addition to the rates and

e under the Act passed in for and in respect of all and gains chargeable under in force. The increased essed and raised under the

How on an immense scale e Crystal Palace, on Saturwas visited by more than The number of people of ng may be estimated from ere were congregated in the during the day no less than Prince Albert and the were among the visitors. makes mention of a scheme of incubation under distinEs, for the formation of a ondon, eight miles long, ass, with houses and shops d beyond these, also on each f rails, one above the other, -ins stopping at every mile,

presses.

UTIONS have been abolished
ales by an Act of the Legis-
st capital punishment under
k place within the walls of
tol, in the presence of six
citizens, who signed a cer-
eath of the convict, which
the Government Gazette.
y having discovered that a
of the children of the
her servants at Buckingham
y much neglected in the
tion, has commanded that
ace Street, Pimlico, should
a school to be opened for

poses.

VID EDWARDS, OF SWANSEA, ew days since at Liverpool, a stage leading from the in which he was about to

sent in nis nouse at worsnip beside nis own family. The Bishops opposed the measure! How awful!

BROUSSA. The recent shocks of earthquake at Broussa and the neighbourhood were very destructive of life and property. By the first shock 445 persons were killed or wounded; by the second, 204. Great numbers of buildings were destroyed by the convulsion, or consumed by the fires which ensued.

EGYPT.-Said Pasha has given the necessary orders for the construction of a railway across the desert between Cairo and Suez, a distance of eighty-four miles. The rails are to be brought out from England, and the Pasha's own engineers, who are Frenchmen, are to carry out the works.

JOURNALISM IN NEW ZEALAND.-In the Otago Witness of December 21, we read :— "We shall be unable to furnish our readers with a paper next week, as we have in hand some other printing which must be attended to."

THE DEATHS BY THIS WAR are computed, by Mr. Gladstone, to be already-15,000 English, 35,000 French, 120,000 Turks, and 250,000 Russians, or, so far, at the rate of 1000 a day.

BOOK POSTAGE. Next to the Penny Post this is one of the most important arrangements ever made in our postal departments. We refer our readers to our second page of cover for particulars.

A MIDDLE VILLAGE OF ENGLAND. — A

friend says, "is as yet unprofaned by gas, or rail, or electricity. It is even free from Dissenters!"

POOR OLD ROBERT OWEN has been again petitioning Parliament to hear him once more before he dies, on his millennial state of human life.

RAILWAY INSURANCE.-The family of Mr. Dyer, a railway officer, who was accidentally killed, will receive £1000, the sum he insured for.

N LIBEL.-A Mr. Dove of A GREAT FLORAL FETE has lately been s recovered 10,000 dollars held at the Sydenham Crystal Palace. Above for an atrocious (American) | 20,000 were present. ation against Mr. Dove of th African blood.

THE NEW CATTLE MARKET at Islington was opened by Prince Albert on June 13.

be translated into several oriental languages, the sea of Azoff was su and printed at the government press.

ENGLAND AND FRANCE are to be Siamese twins it seems, and the ligature which is to bind them will be a submarine tunnelled railway, to cost ten millions, and be passed in thirty three minutes.

THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE, for obtaining the "Maine Liquor Law" in this country, has held a great meeting at Exeter Hall, Sir W. C. Trevelyan was in the chair. About 5000 were present.

LOZENGES.-The late eminent geologist, Mr. G. B. Greenough, has left a fortune of £180,000, all derived, it is said, from his father, a manufacturer of lozenges.

THE ENORMOUS HOROLOGE of the Clock Tower, at the new Houses of Parliament, will, when erected, afford its keepers two hours' work a week in winding it up!

Two EX-PRESIDENTS of the United States, Fillmore and Van Buren, were in the House of Commons listening to the debates on Tuesday evening, June 5.

ENGLISH SLAVE HOLDERS.-Englishmen ! soiling the land they tread on, are said to be holders of slaves in foreign colonies! Can such things be?

man being wounded; and Allied Armies on the wo topol were also successfu life was great, and a far gr wounded on both sides.

unfavourable. The Allies the advanced positions t had been repulsed with Such are the successes an The Russians seem to ha which are made to explod or British approach them. around Cronstadt, subma so constructed as to exp sels pass over them. Su schemes of men engaged most effectual way by wh injure or destroy the oth

and becomes lawful in w nation has been excited the intelligence that the F the crew of an English truce displayed, which la of Finland to give up three This is denounced as a lation of the law of natio chikoff, the man of all li most to be blamed for thi

JUDGING RIGHT.-It makes all the differ-is said, in Finland. The ence, whether we pursue a certain course because we judge it right; or judge it to be right because we pursue it. Whateley.

