On Saturday his Royal Highness Prince Albert rode omt on horseback, attended by the Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken airings in the R~oyal Gardens of fuckibgham Palace. His Royal Hi~ighness Prince Albert dined at th

MATCHES TO COME. Monday, May 26th, at Lord's-The X-C.C. fast Lincoln's In, an[i the Temnple, with two bowlers given on each side. Dli te Montday, June 2nd, at Lord's-The M-C-C- and Grotad, with We or Filch, agat the county of Sussex. ' Onuta Friday, Junle 6th, at E~ton-The M-C-C

A COUNTER CaEcK.-A dashing young linen draper was stoutly contesting, the other day, in Peel's Coffee House, how a certain word should be pronounced, and egregiously wrong, appealed to the facetious Dicky-, who was close at hand, who drily observed it was a mere question between

I IHUNTING APPOINTMENT1. I [WEATHER PERMITTING1. STAGHSOUNDS. Her Majesty's-Monday, Stoke Common; Wednesday, Miaidenhead; Friday, the Crooked Billet, Iver Heath; at eleven. Surrey-Tuesday, the Kennel; Thursday, Coombe Wood; Saturday, Lord Nelson, Cheam. FOX-OUHNDS. Essex Union-T

On Friday morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Royal Gardens of' Buckingham Palace. Their Royal High- nesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Prin- cess Alice, were taken airings in the gardens of the Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out

IHE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' & GENERAL! FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Adelaide-place, London-bride; 444, West Siranl; 23 Thistle-street, Edinbur-h - Great Bridgewater-street, ManchesterC Wason's-buildings, and Mathewa-sieet, Liverpooi. Empowered Ly ActofParliament. The Company~ t

MIONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLICENCE. _ _It CITY, FRIDAY EVtSNING. A most pernicious document, and one alike calculated to do injury to individuals and mislead the public, appears in the Times of this morning, entitled " Railway Speculation," ex- tracted from a return to the House

I . FRANCE. The Minister of Finance attended on Saturday last in the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, charged with examining the Budget of 1846, and explaining the intentions of the Go- vernment relative to the conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock. From what has transpire

EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR I THROUGH BELGIUM AND ON THE RHINE) IN THE AUTUMN OF 1844.-No. Ill. Ah ! here we are at length at Aix, Renowned for water and high play! With its blue baths and bubbling wells- Its smart Redoutes, or brilliant Hells; Its ancient Rathhaus, where

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By ALEX- ANDER REED. (Oliver and Bovd.)-This is a very compre- hensive dictionary in a very small compass, containing the pronunciation, etymologv, and explanation of all the words in our language, which have been authorised by the adoption