... I IST OF SHERIFFS FOR 1856. as_ -n ! I__ -- n 1 orr o . . . - .. _ Sheriffs appointed by Her Majesty in Council for the year 1856 Bedfordshire-Talbot Barnard, of Kempston, Esq. Berkshire-George Barker,of Stanlake House, Hurt, nearWoking- ham, Esq. Buckinghamshire-William Frederick Farrer, of Brayfield House, Esq. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire-James Gay, of Upwell, Esq. Cumberland-Sir ...

... I-- I {~4ET FREIGN NEWS. LA-rEST GFO l W ATUR't OF A PEACE PROTOCOL. SIG.ICIle of yeohrd iy aciueosces that as the adhesion of I ?? tie' tire proposttiolls presented by Austria, with the cOI-' ?? ?? al'c lEgland, wvill serve as peace preliminaries, of cd th r ir siging of a protocol at Vienna, to register the iu-el P-rtOje coaltlrletieeg Courts, aid to declare that the Plenlipo- ,icee2 llcent ...

... There has been a formidable insurrection at Madrid. Of the causes which led to it we are at present very imper- fectly informed. The whole country has been, for the last few weeks, in a state of great agitation, which has been with difficulty prevented from bursting forth into revolu- tionary outbreaks. At length the flames shot up into the air, and for thirty hours Madrid was the scene of a ...

... We have already said that this new amateur association aimed high. There is a manifest ambition inherent in the members which urges them to take lofty ground with the public; and if they should not be able to sustain their elevated position, the effects of the tumble will be more severely felt. TIre old Grecian fable of Icarus, with his waxen wings, should be ever before them, -and remembered ...

... THE ALLIANCE SOCIETY and LICEONSED D Victuallers. We have recently perused the report of the proceedings of the members of the Alliance Society for procuring an Act of Parliament for prohibiting the sale of all Intoxi- cating Liquors, held at Manchester. From the addresses of the different speakers, it appears that this society, like many others, has been called into existence by the ...

... The Indus arrived on Wednesday evening with the heavy portion of the Indian mail. Amongst the passengers are the Queen Dowager of Oude, and the brother and son of the ex-King, with one hundred and six followers. The Queen Dowager is a good- looking woman of dark complexion, fifty-five years of age, and very intelli getit.' She is very sanguine as to the success of her mission to this bunitry ...

... THE EARL. OF ALEEMARLE AND THE | Manchiester UInitr. I In our, ?? we gave some extracts from a speech made by the Earl of AlBEMDfA.rE at DisS. The Provident Society of that town having broken up, his lordship made the opening speech on the formation of another, duriteg which he affectionately implored his friends, the laboiring classes, to be warned against joining the Manchester Unity. Now ...

... / AILWAY INTELLIGEINCL /Railway Economy.--The PmAfnient Way. We were present on Monday by invitation' at some exceedingly interesting and valuable experiments on' the premises of the Perma. nent Way Company, Great George-street, Westminstesr relative to the preservation of timber to' be' used as railway sleepers,'telegraph signal posts, &c. The process of. preservation is ;under Dr. ...

... IL ii time about thirty yecars siice-liiidiuhg a girl i; the streets ill the Lest stage6 of destitution and disease, and discovering that there was no hospital open for her reception without a ticket of recomu- mendation from a governor, which could not be obtained until the following morning-Dr. Marsden determined to eudeavour to found an hospital for adinission to which no other ...

... F REE A B 0NOfR Y. MIeetings for next Week. Monday, leavch 3. Lodges, Nos. 25, 318, Freemason5' T. Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-etreet; 107, Itadley's aoe ?? Alion Taen ?? street; 237 White Hart Bisherosgse~street. Aldersgat;. Tneesy-edgo, 3O5.9, 01, 84,Fs~Masotils' Tavern. 18 avern 33, Chequers, Providence-row, F~iosbury- 98, AlIbn 'Iodon street;Chap. 96, Raley's otel. Green Dragon, Biabeprtl ...

... CUIRRAG3 JUNE MEETING-(Concluded). Friday, June 27. Steard. Sr 1. Brke Bat.;MnruieofWaterford, William Quinn, Esq.Jude 1dr.B. j Huter Strter: Mr. M3. Clancy,. The acin of hisday ~ th l,~we av seen on the plains of Kul- dar fu a ongtim, oarl evry ven onthe card being exceedingly wel C~tesed ilefre ontheije wa amatch between the Eart of Mowi's Imonand r. . Kened'e Abuta, which the latter won in ...

... HIQBlUlRyt BAR TAVERN. l'ityrs to patobs recubans slub tegmine fagi. When snipes were shot in the marsh on which Regent-street now stands, duels were fought in the fields behind Montague House (afterwards the British Museum), and students retired to the sylvan solitudes of Islington and Highbury to escape the din and turmoil of the great Babel-London, it was the wont of the good citizens, says ...