... OUR MISCELLANY. The Volunteers.-In 1803, in the face of the most real and fatal danger, the Addington ministry was afraid of allowing volunteer regiments, and Lord Eldon, while pressing the necessity, could use as an argument that if the people did not volunteer for the Gove nment, they would against it. So broad was even then the gulf between the governed and the governors. How much broader ...

... LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. MR. MTIDIE has subscribed for 1,040 copies of Mrs. Wood s novel, The Channings, reprinted from the Quiver, which Mr. Bentley will publish uext week. THIS popular authoress is writing a new series, 'en- titled, Mrs. Halliburton and her Troubles, which will appear weekly, in the Quiver, the first of which has alreadv been given us. THE ensuing exhibition at the ...

... A report is circulated in Paris that the urgent private ffair which has called M. de Lavalette to London is a negotiation with M. de Fiahault, who may probably be translated as ambassador to Rome, to which place M. de Lavalette will not return (unless to present his conge) as long as General de Goyon is there. The Increase of Iniantieicle.—Mr. Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, held an ...

... A writer in Saunders's Newsletter, recording his impression*, touching the performance of evening service at St. Paul's, goes on to comment upon the architecture of the edifice, and to lament that something more has not been dene to carry out the designs of the original architect. is impossible, he says, to gaze arcund on tb, marv4loufc .architectural beauties of that magnifi- cent edifice ...

... FORGING A RAILWAY TICKET. Thomas Hunter, 30, a well-dressed voung man, de- scribed as a tutor, was charged at the Kingston assizes, Asril 2, with feloniously forging and uttering a certain instrument called a rail way ticket, with intent to defraud the London and South-Western Railway Company.-The prisoner pleaded Guilty. It appeared that he resided at Farnham, and that he was in the habit of ...

... TheBis^Dof OXFORD moved for the production of any cor- reTponfenefwilh tL Committee of Privy Council on Education or memorials to the committee, m which are stated the objec tions of her Majesty's inspectors to the of scholars as being impracticable, as stated m Mr. Lin„en s exami M ^^ASViLLifstated ^at no such documents were in exis- tence, although the inspectors had fcut im_ Yidual ...

... The Industrial Schools Act (1861) Amendment Bill, and the Whipping Bill were read a second time. The Protection of Inventions and Designs (1862) Bill, the Bleachfields (Women and Children) Employment Bill, and the Marine Mutiny Bill were read a third time and passed. The House then adjourned. ...

... fphxerr st JUaxkets. THE MONEY MARKET.—In the history of finance, we often find the accuracy of the axiom- Truth is stranger than fiction. Nothing is more fluctuating, more uncertain than the condition of the money, stock, and share markets; for, like the weather in April, it may go the perfect round of the compass within the six or seven hours of the financial day. During the ÍÎrst seven ...

... A Charitable Contribution.—Madams Lind Goldschmidt announces her intentim of smgmg in London in the oratorios of the Messiah, the Creation, and Elijah, during the months of May and June next; me first m behalf of the Institution for Distressed N#edl*- women; the second in aid of tbe Brompton Consumption Hosoitftl; and the third in support of the Royal-Society of Musicians of Great Britain and ...

... SUSSEX. C 1l I c 11 1s ST E R C A T 11 E D R A L. Trlh follonving Servicc3 mid Anithem Ime been nrrangcd. for to- C macraw (Enster SmilidY); Mon3Ning ~~l(tServive.-tzc i'irs lyore with Or'gDn. Astimanasi~ni Crecd, Oneeloy in A. Illessilig end glore, Boyce. Choral Comimunioen SevcArmnes inl A. Evneilw Servive.-Oi'2 oloy ill A. Anthemn I, c Wks cut otl; I hand1(el. Easter bluoN.10 oe, Dr. ...

... GOSPFORT. A gold pell'i e1nse hias been presented to the liev. Mr S.tf Siuider, by a few of the male portion of the congregation v of rinlity C h.ech, who rccontly received the rites of con-l liniation at that place of worsitip. LrTEwMAiRY AINI) SCIENTIFIC INSIITUTION.-On HlOiRiay it evening last Cr. c. Charles, of London, gave a lecture ou n iBurlesque at the Star Assembly Rooms, which Wa ...

... RIVER TRESS PROCEEDINGS. 1 The usual 0Moblth!y mentlzg of the Trust~es of. the Clyds NaVIatiOn Was, held ?? Pfovost in the . PQIllOh ! 0al3rB THEOPTOSfITIH TO TEM POLICE BILL. d Thu czxany d the following report by the deputi- . tion., fjl relwtn to the Glisgow Police BM:I 'The deputation, agreeably to their appointment, proceeded to London to attend the optosition of the Trustees to this bill ...