... 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, ...

... to thf LONDON: consti WED.NESDAY, JUNE: 22, 1859. I ww Refor porte The HousE of LORDS had a formal sitting of a demn few minutes yesterday, and adjourned till Thurs- tion I day for private business. lookii In the HOUSE of COMMONSgoes Considerable discussion took place on two pri-ge vate bills, one for the establishment of a terminus part at Charing-cross for the South-Eastern and woulI ...

... ?? -. Weethey s i inded, the objectorstz h erpltn i Board of 'Works~s'nscheme for draining London wouldfndn Dr. Lethebly's startling report on the state of the River SC Themes, ample subject for congratulation en~the soundness be of their opinions, but that it would be infinitely more gratifv- a iug to be conv~icted of error thlan to be assured our antici-ac pations of being periodically ...

... FIRST EDITION FOREIGN INTELbGE, - EXPRESS FROM PARIS, [FROM OUB OWN CORRESPUODQ.Vr ] PARIS, SATUP.DAY Ee51!,. The following official despatchr was iade, this afternoon The Emperor slept last night at (I leagues from Brescia. His Mtajesty dip e digious activity, and, notwithstanding t ?? of command, enjoys excellent health, £ ' before yesterday, at Treviglio, he presidle1 hz:;4 for two hours ...

... ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THIS DAY. At Lord's-Eleven Gentlemen and Players of England v. Sixteen Gentlemen of the University of Cambridge. Mr. Dark's mnatch. At Eton.-1. C. C, v. Present Etor'ans. At Kennington Oval.-Surrey Club v. Southgate Club. Two days' natch. At Redruth.-All England Eleven v. Twenty-two of Cornwall. At Ho ?? Albion v. Hampstead Albion. At Stanstead.-Gravesend v. ...

... MOTEST EDITION=- FOR THE A1USTRAIAN MAIL OF THIS DAY. . I SUIM~ARY OF NWS. The Most importanlt item in our budget of Home sosfor the present Monthly Summary ia the .N evs CiCrssis jvwich has just taken place. Per- .et had b~o sittingg-so to say-for a week, but the sessior had not in reality practically com. Mewed till Tuesday) the 7th of the current month, nwhich occasiol' her Majesty ...

... T TER SPEECH-DPAY AT ETONY-CoLL/6G, - -. -I The annual celebration of Speech-day at Etj, r, 1 took place on Sattfirday last, the4th of June. h di-,t.p hs always presented many attraction for Etoni an, count of its having been King George IlIs birthd, ts i monarch always taking the greatest interest in eVer;tV; relatingtEtEonCollege. Theunusuallylargeattca.il the nobility and other ...

... -TRBIIR N yRW .INCmAr$Rs~f is.,- Count do MacMahon (Marie-Patrice.Mauriec) was born about 1807, at the chateau of Sully, in the arrondissement of Autun. He is descended from an Irish family, which, after living with distinction for many centuries in Ireland, risked all for the last of the Stuart Kings. The MacMahons, carrying their national traditions and historic nametoFrancre, minrgled their ...