... I IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEBURYI NESS. I. ous 'Ils, Jir. rge , of de- 'ilb rest e it cl1. rd's rof 7th the )m- inst the the ress ock rish the ow. twa rd's sut- rhe nty )gg mty iers ribs. ast 7s sat} ant ,on th tha me ivet wa agg 'net lout de. o99 instl bim )f a and lays o a rgg ave uld 3nd nsn was was )me ury 'art gh. at sto gh. ven ay. and but hen 38; 12; Some experiments were tried at ...

... (From Aris's Gazette.) I was not at the House of Commons on Monday, and I regret the fact for two reasons; one being that I could not enjoy the memorable scene, and the other that I cannot describe it for your readers' benefit. A friend tells me that he can never forget the appearance of Mr. Gladstone as the lash was laid on him by that gentleman, who, the Standard says, never struck first, ...

... THE Assizza.-The commission of assize for this county was opened on Monday. Mr. Justice Byles and Mr. Justice Blackburn, on arriving from Worcester, proceeded to the Shire Hall. and thence, having opened commission, to St. Mary's Church, accompanied by the High-Sheriff. H. Killick, Esq., and the usual body of javelin men. The sermon was preached ky the shefiff's chaplain, the Rev. T. Killick. ...

... ,..x~nv~kj*the _ TO THIE EDITOR OF THE DERBY MgRCtUeV. Do Sir-Fourteen bags of cotton grown by the Jamaica Cotton the Company in Jamaica have been sold by Mesars. Stead, Bri. Na thers, Liverpool. and Mesars. B. Smith, and Sons, at Alan- me cheater, at Is. 6d. and 2s. 3d. per lb., and a bag of each is ext now being spun by Messrs. Dobson and Barlow in the wit western annex of the International ...

... The Queen remains in privacy at Balmoral. right An intimation appears in the London GazeUe that the taxer Queen will this year hold no levees or drawing-rooms. peal Ladies and gentlemen going abroad, who may wish to the attend foreign courts, and who would, had circumstances steal permitted, have been presented to Her Majesty, may pap have certificates from the Lord Chamberlain, by apply- this ...

... MR. PUNSHON ON THE LIFE AND I CHARACTER OF MACAULAY. On Firiday eve'ning seven or eight hundred persns assem- bled in the~ Corn -Exchange to hear the Rev. W. M. Pun. - e shotres discourse upon the life and character of Lord, Macaiulay. us '~The rev, lecturer. was very warmly received, When 'he entered te5 the hail, as was also W. T. Cox, Esq., who was called upon ItPi to preside. th e After ...

... ECCLE SIASTICAL. - .: - - - . . L The- Most Rev. Charles Thomas'Longley, D.D., was Tho on Saturday elected by the Dean and Chapter of Canter- that ii bu~ry to the Archbishopric of that 'See. The next step that At e will be the confirmation of the election, which 'will ipso The ' acto render vacant the Arebbishopric of York. Dr. Hyde. '7 Lisgley will then -do homage to Her. Majesty, and memo ...

... rd UJTTOXETER. at PRINCE CONSORT'S MEATORJAL.-Steps are being taken do here for popularising the Subscriptions to this national object. ri A public meeting has been called by the churcbwardens, e; when it was expected that a local committee would be ap. IL ray pointed for carrying out the object. ag PosT-orirtcz AcERaATrONcS.-A public meeting of the in- in habitants of the town, was held at ...

... AGRICULT'UiRE. weather is v-. . 1. 5LLULJLI UIk. In Austria the weather is very ufvual.adtepieo 'St grain is rising it, all parts of thle ,tpire.favoablet and the price of st Vienna ?? cut in all parts of ite country. atdevery et seconid day there is'a thunderstorm, wvith lottg-contitnued atdl heav, rain; in fact, this sumititer is one of the coldest and wettest that ban ever been knovn in ...

... Fo Charles Reynolds. the man who wrote letters threatening the to murder Baron Meyer, Baron Lionel, and Sir Anthony Rothscill, unless his demand for money was complied with, B was, on Tuesday, at the Central Criminal Court, sentenced D to five years' penal servitude. He pleaded guilty to the the charge of sending the felonious letters, but declared that he ofI never meant to carry his threats ...

... )ceed LOSS OF TWENTY-THREE LIVES. I saw A second edition of the Liverpool Albion, on Monday 1 lid he gives particulars of an awful fire, at the Workhouse, in 3 o one that ?? Albion says:- About two o'clock this being morning a fire broke out in the Workhouse, and before Paults, it was extinguished about twenty-three lives were lost- - eorge, prineipally infants-and the church adjoining the ...

... MAY KEEPERtS TAKE D00S WITHl 'sHe'. ence At thle Stafford Assizes last week, before Mr. Baron Mlartiot, slrap Aaron [-arrison, 3S, crate maker, John Yardley, 48, miner, thle Philip Hyatt, 35. miner, and Henry Johnson, 28, no occupa- taute tiou, were charged with night poaching on the I Ith of Novem- few ber. on lands of the Duke of Sutherland, at Tittensor, Ins the A parish of Stone.-Mr. ...