... LONDON: FRIDA F, MAY 20, 1Si;. TYe General Election is now over, and, although a terrib¾e outery has been raised about the waste of ijue occasilued by it, the whole process has oc- cupie-l baut a dlay or two more than is usually con- suaed by the Easter adjournment. In three weeks all has been accomplished-speech-making, polling, ind thanksgiving-from one end to the other of the United ...

... MESDICITr SOCIETE. ~l~Satniday afternoon, the forty ~frat annual mneeting of tho edaMendicity- Soolety 'wasl held at the 'society's. rooms; Red .Ion-sqnuare. all Th-aiusof Westminster p resided, and among the~ sly noblereh eedl lmgentlembn ~in attendanca y'i~re~ar1Gros'ven~or, lid Lord.Egerttn of Tatton (one of the receifily created peer) ith Lord Caithorpe, Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., Sir ...

... EXPRESS FROM PARIS, [FROA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PAR[S, TnuRSDAY EVENING. To-day, at one o'clock, took place the first meet- ing of the Conference. The inew Plenipocentiaries 'were presented to their colleagues, and then Count W-alewski opened the session; after which M. Mussurus, the representative of the Porte, ex- plained that Government's motives in asking for the assembling of a ...

... PORT PIILLIP AND COLONIAL GOLD HINING2 COHPANYE r e A special general meeting of the proprietors was held this day at the London Tavern; Mr. J. D. Fowles in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the meeting was called for the purpose of declaring a dividend for the past half year, but previous to submitting the resolution he vould explain their present position. According to the latest ...

... I TELEGRAPHIC , DESPATCHES. [THROUGH MR. REUTER.S AGENCY.) INDICT51ENT OF SENOR COLLANTES. MADRID, WEDNESDAY. The Congress has approved a bill of indictment C4 - . !tem- A,. ?? againss eenvi vollantes by 178 voices against uv. Senor Collantes was forthwith lodged as a prisoner in the Hotel of the Civil Governor. CONFERENCE ON DANUBIAN AFFAIRS- THE CONGRESS. Pinis, THuRSDAY. In yesterday's ...

... [A pressure of matter compelled us to exclude the follow- ing ifrom our First Edition. A notice of the arrival of the steamer appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.] I THE WEST INDIA AND- SOUTH PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TauRsDAY EvENING. 'tFRO OUR OWN CO0RESP ?? The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Capt. Weller, arrived at Southampton, yes- terday morning, from ?? Indies, with ...

... NAVAL AND MiLrTAiY Izy'TmaoIG.aN the Horse Guards, addressed to all commanding officers, directing increased efforts to be made in obtaining recruits for the army:- ' His Royal lfighness the General Commanding-in- Chief desires that commanding officers whose regiments are below their establishments will send their bands and drums to one of the nearest towns on all market days, or on such ...

... Ir UNIVERSITY INTELLIBNCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 2. FOUNDATION LECTURERS, &C. A meeting of members of the Senate was held in the Arts School yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor presiding, to consider the new statutes respecting certain foundation lecturers, Scholarships, &c. 1. The lectureships of Sir Robert Reade, who founded four lectures, and it was proposed to consolidate these into one, as the whole ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? INTELLGENCE' -CITY OF LONDON. r The election of members for the city of London took place fir yesterday in thb Guldhall. There Wvas ?? o displayed on the occasion, and the hall wvas bat little more re than half filled. On tie platformi were Alderocar Sir Chip- 1, nian Marshall, Alderman and Sheriff Hale, Alderman and le: Sheriff Conidor, Alderman Husophery, Mr. Secondary in Potter, Mr. ...