... 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, ...

... TEE ENCUMBERED ESTATES Coississsox.-The commissioners ap- pointed to inquire into the working of the Encumbered Estates Court, and to report whether it would be advisable to continue that court, or to transfer its powers to the Court of Chancery in Ireland, have presented their report to her Majesty. The document is exceedingly interesting and important, as well to English capitalists as to a ...

... FRANCE.-MISCELlAN'EOUS FACos.-The Senate and Legislative Corps are convoked for July 2, in order to consider financial measures.- The vacant space of ground in Paris, caused by the demolition of the buildings of the Temple, and consisting of 11,865 mntres, is to be formed into a public garden, and to be laid out after the English ?? Sunday last 80,391 persons visited the Paris Exhibition, ...

... THE WAR, CONTINUED SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN TEE SEA OF AZOFF. The following despatch was received at the Admiralty on the 10th inst.: SJunedaig T.15.-Capt. Lyons, of the Miranda, and Capt. De Se report that the naval operations against Taganrog, Marioupol, and Gheisk, which took place on the 3rd, 5th, and 6th of June, have perfectly succeeded. The public buildings and numerous government ...

... | [From the Daily News.] Albany Foablanque is one of the most distinguished writers of our 'time. He is one of the few men who have shown that they possessed the originality of thought requisite to form a peculiar and distinctive style, with the flexibility of attention and sympathy indispensable for the useful treatment of every-day affairs. Unrivalled in the power of epigram, his mind seems ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, June 18. JUDGES' SALARIES IN THE COUNTY COURTS. Lord BROUGHAM called the attention of their lordships to the county courts. The point which he had to complain of was not the amount of the fees taken by the practitioners of the courts, but the taxes laid on by government, amounting to 270,0001. a year. He held it to be utterly inconsistent with the due administratizrn of ...

... Rateot Intelligence. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 16. MURDER OF A BRITISH BOAT'S CREW BY THE RUSSIANS AT HANGO. A telegraphic despatch from Dantzic brings intelligence which will be read with the deepest indignation by the whole civilised world. The Cossack's (21 screw corvette) boat was fi9rod into while landing Russian prisoners at flango under a flag of truce! Twenty-four were killed, only one ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALTK. On Saturday, in consequence of the public market being closed in Smithfield, the Governors of St Bartholomew's hospital shut their gates, and refused to allow the public to poss through into Little Britain from Smithfield, a permissive right of way that has existed for many years. A polling for a church rate for St Paul's parish, Bedford, took place on Monday, when the ...

... On Monday Aiderminen Kennedy and RBse wvere elected SherIffs of London and .Middlesex for the ensuing year. Alirgare has just refused a church-rate. At the close of the poll on Tuesday the numibers were-against the church-rate, 357 persons for the church-rate, 199 persons. A deputation. cons sting of Mes-rs Sandy, Clarke, and Halton, Waite I on L rd Ebrinirton on Friday, to present the ...

... TESTIMONIAL To THE MEMORY OF rHTE LATE LORD DUDnaEY STUART.- A special meeting of the committee appointed to carry into effect the resolutions adopted at a public meeting held at Willis's Rooms, under the pre'idency of Lord Shaftesbury, was convened on Tuesday, at 10 Duke street, St James's, for the purpose of coming to a fdnal decision on the nature and character of the testimonial to be ...

... On Wednesday an event of considerable importance to the two millions and a half of consumers of animal food who dwell within the bills of mortality, was celebrated on the site so well known to the amateurs in open-air political meetings as Copenhagen fields, but which is benceforward to be called the Metropolitan Cattle Market. For the purposes of the market the committee have purchased in all ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TEE 'XXASXNlCR, Sir, I have always been in the habit, a very singular one, of considering men intellectually and morally, not conven- tionally; and I have never found any station so high but I could walk up to it and round it. These reflections came upon me from the Examiner, in whose columns of the 26th of May I am surprised at the ir- reverence (I forbear to say impudence) ...