... BUMOROUS GATHERINGS. [From Pusschl THEe SILENT SXELL.-A puff in the corner of a news- paper, pretending to be a critical paragraph, commences with the statement following:-' The narrative of Admni- ral Nspior'a Baltic campaign hue burst upon the political and naval world like a bombshell, Yes, very much like one of those bombshels which the gallant admiral poured' into Cronstadt. The ...

... GVOSSIP OF THE WEER. -The Evangelicals are in luck. Another of the pious howlen is elevated to the episcopal bench. The Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, a younger brother of the Earl of Chichester, it is said, has received from Lord Palmerston the appoint- ment to the bishopric of Norwich. The new overseer is, we are told, a strong adherent of the Evangelical party in the Church of England. These ...

... E E THEl NEW SPEAKERi. [From the Times.] The candidate on whom the choice of the Government has ultimately fallen, Mr. Evelyn Denison, has in an un- nsual degree all those personal advantages which we are accustomed to look for in a Speaker. A tall, handsome man, with a good voice and manner, must be very want- ing to his natural endowments if he cannot command the attention and respect of a ...

... EiINOROUB GATHERnlxfk. [From, Pnch.]- THEtLAST REsopioax.-4athtr (expostulating, with his ion): James; I am grieved beyond. expression to see the iruel way in-which you have been going on lately. I have .ried you at everything, and you have failed in everything 1 put you; i? a merchants office, 'and ?? were igno- miniously sent about your business. I bought you a corn- mision in the army, ...

... THEi DASHiN'G WIDOW AND' THE AMIOROUS COLONEL. At the Bri'ghton County Court, the other day,.Mrs. Thatcher,'a widow, sued Colonel D'Aguilar for .the sum of 501 parcel of 601. (plaintiff abandoning the excess), for money payable by the defendant for the support by her of his illegitimate child from the mouth of April, 1855, to April, 1857, nd for' money agreed to be paid by the said defendant ...

... ;AUGURLTro, -OV CALTHORPE PAR. 4 T AII El XlklVlGHAi . ._ - : - , Mondaywa, a -great gala day at. Birmingba*1 f6r the'l rD 6ko of Cambridge att nded by a large party of visitors, I iinaugurated Lord CaltR4rpe's gft of a freejpark.t o the. | people of that borough. 'There are few, ifany; of cur- great manufacturing towns which stands more in need of 1 the gift' of a park than Birmingham-the ...

... ?? all communications that may be interesting to the general reader will find ?? under the above headin g, kwe do notihold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed -by oar coriespondents.] ?? TIE 0ROYAL DOWRY JOB: TO THE EDITOR' OF REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. SIB-Will you be good enough to explain, to a very unsophisticated reader, how it is that, certain members of- parliament 'felt itto ...

... GOSMIP OPF TIEB. -9WID.i v -. . Apoet has never been wanting to celebrate and. comme- morate the achievements of a real hero. The downfall of Troy and the wrath of Achilles are immortalized in the verse of Homer-; the Deli'verance of Jerusalem, and the prowess of Godfrey, have bere sung by Tassd; the achieve- ments of George 1i are embalmed in the strains of Colley Cibber; and the martial ...

... INPERTAL PARLIIENT. f HOUSZ. OF .LOADS-Thmrisday. , l Their lordships met, after the Whitsuntide recess, at five. Ii o'clock. when Lord Brougham took the oaths and his seat. INDECENr BATHING AT WATERING PLACES. se -Thr Marquis .of WESTMEATHE brought in a Bill to VJ regulate bathing at public watering places.. He stated 01 that he had recently visited various watering places,- and tl been ...

... GAIfS AID' LOSSWS * ENGLAND AND WALES. Coll- WhgLl. sev Gain. Coni. Gain Loss. ANDO'vECF ollteecue vice Colas ?? I. A'YLESBURY..IZBernard pica La~yard . ?? BllanRoImBaroard vice Stuart.1.. . ?? vice Barringtdnl 1. . B.EVIRLEi-.GIover vice ?? BLACKBRuu -~Hurnby vice Foilden ?? BomoaN-Wyld ?? Dr. Michell ?? Bo~~vose~Gray vice Barnes ?? . . ?? viceiFoleft. ?? BCATRBURY-Joheinay' nvies Chabndtos n ...

... EMIGRATION INT LLIGGE-I . .Ca3 'EBIkATio?.,-Sh' T iaxa4ia News a Lon.. 113 ?? to emigrationintelligence, has the fol- owing wholesome advice-to intnded Canadian emi. rnuts :- We cannot impress too deeply upon the minds f prason.absout to emigrate. hejnecnssity of their under. tanding, exactly what arentis prospects which await them w Canatua, nde in what. diection they propose to themu . ...

... TliE WEATRERCOCK OF PUBtLI -OPIION.: 0;. : What are theprincipls. Ties ewspper What does it believeand teach? We caninot~tell;. and what is more, we do, not suppose that iR this re- spect any one else is wiser.than ourselves. Thisais, of allthe questions that canl be put; the -most difficult to answer..- The problems with which3the Roman tyrant. puzzled his -philosophers, -are not smore Uhard ...