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... IT is officially announced that the forthcoming session of Parliament, which is destined, apparently, to have most important results, will be opened by her MAJESTY the. QUEEN in person. For this purpose the Court will remove from Windsor to Bnckingham Palace on the 2nd. The usual Ministerial entertain. ments are also announced. There is something very instructive, if not noble, about the way ...

... pistrut ge5s. DUDLEY. [ADVERTISEMENT.] THE DUDLEY BOARD OF GUARDIANS v. THE VESTRY CLERK- SHIP OF SEDGLEY. Gentlemen,-The subject of a Vestry Clerk for Dudley has been the all-absorbing topic during the weak, as evidenced by the feeling manifested at the town's meeting, pre- sided over by the Mayor, and afterwards on the following day by a vestry meeting at the Parish Church. The great ...

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... d.art W Ofucial. The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock on Tues. day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by the Prince Consort, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Mat- quis of Salisbury, Lord President; the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of Derby, First Lord of the Treasury; the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of State for the Home Department ; the ...

... (From the Gazette of Tuesday Night.) Wa.nI OFFICE, APmr, 12. The Queen has been graciously pleased to confirm the grant of the decoration of the Victoria Cross to the under- mentioned officer and private of her Majesty's Army, which decoration has been provisionally conferred upon them by the Commander-in-chief in India, in accordance with the roles laid down in her Majesty's warrant insti- ...

... giottict ?;Rtws. DUDLEY. THE LATE -.CICDENT AT BlSNS' LANE u oLcAErtY.-COo- 3aITTAL OF THiE ESGINEER FOR MA'SLIJGHTEE.-At thle New Town Hall, yesterday, before Captain Bennitt and W. Mathews, Esq., Charles Bridgewater, late engineer at the Bunn's Lane Colliery, was pilced in the dock on a charge of having, by uegli- gence, caused the death of Henry Dickenson, a lad seventeen years of age, on ...

... NEWS OF TaE DAY. SOMEn gossip regardingll, the motives of the Minis- try ill dissolving a Parliament ecarcely two years old, has oozed out in the Dmetropolitaiii clubs, and has been thence conveyed to the0 colum1ns of a con- teuiporary. The story about -Mr. DISaAEMI being anxious to secure a retiring pension to which he would be entitled at the end of this month, and all the thousand and one ...

... ,lordo ?? 1, . 0 c W. * FRANC E. (Pr-e thec Dat'fay News, PiRs, Wfe'dnesday Evening. LUitle or no news of the CongrezA but umeh talk of pre- pgaration for war is the charaetereitin oi tlno situation. The Minister of Marine is combinir,g his efforts will thinse of the Miuister at War to bo rc l'3y ' lwhenever the signal may be given. Orders have be dit sent to Touloxi that sixty- eight ?? ...

... (By, B leasic I namsiond TdNmph-) OmCEs, Tmrm BueI NS. NEW SAM. THE WARS GA3MALDI CROSSING THE TIGINO. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Iteuter's office, May.24:- PAIus, Tuesday, May 24. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the following telegram I ATsMANDRIA, May 23, Evening. A Yesterday the Emperor attended mass in the Cathedral. Hs 'His Majesty everywhere receives ...

... DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT THE HIOUNSLOW POWDER MILLS. [From the Timies.] One of those terrible calamities which from time to time seem fated to occur in the hazardous process of manufac- turing gunpowder, took place on Wednesday morning, at Messrs. Curtis and Harvey's works, at Hounslow. The lives of six persons were instantaneously sacrificed, a seventh sufferer has since been added to the list ...

... (Farnn the Times.) The following painful statement has been made by John Elliott, mate of the Dromahair,- The British bark Dromuasir sailed from Quebec on the 20th of November, 1858, for Greenock, Scotland, loaded with lumber and manned by thirteen persons, including the captain and mate. She carried no passengers. Her officers were: John Hutohison, captain; John Elliott, first mate; and ...