... F A I RS. BALLYBOT FAIR.-The usual monthly fair at Billy- bot was held on Monday. There was a good show of cattle, whichi sold at rather higher rates than those of last month-first-class nailch cows selling at from £9 to £10; springers were in good demand, and young heifers realised prices at fieon £6 to £7. Sheep sold slowly; quotations changeable. In the horse fair there was littl: business ...

... THE COURT. LO\DON, MONDAY.-Her Majesty the Queen held a Privy Council and Court on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Right Rev. Dr. Longley, Lord Bishop of Duraiam, Archbishop of York desig- nate, by command of the Queen was sworn of her Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council. Arthur Helps, Esq., was sworn in the clerk of the Privy Council. The Hon. Win. Bathurst (late clerk of the ...

... THE COURT. WINDSOR C.ASTLE, JAN. 26-The Maharnjah Dulcep Singh arrived yesterday afternoon, on a visit to herv.Majesty. The following visitoll's also arrived at the Casdle:-_Viscontnt Eversley, the Right Holl. Sit' James Graham, the Right Hion. Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, amid Colonel Oliphant. In the even- inv her Majesty's dlinner-party included hlie Princess Alice, the lion. Mlrs. C. ...

... AN extraordinary tale, gravely told by Peuchet in his Mernoir'es tires dles Archives de la Police, has just been made the subject of a drama at one of the Boulevard theatres, under the title of the Syrene de Paris. At the time when M'I. do la Reynie was Lieutenant-General of Police under Louis XIV., a great sensation was caused at Paris by the mysterious disappearance of not fewer than twenty ...

... OUR WORT11Y FRIEND NAP. A NE' SONG. (To t1e Time of Xottingham Ale.) 1. Ouit worthy friend Nap, as we all of us feel, Has a dangerous liking for everything free; The freedom of France he devoured at a meal, And you never lnowv what his next morsel will be. Free-trade hbre in Britain We thought we had bit on; No swaddling bands longer its limbs should cnwivrP; But it nowv appears better Its ...

... A C U R IO US ST OR Y. Oa;le of the llavie journals has the following somewhat imiprobabla story:- A w idow, Mime. R-, possesses a large farm in the departmeut of the Rhone, andi manages it herself, assisted, however, by lier daughter, Helene by name, who is 26 years ofage. One morning some tiue ago, a young lman wearing a foreign costume, and speaking Frenaic with a strong German accent, ...

... THE COURT. LONDON, WENESDAY.-IMer Royal Highness the Priucese of Leiningen arrived at Buckinghani Palace from Froginore yesterday morning, on a visit to the Queen. The Princoss Alice and the Prhincss of Leoiningen, attended by Colonel the HIon. A. Liddell, visite( Westilnister Ahbby and the New Palace of Westminister in the afternoon. Their Royal High- nesses honored the performance at the ...

... TH E COURT. OsBonRN, MARCH 12.-The Queen aud Prince Con- sort wialked out this morning. The Prince and Prin. cess of Leining-en will arrive to-dav on a visit to her Mvla jesty. The Archbishop of Dublin, Mrs. Whately, Miss Wliately, family, and ?? ar rived at the Angle- sey Aims Hotel, Kingstown, from the Palace, Dublin. - Watson, Esq., Mrs. Watson, family, and suite, have taken their departure ...

... Mr. James Hanray is about to withdraw from London, to assume the editorship of the Edinburyhj Couranrt. Mr. Townshend, late M.P. for Greenwich, is once more an auctioneer: the stage has been abandoned. The editorship of the Quarterly Review has, it is stated, passed fron the hands or Mlr. Elwin, and has been entrusted to 'Mr. Al'Pherson, a Scotchman. M. Horace Say, the son of J. B. Say, and ...

... NoTwr'TsrTANDIxN the dulness :of the weather, and the want of harmony between it and the data'of the alruanap, every one is occupied' with preparations for the sea-side season, and none! but light fabrics are thought of. ;For instance,i-barege is the principal article for derni-toilette, either sprinkled with small bunches of flowers, or embroidered peas, of a darker color than the barege ...

... BY-GONE HOURS. 'Ts sad, 'tis sad, to think upon The joyous days of old, When every day that wearies on Is number'd by some friendship gone- Some kindly heart grown cold! Could those days but come again, With their thorns and flow'rs, I would give the hope of years For those by-gone hours! 'Tis sad, 'tis sid, to number o'er The faces, glad and gay, Which we have lov'd; some smile no more Around ...

... THE show-yard was visited on Wednesday by a large number, although the weather from an early hour was most inclement, but the attraction of two mili- tary bands did not prove great enough to induce many ladies to forget this circumstance, and be pre- sent during the Lord Lieutenant's inspection of the stock exhibited. His Excellency arrived at three o'clock. Lord CLANCARTY briefly moved a vote ...