regard the initialing of letters as a very questionable regulation, and certain to lead to an infinity of daily errors. However, there might have been little harm in it, if the direction was otherwise good, till the late Postmaster General gave out, shortly before resigning offi

Contrary to general expectations, at a late hour on Tuesday evening, Mrs. Osborne still lived; but, to use the language of Dr. Richardson, her life "hung upon a thread." Mr. Richardson, throughout the whole of Tuesday, was constant in attendance, and did all that his great skill

ARRIVAL OF THE PHCEBE. The Union Company's royal mail steamer Phoebe, Captain Clarke, with mails from the Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay, St. Helena, has arrived. The Phcebe, on her way to Southampton, landed her mails at Plymouth on Saturday, at 2 p.m. She sailed from Cape Town o

FALL OF LUCKNOW. ALEXANDRIA, April 3, 1858. By the steamer Caudia from Calcutta, we have the following news : Lucknow.—General Oatram crossed the Goomtee,on the 16th of March. On the 1 1 th, Hope's Brigade captured the Queen's Palace. On the 13th, Kaierebagh and Unanbarra, a mas

riIHE TWO NAPOLEONS and ENGLAND. Two Pages Of History, by the AuthOr of "State Policy of AlOtlern Europe." . "He who would learn the relation which France and England hear to each other, and their true position in the political' 'world, will do well to reail thimasterly sketch o

One of the large pictures of the show is a paint* of "Greenwich "—the hospital that isby J. fflebb and J. Dujandin, jun. The river front h picturesquely filled ; and the figures convey a lotion of foreigners rather than of Englishmen. A "Winter Day in St. James's Park," and "A S

Saturdays, free' of charge, .and on Thursdays and Fridays on payment of Sixpence each peri:on, except in the Easter and Whitsuu Weeks, when no charge will be made. The Gallery is open from 10 to lin Summer, and 10 to 4in \Vint, r. No orders of admission are necessary. CHAIILES D

If a man labours under the disadvantage of i - houteil. ft happened that Mr. Hazard was being unknown and overlooked by the world, he himself lame from the effects of a painful has only to commit an atrocious murder, sap- accident, and that he always carried with posing him to b

Some statements, with names and dates, have recently appeared in the Times, supplying instances of mutilation in India, in justification of assertions made some time ago by the Earl of Shaftesbury. One of these letters appeared in the Times a day or two since, purporting to have

The raw and very cold weather, - accompanied - with occasional heavy falls of rain and snow from the north, has checked vegetation, and afforded time for those who have been prevented from sooner beginning gardening to make up for lost opportunities. It is o ne of the advantages