... HOUSE OF LORDS-TIiURSDAY. I . . n -I - ThAir Lordships met at five o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Queen of Oude, the Prhice her eldest son, and the brother of the King, now in this country, expressing great regret at the military outbreak in India, and sorrow and surprise at the suspicions - attaching to their relative, the ?? of Oiude, of disloyalty and disaffection. The ...

... (Frome the Timees.) Royal visits rank as phenomena with great meteors, comets, solar eclipses, and new planets. They are extraordinary evnts, and immediately set even people not the least inclined to qu or- stition thinking what they mean and what they pint to. Mt that there is any absolute reason why they should mean more than what the simple fact conveys. For why should Kings and Queena not ...

... 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 ...

... Fishing-Latheron, Caithness, August 10.-The fish- ing of the past week on the Caithnese coast has been a moderate. At Wick the fishing averages about 9 V crans a boat for the week, and 29 for the season; at a Lybster, 10 crans for the week, and 20 for the season; t at Dunbeath, 12 crats for the week, and 24 for the season. Helnsdale is the only station in this quarter V that has been heavily ...

... (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 ...

... ]iOIISE OF c)MINIONS-WHI.NESDAr AuGUST 19. The SPRAKERt took the chair at ten rmilitteS Past twelve ry Major EDwARIDEs took the oaths and his seat for Beverley ih the room of M~r. Glover, Unseated. 11e was introduced by Sir WVm. Joliflb nod1( Sir Win Heatbeote. Si The Lortse' amendments Ito the Eastern Bengal Railway Comp~any, and the tgoinde Railway Company bills were ounsi- dered anti agreed ...

... L O N i)N AU GU ST 19. The. chaplaincy of the House of Commons will become vacant at the close of the present session by- 'the'resignation of'the'Rev. 'Thomas''Gariiier, ?? The appointment is in. the gift of. the .Speaker. Applicants for.Service in India.-We understand that numerous applications for: employment are re- Ceived, almost daily, at the India House, not'oily from I Eniglishmen, but ...

... IL'A.T E S T N E WS. IERALD OFFICE, Friday Morning. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA.-At a meeting of the shareholders of the Royal Bank at Vienna, if was proposed to raise the rate of discount from 5 to 51 per cent., leaving the interest on advances at 6 per cent. CIRCASSIA.-It is said that Schamyl is again in possession of the fortified villages in Daghestan, not long ...

... 0 C (From the Morning Chronicle.) We are glad to find that, although the check sustained by this national undertaking through the loss of a portion of the n cable, owing to the too sudden application of the brakes con- d nected with the machinery at a time when the stern of it the Niagara was down in the trough of the sea, has had the r effect of disappointing for a time the hopes of the ...