... FAREWELL PERFORMANCE. On Saturday about 12,000 persons viated the Crystal Palace to give a parting welcome to the French singers. The performance consisted of those selections which they found to be most successful in their previous concerts. Among the pieces they performed the audience were most delighted with the Chant du Bivouac, Les Enfans de Paris, La BeL.raite,and, of course, God Save ...

... ghmn of$unc!j, THE INCAPABLE KNIGHTS.—The Oueen has kindly selecting ribbons sent from Coventry. How the SfS \°uld gfm if Her MaJ^ty would add to her kindness, by sending to Coventry certain Parties who-n her predecessors have selected/vr ribbons. x U M, SENTIMENT AT THE OPERA. There is a Tier for all who dye, For all who dye moustache and hair And that's the Third Tier, where the eye Of ...

... Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner. The Judge Ordinary said this was a petition by Char- lotte Bond against Hancock Stanley Bond for a dissolu- tion of marriage, on the ground, of adultery coupled with cruelty. The petitioner was an Englishwoman, and, in July, 1840, she married the respondent in England. For a short time after the marriage they lived at Clifton, and then went to Ireland, ...

... INDIAN PRIZE MONEY, The Earl of EfciAsr- BOKOUGH inquired the cause of the delay in distributing the prize-money taken by General Whitelock's force at Kurwee. The manner in which the prize-money in India had been dealt with had caused great dissatisfac- tion among the troops.-The Duke of ARGYLL said that no report had been received from the OoverMaent. in India on the subject.-Lord MONTEAGLE ...

... THE BLAKELEY GUN.—Captain Blakeley, at the meeting of the British Association, at Oxford, stated that there were many different kinds of rifle guns ans wer- ing just as well as the Armstrong or Whitworth, but that they fail in the point of strength. If guns were made but strong enough, it did not matter how they were rifled. A series of experiments he had tried with different bores gave him ...

... Petty Sessions, Pontypool (alehouse licellses) Sat., July 21 Lectures (see advt.J—Providence Chapel, Sun Crane-st., County Court-Newport, Mon. t$- Tues; Cardiff, Wed. Sf Th ...

... LAND FOR RULE PRACTICE.—The following is the chief clause of the new act for facilitating the ac- quisition by rifle volunteer corps of grounds for rifle practice :— Any rifle volunteer corps may purchase or acquire by such grants as are hereinafter mentioned any land for rifle praotice, and for the erection of butts ana other accommodations for the use of the corps when practising with ...

... It is a singular thing that all the working & neers and stout-armed '^navigators who planned, and aut, and built up the Great Northern Railway, were compelled, before they commenced their labours, tø. wait for the oath of one man, who happened ta be William Jaaa«8 Robson, th» future forger. Theoots- puliory powers of a railway act cannot be put in fOrtJfI, nod the H t sod of a railway ...

... Jpsttllmtttars$rttl%race. INNOCENCE.—There is a story about Dick, a darkey in Kentucky, who was a notorious thief, so vicious in this respect, that all the thefts in the neigh- bourhood were charged to him. On one occasion, Mr. Jones, a neighbour of Dick's master called, and said that Dick must be sold out of that part of the country, for he had stolen all his (Mr. Jones's) turkeys. Dick's ...

... 5? ha 48 Moiiiteur of Brussels promulgates the law for abolishing the octroi duties in Belgium, and which came into operation on Saturday last. The cass of the capture of Miration s wo steamers, the Marquez and the Habana, which was recently tried m New Orleans, has be-in decided, the jju'ifge having d-je^sr. d. these steamers not to. lawful j)i izes, and ordered their restitution. The m&im ...

... NOW ARE OUR VOLUNTEERS TO BE- COME GOOD' MARKSMEN? To drill well, and to mak-e good marksmen, are two very different things; or, to use the language of the Mythe Manual of Musket Instruction, marching and manoeuvring can do no more than place the soldier in jRptoest possiblesituation for using his weapon with effect. How are our Volunteers to become good marksnien ? Blazing away at a target ...

... A skilled mechanic, whom the firm employed in work- ing out their inventions in machinery, was kept for a time concealed in the private house of Mr. Haworth, and worked there in secret, as if he were engaged in some mystery of wickedness, in tha course of their experi- ments in, printing, they introduced some improvements also in that art, but I know nothing as to their nature or degree of ...