... The following are the details of the emigration to the Australian colonies, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Tasmania, and the Falkland Islands, conducted by her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners, at the ex- pense of colonial funds, during the year 1864 The number of ships chartered by the Commissioners was 31 10 of these sailed to New South Wales, 7 to Queensland, 2 to Victoria, 8 to South ...

... BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Our readers tciH understand that we do not hold ourselves respon- sible for our able Correspondent's opinions. ALL is over and done. Recognising his likeaets to the mighty dead, his kindred with the great of old, the Queen has pointed out the proper place for Lord Palmerston's ashes to rest. Immediately on his death people said he ought to be buried in ...

... TALK. BY OUB SPSCIAL CORBBSPONBENT. 0W r««d>rs will understand that we do not hold ourselves regr-on- vibUfor 01W able Correspondent's opinions. THE publication by the Star of a list of the victims of the Confederate loan is still much talked of. The list, as you are aware, appeared first in the New York Times, and, apart from com- ing from so suspicious a quarter, bore internal evidence of ...

... Three Persons Killed. A carriage accident occurred on Friday night, about nine o'clock, in the woods, Bolton-bridge. A carriage containing James Wharton, of Bolton-bridge, cab driver, Thomas Livesey (who for some years has earned his living by attending to the horses of visitors to the Strid, in the Bolton-woods), his wife, and a maid-servant of Mr. Chowley's, were coming from Mr. Chowley's ...

... On Thursday morning a dreadful double murder was committed at the Grange, Edinburgh, the painful character of which was aggravated by the fact that the victims were the mother and the sister of the perpe- trator of the awful crime. I he murderer is a man named John Hunter, about twenty-seven years of age, and the son of Mr. Robert Hunter, who carries on business as a sculptor at Preston-street ...

... The King of Bonny's Daughter.-Ai.bs ,it, Pepple, the eldest daughter of the King of arrived in Liverpool on Monday last from Bonny, the Royal Mail steamer Calabar. The sable lady's visit to Liverpool is to uncereo a7oir *e- o( Engli«h and Frenchrfueation turn to her fatoer s oomimon m Africa. Tie vcme lady, riotvv-ithetayadiii,, her colour, has very a^reeabk, and, for a n:.tive Coati cf Africa ...

... A RAMBLERS JOTTINGS. IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS. IN the London Docks, at the present moment, is a magnificent clipper ship called the Golden City, she is taking in passengers and freight for Melbourne. She is about 2,000 tons burden, and believed to be one of the fastest and safest vessels that sails out of London Docks. My remarks concerning her, however, are con- fined to the comforts provided ...

... To the Editor of the USK OBSERVER, SIR,-At the Usk ploughing-match dinner last year, Mr. R. Herbert said, that, in consequence of his prize not teing awarded then, he would give 47 to be competed-for this year, by not less ,than 6ix four-years' colts or fillies got by u thorough- bred horse, In your OBSERVKU of tho 7 th instant- there .is an advertisement announcing £5 to be given by Mr. E. ...

... Mr. Disraeli (says the Pall Mall Gazette) has already pointed out that the disease which has lately appeared amongst our sheep is curiously like that described by Virgil at the close of the third Georgic. But Mr. Disraeli referred to it in a very cursory way, while it really deserves attention. Virgil's murrain, as seems likely to be the case with ours, devasted sheep and swine as well as cows ...

... THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &o. MESSRS. CASSELL, PETTER, and GALPIN announce a second edition of The North-West Passage by Land, by Lord Milton, M.P., and Dr. Cheadle, and that they will publish, in a few days, a very hand- some volume of Dante's Inferno, with seventy-six full-page illustrations by Gustave Doré, Carey's translation and notes. Also, an edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ...

... Professor Rogers, in a letter to the Star, takes up Lord R. Montagu's suggestion that the Government should reimburse the farmers for their losses by the cattle plague. He says :— It would serve no purpose to show that the language uttered hy a responsihle member of Parliament exceeds, in its prodigious folly, the most defiant resolutions of the hungriest socialists or that scant justice is ...

... Mr. Glaisher, in his last balloon ascent, obtained a wonderfully fine view of London by clear moonlight, free from mist. He passed over the metropolis shortly before seven o'clock at night, going westward from Woolwich Arsenal. Having risen to a height of 900 feet in three or four minutes, the spectacle suddenly burst upon him:— The whole of Woolwich, Biaok- wall, Deptford, and Greenwich ...