... GENTLEMEN, AS the Dissolution of the present Parliament wil* soon take place, I beg to announce to you my in- tention of again presenting myself as a candidate for the honor of representing you in the New Parliament which will be elected. I have now enjoyed the high honor of being one of your County Members for a period of twenty-five years, and I trust that I shall not be found to have ...

... AMERICA. NEW YORK, JUNE 9. The Federals have occupied Brownsville. The Con- federates had previously sold their artillery to Mexi- can Imperialists. The fort at Sabine Pass had surrendered. It was expected that Galveston would also be surrendered to the Federals on the 28th ult. General Kirby Smith has gene to Mexico with a large amount of money. A large proportion of the citizens of Kentucky ...

... OUR MISCELLANY. A certain Irishman making love to a lady of great fortune, told her he could not sleep for dreaming of her. A Cure for Stupidity.—You are very stupid, Thomas, said a country teacher to a little boy eight years old. You are like a donkey, and what do they do to care them of stupidity? They feed them better, and kick them less, said the arch little urchin. A Quaker's Excuse ...

... THE. NEWS BUDGET. The Power of a Waterspout.-An extra- ordinary phenomenon occurred in the forest of Chan. tilly a few days ago. About three in the afternoon a waterspout passed across the forest in less than five minutes, destroying almost everything in its passage for a width of fifty yards and a length of nearly five miles. About 600'trees, many of them oaks of large size, were either ...

... A STOEY OF WILD LIFE. CHAPTER T. TEE rain ceased, we moved our tents, and away we went through prairie land. We passed many weary miles without catehing sight of game; at length Paul Batcliffe shouted- Here we are, lads. I smell him; and sure enough we saw before us one of the most hideous monsters I had ever beheld. It was a wild boar; the bristles on its back were at least six inches IODg, ...

... A VILLAINOUS COACHMAN. The Court of Assizes of the Seine tried a coachman named Vincent, lately in the service of M. Clausse, a gentleman residing in the Boulevard Malesherbes, on two several charges of attempt to murder and,incle- cent assault, committed on his master's wife on the evening of the 7th of August last. When driving his mistress and two children from Paris to his master's country ...

... The Druses.—The Druses are a remarkable and mysterious people, respecting whose origin, customs, and religion very conflicting opinions prevail. Oat. wardly they would seem to be Mahometans, but among Christians they profess a faith nearly resem- bling our own. They are accused of worshipping in secret the image of a calf, but this they most emphati- cally 'repudiate. The real truth seems to ...

... FEVER IN THE POORER DISTRICTS OF LONDON. Dr. Rendle, hon. member of the Association of Medical Officers of Health, thus writes to the Times in answer to a previous letter of Dr. Jeaffreson's, dated from the Fever Hospital, which Dr. Rendle considers has more in it than is'apparent on the surface. He (Dr. Jeaffreson) would be doing London good service, says the doctor, if, with his great ...

... POLITICAL GOSSIP. THE Solicitor-General was elected on Saturday, without opposition, member of Parliament for the Wigtown Burghs, in room of Sir William Dunbar. THE Hon. A Herbert will, it is said, be a candidate for the representation of Newport, Isle of Wight. CAPTAIN ROBERT WILLIAMS, Comptroller of the Lord Lieutenant of Dublin's household, has been dan- gerously ill for the last few days. ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA mT NEW YORK, AUGUST 24. The court-martial for the trial of Captain Wirtz f ;ftcf]ay- Tlie Judge-Advocate an- nounced that the former commission had been dis- solved and a new one convened, composed of the same members. The specifications of charges were similar nf TP! *rirs OI10]' xr11^330 eseePtion of the names of Lee, Seddon, and Northrop being omitted from the ...

... THE SOIENTIFIO REVIEW ON THE NON-EXPLOSIVE GUNPOWDER QUES- TION. Numerous experiments have been made for some time past with reference to the mode of rendering gunpowder inexplosivo devised by Mr. Gale, of Ply- mouth and all of them have been attended with the most complete success. Nevertheless, it is more than doubtful if the invention will be attended with any practical results. It can ...

... Why does a piebald pony never pay toll ? Becasise his master pays it for him. Benefit of Competition —Pope, when he first saw Garrick act, observed, I am afraid that the young man will be spoiled, for be will have no competitor Telling Truth.An Irishman, whose father had been hanged, was accustomed to say of him, He died suddenly upon a platform at a large public meeting. A Smart Landlady ...