... THE VOLLAIHE BENEFIT. The influential patronage and support given to the movement for a benefit performance in aid of the family of the late Mir John Vollaire resulted in the presence of a very good audience on the afternoon of Wednesday last at the Olympic Theatre, the use of [which had been given by Mr John Coleman. A large number of artists had volunteered to make up an attractive programme ...

... I HTEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 0 DAyIr -YWS' OPflGN. REIDUs3S 3TRS MORNING BY NEGUETTI AND ZAMDBRA'S BAROMETER. BI. TEI. 9. FRI. 1o. i SAT. 11. SW S.W. SW 5e {-l 1e- |63-| 5- |- i GCorted to sea-leveZ and rediced to 32 Am. P. Theblsekliesshowthe hatthtof thebirometeratl o'clkekon D thimaidgthree pios m s. The dotted lines sraiste the Pas: cztreme vaitiofl doringyosterds? and the twra gerncvcy li ...

... OIII1fhtI .1 L U CV' ID1 ,)J'fl~ikflV,, Os Saturday, at the City Summons Court, eight of the girls who regularly sell flowers in Liverpool- street were summoned for causing an obstruction with their baskets of flowers by the entrance to the Brdad-street and Liverpool-street Railway Stations. Mr. Few, from the office of the so]icitors to the Great Eastern Railway Company, appeared to sup1)- ...

... 'vassifttg Notes. TiEi Su~perintendent cf the Merc antile 'Marine Office, at 'South Shield CatInI Weatherburn), has received from the lielld11iin (35 orC - first-class alt eminnt folrd medal 6! ibti Antes latboaswai of tile Screw steamer Warir of South Shcllfor services rendered, with others of the crew, inl rescuing three, Belgianl officers from the ?? balloon Argus, hi thle North S1ea, Onl ...

... it 1- THE DOCTORS DELUDED, BUT THE PATIENT'S LIFE HL IS SAVED. h A ?? ?? !e St. Helens Chronicle, April 9th. h 'd THE vile compounds placed in the market by unser- 11 ?? empirics have produced and almost general d Le tendency to pooh-pooh the efficacy of dl patent mcdid le cines, and so human experience all the world over cl a erves to show that that which was ordained for the Hr d common good ...

... The Lat Fance Franchis. Tax House of Commons was nac gaged last night in the dicusdeA of a very interesting and import. ant subject. At the evening Bitting Mr. En1 muxD ROBERTSON moved that the privilegn possessed by certain Universities of returnin' members to Parliament ought to be diccn tinned. We rejoice hat Mr. ROBEBTsoN soul have secured the opportunity of bringing thi& question ...

... DONS VERSUS DEMOCRAT&. LAST NIGHT IN THE COmMONS-. BY A SPEMcTOR. UNTIL the debate on University representation was reached it seened as if a slu ber did the spirit seal of the House of Commons yesterday. The ?? backed by a member of the House who is himself blind, that the LSo Govgernment Board should take some educational measures against the leaslect of infantile ophthalmia, led to the ...

... TH G o u ?? a - ?? THE QUEEN returned to Windsor from town on Saturday During her three days' stay at Buckingham Palace Her Majesty held a Drawing Room, went twice to see the Duke of Edinburgh, drove several times in Hyde Park, and entertained at dinner the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their sons and Princess Victoria, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Dukes and ...

... AliR. CARL ROSA \VF, b st week briefly announced the sudden death in Paris, on thl ,oth ult., of the eminent inipresario of English opera, Air. ( ,1-i Rosa. The chief events of his busy life may be summed up ha very few sentences. Mr. Carl August Nicholas Rose (who, on talhig tip his British nationality, formally assumed the surname of ?? was born onl Mlarch 22nd, 1842. Ile made his first ...

... A very agreeable violin and harp recital took place on Wednesday evening at Prince's Hall, the chief per- formers being Mdlle. Marianne Eissler and Mdlle. Clara Eissler, the former being the accomplished violinist, who has been frequently heard at concerts, and whose great advance as a violinist we have often had the pleasure to notice, Mdile. Eissler has seldom been heard to such advantage as ...

... APRCHlTECTS AT PLAY. That Art and Humbug are very often to be found in c close association we knew before Tuesday week, but we lhardly expected to find the fact illustrated ?? professors. Oh, dear no, I never wash the dirty linen of my calling away from home, we heard Mr Pownceby Sharke. ?? remarking on the evening named, but, at the same time, we felt that we were assisting at a function ...

... PARLIAMENto A S , S ~I THE amount of work daily recorded in the House of Commons does not make a large figure, rarely indeed, as far as Votes in Supply are concerned, going beyond the unit. Still, work is advancing. Some principal Votes in Supply have been obtained, including those for the Home Office, the Foreign Office, and the Colonial Office. These involve the main features of the policy ...