THE Barnacles and Stilstalkings of that department of the circumlocution office called the Poor Law Board, have for the nonce forgotten the hereditary principle "how not to do it," and are displaying a spasmodic energy which has already produced its natural results and brought t

are received and interest allowed on balances. £3 10s. per cent. interest is at present allowed on deposits, with 10 days' notice of withdrawal, on sums of £lO and upwards. By order, MArrHEw MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. BENJAMIN Scorr, Secretary. Threadneedle-street, June 21, 1856.

We have pressed upon both people and rulers the urgency of this want, and the wisdom of seeking to secure some open spaces for air and exercise before every one of them. is absorbed in that rapid process which is covering the whole metropolitan area with bricks and mortar. Many

Lord. LYNnnunsT brought up the report from the select committee on the Law of Divorce, and gave notice that, on Thursday next, he should move that the subject be considered in committee of the whole House. The Joint Stock Companies Bill and the Factories Bill were respectively p

MR. CRAMPT'ON, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, was presented to Her Majesty at an audience by the Earl of Clarendon The Hon. Misses Canning, daughters of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, have arrived from Constantinople. We hear

(Written in German by Panics ALBERT, and translated by the late G. F. RICHARDSON, Geologist of the British Museum.) It is the lofty Inselberg—a mountain high and strong — Where once a noble castle stood—the giants held it long; Its very ruins now are lost, its site is waste and

Gd.; ditto Ale, 125.; Porter, 95.; Stout, 125., per 9 gallon cask. TYLER., Brewer, Highgate.

An extract -from tho minutes of the Directors of the Poor, with report annexed, was presented and read stating that the said report, to the following effect, had been received and r . approved of. That the Committee reappointed to define and specify the duties of all the officer

We cannot notice Anonymous Correspondence, nor return such Communications as may be rejected. We are compelled, through want of space, to omit several important Communications and Articles on interesting subjects; and for which, our best thanks are due to our correspondents and

Eke LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1857 THE SITE OF OFFICES PROPOSAL. WASHINGTON IRVING, in his "Salmagundi," playfully satirises the talkative propensities of deliberative assemblies. He describes the council of a certain nation as carrying on war by proclamations alone; as perfo