... THE CRYSTAL PALACE FESTIVALS! .0 ?? The close of the Handel Festival of 1859 offers a | fitting opportunity. for some remarks on a question a which has been gradually attracting public atten- 1 tion for the last twelve months, and respecting e] which the directors of the Crystal Palace have a fair tl right to demand a signifcant expression o opuilol ri at the *iands of all conscientious ...

... LUMAT7L? 44ND Z?UNA TI C ASYLUMS. rkr.|. Ntqtwelve ?? 'ago the-pbc mind wva. 6 filled w ith horrox'an alarpd, by .cetainrdisclosure3 itz.: .;which have since become-better known under I ( the denomination of-, -the,A-colnb House. enormity.. yge, The case; thotigh' in! its rletails staiiding by itself, igle dia*itterly' withoii pralle-in the !istory e£finacy 1 (2 e,. In . (23, legiilation ...

... We are glad to greet Mr. and Mrs. German Reed at home again, and to observe that the Gallery of Illustration in Regent-street is once more the theatre of those charming esqisdses de sociftd which have won it such well-merited popularity The present entertainment, which is to a considerable ex- tent novel, is an undoubted success. In the first part of the entertainment we are supposed to ...

... LONDON CABMEN'S LORD DAY REST Associ-.TIOO . Thefirst annual meeting of this association was held last evening at the Music Hall, Store-street, the Hon. A. IKin. naird, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRNUN, in opening the proceedings, read letters of apology from Lord Cholmondeloy, the Earl of Shaftes- bury, &e., &c. He was happy to be able to preside at the first annual meeting of this valuable ...

... l I - the 'he Marquis of Normanby has just isisued the - speech he delivered in the House of Lords on the Wre 7th instant in the shape of a pamnphlet, and has teiro, added thereto the following Appendix on Italian t Affairs' of Ari'Emix A,-One of the most original incidents in all eni rcl these transactions is the circulation of a letter addressed to Im hiii son by the Marchese Layatico, ...

... RM6rA,&~TIOZfl FROM LIVERPOOL. The official returns of the emigration from the Mersey for tho half yesur endiag June 30 have been completed, andi from vwhich we obtaia the following results: Tho quartear just concluded opened with a very active trade. Iuring the firstmonth (April) 25 ships, carrying 14B cabin and 11,264 steerage passengers, tsailed, of whom 2,610 were English, 304 Scoteh, 7 ...

... THE LATE CAL AM ITOUS EXPLOSION AT HIOUNSLOWTO WDER ITLLS. | Ysoterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, the coroner, and a jury of sixteen gentlemen, assembled at the Prince Blucher Inn, T vwickoenhar-comtaion, for the purpose of resuming the in- quiry relative to the circumstances of the late calamitous explosion at the Hounslow Powder Mills. The names of the jury having been called ever, the learned ...

... FRO'M TILE NEW YORE IIERALD, MUrL 5.] Among the passengers who go to California in to-day's steamer is a corps of surveyors and civil engineers, en route to Oregon to open a noew line of communication from the Missoiri to the Columbia. This route is represented as passing through a rich and interesting region of country, and when completed must open a new gate to the redun- dantly populated ...

... A CHINESE LESSON ON NATIONXAL LEFENWE,. s armly of the ?? cannot afford to Iese 464 men inl the mud of a Chinese rceived river without somec kind of recompencrse, sod rerhaps the line in very beet kind possible is that of drawing a lesson on river veil as defernca from the late disaster. We think we see a very- LS con- important One that maly be drawn froma it, viz. ,that we may of the Iwith ...

... OPIUM s£OIrIOKLG. To Tais EDITORl OF T1E IrMORNING CHRONICLE. SiR-The above pernicious practice is not con- fined to China, but is followed up to an extrava- gant extent throughout British India. The collec- tors of the revenue stationed at every zillah throughout Bengal are provided with a chest of opium by the Government, which is committed to their especial care and management, they having ...

... ELECTION OF LORD hA FOR FOR TBE EYS ?? YEu . Yesterday the Livery of London assembled in the Guild- hall for the purpose of electing a Lord 2Mayorfor the ensuing year. At one o'clock the hail was crowdedwvith therespect- able electors of the city of London, upwards of 200 of whorm accompanied Alderman Carter, the next in rotation to the mayoralty, to the place of election. The electors par- ...

... GOVERNMENT' CONTRA OT$ ON TRE I CLYDY. In these days of invasion panici and great armaments, when crsagainst the apathy and inertness of the Execu- tive are being raised on every side with unceasing din, it is so far satisfactory to be able to record that, in a mea- sure, Government is really awakening to the necessity of increasing our means of defence, and, if need be, of attack , and, more ...