... Wr copy the following frightful picture of the state of society in France from a correspondent of the Daily News:- PARIS, JUNE 23.-I have lntely travelled through France, from north to south, from east to west. I have seen things with my-own eyos, and former a judgment on them for myself, I was present at the instructive trial of the Marianne conspirators at Angers, and I afterwards saw the ...

... A letter from St. Potersburgb, of the 17th, says:-C It is intended very shortly to fit out a flotilla at Cronstadt, to convey men and materials for the construction of vessels to the second Russian port which is called lNicolaieff, on the Amoor river. .It is necessary to send materials for the put- pore, as they are only to be obtained with extreme difficulty in the countryj itself; but the ...

... - 4- FRANCE. The Jloniteur publishes a return of the produce and consumption of the beet-root sugar since the be- ginning of the season, which shows that, on the first instant, there were 67 more manufactories in opera- tion than at the same time last year. The quantity manufactured in 1856 was 46,212 kilogrammes more than in 1855. At Marseilles on the 27th, the fine weather had favourably ...

... The following appeared in our Second Editiou of yesterday: THE ABIERICAN QUESTION. The Times is dissatisfied at the Hofue of Commons being misled, and asks ' What is the obvious aud evident advantage of keepiog the honse for ever 4urmb on the American question, and who knows where things may be drifting to ? In the possible cawe of a war with America, is parliament to be hurried up to an ...

... THEI LO4CAL POLICE-RATE. WE have learned that the Police Committee of the Town Council, at their meeting held yesterday, came to the conclusion of not acquiescing in the recom- mendation which the committee, appointed by the Council, have made to the effect that the local rates, the striking of which has been appealed against, should be quashed. The Police Committee are under the impression ...

... SUGAR is so widely used and enters so largely i into the mysteries of modern cookery, that we are 1 puzzled to know how our ancestors managed without it. Honey must have been a very poor substitute, and yet certain it is that early in the 17th century the rich were the only consumers of sugar, while in the 14th and 15th centuries it was almost unknown among us, small parcels only finding their ...

... go Itt wilitia, ROYAT, TYRONE ARTLr.LERY.-On last Monday afternoon the lioyal Tyrone Artillery, under the command of Major J. Greer, was inspoeted by the Right Hon. the E:tl of Charlemont, at Moy. I-lis lordship accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Stronge, Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, made a minute inspection of the officers and men; at the termination of which his lordship expressed himself highly ...

... PRESENTATION 'OF A SWORD TO LIEUTENANT MASSY, OF THE 19 REGIMENT. . . I The interesting tereaony of the presentation of am!ddresm and sword to this gallant young offices, now nniverdagly known as R Xedan nMassy, by hie fellow-studenta in the University, took place yesterday in:the-Fellowe' all, Trinity College, and was witnessed by several of the Fellowsi . large number of the students, and ...

... ( i~tgiga ttelligellr. Tr E STAB LIS HlED CHUROCII. (Front the Irish Jlulyrch Jornsnlfor .hriy.) AproiNTHEN5TS. Diocese of Down and Connor',and Dromore-Rev. W. Cotter, A.B., to the Glenavy ?? cure; patron, tho vicar. Rev. Jonn Stewart, AZ., to the ceracy of Danaghy; patron, the Rector. Rev. Henry Ffolliott, A.B, to the assistant cure of Bally. wvillan; patron, the Rector. Rev. John Gibson, A.B ...

... The Lord and Lady Mayoress of London invited a distinguished company to meet the Earl of Derby and several of the leading members of the Conservative party, on Wednesday evening. The banquet was served in the Egyptian-ball, and covers were laid for 200 guests. Amongst themnarriage stipulations of the Spanish Princeos Donna Armalia and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, is one to the effect that the ...

... THE PAST WFERE and the COAXiNG WVEEK. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The meeting at Newcastle last week was fully up to the averagP, anzd maintained the reputation which attaches so strongly to the locality as one of the leading racing meetings of the country. The Northumberland Plate was won by Lord Zetland, who is usually rather unlucky in the coal district. It will be recollected that I took ...

... METROPOLITANT ROADS COMMITTEE,. -W This committee met at one o'clock yesterday; Lord Ro- bert Grosvenor in the chair. The first witness called was the Earl of Lonsdale, who was examined by the Chairman. His lordship said that it was through his own exertions the bill appointingthe Road Trust Commissioners had been carried. II resulted from the report of Mr. Protheroe's committee in 1819, which ...