... INVERNESS- SHIRF,The 12th of August, says a contemporary, came in breezy, bright, and sunny-as fine a day for the moors and for trying one's dogs as pould be desired. The air was fresh and bracing, with just enough of wind to blow away the smoke from the guns, and give the birds plenty of scent. The demand for moors has been almost unprecedented. Had there been double the number to let they ...

... LEADENHALL.— Hides.— Prices 561bs to 64Ibs, 2|d to 3d 641bs to 721bs, 3d to 3 £ d; 721bs to 801bs, 3d to 4d- SOlbs to 881bfc, 31d to, 4 £ d; 881bs to 961bs, 4d to 4fd SGIbstolOUbs 4d to 6d. Horse hides, 10s to 12s. Calf skins, light, 2s 6d to 4a full, 7s. BERMONDSEY.^Sheep skins, polled, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; half hides, 4s tp4s 8d; downs, 3s 4d to 3s lod; lambs, 3s to 5s 6d. ...

... THE COURT. SINCE the arrival of the Court at Windsor Castle, her Majesty and the Royal children have enjoyed their daily rambles in the slopes and Royal gardens in the Home-park and at Frogmore. ON Saturday a detachment of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment -non-commissioned officers and soldiers- were inspected by her Majesty the Queen, previous to their return to Ceylon. The party have been some ...

... At the Needham-market Petty Sessions, last week, the Rev. George Drury, rector of Claydon, was sum- moned before Sir G. Broke-Middleton, Bart.; Revs. J. E. S. Schreiber, M. Simpson, andF. Steward, the sitting magistrates, for having assaulted Abraham Watkin, labourer, one of his parishioners. A cross-summons had been taken out against Watkin, charging him with having assaulted Mr. Drury, and a ...

... The New York Times editorially remarks;— Since the evacuation of Forts Wagner and Gregg by the rebels, and the occupation of the whole of Morris Island by our troops, twenty days ago, operations seem to have come to a complete standstill in Charles- ton Harbour. General Gilmore has not fired a shot that has done any service. It is said that General Gilmore considers his preliminary operations ...

... At the Liverpool Assizes, Frank Lynch, twenty- five, was charged with having stabbed Charles Carlisle, on board the American ship Webster, on the 4th November last, with intent to murder him a,nd there was also another count in the indict- ment, charging him with having sta,bbed Carlisle with intent to do grievous bodily hMm. Thomas Connor, twenty-six, Allen M'Donald, twenty-eight, James Kelly ...

... VERY »HARD CASE, AND ITS RE- SPONSIBILITIES. A local contemporary gives the following account of a parent's reproach to his children:—Mr. John Hutchinson, the well-known Sunderland shipbuilder of Lechmere-house, who recently gave £ 300 to the Polish national fund, and is distinguished for his munificence to local charities, has resolved to build a group of almshouses for decayed, members of ...

... EXERCISE OF ENGLISH AUTHORITY IN CHINA. The Ohina, Mail is of opinion that the aspect of affairs indicates a crisis to be approaching in that vast empire. It says:—In our last'issue we stated that nothing had transpired as to tha convention, at Pekin, of Mr. Lay, General Brown, and Captain Osbome. The objects of that convention were generally, and we believe correctly, supposed to be the ...

... MARK-LANE, JUNE 8.—There was not much briskness in the English Wheat trade to-day. but the currency ruled steady, white selling at 42s to 53s; and red at 41s to 50s. Only moderate transactions in foreign and plenty on offer, stiU quotations scarcely varied, and ranged at 4:Js to GOs, More American at market than wanted, and the prices accepted for white, 52s to 51s; and red, 45s to 50s.—The ...

... Tom Sayers's Bust: Curious Action.—Mr. Smith, sculptor, of Mount-pleasant, Liverpool, a few days ago, brought an action, which was tried before the Liverpool magistrates, against Mr. Reynolds, waxwork proprietor, Lime-street, Liverpool, to recover compensa- tion, under the Statuary Copyright Act, Mr. Alisopp having copied a bust of Tom Sayers which had been modelled by him. The facts of the* ...

... During the night there were reports that the enemy had been evacuating Murfreesboro' ever since dusk had shaded their movements. I could not believe it to be so, but this morning the truth was revealed— the enemy had gone. This, of course, is solely a Northern account, and very probably, when we have the reports from the South, we shall come to the same conclusion that we have upon many former ...

... TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE FREXCH POLICY IN MEXICO. — If any doubts have existed as to the intentions of Napoleon III. in Mexico they must be removed by bis letter of instruction to General Forey, published in the Jsioniiev/r. It is a very frank document. The choice of Government which the-Emperor proposes to offer to the Mexicans is of the pleasant nature proverbially called Hobson's. They are to ...