... HOW COMMISSIONER YEH WAS CAPTURED. We must now go back to the general starting point, and accompany the chase after Yeb. Mr. Consul Parkes, who was attached as interpreter to Colonel Hol- loway's party, arrived too late, and was wituout an escort. While he was deploring his ill luck he met with Commodore Elliot, who fired by Mr. Parkes telling him that he had some information as to Yeh's ...

... ffiouct, m, MRS. THORNYCROFT'S marble bust of the Princess Royal has been lately on view at Messrs. Colnagh; s. The Qlleenexpressed her approval of it, and kept it for some time at the Palace after the departure of the royal bride for the City, of Lindens. n THE NEW MINISTRY.—The members of Lord Derby's cabinet took formal possession of their respective offices on Saturday. The Right Hon. ...

... SUFFERINGS OF THE UTAH EXPEDITION. On the 6th of November we found the ground once more white, and the snow falling, but then very mode- rately. I marched as usual. On a feur mile hill the north wind and drifting snow became severe; the air seemed turned to frozen fog; nothing could be seen; we were struggling in a freezing cloud. The lofty wall at Three Crossings was a happy relief, but the ...

... INDIAN ITEMS. THE CAWNPORE MASSA ORE.-SPURIOUs RELIOS. —In another room for Wheeler's intrenchment] the fol- lowing inscription was written on the wall; it is on the larger building in the corridor, between the fourth and fifth doors, facing to the south, on the side opposite the doors Countrymen and women, remember the 15th of July, 18571 Your wives and families are here, misery! and at the ...

... To the Editor of the Usk Observer. SIR.-I suspected the Trostrey Weir Association to be a Myth, or a Great Pelican. Now I am told, it is five Gentlemen, some of whom have an un-appeasable voracity for nsh but I can hardly believe it. For sixty or seventy years, and no doubt from ah earlier period, the inhabitants of Usk and its neighbourhood have enjoyed the right of angling for small fry ...

... THE BALTIC. Triumphant Success. THE DESTRUCTION OF SWEABORG. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DANTSIC, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 11 A.M. The bombardment of Sweaborg commenced at 6 o'clock last Thursday morning, and continued until daylight on Saturday. The town itself is burnt to the ground,—not one house left. The dockyards are completely destroyed. All the earthworks and batteries are knocked to pieces. Six ...

... On the capital of Piedmont nearly the whole public interest of Europe at this moment centres. This seat of the Sardinian monarchy is situated in a beautiful plain on the Po, which at this point receives the waters of the Dora Ripara. The town is of an oblong form, and its circumference about four miles. The streets are in general wide and straight, intersecting each other at right angles, and ...

... WRETCHED END OF A SEDUCER. A correspondent of the Manchester Examiner writes:—■ The recent wreck of the emigrant-ship Pomona has brought to light one of those dark domestic episodes which would rest far better in the depths of oblivion, were it not that in this case we have a striking instance of the ultimate fate which follows domestic perfidy and crime. For some few years, a person named ...

... IN describing the accompanying sketches of this celebrated Russian stronghold, we beg to be understood, by, our readers as treating it entirely in a warlike point of view, and speak- ing of it more for its renown as an impreg- nable and unapproachable fortified island, than for its commercial or architectural re- nown, which, in the present crisis, are looked upon quite as secondary items in ...

... Her Majesty will entertain the King of the Belgians during his stay in England at Windsor Castle. The king, it is expected, will land in this country on the 17th instant, at which time the court will arrive at Windsor from Buckingham Palace for the Easter va- cation. Shortly after his Majesty's arrival the Princess Royal will be confirmed in the Chapel Royal of St. George. Apartments have been ...

... As every-day events in con- nexion with the present fearful struggle in the Crimea proves that war, to be played as a winning game, must also be a scientific one, we cannot but look upon improvements in gun- nery as a great step towards the achievement of so desired, yet destructive an object. Con- nected with this idea, the Lan- caster gun-of which we give an engraving-shows a ten- dency in ...

... The Gonstitutionnel of Monday, in an article signed by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, says that the declara- tions of the Cabinet of Turin, on the subject of the Regency of M. Bouncompagni, are of a nature to make those arrangements possible which have generally been considered as very difficult of execution. It is under- stood that if M. Buoncompagni exercises the regency, it is only for ...