... DESTRUCTIVE THTU1DERSTORM. On Saturday morning, between five and seven o'clock, a thunderstorm, accompanied with heavy rain, passed over the metropolia. The.horizon was brilliantly illuminated with sheet lightning, and the rain fell in torrents, which had the effect of surcharging the drains and sewers; and, consequently, overflowing the carriage roads, and in some places the foot pavement. ...

... The concession of the Languedoc Canal to the Southern I Railway Company has been effected. M4r. H-lodge, the Genoa journals state, embarked at that port on tile evening of the 26th ult. onl board the British steamer Teneriffe, bound for England. The Vieinia Gazette announces tbrA the admission of the Nord of Brussels into Auns::i: lies been pro- hibited, a Baron Sinmon de Siln, of Vienna, ...

... I10R.I5CULTURE. |thei The month of June set in with a temperature 0Orc which will probably not be exceeded in the dog days. kin The progress made by vegetation is extraordinary, and the lost time wvili speedily bhe made up should this kind of weather continue. Thegardens now look very thriving the iruit crops are generally abundant, notwithstanding the nungenial woatnhr through whics they had ...

... PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, HOUSE OF LORDS. -FRD&Y, JUNR 4, Lord BaouGIOS-.c presented a petition from Bolton ?? for the restoration of Oade to the Royal Family. Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice of a motion re- specting the Belfast riots. SALE OF POISONS BILL Lord DERBY moved the second reading of this biil. Earl GR&NvILLE thought that opium should have been introduced into the bill. After some ...

... 11 'jj? ?? 'Antilles C. jlvgltifl?. BATMOR, SATUlRDAY, JUNE 12, 16550 hi THlE IND)IAN RE SOLU'TIO N--. rrhe 11tum, of Commons again teaok up tie Indianlfl iesolutions ott Mondav ovening,-but the only prn- tei guess made, was, to reject two amendments proposed ei to the 3rd resolutlion. Th~e first I'd second,-Cna' e C rioed before the fictious demonstration of the ' Ca- 0r bal,-provide for ...

... The reports from Belfast on Saturday, are of a ?? peaceabte character than we have been favoured vith anly day this week. There was an attempt at ho Ce-wreckiing on Thursday night butt, owing to the decided measitres taken by the authorities, comparatively little damage was done and order restored. The local journal speak of the appearance of the town as similar to what might be ex- pected ...

... I Zo -- 7. - 7 I I . (From the Manchester Guardian.) Last year we gave some notices of this rapidly ris- ing bathing place, so charmingly placed at the foot t of the Great Orme s Head, which screens it from the ( northern blast; while within a thousand yards it pos- sesses two bays, both admirable for bathing purposes, I one having an easterly and the other a westerly I aspect, so that in high ...

... FRIGHTFUL rTILWNY ACCIDENT IN BELGIUM. I _ A dreadful accident occurred on Wednesday on the ster, Belgium railroad from Mons to Monage. A train from 50n Mons, on arriving near Bracquegflies, wvhile at full E speed, ran into two Waggons laden with coke, which Con were running along down the line, which has an incline nead at that point. The collision -was fearful. The engine mob was burled over ...

... OF LONDaON DuaINn rTHE PAST WVELE.- Ti eah egired in London were 1,106 in the week ~ ended last Saturday. In the ten yesrs 1848-57 te anl ?? of ?? in the weeks corresponding with fo, last wek astjl4. Last week the births of 765 boys Ito sai 7SO girls, in all 1625 children, were registered, in Do 1,,ndon. Ini the ten corresponding weeks of the year Wt 64S -57, the average number was 1455 M. ...

... APPALLING SCENE IN THE MARKET PLACE UU I'H SHIELDS. At ?? , ,,f ?? _. I z1wt itt , .. . . .. : _ ; r , cog an . ?? .I , - R 4 - A :iigmrn ws Lwnssled in South HE Shielil niorlir. P'aci, onl Ttn.:~ cv ridht. about 8 o'clock, upon by ;- l: uire ?? anct by rboea Wilu saw, it tp obably the Q never W1'11 be folccOzten. A sailor, owied1 Theomos Cook, to-da3 a steady, idugs ious manl, had come into ...

... We publish the following communication from Mr. Charles Dickens, which has been circulated among the London daily papers:- Three and twenty years have passed since I entered on my present relations with the Public. They began when I was so yourg, that I find them to have existed for nearly a quarter of a century. ' Through all that time I have tried to be as faithful to the Pablic as they ...

... DOXESTIC SOUPS AND BROTHS, R rGO BALLS,-Boil four or five cgfs till they are quite hard Take out the yoles and beat thsec in a mortar, with salt and cayenne pepper. Make this into a paste with thic white of ?? Roll the paste into balls the size of small marbles. Rodl them R. in a little flour and fry them in butter, taking care they do not R break. OX TAIL Sour.-'Make a iquantity of brown soup ...