... esom o'ir own Correspondent.] TlE season ban really begun at last. The Queen consents to waive all feelings of alarm, and bravely to face her loyal subjects in London for a time. This determination will be most interesting to the world of fashion. It will give the signal for thu fashioning of new costumes: the issuing of now designs and no end of sweetly pretty bon. netsq ,awfully ...

... ;. d '11- . . , I I o I a. Colonel R. H. DI. Aitken, late of the BengalStaff Corps, writes to the Times :-V When just before the late elec. tions came on the Indian Budset made its appearance, it is not too mesh to say that a strong feeling of incredulity arose among Indian officers who know the circumstances and cost of the first Afghan aver. In that war, which lasted four years (from ...

... THIE BRITISH ANM FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, I The seventy-sixtl anniversary meeting of the British aned Foreign Bible Society was held yesterday, in Exeter lIall, London. The Earl of 8haftesburv presided; and aniongst those upon the platforia were the Archbishop of Canterbury (vico-president of tho society), the Bishop- Designate of Liverpool, the Bishop of Oloucester and Bristol, Bishop Perry, ...

... PARLIAMENT,- YESTERDAY. rPRES3 ASS00C'ATION TRLEGPRMS. e 10 USE OF LORDS. Their lordships held a brief Hitting this :fternoon for. thle papose of continuing the swearing-in of peers. The B Lora Oancellor Took his seat on the woolsack at four o'clock, when sonie half-dozen noble lords presented themselves at the table and took the oath. They were the Duke of Sutherland, tile Marquis of Headfort ...

... LATEST NEWSe .Feuter's Telegramns, per Prems Association.] ] THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. iat ST. PETERSBURG. MAY 20. Re An official bulletin issued to-day states that there has an 'been a ohahge for the worse in the condition of the i en Empress of Russia during the pest week, and that the de, aymptoms are of a more prono.unced character. Her I da Majesty is also weaker._ _ as THE VICEROY OF INDIA. ...

... LATEST NEWSi, (1euter's Te'legrams, per Press Assoicstion.] THE GREAT POWERS AND THE PORTE. BERLIN, MAY 25. Withreference to the Identical note to be addressed by the Powers to the Porto, intelligence received here from Faris states that the French Government proposed that the Ujternational Commission which was to have assembled Ai the rectification of the Greek frontier should he abandoned, ...

... I THE EXPLOSION 'AT WALSALL: |1 . FUNERAL OF THC VICTIMS. The funeral of twenty-threo out of the twenty-fibe unto fortunate individuals whose lives have fallen sacrifice to the explosion at the Birchills Hall Ironworks, took place yesterday, and it formed a most impressive scens, During. Tuesday night the dead that lay at the Cottage Hospital (with the exception of Henry Slater and .Tolm ...

... TITHE LOSS OF THE. AMiERICAN. TIDINGS OF TIHE MISSING BOATS. RESCUED AND AGAIN -SHIPWRECKED. The Superintendent of the Brazilian Sabmarine Tele- graph Company at Madeira, telegraphing from that island at seven o'clock on Saturday evening, states that the Tenton bad arrived with three of the missing boats and the passengers of the American, particulars of the founder- ing of which have already ...

... SPORTING INTELLIKENCE. THE DERBY AND OAKS. To the EDITOR of the DAILY POST. Sir,-Tsonomy's handsome victory in the Manchester Cup will not very readily be forgotten, for the achieve- t ment was one that stamped the son of Sterling as one of I the best horses of the century. Still, when Monday's settling over the Lancashire raes shall have been got through, attention will be at once turned to ...

... IO~I IN TILE NEWPIO.,T SCHOOL I IUARD. race~ e-i be Lo harm .n the ?? for a :jotth o! tho question as tc whether the Board Sý,ohoOlS shall be lot for Pry other purpose than Aet of e5uejtior. This ?? arose out of an eppiioation for the use o0 the new sohool at ý',,Wryn on Sunday afternoons by one of the :ptist Chutches. :The Sow.hil Board Schools 'ire been jet at a rental for omo yewrs to the ...

... SUICIDE AT MOBRISTON. A -1 a S- -.A %M ?? mln WARl Am An old man named Mitchell, who was em- legiE plojed as a weigher at Messrs. Vivisn's works, 0oos .as found banging to a tree at MorrigtOn on attel hlondcy. Re Dad been mining for several days.' 90ch ?? ?? bov Twenty thousand francs in nopoleo hae bser. stolen from the cashier's counterin the ann as Ministry of Fnance at Beoharest. 2n Itie ...

... 'HIE,1JA'-,AT WESiUN AND MONMOUTWESHIP1 RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION BILL. PUBl[ MALTING AT BEWPORT., to RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE MIDLAND. On Wednesday evening, pursuant to rqu. tion addreaced to to e Mayor. amooting was held 1 ý, by t3' = -e-dt t- sad the meeting consisted of these cs. It u9 ?? ot a large one, but representative for such, (in apurpore. lia worhip the Meyor presided, %ad M there ...