THE commissioners re•assembled at Chelsea Hospital on Monday morning, for the purpose of commencing the inquiry, the preliminary proceedings of which were disposed of on the previous Thursday. On this occasion a considerable number of persons availed themselves of the open chara

The Emperor Alexander and the Grand Dukes Constantine, Nicholas, and Michael had arrived at Friedrichsham. After having inspected the troops, the corps of cadets. and the batteries, the Imperial party left for Helsingfors, where they arrived on the 23d, inspected the troops and

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APRIL 12, 1856..] anly DYCE SOMBRE'S WILL.—JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNciL.—Sir Frederick Thesiger, on the part of Mr. Prinsep, one, of the executors under the alleged will, touched upon the question whether the delusions entertained by the deceased were of a character to

- The business done in Railway Shares has been quite of a limited character. Prices, however, have shown some little improvement. Eastern Counties, 10/. Great Western, 641 65k. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88i. Brighton, 1031. London and North-Western lOn 102. South-Western, 95k. M

stantly in requisition, besides an increased number of Egyptian donkeys, indicate a great increase in the visitors to Alexandria. A public clock recently erected in the grand square also demands notiee. The cordial reception given to the commanders and officers of the Peninsular

Mr. Hullah's second Orchestral Concert took place on Saturday evening last at St. Martin's Hall. We cannot rank the overture to Don amongst Mr. G. Macfarren's happiest inspirations; but it is a very clever musicianly production nevertheless, and far too good to be neglected, as

pension of 75,000 f.; also, that as all her children, except one, had been taken by Mr. Hope, her expenses were diminished; and that, consequently she ought to pay her dressmaker. The court decided that as the parties were English, and as the arrangements come to between them we

THE town of Varna, and indeed the entire seabord in its vicinity, has been so often described that little more remains to be said respecting it. As the immediate post of preparation for the Great Expedition to the Crimea, it must always be a place of extraordinary interest; and