... iral COURT, &a. The Queen, the Prince, the Princess Royal, Prince anit Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the younger children, de attended by Lody Macdonald, lady-in-waiting, Lord )an Alfred Paget, Genieral Grey, and Captain do Ros, are irri expected to leave Osborne next Saturday, for Windsor ffho Caotle, die Her Mtajesty has commissioned Mr. E. M. Ward, It.A., of to paint a cartoon (the exact ...

... (Froan the Examiner.) On the 24th of October, 1691, William Helme, of Kearsley, in the county of Lancaster, after providing for l his family and benefiting his friends, bequeathed the residue of his lands and beraditaments to trustees, to the intent and purpose that the clear and annual rents, issues, and profits thence arising and growing over and above all charges and reprises, shall be ...

... As yet, no euthentic details of the fall of Kars have come to hand, but the report comes from too many iode- pendent sources to leave any doubt as to the fact. As we anticipated in a former article, the whole political world is filled with crimination and recrimination on the subject. The Tories lay the fault on the government and the mioaiterialists (out of office) on Lord Panmure. The Times ...

... Here's merry hristmtas, and it seems To call back childhood to the breast, With kindly words and laughing screams, With leaping steps that shake the beams, With noisy games and happy dreams, And all of life that's bright and ?? Cook. If there by any possibility existed a doubt that the religion of the Messiah was one of love, and not of gloom, we should think the sunny side of the argument ...

... ?? The 5th Lancashire militia, under Lieutenant-colonel Towneley, now in Clonmel, numbers 32 officers and 650 rank and file. The deanery of Down, Ireland, has become vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Theophilus Blakeley, MA. It is in the gift of the crown. A Limerick paper states that one-third more of land in the south of Ireland is laid out for wheat this winter than this time ...

... I TIRE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. 4 ltIDsy, DECEMBER 21, 1S55. '.ALLS PoPUnL LEX SUPAMA. &. A Glpnr ?? EL OF RU331AN CIVILISATIO I. If Mr. Driglit is srucere in all his outpouriogs Of glref all I itiligisitiull at tile policy which the uation Irpevo3 of in the vigorous prosecution of tbe wi . a;.liilqt ISsia, then must his state of mind b o.s wmiscr tile. Parsue the phantom of riiitiry glory fir ten ...

... DISTRI DIST041BTMON OF PRIZES AT THE 'OCLL2GIATE INSTITUTION. 1 On FridaW . th. ?? ?? -o -A- 'U-J.cl1ij'X IV0dTITI.TJON* Z On Friday, the half-yearly dietfibutlon 'or 'prIto at the Collso4 ?? Imllon took plaeo,'eunder the presidnc o th Lr yisho ?? h har f else iuetitutlon wvas. ase eus,I wele. Amongst those Present we noticed the following :- Venerable Archdeacon Jonesi, Peev. Dr., 'Nello, ...

... HE SMBALL FLEET OF ENGLAND. SOBlEW GUN BOATS. l Of the small class of high-pressuire screw gn boats (280 t tons) we believe there ate a out 38 afloat, and betweew , 80 and 90 in course 'of construction at the various meir- cantile establishments. By next MarohiIt is anticipated that we shall possess an equipped fleet of no'lems than 130 , of this serviceable 6iass of vessels. ?? believe that ...

... THE LIVES OF GREAT MEN, AND WHAT I WE MAY LEARN FROM THEM. l to IY -LYAfl A IV A . . -. 0 A LECTURE DELIVERED BY WILLIAM ALFRED JEVON8, EQ., Is AT THE TUORERSIAN INsTITUTE. p is Except history, there is no literary pursuit more bone- r 9 ficial to the mind than biography; but the usefulness of f it biography is of a different character from that of history. e 0t History has been irell defined ...

... - - - hat the recent difficulties between the nt Pe nr Ranilwany of Portugal and the English con- riors, Messrs. Shaw, Waring, and Co. has been arranged, ESTEIN COUNTIES RAILWAY. -The Board of Trade, hose attention to the state of this railway had been called f tile town council of the city of Norwich, have appointed e ?? Wynne, RE. to inspect the line between 1jendofi and Norwich. ...

... THE VISIT OF THEE ING OFl I - SARDINIA. at ~~(Frqm the Court Circular.) to Windsor, on Friday, exhibited at an early hour a very br animated. and lively appearance - the. inhabitants being' Por as busily engiiged in decorathig their houses with flags, ban- and ners, and de~iceas in lamps, in order to do honlour to oft tethe isit of Hecr Majesty's illustrious guest. The unprece, obt, re dented ...

... MANCHESTER BOARD OF GUARDIANS, for, The weekly meeting of the Manchester board was held on Thursday morning at ten o'cloc-. The guardiatsoreportedtbat wn during the past week out-relief hade been as ?? for poor, 1,426 cases, cost X181. IOs. od.; Irinh poor, I11ll cases, hat cost X190. 19s. 4d.; English unsettled poor, 1.0o1, cost ery .2135. Os. Id.: total number of cases, 8,8518, cost '1507. N ...