... Is the brevity aud the meagreness of the Speech which her MAJESTY delivered yesterday afternoon to be accounted for on the supposition that as it is not improbable the' ceremony of inaugurating a New Parliament will have to be repeated' speedily, there was no use in wasting many words ? Or are Ministers so determined upon a stand-up fight with the Opposition that they have intentionally turned ...

... IhMPERIAL PARL UA ?? . .1ROM oE'R OWN REPO.RTERS. |,I tBY MAGNC TELU00AP.] at HOUSE OF LORDS. u FRIDAY, JUNE 10. H The Lord Chapcellor took his seat eat five c cloeA, i THE MILITIA. In repv o a question I Lord. =OSLYN statei that no Enfield rifles had | been'~ issted to any ihilitia regiments except those w which had been re-embodied. It was, however, 'in- m tended by the Commander-in-Cbief ...

... iIThED EDMO.N. MERCURY OFFICE. THREE O'CLOCE. LONDoN CORN XMARET.-English wheat not much .n request, and is to 2s lower than on Monday last, though small supply. Not much business in foreign. Flour inactive. Barley steady, but sales limited. Oats in large supply. and trade slow, at a small decline. Beans and pease not much wanted. Malt dealt in cautiously. Arrivals-British wheat, 3253 ; ...

... A grand baniquiet was given at Merchant Taylors' I Hall on Saturday to her Majesty's Ministers. The Earl of DERBY, in responding to the principal toast of the evening, ?? thankingyou for your gr et kiadness, this only will I say for ray colleagues and myself, that having accepted office under circum- stances of no ordinary difficulty, and at a time of no ordinary anxiety, we have laboured ...

... (From our own Correspondent.) Liverpool, Saturdsay. EMimETIoN To Nxw ZEALAND. -The emigration trade of Liverpool, although large in its relation to every other country in the world, has never taken a very prominent posi- tion in regard to that with the noble colony of New Zealand. The recent very liberal arrangements made by the Colonial Government with respect to free grants of land, forty ...

... MONDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, Esq.) DRUNKARDS'LIST.—Richard Harley, 5s. and costs; John Smith, 5s. and costs, George Bowen, for being drunk and committing a nuisance in Bute-street at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, 5s. and costs or seven days John Morrison, 5s. and costs Mary Cotterell, a very old Irish women, who described herself as poor and broken hearted, was cautioned and discharged ...

... A new book store, of a very peculiar description, has recently been opened in Boston, United States. It is kept by S. A. Rollo, late of the house of A. S. Barnes and Co.; it is a publishing and bookselling house; it is modelled and arranged like a ship it is full of nautical things, and the business is carried on in nautical names and sea-going arrangements. As a sign, on a platform outside, ...

... Jlalmi and ftlititarv. THE seamen of the navy in the Mediterranean fleet are being taught the use of the Minie rifle. FRENCH TROOPS, writes the Daily News corre- spondent from Turin, June 2 are still arriving by the Cenis' snowy road. Yesterday evening two batteries of the Imperial Guard made their entrance in this town amidst flowers and enthusiastic reception. This morning they were ...

... I-relanD. THE TIPPERARY ESTATES of Count Chabot were sold in the Landed Estates] Court on Friday in twenty-five lots, the whole producing £ 40,000. The rates of purchase were extremely high, beyond, in some instances,' the average prices realised in the land market. THE LATE WILLIAM FAG AN, ESQ., M.P for Cork, has left an estate of £2,000 a year, and £51,000 to his second son. His eldest son ...

... THE WAU. THlE BIATTLES OF PALESTRO. TuniN, Ma~7 31.-A fresh victory has been gained by Oar top.At 7 o clock this morning 253,030 Austrians endeavoure to retaketh position of Paleatro. The King, commanding the fourth division inVerson, and General Cialdini at the heal of the ~r- 3d Regiment of Zouaves, resisted thes attack for a COnSidle.,ble Ir time, and then, after having successfully ...

... DESPATCH OF FOREIGif MAILS FROM ABERDEEN. DEaSucATIONe. A:merlca--UnhtedSiates, Cabforia, and British North Anerica (by British Packet via Liverpool) . . Dltto-(by U. S. 1iacket, via South- ampton) .J Australia, Van Diemor,ns Land, New South Wales, and Man.). ritius, tia Southamption ) Ditto, vi' Marsei`es .. ! . BshanmasandHlavana, viaNewYork M elgtum ...

... THE WARt. co TnE military genius of Napoleon III., whatever it may afl prove in the end, is clearly of a very different kind el from that of the Great Napoleon, His tactics are of ap very deliberate and prosaic sort-as much so as those of the Austrians, who seem to do everything by rule ml and precedent, and sit down contented if they have it gone scientifically to work, whatever the result ...