... [A mark (v) is attached to the Events discussed or more fully narrated in this week's Efix-run.] FOREIGN. AMERICA SMay 20.-General Grant commences moving his army on to compel Lee to abandon his position at Spottsylvania.* 23.-On the motion of Mr Winter Davis the House of Representa- tives calls upon the President for information on the statement in the Paris .XYoaitezur that the Senate and ...

... If I might Tive a short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth let him proclaim wvar with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter, If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. I| MONDAY, May 30.-The Earl of CLARE'xDON laid on the table a bill to provide that any persons acquiring rights in reference to the governing bodies of Public schools should hold those rights subject to any decision on the question of public schools which might hereafter be arrived at by Parliament.-Lord LYTTELITON asked what were the intentions of her Mfajesty's Government ...

... [A mark ?? is attached to the Events discussed or more fully uarrated in this week's EnAMIuNj1.1 DENMARK: FOREIGX. June 13.-The Rigsraad (common assembly for the kingdom and Slesvig) is convoked for the 25th inst. 16.-Baron von Scheel-Plessen, the Danish Ambassador at the Court of St Petersburg, has arrived at Copenhagen. It is thought probable that he is the bearer of the Russian proposals ...

... NAVAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THEE ALABAMA AND THE SLOOP KEARSARGBJ. DESTRUCTION OF THE ALABAiVA. The steam yacht Deerhound, belonging to Mr John Lancaster, of Hindley Hall, Wigan, arrived off Cowes on Sunday evening, bringing the news of the sinking of the famous cruiser Alabama, after an action off Cherbourg of an.hour and a half with the Federal steam sloop-of war Xearsarge, and having on ...

... Garres'nauret. REFORM IN THE COUNTY COURTS. Sir,-While the attempt to do something to better the procedure of these summary courts is pending, and now that for the present session at any rate the Lord Chancellor's County Courts Bill has been shelved, it is really a pity some power of appeal from them should not be made pos- sible. They were intended as an assistance to the poorer class of ...

... Botahilia. MICROSCOPICAL SomiB{ AT APOTHE1CAnES HALI.-On Tuesday evening (31st ult.) the Society of Apothecaries (Henry Combe, Esq9 Master) held a soire'e at Blackfriars, which was attended by a large assemblage of scientific and learned men. The walls of the great ball were decorated for the occasion with a very beautiful series of coloured drawings of the vegetable and animal kingdoms, ...

... Rziahilia. TItE ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF DEDALS to the students of the Female School of Art took place on Tuesday at Burlington house, Piccadilly, Lord Houghton presiding. The report was read by Pro- fessor Donaldson. It commenced by stating that since the last report a new minute of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education had been brought into operation. By it the office of the head ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. MoNDAY, June 13.-Tbe Queen's message on the subject of A pension to the Countess of Elgin was read, and Earl Granville having eulogised the services and character of the late Earl of Elgin, in which lie was eloquently seconded by the Earl of Ellenborough and the Earl of Derby, a motion for granting the pension was agreed ?? WHARNCLIFFE, in moving that the late decision of the ...

... If I might 51VB a abort Lust to an imupartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling nobiassed troth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. he tells the crimes of great meo they fall upon him with the iron hands of tie law-; if he tells them of virtes. when they have any, then the mob attacks in ...

... Rotabilia. THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY met on Tuesday, Mr J. Crawford in the chair. A paper was read on the supposed infecnudity of human hybrids or crosses. Connected with hybridity a theory has lately sprung up, and chiefly obtained currency in France and America, that supposes the mongrels resulting from the union of two different races of the human family ought to be sterile, as is the case ...

... A TOUICHING STORY is told by the Charleston Mercury. Miss Anna Pickens, the daughter of Governor Pickens, while ministering to the wounded in the hospitals of Charleston, came in contact with a wounded officer, Lieutenant Andrew De Rochelle. The young people fell in love, and after a short courtship it was arranged that they should be married on the 22nd of last month. Lieutenant De Rochelle ...