... XNA VAL AN .D MILITARY. PORTSMOUTH, JuNE 3. The new Royal yacht got up steam alongside the Dockyard yesterday to try her engines far the first time. They are ot'600 horse power, on the oscillating principle, by the Messrs. Pesn. They worked remarkably well. It is confidently expected that the yacht, when she goes to the measured mile, will realise the great speed of 17 knots per hour. The ...

... Iet court+ Her Majesty held a Court yesterday, at Bucking- E ham Palace. TB The Coust Persigny, Ambassador Extraordinary and C Plenipotentiary from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, had his first audience of the Queen, and de- B livered his credentials to her Majesty. T His Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, hi K.G., the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for ...

... On Wednesday night a meeting of the members of the United Kingdom Alliance was held in the large room of Exeter-hall, which was crowded to excess, there being between 4,000 and 5,000 persons present. On the platform were the Eari of Harrington. Alderman Sir B. W. Carden; Alderman Harrison, of Wakefield; Mr Samuel Bowly, of Gloucester; Mr Richard Hilditch; Mr Samuel Pope, hcnor- ary secretary, ...

... HARVEST PROSPEOTS. The Dublin market yesterday was subdued, while the leading provincial ones were heavy and extremely dull, and prices ranged from Is. to IS. 6d. a barrel lower for wheat than on Friday. Oats were something cheaper, but the depression was not equal to that in wheat. Apart from foreign influences on the Irish corn markets, there is quite enough at home to bring down the ...

... FRANCE.-The emperor, dissatisfied with the ar- rangemenss of the industrial exhibition commission, whose high charges (5f. each person) kept the working classes on the wrong side of the palace walls, ordered that Sunday last should be a free day for every one- paying the cost, it is said, out of kis own pocket. How. ever thatmay be, the Parisians to the numnereof 80,000 (according to the ...

... MISOCLLOUS. pAPIERW-MACNES Car- HuTrs.-Bielfield, the papier- macha manufaeturer, has submitted to the authorities a model hut of that material, intended for camp use The various pa :.werebie ronght to, Whitehall-il,. and, on an irder given, Dlr. eldfield's. workmen erected, roofed, and oorse it in tw renty-feur minutes. THE PACIFIC AFFAIR-Among the passengers by the Atrato, which arrived at S ...

... TIZE CASE OF DE. PLITHM. TO '71113 LIMTOIU OF REysOLDSs N6wSPAFgrz. SIa,-l have the honour of enclosing to you the -copy of a debate in the Prassian Upper Chambers, on the presenta- tion of a poti ion by Professor Dr. Edward Peithman, which that gentleman forwarded te me a few days ago from Berlin, where he has L'e3n residing since last October. I acormpanied Dr..Peithman ...

... The American Medical Gazelle, for Mly', has the following cutious acceutit of the petrification of human bo.2.ies:- In the old cathedral church of Bremen is a vault, the atmo- sphere of which possesses the pecaliar p oporty of preserviog from decay all bodices that may be placed therein. Visitors nre shown eight human bodies, besides number of cats, dogs, maonebs, birds, &e,, all of which, by ...

... TEE MAINE LAW. Last evening a lecture was delivered in St. u Martin's Hall, Long-acre, by Mr. Harriott. on The errors, co inconsistencies, and ?? traits of teetotalism, and E the country-impoverishing, intolerably arrogant, and un- T English features of the Maine Law. The lecturer, after lit some introductory remarks, proceeded to consider whence It the drinking habits of the people were ...

... CD oumt The Queen held a Privy Council at three 'clenoc yesterday afternoon, at Buckinghem Palace. It was Rtteedd by Prince Albert, Earl Granville, Lord President ; tthe Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal; Viscount Palmerlto, First Lord of the Treasury; Sir George Grey, Secretar e State for the Home Department; the Earl of Claren2e; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Lord Penraure Secretary ...

... INLAND BOOS POS'&'t GRNEIRAL POST OEVIOD, JatoeR, 185. On and from the I11th instant, the regulations of a the inland book post will be as follows, viz.: I 1. Postage rates-for a packet, not exceeding 4 ounces, I Id.; ditto, exceeding 4 ouncesl and not exceeding 8 ounces, 2d.; ditto, exceeding 8 ounces and not exceeding 16 ounces, 4d.; ditto, exceeding I lb. and not exceeding Ij lb., 6d.; and ...

... ORDNANCE SURVEY OF Mr. Grant, convener of the Sounty, has been in communication with various official persons in London, and been informed that Government has resolved on proceeding with the survey of Scotland, without delay, under the charge of Colonel James, an active and able engineer, who has been in- structed to map the cultivated and improveable portions of the country on a scale of 26 ...