... So long ago as the 12th of June, 1856, Lord Claren. don transmitted to the secretary of the Royal Agricul. tural Society a copy of a dispatch from Colonel Hodges our ?? -eeneral at Hamburgh, and a second report fromI Mr. Blackweil, our vice consul at Lubeck, con- taining information respecting a contagious disease that had broken out among the cattle in Mecklenburgh. Mr. Blackwell says, I am ...

... One of the most calamitous events which ever occur- red at Shrewsbury, took place on the night of the 3rd inst. M. Jullien's annual musical fate had, in con- junction with the Shropshire Horticultural Society's show, been held during the day on an islet of the Severn, called the l Island of Poplars. The river at this point is about 150 feet wide, and is at the deepest patt about nine feet ...

... M [SCELLANEwOTIS. A ha rntinonial alliance is aboust toD take place betwwe Lord Alfred Churcholl, younger son of thle Dukle of Marlborolugh, and the lion. Harriet Caithorpe, daug' ter of Lord Caithorpe. No lessr thanl £49,417 wras expended l st year ficr secret service£10,000 forborne and £39,417 for freiagn sret servie. The sum of £376,50wa expended: lu year Oi U count of education in Great ...

... -MISCELLANEOU S. Both Houses of Convocation hare b~een adjourned until tile 26th of June. 8 Count Walewaki has been presented by the Emperor of of Russia with the Grand Cordonl of the Order of St. Andrewv.*d Dr,. Saudwith, whose name is so Novell known to thev public in connection with the siege o1 Kars, has been a appointed Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius. in theE room of Mr. C.ot. ...

... IPSWICH.- S,rt~ti'dfJ, Junt~e 13, ?? The Queen held a Drawing-room in St. James's I'alace on Saturday afternoon. This reception, the firstj Public Court held by 3'er Majesty this season, was very nurnerouslv attended. Amongst the presentations were the ?? Laura Astley, by Mrs. Frna)cis Astey;,Ali~s Benyvon. Miss Annie Benyon, and ?? Jane Bnvon, bv Ladv Pigot; M\iss Therese Boileau, br her ...

... THaURSDAY, Dec. 3. The Lower House met at half-past 1. but for upwards of lialf-an-hour previously the members had begun to assemble. When the Speaker entered the House there were nearly 300 members present, and the number everv minute afterwards received fresh augmentations. Precisely at lialf.past I Lord Palmerston entered the House, and, quietly making his way through the cpwd of members ...

... Another of those sad catastrophes arising from the fall of houses occurred on Saturday morning in Totten. ham-court-road, attended, we regret to say, with the loss of several lives. The first indication of any- thing wrong took plece about a quarter-past seven o'clock, at which time there were between twenty and thirty young men and women in the employ of Messrs. Maple and Co., on the premises ...

... MEETING OF TICKET.OF-LEAVE MEN. A meeting or ticketuot.leaveamen, very similar in its character to tile one held early last year at the Nationall lHall, Holborn, tookc place or. Tuesday eveaing at Far. ringdon hall, Snow-hill. The proceedings derived peculiar interest from their bearing on the recent dis- cussions relative to our swhole system of secondary puni shmentss, which have beena ...

... No dogges, Sir-but bookes We treat of. In provincial towns where no Corporate body exists, and where consequently there are no public records to guide the inhabitants, disputes and legal controversies frequently arise relative to Charities, which cannot fail to diminish revenue and create ill-will. Charitable be- quests when controlled by mere custom-temporary of- fieials-or a few ...

... M [SC ELLA NEOUS. It has been arranged that instead of the punishment of seven years' transportationI, as originally proposed in the Fraudulent Trustees Bill now before Parliament, theterm of three years shall be adopted, and that this may be modified to fine or imprisonment for not more than two years, with or without hard lahoir. The House of Lords sat on Tuesday for the purpose of hearing ...

... EXETIR HALL SERVICES. The Rev. A. G. EdouIat, incumbent of the parish of St. Michael, Burleig'ixstreet, has, by a notice, forbidden these sersices, which were to have re-commenced on Sunday, the 8th inst, under the auspices of the Bishop of London. Until the legal question shall have been decided the committee will therefore suspend the course. The followinga letter dated Nov. 5, from the Rev. ...

... M [SCELLANEOUS. Her Majesty has appointed the Right. Hon. Henry John, Earl of Ducie, to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Glocester. The Queen of England, in fulfilnient of a promise made some time ago, has just presented to the Imperial Society of Agriculture, Sciences. and Arts of Valen. ciennes, a bust of Philippa of Hainault, wife of Ed. ward IIL., copied from a recumbent statue of the ...