... - D * e - ' ~ ? - - 0 5 uld We have mucs satisfaction in announcing to our readers, 0. that while Sir Richard Bethell, the Attorney-General, is Al hi promoting, with characteristic vigour, his Bill to punish er- Si to minally fraudulent breaches of trust, Lord St Leonards has ti cn laid a Bill on the table of the House of Lords for the relief fe and protection of trustees who commit errors in ...

... IN reverting to the report of the Royal Commissioners t . on this subject, to make a more comprehensive analysis t o of the contents of the couple of very dreary volumes I 3 of which it consists, we naturally wish, in the first t le place, to ascertain, if possible, what confidence is to beE ie put in the impartiality of the Commissioners. We E know little of these gentlemen, or their, ...

... WEDNESDAY, June 17, 1857. PA R LIAM E NT. HOUSE oF X;lODS. rent TrHE SUORE NUS E-05 inid is labouring wouli to abate the factory smoke nuisance in Scotland. His of tin Bill on the' subject passed thre second reading Onl years %hursda~y. The local attempts to effec t this have prov- esteti ed usauccessful ;chiefly, Lord Kinnaird says, for the mans lesson, that the people -whose manufactories ...

... PAR L I A ME Y T. HOUSE OF LOBlS-Tsuday, Jene.9. . 5UibIa 1N. TrIODIAN ATAMIY.- Earl of ELLENnoctouoIt called attentionto the iuttinous con- duct of several Regiments in the Native Indian Army, in the Presidency of Bengal and particularly that of the cavalry regi. mout. at Murnt. 'lhis last mutiny might, and ought, to have been put down in half-an-hour. From a very careful considera- tion of ...

... FRANCE. a PAntS Wednesday.-Tho MeAaitear confirms the slgninz of tho o Neufcba~tl Treaty. This treaty finally rogulatos thb qus iign by C reoimeiation on ?? of tho King 0o PrussiWto the sove1rignty ( over the canton. Th ratifications will be exehanged within twenty-one days, when the text of the treaty will be published, The closing session of the LgWislative Assembly took place on Thursday ...

... SOCIETY or ANTIQUARIES Or Ane~To this society was heldaon thle 8th ?? A.tBoyleta v A: Cats, in the chair. Mr Stuart mentioned that six oases of Egyptian antiquities, presented to the Museum by H. A. Th BRind; Esq., lied been received. Among the communications Ford: read to the meeting, were- Isvenitar of popish Trin- Me kets, gotten iii liy Lord Tresquair's House, Anno 1688; all tion' ...

... I c PROSPECTS OF TEE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.-The season is, clia upon the whole, late-at the present period, perhaps, about dial eight days behind the average as regards theprogress of the chbs corn crops. This opinion, however, is not general, and ap vice plies to the east rather than to the west coast of Scotland, - and to Scotland rather than to England. The breadth of land this season under ...

... TaE grand musical festival announced to take place at Halle, in Germany, in 1859, to commemorate the centenary of Handels death in the place of his nativity, has been anticipated in.England in 1857. The musical congress at the Crystal Palace cannot be said to be so much a commemoration of the death of the great composer as simply a festival in, honour of his name. The Directors of the Sacred ...

... At THE minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, in- M cluding the reports of inspectors and statistics as to schools Te for 1856, have just been published in two bluc-books. The cc total sun expended in the shape of grants in Great Britain T) for the year was 2423,633, being an increase of £54,030 on de the previous year. Altogether, since 1839, the grants have fr- anaounted to £2,426 ...

... . , NOASDINE5HflUL-'Ihe merry month has produced a leas wonderful change on nature's fair face, and its successor has yea appeared in a; splendid dress. Rain has fallen on twelve days-the depth in the month amounting to 2 2-106h inches, with the prevailing direction of the wind, southerly. There were heavy dashes of rain on the 24th, attended with thun- der and lightning, since which, the ...

... VdkING BY BILLETS AT ELECTIONS. 'fIT would seem that, before the session be over, we are tI likely to have the whole of the proposals which next tl a year's ReformBill can possibly contain, discussed seria- ?? tiU, in anticipation. We have had the equalization of oi d Burgh and County Qualifications-Lord R. Grosvenor's tl small supplement to the Bribery Bill-hints on a County - copy of the ...

... FROM. THE. LONDON GAZETTE. War Depailment, ATue 12. Royal Artillery.-Bravet. Colonel J. W. Mfitchell to be Colonl vice Cater, retired onl full Pay. Captahi B. Blackwood-l'rice to be ?? vice Mitchell. Second Captain E. .E. 'RX Dyne- ley to be Captain, vice Blacitwood-l'rice. Lieutenlant R. J. Cairnee to 1.be Second Captain, 'ice Dyneley. ulp RylAtlero Brev~et. -ColonielT..O.Catter, ?? a oa ...