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°ill! Article. Thursday Evening

13th of June

Mr. Cobden is expected in England on tl
The letters for Liverpool by the Bombay mail were des-

Patched this morning by the earliest train.
The Tinies comes to the conclusion that it may now be
considered almost certain that the month of June will have
"eg'lln before any great blow is struck in Italy.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire railway traffic returns
show, this week, an increase of £B5l ; the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire an increase of £1,009 ; and the
4ticllaud an increase of £2,930.
The _Daily Hews says that, on the meeting of Parliament,
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Liberal party will insist upon taking up the Reform.,
question at the point where it was interrupted by Lord
Derby's dissolution.
The Daily Nees says that government will almost imme-
tuately put forth tenders fr the conveyance of the
411stralien mails via Panama,o in addition to the contract
now in course of performance via Suez. Should the two
contracts be efficiently performed, a fortnightly service may
practically be secured.
TUE NEW PARLIAMENT.—The Times says it is reported
that
~. the Queen's speech will be delivered on the 7th of
Inne. The days between the 31st and 7th will probably
De occupied swearing in the members of both houses. The
election of speaker will take place on the 31st. No
ajection to the re-election of Mr. Speaker Dennison is

anticipated.
TuE COAL MARKET AT MALTA, BETWEEN MAT IST AND
1111. _The arrival of fifty-three colliers, bringing upwards
of 25,000 tens of coals; of vhich twenty-eight were from
Newcastle,
ten from Liverpool, and the remainder from
"ewcastle, Sunderland, Hull, and Scotch ports. The
prices at Malta were-35s to 36s for Newcastle ; 37s to 39s
for Cardiff and. Scotch; and other inferior qualities com-
manded 30s to 355.

THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.

EXPECTED BATTLE.

PAVIA, May 19.—The Head-Quarters of the Aus-
trian Army have been removed to GarlascO. Great
Movements of troops have taken place, and a collision
is expected during to-diy or to-morrow.

SWITZERLAND.

BE RNE, Thursday

According to reports from

Vienna, General Gyulai has s Sat word to his gov-
ernment, that his demands of contributions from the
Sardinians for the support of his troops, are unat-
tended with further results than that provisions are
beginning to fail in Piedmont, and that he will not
be able to hold his present position more than fifteen
days longer.

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THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, Thursday.

-12.35 p.m

The Bourse opened

firm. Rentes 61.10

3.25 p.m.: The improvement in Rentes has not
been maintained, and the closing prices are 61 for

Money, and 60.95 for account

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GERMANY.

PRXNICFORT-ON-MNINE, May 19. —ln to-day's
sitting of the Federal Diet, Prussia declared that,
although she still adhered to her protest against the
proposal of Hanover to form a federal corps d'arrnee
'Of observation on the Rhine, yet she did not object
to its being discussed as a matter of form, and the
Proposal was accordingly referred to the commis-
sion of management of military affairs.
HAMBURGH, Thursday.—The rate of discount is

this day 2 to 4 per cent

KILKENNY COLINTY.-CLOSE OF TEE POLI

—Ellis, 2,507 ;

green, 2,036 ; Moore, 1,774 ; Shee, 1,610

NAVAL AND MILITARY. -It is reported that the Austra-
lian waters will be made an admiral's station. At Malta,
-011 the 15th of May, Admiral Fanshawe was in the offing
With four liners, and two others were in port.
The Star sums up the results of the general election.
Whigs and Tories are about equal-300 on each side.
There are about 53 independent Liberals, and as they are
of more advanced principles than either party, it follows
that the party which will do the most will have the best
chance of holding the reins of Government.
The Daily News analyses the corresPondeneu _
-Times from the Austrian head-quarters, and endeavours to
assign to it its due weight. A correspondent writing at the
elbow of an Austrian general may be permitted to call
failures feints, to describe retreats as brilliant flank move-
ments, and it may be expected he will look at murder,
'violence, and pillage through an Austrian spy glass. The
?inns, in a leading article, answers, by anticipation, some

in the

of these cavils. -
TREATMENT OF THE DEAD IN SIAM.--1.1)011 the death
of any one of rank, the body is closely wrapped and pressed
with bandages, so as to expel the fluids from it. It is then
placed in a vessel in an apartment of the dwelling. From
this vessel a tube passes through the roof, sao as to carry off
all exhalations; another tube passes from the bottom to a
jar for receiving the fluids. In this condition the body
remains for many months, when it' is burned with much
ceremony upon a platform of damp clay, and the collected
ashes are moulded into a small idol, and gilded for future
preservation and reverence. The collected fluids are carried
insreat state down the river and cast into it.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.—A new process is spoken of as
having been successfully tried, and, it is said, patented.
Mercury, or other fluid or semi-fluid body is used as one or
more of the electrodes. A tube within the lamp is so
arranged that it shall remain full, or nearly so, during
waste or consumption by the light. The supply of the fluid
electrode is regulated by a tap. Other improvements, such
as condensation of vapour on the lamp, by causing a constant
flow of water over the glass, the prevention of vapours
rising from the waste fluid, by the introduction of a stream
of water into the waste pipe, Btc., are also mentioned,
The use of mercury as an eicarOde is of old date.