... 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 ...

... I ---40 - -r DESPATCH FROM GEN. PELISSIER. The Moniteur publishes the following despatch from General Pelissier to the minister of war. Before SebaskDpol, May 26. Monsieur le MaTbehal,-Since the storming of the Russian eouater-approaches in front of the Central bastion, on the night of the 2nd of May, and the ocen. pation of that important work by our troops, the enemy, to impede our ...

... 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 ...

... i PROGRSS OF THE WAR. - News of fresh ouceegses in the' sea of Azoff come to my by telegraph. Taganrog, Mari~onply, and Gheisk h&M~ been visited by the Blled 9quadrolAnd suum to their ji wer almost wi thit rafL~e. All the known details are givenjin the 4th roge. AnaSM, too, ;the lost and strongeit fortriss of the Rohwhns1 on the north-eastern shore of the ?? esea hasr been ev'a* -euated& ...

... ADAIINISTRA.TIVE REFORAM BUBBLE. We maintain our first opinion of the proposed operations and final effect of the body organised for Administrative Reform. They are flinging away a great amount of exhortation. Ethiopians are not to be entreated into a change of skin; leopards are not to be exhorted out ot their spots. 3essrs. Morley, Tite, and Travers may, in their periods, breathe the ...

... l Cortesposedents who do net dosts their oommniOattow~ no.- ticed, may tlter that wee cannot answer them, or decline to do so. We luather cannot, Ve-IDI5 ANY Ct'3RCUM IE5, COGE oXaLsS= WITF H ?? ORI MdISS. AN INHoATrI OF ST. PAfCnASA WOCED&055.We 1a no way' dispute the treth of the allegationS Os doar coresPondent; but his charges ace of so grave a kind, that we cannot, without corroborsive ...

... The following are the details of the massacre, by the Russisns, at rlge:J If.H.S. Cossack, off COrsnstsdb, June 11. on the morning of the 26th May the Cossack and Eek stood close into Haugo, and observed several ves- sels anchored inside the numerous islands. The boats of both ships were. sent away arned, in charge of Lient. F ield (Cossack), to bring the vessels out. On the boats getting in ...

... THE TRUE FAITH OF A CHRISTIAN. There is still hope for Lord John Russell. e has at last hit upon the important fact that it is useless to at- tempt anything which is sure not to succeed; and, fol- lowing up his belief, we are to have no Jewish Disabili- ties bill this session, because the lords have set their faces against it. When it is said that the Lords are against it, the inference is ...

... NOTES OF THE WEE& I AN HOUR AT MARLIBOROUGH-HOUIE. Such of our friends amogstB the wo>rking classes who were prevented by ?? weather from taking their holiday at Whiteuntide, will do well to pass an hoar of their substituted day ait Morlboroughthouse. The ?? of Ornamental Art is well w orthy a visit. The intellect of the visitor will be gratified by the objects of beauty displayed whist the ...

... BLOMFIELD AMONG THE FLOWERS, Let High Tens be forthwith celebrated throughout I3elgravia ! Let incense curl thick. ly towards fretted ceilings I Let Puscyismn, floral as June, go everywhere and cull her rose, for-we have it on the authority of the C~rs ticn Singes-the Bishop of London, on Thursday week, took his episcopal staff, and made a pil. grimage from Fulham to Knightsbridge, meet. ing ...

... THE SCRAP-BOOK CLLUMX. PIcTox AT *ATNRz6oo.-6I once heard an anecdote of Pictmn,'from an officer who was, himielf at Waterloe. Picton,L 1was told bythis officer, wes wounded theday before Waterloo, bat had conceald his hurt, andwith the most heroic fortitnud remained in the field. During -the night, however, thl sgonyof his ?? obliged him to send for a surgeon, who renmained with -him until ...

... : ile AT SIEGE DETI LS ' The iimes publishes ?? nge partiuhiersj f the 4a1ied position before Sebattopol up to the 5th iDst. ?? ' ' 1: ?? before Sebastopoi,'Jine 6. While ourdettched force has been poiruigiiitits plood. less career of con quest oar the north eastern sho0es of the Crimea, despoiling the enme of their accafinlated storei and threatening the6fortioses of their 'Caumsuian ...