... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOLDIERW INSTIT UT ES. (2rorN THE MONTREAL GAZETTE,.) Letter -rom Florence Nightingale to Lieutoant- Colonel George Wentwortih Higginsoi, Ciief e£ the Staff-Office, Montreal:- L Iondon, May 12, 1862. Dear Sir-MVost glad am I to hear that yoc have begun. a 'Soldliers' Institute ' in Canada. Weare aworking in the sure direction in Englaml, and hoped soon to have either ...

... At last the direct trade between Liverpool and New Orleans has been re-openied, and the pioneer vessel, tahe Antoinette, a flue ship of 800 tons, sailed from the Mersey on Wednesday evening for New Orlcans-the nily clearance within the past eighteen months, The Antoinette had on board a full cargo of salt. She will be succeeded by the Polestar andl other first-class vessels, so that ere long ...

... TV I ?? - I (MOMe OUR OWN CORBESPOi*Dzs''j BOSTON, Juxa 5. Tire new military governor of North Carolina has beguin with an evident design of propitiating the slave power. Among the first acts which fore- to. shadow his policy is one which will find no justifi- lo' cation in a single noble and generous sentiment.lo Solitary instances of inhumanity and inexcusable toI injustice to the black ...

... (FROM OUR OWN COaRESVONDENT.) I WARSAW, JuNE 9. The news of the Grand Duke Constantine's ap- pointment as Governor-General of Poland, with the Marquis 'Vielopolski as his adviser, admits of no wore douLt, but up to the present moment no official announcement on this subject has been made here. General Lii(ders has been ap- prised of the purposed changes in thu higher admi- nistration-the ...

... ie At the Dover Police Court, the other day, John Collyer it applied for assistance to regain possession of his Bath chairr r- He said that, al three o'clock on the previous afternoon, an In g ordercarme to the chair stand for a gentleman to he take up E, *e from a street at tite back of St. Mary's Church; lie took the al w chair rountid, and found Dr. Standen upon the door steps wait- IN y ...

... -L ! -i8- I- -..jt& QifL_~O. -pi~ The following return, embodying a series of 32 qul Clot t lions , has been addressed, by order of the Royal &om- htt miasion appointed at the request of parliament, to tbe 17 commndig oficrs a' te Vluneerregiments in theca kigo.Tertr sacmaie by a circular from o ?? may be duly a Shduan ssona osil et back to the secre- i War~fice:- the I. What is the ...

... NATIONAL EXPEND.ITURE. The following motions and amendments stood fr d i- cussion in the House of Comontis yesterday eveUig:- so Mr. Stansfeld.-That in the opinionf of this house the 0i national expenditure is capable of reduction without compro. WI r mising the safety. the independence, or in fluence of the country. ament to Mr. Stanafeld's as Lord R. MontagU.-..As an amendetoM.Stned' ?? her ...

... IyV THERE IS NO UVION SENTIMENT IN I THE SOUTHERN STATES. At at meeting held at New York on the 15th It., the Rev. Mir. Brownlow, a wvell-kuown methodist minuister of Tennessee, described his experience in his own state. He said, in thle town of Greenville, where Andrew Johnson resides,iuctey took out of 'he gee1, at one time, two inuocent Union mewho had coynisedtted no offeucu on the face ...

... REFORMATORY DEPARTMENT. In the evening a meeting of the reformatory de- partment was held at Burlington-house, for the purpose of discussion; Mr. T. CHaB ERS, the Common Serjeant of London, occupying the chair. .There was a large attendance. The SEcIOTARY opened the proceedings by intimating that next morning, at ten o'clock, Christ's Hospital would be open to the inspection of members. The ...

... I I The time of the year has now arrived when the state of the weather will be of the utmost importance, and from so much heavy rain occaeionally falling, it is feared that the season may prove an uncertain and catching one, causing much anxiety to the farmers. The week opened with splendid weather, the first day being sunny throughout, with a nice breeze from the N. N. E. Monday was fine, ...

... CONFEDERATE DASI ON M'CLELLANI'S -BREE. SAvAGS's, JuxE 14.-The down train from our ad- vance last evening to the White House was attacked by the enemy, about four miles from the latter sta- tion, which is the terminus of the road. This road' Is the principal machine which supplies our army with food and ammunition, and which rapidly moves troops from the transports to the front. It is india-, ...

... THa correspondent of the Standard, Manhattan, after describing the consternation in New York on receipt of the news giving the defeat of General Banks, goes on to sketch the enthusiasm of the populace on the departure of the regiments ordered to the seat of war:- - Everyone is now aroused at this last disaster- every house is alive with men burning to go to the war. Women are all alive. ...