RAILWAY PASSENGERS.

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Archbishop

There were 32,574,517 third-class Parliamentary passengers in the half-year ending December 31, and the receipts from them were £1,704,568. LETTERS. In the United Kingdom there are fifteen letters written in the year for every one of the population. In the United States the number is only four.

DRESSMAKERS.-A bill has been introduced into Parliament to limit the hours of dressmaking in London to twelve hours. SINGULAR.-One of the aides-de-camp of General Pelissier is Prince Polignac, son of the Minister of Charles X.

now a single port in the F which their vessels can Five young men have be papal states for the par Roman revolution of 1 time they have been pri racy of a Carlist charac turbed Spain.-The Kin been paying a visit to th French; and the King pected shortly to visit Pa

The repulse of the A have referred above, took June, the Anniversary loss of the Allies is not first reported; but a la officers have again fallen.

A. Harwood.

e baptist chapel, Lincoln, an, to Miss Harriet Fisher. he baptist chapel, Mary's Mr. Josiah Pike, Mr. Isaac Miss Purse.

e baptist chapel, Beeston, ham, to Miss A. Brown. gle Street baptist chapel, Francis Wills, uncle to the xander Hinton Wills, Esq.,

row, by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, A.M. George Batchelor, Esq., of Newport, in the county of Monmouth, to Mary Jane, only daughter of John Cribb Stephens, Esq., of Maidstone.

June 12, at the baptist chapel, Newport, Isle of Wight, Mr. Leonard Cooper, of Wellon, to Martha Bailey Baggs, of Yarmouth.

June 17, at Grimsby, by Mr. Hogg, baptist minister, Mr. Edmund Daft, to Miss Fanny Robinson.

Deaths.

His latter

a long and severe affliction, | Leicester and its Magistrates.
r. C. King, Shiffnal, Shrop- days were spent in peace and hope.
rs a useful and honoured
aptist church in that town.
tymoile Canal Office, Mon-
kyn Bowen, aged 73, for
rthy member of the baptist
rnacle, Pontypool; he at-
rvice twice the last sabbath
hurch has lost a good man,
of every good cause.
rdiff, in the sixty-fifth year
the fortieth of his pastoral
English Baptist Church in
Vm. Jones, a man of great
nd practical wisdom. His
ply felt in the town, and in
churches of the country.
ive years he has been joined
by Mr. A. G. Fuller.
Denmark-hill, Caroline, wife
Smith, Esq., and daughter
. Gurney, Esq., Treasurer of
ions.

May 27, aged 73, Mrs. Mary Palmer, an esteemed member of the baptist church, Belvoir Street, Leicester.

May 28, Mr. John Hawkes, aged 57, an attendant at Lombard Street baptist chapel, Birmingham, and a liberal friend to its interests.

Harvey, aged 56 years, for years a consistent member urch, Hatch, near Taunton. William Scott, aged 78, a General Baptist Church, in cester. Mr. S. was a man generous sympathies, relitically at the time of the on he suffered much perse= then Tory Corporation of

May 29, at Park Hill, Bowlash, Gloucestershire, Mr. Joshua Lewis, baptist minister, formerly of Chepstow. His sterling integrity of character, and blameless deportment, gained the respect of all who knew him, both in the church and in the world.

June 3, at the house of Mr. W. Sewell, of Rothley, near Leicester, where he had resided upwards of twenty-five years, Mr. J. Hemsley, aged 83; and on June 11, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. W. Sewell, aged 69. Of both these aged friends it may be said that they feared the Lord from their youth, adorned the gospel by a long consistent and honourable profession, and died in cheerful hope of a heavenly inheritance. We visited them a few weeks previous to their decease and found them, in adjoining apartments, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

June 6, at Ilton, near Isle Abbotts, Mrs. M. A. Webb, who for ten years had been a consistent member of the baptist church, Isle Abbotts. During her illness she was supported by the hope of the gospel.

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