfeAY, MAY 18. Al e Tile~ LoRD CIHANCELLOR having taken his seat on ithe wool- th.M d Earl GREY rose and said-I beg to state to your Lordiships ha dthat it is isy intention to postpone bringing forward the motion C of whiacl I have given notice for Monday till Friday next. i je do so most unwillingly, ...