... A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon . at the official residence of Lord Palmerston, Downing Street.-Globe. RlRepresentation of Oldlzam. -Several meetings of electors have already taken place in reference to the vacancy caused by the fatal accident to Mr. Platt; l and we understand there is a strong feeling in favour r of nominating Mr. Cobden.- Globe. Thee Militia.- The following ...

... (From the Illustrated London Ne-ps.)- The mortal remains of the late Right Hon. John Wilson Croker were consigned to their last resting place, at Moulsoy Church, Surrey, on Monday. The funeral was of a private character. f Lieut-teneral Pennefetleer, in command of the. forces at Malta, has assumed the administration of the civil Government in the temporary absence of the Governor. The monument ...

... AceQ isnA Xr- .IA ?? n lA .. The annexed extract from the provincial journals received are important at this period:-- Libmniciz.-The crops are being fast gathered in throughout the country, and everywhere we find that the yield is most abuidant, and beyond that of late years. The wheat crop is abundant; but the oats are short in the straw. Reaping is general throughout the south of Ireland, ...

... [COMSiUNXCATED SiX A YACHTING FiRIEND.] reflE At this season, when so many enjoy boating at the oast evel some few reminiscencess of anl excursion to the Western Islands this of Scotland may interest your readers generally, and perhaps beau benefit such of them- as contemplate sailing for the first mor time beyond the isthmus of Kintyre and exeninotei, d ventures to the waters 'of the Hebrides ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-hMoNDAY, AUGUST 24. Their Lordships rnct at five O'clodck.ntetbl h pno The 1,OUD CH1ANCELLOR laid upo h al h opiniofn of tha law otffcars of the Crown in relation to the legalit f the opism trade wit China. se h oenett The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH ase h Gvrmn wrhathar they had received any further telegraphic intelligence fii from India? Lord PAN11URE said nothingbhad beenureceived ...

... same at Newport; and even at Brecon, where local prejudice is aristocratically in- timed, a clerk has been equally successful. The time is now at hand when a beginning must be made. A curse, said a German writer, is attached to standing still; be it manor mankind, an association or an Empire. If we prefer the motto of supineness, with us the penalty, the misfortune of such a resolve but do ...

... EMGLTSTC BAPTIST CHAPEL.—The re-opening of this place of worship i& announced for cLy and Monday next, when special services wiu be held, which wlÍl be conducted by the R v. T. Thomas, D.D., Pontypool, assisted by several eminent ministers of the baptist and other de- nominations, in the neighbourhood. Collection* are announced to ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. Lord Campbell presented a petition from the Oude Princes now in this country, praying that their relative the ex.King of Oude might be informed of the nature of the charges brought against him by the Indian Government. 00 the suggestion of Lord Redesdale, the petition wis re- jected, because the word ''humble'' had been omitted in commencing it. The Marquis of ...

... The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at the White Lion, Broad-street, Bristol, on Tuesday, James Poole, un., Esq., in the chair. The Secretary read the notice con- vening the meeting, and also the report, which appeared in the on Saturday last. The capital account showed that the receipts up to June, 1867, had been £ 1,045.778 6s. 2d., and the expenditure, i 1^073,218 10s. 7d,, ...

... VIENNA, SATURDAY, 8 A.M. The representatives of France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia have announced in a note, couched in identical terms, the cessation of their diplomatic relations with the Porte, and their approaching departure from Constantinople. The Russian flag was struck on the 6th instant. The Vienna Gazette states that according to the last accounts direct from Constantinople, Lord ...

... Letters from Genoa of the 8th mention the execution of two convicts, and state that agitation continued in the hulks. A plot had been discovered, the object of which was to liberate the convicts and murder the gaolers. An attempt had been made to assassinate two officers. The Neapolitan refugees say that in publishing the manuscripts left, by Pisacano they mean to omit the political parts. ...

... Scientific, NEW INVENTION IN LOOMS.—The other day (says the Blaclcbum Standard), we saw at the house of Mr. Benjamin Croasdale, of Pigeon Hall, Whitton, the application of a new motive power for the pro- pulsion of looms for weaving hair-cord checks, satin spot3 laces fancy ves tings, regattas, and many descriptions of fancy work. The inventors are Benjamin Croasdale and Richard Talbot. The ...