... SUMMARY. The Queen left her Highland home on Thurs- day morning, and journeyed to Edinburgh that night. Her Majesty intends staying at Holyrood till this (Saturday) morning, at nine o'clock, when the Royal family will take their departure for Bangor, North Wales, via the Carlisle and Lon- don and North Western railways. The Royal party are expected to accomplish the distance (206 miles) in ...

... HO-USE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 24. IONIAN ISLANDS.—Earl GREY having inquired when a copy of the commission under which Mr. Gladstone had undertaken his mission to the Ionian Islands would be laid .before Parliament, the Earl of Derby objected to the promulgation of a document which might, he remarked, provoke a premature debate upon the whole question, which was not yet ripe for discussion. ...

... THE BATTLE OF MONTEBELLO. r THE first account of the engagement atMonte- bello, having any pretentions to completeness, is now before ùs; It is from the pen of one of'the Paris journalists selected by the Emperor to accompany the army, and records for the glory of France and the delectation of tife French people the brilliant feats of arms which it is part of the Imperial programme to per form ...

... imeral ptoi The select committee appointed to prepare estimates of the charge of the disembodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 1st of April, 1859, to the 31st of March, 1860, have estimated the number of men for 1859-60 at 103,644, and the cost at £462,860, as against 91,003 men, and £ 432,900. The second and last concert of the artistes of the Drury-lane Opera was given on ...

... PUBLIC MBUTLNG IN CARDIFF. On Wednesday evening se'nnight, a public meeting of masons, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, painters, glaziers and others interested in this strike, was held in the large room of the Merthjr and Dowlais Inn, Bute Terrace, in this town. The handbills issued, thus stated the objects of the meeting — For the purpose of adopting measures for the further support of our ...

... AND LIST' OF FAIRS, NOTICES, ETC., IN THE COONTIBS OF GLAMORGAN, MONMOUTH, AND BLLBCON, FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. DEC. 4. SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT. — Morninc, 1st lesson, 5th ch. Isaiah 2nd lesson, 5ih ch. Acts. Evening, lst lesson, 24th ch. Isaiah; 2nd lesson, 10th ch. Heb. —— 5. Henry IV. born, 1421. —— 6. Jenkins died, aged Hi9, 1670. 7. Algernon Sydney beheaded, 1683. 8. Cannon first used at ...

... Upwards of £ 1,100 have been subscribed towards the formation of a rifle corps in Wrtxham. The Treaty of Zurich is duly reduced to diplomatic re- cord. It has been signed and sealed at Zurich. A society has been formed with a view to agitate the abolition of corporal punishment in the army. The total number of Royal and Company's^roop^ em- ployed in British India in 1856.57 was 281,569. It is ...

... AQBICCITUBX oir THE MouMAMa.—We understand. that in a field adjoining Bglwyeilan Mountain, at an alti tude of about 800 ft. above the sea, there were gathered this season 39 tons 12 cwt. 98 lbs., or in round numbers, forty tons of mangold wursel per acre. On the sam0 farm, but at a lower elevation, there were in 1857 up- wards el 4brty-five tons produced per acre. ARCHDEACON DAVits. -The will ...

... In what colour is a secret best kept ?—In-violate. Gas bills are, in military phrase, heavy charges of the light brigade. Some things are much better eschewed than chewed— tobacco is one of them. Why is twice eleven like twice ten ?—Because twice eleven are twenty-two, and twice ten are twenty, too. A cynical Frenchman once said there are two parties to a love affair—the party who loves, and ...

... INDIA. MUTINIES OF EUROPEAN TROOPS.. J'. From India we haveners which is certainly of i a very startling character, no other than the threat of mutiny on the part of Lhe European v, troops hitherto under the service of the hast India Company. In fact, the despatches speak as if mutiny had already broken out, and the dreaded Vieerufc is named as the place where it was first seen. It has also ...

... On Wednesday evening the mournful intelli- gence was received, in Cardiff, by telegraph, that this most noble lady had died suddenly at Edin- burgh. Those who remember that the late Marquis died suddenly, and also that Lord James Stuart, his Lordship's brother, was in an equally unexpected manner visited by death, will feel how painful must these visitations be to the distin- guished family ...

... A correspondent of the Bombay Gazette, April 18th, writes:— I have now given you all I can at present glean concerning the celebrated rebel chief, Tantia Topee, whose military skill and ability were worthy of better troops in a better cause. I suppose his charge, proceedings at his trial, and statement will ultimately be given to the public for their information. The execu- tion was announced ...