... VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP PsUsSaA.-Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle for the reception of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia and suite, who will arrive at Windsor shortly before the 9th proximo, for the purpose of being present at the grand banquet to be given in honour of the birthday of the Prince of Wales. The illustrious visitors will not return to ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, February 21. THEE IONIAT ISLANDS& Lord D:ERIlY made an earnest appeal to Lord Grey to postpone his motion for copies of the correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands respecting the proposed alterations in the constitution of those islands. He considered that, as this question was still under ...

... ADuLTERATION Or FOOD D1IL.-Mr Scholefield, M.P., has revived his useful Bill a for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink. It imposes a penalty of so many pounds (not yet fixed) on every person vending or exposing for sale any article of food or drink with which, to the knowledge of such person, any noxious ingre- dient has been mixed. More than this, the offender will be, ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALIK A railway is projected for connecting the South-Eastern station at London bridge with the railways to the west of the metropolis. It will pass through the property of St Thomas's Hospital, close to the wards, so close, indeed, that the hospital will have to be removed from its present site. The shipment of horses for the continent is increasing. The Bishop of London has ...

... Mr H. Berkeley has published the following letter in reply to certain editorial strictures of the Times, on a letter of his which appeared in that journal: To the Editor of the Times. Sir- Nothing would be more agreeable to me tban that the Ballot Society should print my letter and the leading article in which you have attempted a reply in juxta-positioI, that the unthinking portion of the ...

... 9~ mk The invitations to the Congress have been issued. It is to be held in Paris, and the first sitting is announced for the 5th of January next. It appears that England has consented to meet the other powers, but who her plenipo. tentiary is to be has not yet transpired. The Times suggests Lord Palmerston himself. The text of the treaties signed at Zurich have been pub. lished. The ...

... 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 ...